The Hours

The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America
Curator: Sebastian Lopez
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
21 June - 2 September 2007

Published December 2007

Topsy

Topsy
Eleanor Avery, Ray Cook, Kim Demuth, Alice Lang, David Spooner, Grubbanax Swinnasen. Curator Chris Comer
Metro Arts Galleries, Brisbane
5  22 September 2007

Published December 2007

Artworks Out on the Beach Townsville

In September 2007 in Townsville Stephanie Radok attended the Perc Tucker Regional Gallerys Strand Ephemera, a biennial outdoor sculpture and installation exhibition first held in 2001. The Strand is a 2km landscaped beachfront park where local and interstate artists placed their site specific works which ranged from an Aeolian harp by Nameer Davis to a throne made of seasponges by Wendy Robertson. An enthusiastic audience of children and Strand-strollers made their way from work to work thinking about art and its myriad manifestations. Commissioned artists making work in shipping containers were Craig Walsh, Bonemap, Donna Marcus, Chris Fox and Richard Goodwin.

Published December 2007

No. 1

No. 1
six a, North Hobart
24 August - 24 September 2007

Published December 2007

Fremantle Print Awards

Fremantle Print Award 07
Fremantle Arts Centre
8 September - 21 October 2007

Published December 2007

Work Wanted: Keith Wong

An artist advertising art in the yellow pages as an artwork turns out not to be a light matter.

Published December 2007

Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater

The CDEP (Community Development Employment Program) was axed by the Howard Federal Government throughout the Northern Territory though is still current in South Australia and Western Australia. The Program was launched in 1977 by the Fraser Government and has been a very valuable way of getting Aboriginal people to be engaged productive community memes in art centres and other activities. A number of key Aboriginal art centres rely on CDEP staff for printing, administration, preparators, artists and craftspeople. It is a vital component in building community self-reliance and pride.

Published December 2007

Busy Work: Dreaming Time

Justine Khamara uses a scalpel to cut out tens of thousands of images from magazines. She then joins the often identical images to make very large assemblages. The artist sees the obsessive busywork that she does with her hands as providing her with space to dream and do the real work of sifting through the stuff in her head.

Published December 2007

Painting at SALA

Shades of the Real: a selective survey of tonal painting
Adelaide Central Gallery
20 July - 11 August 2007
artists: Morgan Allender, Nona Burden, Stephanie Crase, Kveta Deans, Louise Feneley, Mary-Jean Richardson, Chelsea Lehmann, Rachel Smyth, Deborah Trusson, Yve Thompson
Christian Lock
Greenaway Art Gallery
4 -29 July 2007
Kaylie Weir (in Noodle)
Premier Art Gallery SALA exhibition
3 August  1 September 2007
Learning to Speak
Simone Kennedy
Artlab SALA Exhibition
3-19 August 2007

Published December 2007

Strange Fruit

Strange Fruit: Testimony and Memory in Julie Dowlings Portraits
Curator: Jeanette Hoorn
Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
21 July - 14 October 2007

Published December 2007

Australian Pastoral by Jeanette Hoorn

Published December 2007

Valuing Relationships: Concertina

Concertina is a group of seven artists, Katrina Weber, Ros Miller, Wendy Rushby, Kathryn Hill, Wendy Todd, Dana Kinter and Anny Gooden, who for six years have been working as a collective creating within self-prescribed boundaries. Once a year they set aside their own practices and embark upon a major collaborative project leading to an exhibition. Their latest venture meant one artist Anny Gooden stepping outside the group, she was overseas, and providing instructions to the others. The resulting exhibition, Text as Muse, was shown at Light Square Gallery from 27 June - 26 July 2007.

Published December 2007