World Summit on Arts & Culture

Executive Director of NAVA Tamara Winikoff missed the voices of artists at the October 2011 World Summit on Arts & Culture in Melbourne.

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Speaking in Colour

Artist and curator Una Rey writes about the exhibition 'Speaking in colour' that she curated for the Newcastle Gallery from their collection in March-May 2011. Her experience of working with Indigenous artists in Central Australia coloured her choices and her interpretations of them.

Una Rey

Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976 – 2011

Museum of Contemporary Art at the National Art School Gallery, Sydney 17 June - 24 August 2011

Michael Baldwin

Flight of the Cicada: Susan Purdy's insect photograms

The inaugural Watermark Literary Fellow Carolyn Leach-Paholski describes the black and white photograms of Susan Purdy which were made in the course of a long wet winter.

Carolyn Leach-Paholski

Impending Encounter

Sarah Scott

Transplanting Life: the distributed media of embodied selves. The Body is a big place

Personality psychologist at Macquarie University Doris McIlwain does yoga and throws pots. She writes about new media installation 'The Body is a Big Place' the recent work of Peta Clancy and Helen Pynor which deals with the complexities of organ donation.

Doris McIlwain

Cephalopods: Colour on demand

Kate Chmiel

The Torres Strait Islands: A Celebration

Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait, GOMA Strait Home, State Library of Queensland Awakening: Stories from the Torres Strait, Queensland Museum Belong, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre Mabo Oration 2011, Follow the Stars: Indigenous culture, knowledge and intellectual property rights 1 July - 23 October 2011

Carol Schwarzman