Published 04 January 2021
Newmarch Gallery
ANCA Gallery, Canberra
Published 28 December 2020
The Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre, Mount Gambier
Published 08 December 2020
Published 30 November 2020
Burnie Regional Art Gallery
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Art Gallery of South Australia
Exhibition review Recent Work: Hossein Valamanesh 4-29 October 1995, Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide SA
Exhibition review Some Pictures from a Somniloquist's Diary Tony Trembath 1 November - 26 November 1995 Greenaway Gallery Adelaide SA
Published March 1996
During World War Two, the Australian government's Department of Information represented the male body in at least two distinct ways. The photographer Edward Cranstone photographed a heroically active, phallicised body and the cameraman Damien Parer filmed a heroically suffering abject body.
What boys give up to become men is all contained in this photograph...
Exhibition review Armorial: Dianne Longley 8 September - 3 October 1995 Adelaide Central Gallery, SA
Vigilantly looking out to sea, the two manifestations of the life saver, the saviour and the sportsman, are combined in this 'gay greeting card' in such a way as to draw on the history of surf club masculinity and create an erotic pose.
Masculinity continues its argument with itself, quizzical at its self-propelled self-assertion. But in asserting aggression the pain is not just experienced in the victim. For even in the crudest acts of coitus, for a moment, the raper becomes the raped, he is tied by his penis and his balls into an abomination.
Exhibition review Fremantle Print Awards 8 September - 15 October 1995 Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
Exhibition review Home: Body Pat Brassington, Kathryn Faludi, Mary Scott, Heather B Swann, Jennifer Spinks 21 September - 13 October 1995 Carnegie Room Town Hall Hobart, Tasmania
Guest editors of 'Masculinities Reflected' Noel Sanders and Kurt Brereton reflect on the nature of masculinity.
Musings on the man who was the author's father from a multicultural perspective.
The images are selections from a body of work called flamingharlots@trashed, created by Sydney based photographer Natalie Lowrie. The images, digitally retouched photos of Natalie's circle of friends and acquaintances were exhibited at the Polymorph Gallery at Newtown.
We collage, genderbend, cross dress and polymorph exquisite corpses out of media and advertising personalities, then use them as fantasy aids in the cause of our mundane desires.
