Lawrence Daws: From Mandala to Full Circle

Australian artist Lawrence Daws speaks of seven phases of his work, based on specific themes that have guided his development as an artist. There has been a gradual trend in his work from themes of archetypal symbolism and exotic portent towards the more local and personal.

Published December 2002

Singapore Opens Up to the World - Site + Sight: First Major International Show

Using Singapore as the first 'site' for the exhibition, Site + Sight: Translating Cultures from 7 June to 26 July 2002 brought together 26 international artists from 11 countries to discuss and present artworks relating to the theme of globalisation and its cultural impact on the world.

Published December 2002

Breathing/Diving/Dreaming/Dancing to the BEAP in Perth (You Can't Buy These Emotions off the Hollywood Shelf)

Immersion was part of the Perth Biennale of Electronic Art (BEAP), a selection of some of the most important international immersive, interactive and virtual reality artworks from the last decade, created by Chris Malcolm and presented at the John Curtin Gallery.

Published December 2002

African Marketplace and Reporting the World: John Pilger's Great Eyewitness Photographers

African Marketplace
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
22 August - 28 September 2002
Reporting the World: John Pilgers Great Eyewitness Photographers
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
8 August - 6 October 2002

Published December 2002

Jewel Mackenzie: Gemini Paintings

Jewel Mackenzie's practice explores both the understanding and experience of the world and the history and legacies of painting. Her background in both dressmaking and in public administration has informed her project to provoke and explore the positioning of the artist within contemporary bureaucratic culture.

Published December 2002

Marine Nature in Porcelain: The Recent Work of Robin Best

Ceramic artist Robin Best became fascinated by a complex marine world which included sea-invertebrates/filter feeders like bryozoans, sea sponges and ascidians (sea squirts) during walks on the beach in her seaside suburn of Semaphore. Here Walker discusses some of Best's recent work and conceptual concerns.

Published December 2002

Documenta 11 Takes On Masters of the Universe

Every five years the sleepy little German town of Kassel is invaded by the international art world. The 2002 Documenta exhibition staged here, which have traditionally played second fiddle only to the Venice Biennale, was eagerly anticipated as the first genuinely postcolonial Documenta, due in large part to the appointment of the expatriate Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor as Artistic Director.

Published December 2002

A New Catch-Up - Report of the Contemporary Visual Arts and Craft Inquiry

Published December 2002

The SALA Festival

South Australia: metro and regional
2  11 August 2002

Published December 2002

Cacophony + Cramp for the Sensory Bundle

art program, and for the first time showed it outside Sydney. The five works selected for the Adelaide exhibition were complex and esoteric: a gorgeous array of storytelling techniques which explore and exploit narrative and interactivity.

Published December 2002

Arid Arcadia: art of the Flinders Ranges

curated by Alisa Bunbury
Art Gallery of South Australia
30 August  3 November 2002

Published December 2002

The Generosity of a Light Touch

For the more than 15 years that the Australian organisation Experimenta Media Arts has metamorphosed through various ideological, aesthetic and technological identities, its one constant has been a passionate involvement with and championing of the new and experimental. Prototype, exhibited in Melbourne in 2002, carried on this tradition, more than living up to the title.

Published December 2002