Bronia Iwanczak: The Artist as Mental Ecologist

Bronia Iwanczak is a mental ecologist, a monitor of the pervasive cultural toxicity that characterises contemporary life in the west. Her work consistently addresses the role that technological mediation plays in this cultural landscape and focuses the viewers attention on the relationship between their inner subjective worlds and outer objective worlds. Iwanczak employs touch as a vital element in her work as she believes it has some transformative effect on the viewer. This artistic preocupation is here explored with direct reference to the Timebinder series (2004), a body of work acting as a precursor to Iwanczaks most recent series Many Fish Sacrifices (2005). The subject of these works is the ugly social reality of untimely, unjust death and they ultimately act as a means through which Iwanczak aims to mobilise the current cultural inability to meaningfully honour grief.

Published September 2006

Bronwyn Oliver

Bronwyn Oliver 22.2.59 - 10.7.06

Published September 2006

Stars of Track and Field
Campbelltown Arts Centre
10 December  5 February 2006

Published September 2006

Kevin Todd: Multi-valency Rules OK

Published September 2006

Indigenous Art of the Kimberley > New Energy: Mananambarra

On the white walls of the gallery the large paintings of Wandjina by senior Kimberley artist Omborrin beam forth filling the room with the radiance of his beloved Kimberley homelands.

Published September 2006

Office 6000

Level 2/16 Milligan Street, Perth,
27 - 31 March 2006

Published September 2006

Reflections in a Golden Eye

James Lynch. Sean Meilak. Viv Miller. Jonathan Nichols. Lisa Radford. Michelle Ussher
Curated by Jan Duffy and Kate Barber
Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts
8 July - 13 August 2006

Published September 2006

Feast to Feast: QPACifika
Queensland College of Art
18 December 2005

Published September 2006

Yvonne Boag: Mapping Place, Memory and Conversations

Yvonne Boag is a traveller, a wanderer and keen surveyor of her surroundings. Her concerns of language and place traverse a myriad of media such as paintings, prints and drawings in a career spanning three decades. As Boag commented in 1989 With every new work I start, it seems I am always at a beginning. Each work is an attempt to hold on to time. To make marks of that time, which will trace a pattern through my life& Through this text Donna Brett looks at Boags journeys to places such as Korea, Paris and the Lockhart River and her use of iconography and dense layering as a means of mapping her interaction with places, journeys and people. Some artistic influences here discussed include the works of Roger Hilton, William Scott, Ben Nicholson, Patrick Heron and Avis Newman. The Lockhart River, Urban Landscape and Conversations series are referred to in considerable detail.

Published September 2006

Heather Ellyard: Inventories and Commentaries

Heather Ellyards valued objects are static, symbolic, juxtaposed rather than flowing. Ellyard asserts that she wants to speak the lyrics and sorrows of our time. As she has said, I am interested in the glimpses, held, remembered, aligned inclusively&I am interested in awareness and how to acknowledge it within a visual framework. It may be that Ellyards vision of the periodical table is a bridge: between life made up of many little things and the one big thing toward which we all yearn. She leans more to wisdom art than to the mimetic or the sublime. Ellyards art is incorrigibly plural, and sustainedly committed to the broadest kind of human vision.
Textual references include the works of D.W. Winnicott, Jacob Rosenberg, Arthur Koestler, Basquiat, Brett Whiteley and Primo Levi amongst others.

Published September 2006

Artrave

Published September 2006

Michael Schlitz prints

Dick Bett Gallery
Hobart
9 June - 4 July 2006

Published September 2006