The Art of Outsourcing

While our romantic inheritance imagines artists working in isolation, this is changing. Increasingly, successful artists are working with teams of technicians who contribute precious amounts of skill, time and experience to the final work. Harvey looks at the relationships between artists, apprentices and their creations within the realm of tactile, three-dimensional art and some of the apparent concerns associated.

Published March 2005

Parallel Universe: The Gray St. Workshops @ 20

Gray Street Workshop, which is this year celebrating its twentieth anniversary, has pursued a creative work ethic closely aligned to values of the handmade, not as an end per se but as a means to evolve a creative language grounded in the interplay between ideas and practice.

Published March 2005

I Came to Japan Because of the Chopstick

Timms account of a personal journey through Japan and South Korea and the traditional history of fine pottery crafts that accounts for a large degree of Eastern culture. He here explores the distinctions and connections between Eastern and Western material culture as exemplified through the life and role of the chopstick.

Published March 2005

Australian Drawing Now: Labouring Lightly

The on again/off again love affair between drawing and contemporary art practice seems to have been going on ad nauseam. From the sixties through to the present day, ongoing tensions between the apparent values of traditional and conceptual art have resulted in much of today's appreciation for the reworking of both aesthetics in what has become a new labour of love.

Published March 2005

Unpacking 'Il Cretino Veloci' or 'The Fast Idiot'

Thomson pays tribute to an increasing minority of Australians devalued for getting their hands in the mucky stuff. As he proclaims ...people who make things with their hands for a living are seen as a hopeless anachronism rooted to the ground. In an age where the majority of the Australian population now work in what are termed the service industries, the ability to apply ones motor skills are making for a society who rarely needs to use those funny slabs of flesh at the end of our arms.

Published March 2005

The Return of Labour?

Published March 2005

Calling all Anti-Capitalist Pashtivists, fluxus reincarnators and Crafty Billboard Operators: Documenting the Uncollectable

Published March 2005

Living Together is Easy

National Gallery of Victoria: Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne
27 August - 7 November 2004

Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower
Mito, Japan
24 January - 28 March 2004
Curated by Jason Smith and Eriko Osaka

Published March 2005

Fine Art Graduate and Honours Exhibitions Beyond

Griffith University, Queensland College of Art
24 - 27 November 2004

GraduArt 2004
Toowoomba Regional Gallery
27 November 2004 - 30 January 2005

modus vivendi
Queensland University of Technology
3 - 5 November 2004

Published March 2005

Christian de Vietri: The Nature of Things

Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
27 November - 18 December 2004

Published March 2005

Ian Chandler 1942 - 2004

Ian Chandler
1942  2004

Published March 2005

Artifically Reconstructed Habitats: Finola Jones

Canberra Contemporary Art Space
13 August - 25 September 2004

Gertrude Contemporary Spaces, Melbourne
29 October - 20 November 2004

Published March 2005