Gallery Dunce: The Skills to Pay the Bills
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.
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Watt Space?
Watt Space, the University of Newcastle Students' Art Gallery is a student initiative gallery whose role is to provide successive students with opportunities and experience in exhibiting, curating and gallery management.
Zoe Sweeney: Subsist - A Cosseted Environment
Exhibition review Zoe Sweeney: Subsist - A Cosseted Environment Gallery Go Go,
Melbourne Victoria
Emerging artists in Canberra: Carving Places
The past 10 years in Canberra have seen a strong and focussed development of facilities which offer support to emerging artists.
All about Empire
Empire Studios is a production group, collectively dedicated to taking art to the community, making work in electronic media more accessible, and presenting that work with a fresh approach. Located in Hobart Tasmania.
1st floor
Opening in April 1994, Ist floor is an artists and writers run gallery space in Fitzroy Victoria. Lists the constituency, administration, funding, programming, documentation, influences and objectives.
Psycho-Troppo - Unidentifiable Artists in Townsville North Queensland
Setting the scene for interpretation of emerging art practice in the north involves thinking about what it is to be in geographical isolation from the major urban centres in Australia, a combined sense of alienation and freedom. Discussesartists Gavin Condren, Tania Whitbread, Andrew Kelman, Roxanne Grant and Trisha Mason.
Plastic Newcastle - The Epicentre of Denial
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....
New Talent
In April 1997, the Mad Love Gallery hosted an exhibition curated by Micah Hamdorf. 'Premature Ejaculation' showcased 10 emerging male artists whose work relates to issues surrounding dysfunction. 'Popcorn' at the Contemporary Art Centre SA showcased 8 recent graduates from the SA School of Art. Plus other exhibitions.
Threadbare With Flare in the 90s
In July 1997, the Queensland Government launched its youth arts policy 'Your Culture-- Your Move' which targets the development of cultural activities and artistic practice for young people and emerging artists.
Quandong Country
Editorial for the issue 'Emerging Artists' (Vol 17 #4). The term 'emerging artist' is a red herring of a funding category in suggesting that the needs of emerging artists are so different from those of emerged artists. Like overnight sensations in film or theatre, emerging visual artists may be many years in the gestation.
Portrait of the Writer as a Young Artist
1. He has faith in his ability to lie. 2. He writes with generosity. 3. He creates new possibilities for existence. 4. He writes out of necessity.