Noel Sheridan

Noel Sheridan 1936 - 2006

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

Sydney Biennale a flaneur reports back

Biennale of Sydney

Published September 2006

Bronwyn Oliver

Bronwyn Oliver 22.2.59 - 10.7.06

Published September 2006

Robert Owen: A Different Kind of Modern

Robert Owens longstanding interest in exploring dimensions of light and space beyond the merely visual reaches back into an important line of constructivist art of the early twentieth century. Experiments with form and material have characterised Owens practice throughout his career, as has his openness to heterogeneous influences. Some of the major influences on Owens practice include metaphysical philosophy, Buddhist spirituality, optics, geometry in physics, minimalist sculpture and the work of Marcel Duchamp.
This article refers to the works of Naum Gabo, De Stijl, Russian Constructivism, Bauhaus, Lynden Dadswell, Walter Gropius, Chairman Clift, George Johnston, Leonard Cohen, Jack Hirshman, Jean-François Lyotard, Charles Biederman, David Bohm and Stephen Hyde.

Published September 2006

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

Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986-2006

Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986-2006
Laura Murray Cree (ed)
Craftsman House ISBN 0 9757684 1 7 RRP $95

Published September 2006

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

Published September 2006

Deluxe: decorous crossover between art and design

Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania
Hobart
6 - 26 May 2006

Published September 2006

Tracey Clement: Border Zones

Groundfloor Gallery, Balmain
SafARI, Pelt, Chippendale
Sculpture, installation, jewellery
http://www.groundfloorgallery.com/
14 June - 1 July 2006

Published September 2006

Artrave

Published September 2006

Indigenous Art of the Kimberley > Warmun Arts: The Unfolding Stories

This January, in the startlingly beautiful country of the Warmun Community, rained in by a particularly intense wet season, art matriarch and grandmother of eighteen, Mabel Juli, sat on the veranda of the Ngalangpum School looking through some of the old paintings which comprise the Warmun Community Collection.

Published September 2006