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

Published September 2006

Currents II

People involved in the arts and education might have difficulty recognising the Australia that the Treasurer has been talking up recently: the one with the record 4% low unemployment. But the Treasurers spin fails to mention that to be counted as employed you only have to work one hour per week, which bears out the reality of a life in the arts.

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

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

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

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

Confluence: Palimpsest

Murray Bridge Regional Gallery
24 July  31 August 2006

Published September 2006

Mike Stubbs: Burnt

Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide
21 April  20 May 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

Renate Nisi: Sculpture of the Senses

Renate Nisi is obsessed by being packaged in a body, that condition common to humans, other animals, plants and even microbes. Growing up in Germany, where 'art had epic qualities', she flirted with the Sublime and the Romantic but converted to Expressionism 'with the figure as central motif.' A further shift has occurred since then, towards minimalism and three-dimensionality, 'away from the sovereignty of forms onto the relational qualities of environments.'

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