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

Indecorous Abstraction: Contemporary Women Painters

Curated by Margot Osborne
Light Square Gallery, AIT Arts Adelaide
22 August  19 September 2002

Published December 2002

Christina Waterson: Recent

Palace Gallery
Brisbane
15 - 31 August

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

Long Arm Drawing 1992-2002: Jan Senbergs

14 August  15 September
Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art and Design
Caulfield Campus, Monash University

Published December 2002

21st Century Chairs

Curator: Kirsten Fitzpatrick
Brisbane City Gallery
16 August - 13 October 2002

Published December 2002

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

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

Clearing

Curated by Colin Langridge
CAST Gallery, Hobart
2  25 August 2002

Published December 2002

Seven Warehouses

Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre
Hobart
8 September  6 October 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

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