It's Not You, It's Me - I Just Don't, You Know, Think We're Compatible

"It should go without saying that our responses to the handmade, the mass-produced and techno gadgetry are principally structured within and by fantasy worlds. Cook explores peoples relationships to objects in a world that is perpetually developing and enhancing itself materially, or so it seems.

Published March 2005

Vivienne Westwood

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
12 November 2004 - 30 January 2005

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

The Sounds of Silence

Through traditional method, an explicit residue of manual labour, and a constructed subject, Ricky Swallows wooden work suggests a past tense, which leads the viewer backwards through the material history of the work. The Defining aspects of Swallows approach are distinctly framed in the western tradition of the artisan and the language of figuration.

Published March 2005

Hand to Mouse: Design and the Handmade

There have always been cycles in the making of what we describe as art, crafts and design, where surges of new ideas have been followed by revivals of earlier values or reform movements that challenge both. The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, is working on an exhibition for late 2006, on the interface between art, design, industry and the values of the handmade. Cochranes hope is that it will challenge audiences to look closely at some of the exciting working relationships that are possible.

Published March 2005

The Return of Labour?

Published March 2005

Artrave

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

Bush TV's: Piliyi - Good One

Nyinkka Nyunyu is an art and culture centre located on Warumungu land in Tennant Creek, right in the middle of the Northern Territory. From the time the idea came up to build something alongside the sacred site of Nyinkka Nyunya, art was always going to be an integral part of the project. The result of many brainstorming sessions amongst traditional owners of the land on which Tennant Creek stands was the idea of dioramas, or Bush TVs to provide the means to present history and contemporary life through art to a diverse audience.

Published March 2005

For Nothing

The Bank, Midland, WA
26 November - 14 January 2005

Published March 2005

Life is Very Long

Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
28 August - 12 September 2004

Published March 2005

Batik and Kris: Duality of the Javanese Cosmos

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
10 September - 7 November 2004

Published March 2005