Hand and Eye: The Art of Michael Esson

Michael Esson is fascinated by medical science. His work is not simply a satire of the medical profession or a reflection of the limitations of modern science. The surgeon is a metaphor for the mind facing the limits of its own ability to look into the darkness of nature.

Published June 1997

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

Book review Letters and Liars: Norman Lindsay and the Lindsay Family by Joanna Mendelssohn
Angus and Robertson
RRP $19.95

Published June 1997

Hello Sailor

Exhibition review Sculpture Bert Flugelman
Greenaway Art Gallery,
Adelaide, South Australia
23 April - 18 May 1997

Published June 1997

The Irrepressible Imprecision of Emotion

One of the general aims of internationally focussed survey exhibitions is to reflect the art of a particular time....However there is also a sense in which exhibitions of this nature can tend to operate as a form of cultural engineering, where the very status of inclusion in such exhibitions influences the kind of work made.

Published June 1997

Artworks in the New Children's Hospital Westmead NSW

The new building was conceived with the idea that artworks would be included throughout the new hospital as part of the desire to create a total healing environment. Since 1995 when the first patients were admitted the collection has continued to grow. An illustrated catalogue of the collection has also been published.

Published June 1997

Search and You Shall Find

Book review Max Germaine's Artists and Galleries on CD Rom
Published by Macquarie Multimedia
RRP $199
(reviewed by Anna Ward with Julia Farrow vi$copy@wr.com.au)

Published June 1997

Manifesto of Carnal Art

Carnal art is self portraiture in the classical sense, but realised through the possibility of technology. It swings between defiguration and refiguration. Its inscription in the flesh is a function of our age. The body has become a 'modified ready-made', no longer seen as the ideal it once represented.

Published June 1997

Drugs 'n' Art

The role of drugs and art making is examined in the works of particular artists. Historically drugs have been used for enlightenment as well as for healing or endurance....

Published June 1997

Healing Places: The Art of Placemaking in Health Facilities

Examines ideas of place in medical/health facilities from different perspectives. What role does art play in these places? To promote wellness, designers need to create environments that help in reducing stress. Art has an important role to play in helping people to heal.

Published June 1997

A Manifesto of Arrival and Understanding

Exhibition review Paintings: Zhong Chen
Adelaide Central Gallery,
South Australia
7 March - 20 April 1997

Published June 1997

Post-mortem: Farrell and Parkin

For a number of years the collaboration of Farrell and Parkin has produced photographic imagery dealing with medical history. Their photographic work involves the almost archaeological reconstruction of medical contraptions together with bandaging and stirrups and so on which are described in medical texts.

Published June 1997

Kevin Todd: Magnetic resonance

Published June 1997