Ann Newmarch: Opening Pandora's box

In 2007 Ann Newmarch was represented in 'WACK, Art and the Feminist Revolution', a major exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Newmarch embraced feminism in the early 1970s. Her art practice manifests the view that all representation is political. Her new work, reiterates a position that she adopted in 1972 : "I try to get onto the page visual images that combine to make memory: past memories incorporated in new sensations and new images related back to past experience. Contemplation ...of our environment that recalls other times, places and relationships."

Published September 2009

The Divided Heart

The divided heart

Rachel Power
Red Dog Books, Melbourne
RRP $29.99

Published September 2009

Oh that I were where I would be

Oh that I were where I would be
Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
10 June – 4 July 2009

Published September 2009

Integration Assimilation and a Fair Go For All: Khaled Sabsabi

Integration Assimilation and a Fair Go For All: Khaled Sabsabi
Gallery 4A, Sydney
13 June – 25 July 2009

Published September 2009

Editorial

Published September 2009

Sail Away: Ian North

Sail Away: Ian North
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
1-26 April 2009

Published September 2009

Visual arts at OzAsia

The 2009 OzAsia Festival runs from 3 – 17 October, and also includes a fantastic family-friendly program of theatre, dance, film, food, as well as the free community opening event, the Moon Lantern Festival in Elder Park. See www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au

Open from 29 September - 1 November at the Festival Centre
Curious Screen: Festival Theatre (FT) Foyer
The Sum of Cultures: Piano Bar
Follow, Northern India: Faces and Words and Okami: FT Foyer
Miss Taken: Space Theatre Foyer
'this reminds me of some place': FT Foyer
29 September - 8 November, Following Threads: Artspace Gallery (Upstairs, Dunstan Playhouse)

Published September 2009

Living palely

The Stoics may have taken rationality too far in their resolute minimisation of all feeling. Are emotions no more than disturbances in the logical landscape? What of Pascal’s ‘the heart has its reasons that reason is not acquainted with’? Perhaps the rationality/emotion divide is overdrawn, risking battle lines forming around pure opposites never found in real life examples. Yet the issue has bite, relevance to intimate features of our life: our friendships, our sense of safety in the world, how much we give of ourselves and give up of ourselves to our working life and the living texture of what it feels like to be us: fugitive, or having the ‘warm antiquity of self’.

Published September 2009

Inside Sydney's new Outsider art centre

Outsider Art is enjoying increasing attention in Australia. STOARC – the Self-Taught and Outsider Art Research Collection – at the University of Sydney opened its public face at Callan Park Gallery in March 2009.

Published September 2009

M/other love: the first relationship & the photography of Toni Wilkinson

Toni Wilkinson’s 'm/other' exhibition of photographs at Perth Galleries, North Fremantle earlier this year confronted the viewer with a series of atypical representations of the mother child relationship. She give a glimpse into the privacy, and reality, of a mother’s world by showing us mothers and their children at their most naked, physically and emotionally.

Published September 2009

Nobody Likes a Show Off: Richard Lewer

Nobody Likes a Show Off: Richard Lewer
Curator: Kirrily Hammond
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
1 July – 5 September 2009

Published September 2009

The Underpass Motel

This project grew as an extension of a Fellowship awarded to Stuart Elliott in 2006 from ArtsWA – the major arts funding body of the WA Government.
Artists involved: Stuart Elliott, Graham Taylor, Patrizia Tonello, Amanda Williams, Peter Dailey, Ben Jones, Richard Heath and Si Hummerston.

The Underpass Motel, DVD premiere and gallery exhibition opens at Turner Galleries 9 October - 7 November 2009. www.turnergalleries.com.au

Visit the website: http://members.iinet.net.au/~reuham/theunderpassmotel.html

Published September 2009