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

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

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

Patrick Hall's Cabinets of Everyday Curiosities

For Hughes, Patrick Halls cabinets recall the great elaborately decorated cabinets of the 17th century. Rather than mere decoration, Halls cabinets express a poetry of the everyday that is neither a condescending celebration nor a critical analysis but a deeply personal response to his materiel.

Published March 2005

Ian Chandler 1942 - 2004

Ian Chandler
1942  2004

Published March 2005

Nurturing the Handmade

In interacting with an object, its physical properties are paramount; as a result, the power of objects to affect us becomes identified with their physical attributes, leading to an emphasis on making, and so linking making with authorship. Sorzano explores the process of object-making as the work in our minds, the work in our hands, and the work as a result....

Published March 2005

Artrave

Published March 2005

Life is Very Long

Yarra Sculpture Space, Melbourne
28 August - 12 September 2004

Published March 2005

The Return of Labour?

Published March 2005

Everyone Lives Downstream: James Darling and Lesley Forwood

Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

Published 01 March 2005

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

Published March 2005

Domestic Arts in the White Cube

There exists an increasing number of artists - mostly women - creating art using what have been known, somewhat disparagingly, as domestic arts: knitting, crochet, sewing, tatting, embroidery. For many of these artists the choice of method is integral to what the work is saying, the making - the journey - as important as the result, even if that journey is not immediately obvious to the viewer.

Published March 2005