Published 01 August 2022
The most recent category of artist to register on the present Government's scale of priorities is that of 'emerging'.
Newcastle is already a post-industrial city and talk of culture as the defining feature of the coming economic profile of the city sustains an older myth. That is, that industrial and mining cities did not support high culture....
Published December 1997
Exhibition review Belinda Giddins, Mandy Ridley, Sandra Selig Parlour Metro Art, Brisbane Queensland
Artplace is exlusively committed to Western Australian artists. The work of emerging artists is shown side by side with that of prominent artists in regular changing mixed exhibitions...Artplace shows aboriginal art as part of contemporary WA art and the gallery has a strong emphasis on giving talented artists their first solo show.
Exhibition review Ricky Swallow: The Lighter Side of the Dark Side Grey Area, Melbourne
Exhibition review Zoe Sweeney: Subsist - A Cosseted Environment Gallery Go Go, Melbourne Victoria
Sydney's artist run spaces have long played a role in nurturing new contemporary practices, allowing artists the relative freedom to experiment outside the pressures of commercial or institutional constraints, and providing a critical edge for emerging artists to cut their professional teeth. Emerging artists Mark Hislop, Alex Gawronski and My Lee Thi are here referred to.
Platform Spencer St Subway Platform2 Degraves St Sydney. Using such an extremely public venue is only one of the challenges which faces artists using the Platform spaces. The whole dynamic for viewing the work: an audience which is often on the move....
Exhibition review Hatched: Healthway National Graduate Show 97 Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth WA
Gallery Dunce in Tasmania was born out of a group of ex-art school students' unanimous frustration with the lack of facilities for emerging/experimental artists. Looks at the work of Kim Kerze.
The work of Justene Williams and Tony Schwensen. William's photographs are taken spontaneously, and sometimes surreptitiously, with disposable cameras. Schwensen's installations combine paintings and sculptures to embody an idea of suburbia.
Published 01 December 1997
Exhibition review Megan Keating: Schema Dunce Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
