Fiona Davies: Intangible Collection

Fiona Davies: Intangible Collection
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
15 August - 18 November 2009

Published December 2009

Colour Country: Art from Roper River by Cath Bowdler and My Father, my brother: stories of Campbelltown's Aboriginal Men by Dvora Liberman

Published December 2009

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Lora Patterson , Fiona Lee, Cath Robinson, Callan Morgan, Grant Stevens
Curator: Sarah Jones
CAST Gallery, Hobart
18 July – 9 August 2009

Published December 2009

Wild Design - ecofriendly innovations inspired by nature by Alan Marshall and Back to the City - Strategies for Informal Urban Interventions Edited by Steffen Lehmann

Published December 2009

Tim Burns: From the Garden

Tim Burns: From the Garden
Bett Gallery, Hobart
9 October – 7 November 2009

Published December 2009

Art in the biotech era Edited by Melentie Pandilovski

Published December 2009

The Golden Journey: Japanese Art from Australian Collections by James Bennett and Amy Reigle Newland

Published December 2009

Kathy Temin

Kathy Temin
Curators: Jason Smith and Sue Cramer
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
1 August – 8 November 2009

Published December 2009

Writing in the age of graphomania

Novelist and sinologist Linda Jaivin rejects the excess writing and publishing that the internet affords every person with a keyboard and compares it to Milan Kundera's definition of graphomania(an obsession with writing books). She would rather have fewer readers than more scanners believing that a 'long form' like a novel or book-length non-fiction needs slow writing and carefully crafted prose.

Published December 2009

Zine publishing and the long tail

Adelaide-based Zinemeister Dr Ianto Ware discusses how prophecies of digital dominance are colosally wrong with regard to zine publishing a genre which remains exclusively hardcopy. He finds zines to be quintessential examples of Editor of Wired Magazine Chris Anderson's Long Tail in which tiny niches multiply and thrive.

Published December 2009

Artistic intention, branding and value

Artist Zina Kaye of www.laudanum.net writes about the importance of branding for artists and how artists play with copyright and fair use. She examines the artwork of Deborah Kelly, Soda_Jerk and Shepard Fairey to show variants on artist's intentions and outcomes.

Published December 2009

Netting the big and the little fish: monographs and biographies

Emeritus Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia and highly respected investigative curator and writer Daniel Thomas pulls out the stops in a far-ranging appraisal of art book publishing in Australia. He writes: "Once the artist is well dead, even if the book is 'only' a monograph, disregard the family and friends; we need to know everything."

Published December 2009