Remote

Published June 2005

Looking Elsewhere: Asia at the Top End

The top end has a distinctly Asian flavour not only because of its cultural heritage prior to 1880s but also because of the significant East Timorese connection. This article looks at the Northern Territorys strong and visionary commitment to cultural exchange with Indonesia and the increasing Asian character of Darwin's rapidly changing population.

Published June 2005

Sitting Down with Indigenous Artists

Erica Izett explores the cultural convergence between Australias indigenous and non-indigenous people over the past few decades and the rewarding implications it is having on Australias artistic and cultural practice and awareness.

Published June 2005

Crash Sites

The rapprochement between Aboriginal and white Australian people and the bridging of cultural division, explored through the work and lives of Rod Moss and Therese Ritchie. Both artists have immersed themselves in the day-to-day lives of their aboriginal friends, involved in relationships of reciprocity as part of an extended network of kin. In an effort to cross the cultural divide of difference created by colonisation, they negotiate a situated form of cultural practice.

Published June 2005

From Fregon to Srinigar and Back

Kaltjiti Arts is a community owned arts centre in Fregon. A cross-cultural project between two groups of community artists based in South Australia's remote and traditional Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands and in Srinigar, the turbulent capital of Kashmir is based on the combining of these two isolated and very different cultures via their arts and traditions.

Published June 2005

Disappearing Act

Sherman Galleries, Sydney
10 February - 5 March 2005

Published June 2005

Paji Honeychild Yankarr

Paji Honeychild Yankarr 1914-2004

Published June 2005

Return to Queensland's Top End: Lockhart River Art Centre

Chantelle Woods anecdotes of her journey into the heart of the Lockhart River on the Cape York of Far North Queensland, during an art workers Traineeship through the Queensland Art Gallerys Story Place Exhibition. The relationships that formed between the women, the art and the environment.

Published June 2005

Giant Steps and Transcriptions

Experimental Art Foundation
25 February - 2 April 2005

Greenaway Art Gallery
22 February - 1 March 2005

Adelaide Film Festival

Published June 2005

Women's Business by Remote

In the past two decades the face of Australian art practice has been changed immeasurably by a renewed focus on the culture of Indigenous people and the efflorence of Aboriginal art. This article looks at the work of three non-Indigenous artists who worked in places regarded as remote and developed art practices through engagement with Aboriginal people.

Published June 2005

Art at the Frontier: Franck Gohier

Frank Gohier has distinguished himself as a resident Darwin artist whose work as a painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher reflects a different perspective of the far northern - one based on lived experience. Addresses the impact of the indigenous community on his Anglo perspective art.

Published June 2005

String Lines: Continuing Developments in Aboriginal Fibre Art

Across the tropical and desert regions of the Northern Territory a quiet revolution is taking place in the most neglected and least understood area of indigenous creativity - in women's fibre practice.

Published June 2005