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

Scaling Up at ACCA

Opening in mid October 2002, the new ACCA is a purpose built complex designed by Melbourne- based architects Wood Marsh. An architectural marvel and simultaneously a contemporary art space, at last the ACCA is moving to a building that lives up to the portent of its name. Haley spoke to the new Creative Director Juliana Engberg in August of 2002.

Published December 2002

Asia Pacific Triennial 2002 - Starry Night

When talking about non-Indo-European cultures, we are taking on board profound differences in how we arrange our worlds. The 2002 Asia Pacific Triennial endeavours to present art from these cultures through various treatments of time and space relations.

Published December 2002

A Stitch in Time

Peter Callas show held at Stills Gallery in 2002 Vinculum + Orison resulted from his Asialink residency in Delhi, India and comprises of digital prints on photographic paper and an artists book. Both the scale and choice of images in this exhibition are seductive and enthralling; deceptively innocent moments in daily and century-old rituals and routines.

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

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

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

Published December 2002

The Possibility Forum - Institutional Change and Modest Proposals

This text takes up some of the broader concerns of Tony Bonds initial questions to an Australian panel at ARCO 2002 Madrid, particularly can there be a benign global capitalism? and how do we address the value of exchanges between artists?.

Published December 2002

19th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award

Museum & Art Gallery of the NT
Darwin
10 August - 27October 2002

Published December 2002

The SALA Festival

South Australia: metro and regional
2  11 August 2002

Published December 2002

21st Century Chairs

Curator: Kirsten Fitzpatrick
Brisbane City Gallery
16 August - 13 October 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