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

Neverland vs. Reality: How to Sustain an Art Practice in the Territory

Historically, people in the Territory have viewed southeners with suspicion, often characterising them as missionaries or carpetbaggers. Some emerging artists here are beginning to question these attitudes and are starting to take advantage of the financial and critical lifelines that the south has to offer. Bronwyn Wright and Tobias Richardson are two who have engaged energetically with southerners and achieved high levels of recognition.

Published June 2005

Artrave

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

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

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

Trent Parke: Minutes to Midnight

Australian Centre for Photography
7 January - 20 February 2005

Published June 2005

Seeking Transcendence

Curator: John Stringer
10 February - 5 May 2005
Perth International Arts Festival

Published June 2005

Paji Honeychild Yankarr

Paji Honeychild Yankarr 1914-2004

Published June 2005

3 Into 1: Hermie Cornelisse, Amanda Davies and Mish Meijers

CAST Gallery, Hobart
5 February - 6 March 2005

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

Metaphor and Climate

Ooms writes of her personal experiences as an Anglo artist living and working in a small, sticky town on the edge of everywhere. A tale of humidity, nature, art and weather. The coming together of Eurocentric imagination and the metaphysical qualities of the work of the Northern Territory; the communally held spiritual beliefs play out in Ooms ongoing dialogue between personal and communal space.

Published June 2005