Artrave

Black leather, blood, piercing and tattooing, glamourised dominance and submission should be approached with political discernment and discrimination.

Published March 1994

Someday, Somewhere - Women and Nation in International Art

Feature

Sue Rowley

However, feminist artists, curators and writers could collaborate in establishing alternative frameworks for international exhibitions that would render unthinkable the omission of female artists or the implicit erasure of gender as an interpretive key.

Published March 1994

Trapped in Paradise - Some Women Artists in Tasmania

Feature

Victoria Hammond

The artists were selected because their work embraces not only questions of gender, but also addresses the distinctive duality between the superficial look of things and the complex web of underlying meaning, desire, fear, experience, and memory that they have located and interpreted for us. Featured artists are Jane Eisemann, Jacqui Stockdale, K.T. Prescott, Helen Wright and Megan J Walch.

Published March 1994

What Should We Do With The 'Women and Art' Elective?

Feature

Jude Adams

Women's courses since the 1970s have become a familiar if marginalised component of most art school curricula, their initial aim being to compensate for the absence of women in the Art History and Theory syllabus and to encourage the development of feminist art practices.

Published March 1994

The Price of Liberty

Feature

Merran Ricketson

The Women's Art Register contains a public access slide library of 20,000 slides, 14,000 information folders representing (as at 1994) 2,400 Australian based women artists.

Published March 1994

A Woman's Story: Hunting Grounds

Review

S Lavinia Hartley

Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
5 November - 10 December 1993

Published March 1994

Nola Farman: The Challenge Continues

Feature

Christine Sharkey

Examination of the art practice of Nola Farman.

Published March 1994

Re-orienting Feminism in Aotearoa

Feature

Anne Kirker

During the past 8 years or so there have been two distinctive strands of activity which women artists have pursued in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Both are concerned with questions of identity. Artists Fiona Pardington, Emily Karaka, Shona Davies, Christine Webster and Robyn Kahukiwa.

Published March 1994

The Changing Face of Australian Women

Feature

Anna Epstein

Women from non-English speaking backgrounds are adding another dimension to the picture of women in Australian art. Informed by other cultures and dealing with issues of ethnic difference, the images on these pages create a broader idea of what it is to be an Australian woman.

Published March 1994