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

Kevin Todd: Magnetic resonance

Published June 1997

Linking Art, Science and Technology through the body

Looks at the conference 'inter sections 1996' hosted by the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales. The theme for the conference was Imag(in)ing Bodies; Issues of art, design, technolgy, health, medicine and science.

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

Historical Incisions

Exhibition Review Intervention 4: Michael Schlitz
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
3 February - 2 March 1997

Published June 1997

Whose Body? Ethics and Experiment in Art

How does the notion of experiment translate from the realms of scientific medicine to the realms of art? We are forced to examine how legal and ethical liabilities of behaviour are encoded. Looks at the work of Stelarc and Orlan.

Published June 1997

Introspecting

"The belief system that makes the artworld so unlike - let us say - the builder's hardware world is distinguished primarily by the doctrines that there are no truths and that nothing is real.... To put the point with moderation: artists would not be inconvenienced in the least by a general theory of representation that brought the trustworthiness of their critic somewhere within powerful cooee of the trustworthiness of their radiologist. And Theory owes it to them."

Published June 1997

Means to an Endoscope: Art, Medicine and the Body

Art medicine and the body was a project spanning 18 months. There were 28 participating artists. The exhibition opened at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in August 1996 followed by the performance and forum.

Published June 1997

The Faulding Collection

Looks at the art collecting practice of international pharmaceutical and healthcare company F.H.Faulding & Co.

Published June 1997

Salome's Dance

Exhibition review Blind: Annette Bezor
Greenaway Art Gallery,
Adelaide, South Australia
March 26 - April 20 1997

Published June 1997

Body Suits

Body suits, conceived by Jane Trengove of Arts Access Victoria, proposes the body as a site for investigation with the contributing artists being mostly people who experience 'bodily difference due to disability'. Touring show in 1997.

Published June 1997

Image Bank for Art and the Body - Medical Imaging

Medical imaging through the work of nine artists: James Guppy, Ruth Waller, Victor Dellavia, Elizabeth Abbott, Julie Rrap, Jan Parker, Tina Gonsalves, Kate Campbell-Pope and Claire Bailey. Artists statements and colour images included.

Published June 1997