Patricia Piccinini: Love & Intelligent Machines

In a cultural landscape until recently left arid with irony or scarred by anti-aesthetic gestures, Patricia Piccinini's work rivets our attention. Acutely balancing beauty and idea, Piccinini works with aesthetics to develop an ethical position on one of the central issues of our time, that is, the way technology has fundamentally changed the concepts of life and of nature.

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Fiona Foley: Knowing Where to Look

Fiona Foley's career as an artist has resulted in a diverse practice united by a dedication to indigenous issues that are of relevance to all Australians. Her presence as an artist, advocate, activist and identity in the Australian cultural scene has remained poised and proud for over two decades. From her involvement in the formation of the Boomalli Ko-operative to her often hard-hitting presence as a public speaker and the lyrical and enchanting nature of her images, Foley has continued to disturb assumptions and challenge clichés about the way Australians think of themselves and the place we inhabit. Ephemeral Landscapes (1990), Ya Kari - speak for (2001), Kunmarin - wooden shield (2001) and other works are here discussed.

Pat Hoffie

Blighted Paradise: Colonial Visions of Northern Australia

Rockhampton Art Gallery 12 October - 25 November 2001

Martin Terry

Green Line: Pip McManus

Watch this Space, Alice Springs June 23 - July 7 24 HR Art, Darwin July 20 - August 11

Kieran Finnane

Rosslynd Piggott: Perfect/Sense

In the context of Melbourne art, Rosslynd Piggott could be linked to a significant movement of young artists who emerged in the 1980's. Her earlier works were figurative compositions which presented painterly/philosophical essays upon the nature of water, clouds and impermanence through surrealistic juxtapositions. This article follows her career from the early painting days through to her current concerns with mediums such as sculpture, installation and more recently performance.

Juliette Peers

Yokohama 2001 International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Japan

2 September - 11 November 2001

Chris Reid

Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, Visual Arts Program

Visual Arts Program, October 2001

Penelope Richardson

Gordon Bennett's Art: The Aura of Origin

With a directness and clarity born from genuine insight, Gordon Bennetts art gives form to the structure of an invisible repetitive history haunting the psyches of non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians alike. This text gives rise to Bennett's fierce artistic practice - including an examination of the works Outsider, Am I scared? and the Notes to Basquiat and Home Decor series. These works are looked at to reveal his recent concerns with the mechanisms of doubling, moving beyond the fatal powers of representation and indeed beyond a primary concern with Australian heritage to take on the world.

Ian McLean