Worms and Roses

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Braddon Snape: Internal pressures
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Faye Neilson

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Looking on, listening in: Wendelien van Oldenborgh's Bete & Deise
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John Mateer

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Butcher Joe's multiple world Stephen Muecke
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Stephen Muecke

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Archie Barry: Entangled listening
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Jacqui Shelton

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Meg Porteous: Dissociative bodies
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Amy Weng

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Adam Cullen: Acute misanthropy
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Wes Hill

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James Newitt: Working with the trouble
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Sasha Grbich

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Hayley Millar-Baker: I will survive
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Claire G. Coleman

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The first Australian garden books put vegetables first but by the mid 19th century the language of flowers was in vogue. Gardens, flowers and art...

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Museum of Shopping
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Clare Martin

Kitsch is a kind of creole. It quotes and mixes references from quite unrelated sources, dresses in wildly unsuitable materials, then tries to insinuate itself using childhood wiles.

Published December 1995
The Other Big F-Word
Feature
Juliette Peers

Monash University Gallery presented Fashion, Decor, Interiors, curated by Natalie King 7 June - 15 July 1995, high-lighting aspects of advertising, mass production and architectural design through the work of Lyndal Walker, Tony Clark and Stephen Bram -- extracts from the exhibition catalogue.

Published December 1995
Bigs R Us
Feature
Paul Ryan

Australians have a natural thirst for objects of grand scale, however ridiculous their theme or location or context. From big sandfly, big axe to big oyster and beyond, we are the big desert island that experiences big wets and big dries, little wonder someone made a Big Tap to remind us...we are big drinkers.

Published December 1995
The Black Swan of Western Australian-ness
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Dorothy Erickson

Since 1829, the inhabitants of the western third of Australia have identified more closely with the black swan than the kangaroo. The swan was and is to be found on a wide range of items from buildings to letterheads and furry toys. It crosses class boundaries...

Published December 1995
Kitschoprenia
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Robert Nelson

Our affection for kitsch is a benign form of aesthetic hypocrisy. My generation, give or take 15 years, adores kitsch. We want to have some badness; it's fun: you laugh both at your dismay for an object and your perplexity over the delight that it brings. In a broad cultural sense, my generation is kitschophilic; and this means, I suppose, not that we love the kitschy object with innocence but that we love the contempt which the kitschy object arouses.

Published December 1995
Mary MacKillop Kitsch
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Anne Loxley

I confess to a feeling of great affection for Mary MacKillop (1842 - 1909), vernacular culture and kitsch, and great enthusiasm for the idea of an Australian Vatican - an extravagant museum which is also a major site of pilgrimage.

Published December 1995
Pretty Baby
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Juliette Peers

Collecting and making dolls grows in popularity in Australia, but members of Australia's arts industry are relatively under-represented in the ranks of doll collectors. Original dolls speak of the culture that produces them.

Published December 1995
Boys and Girls: Pierre et Gilles' Sydney Mardi Gras Poster
Feature
Leigh Raymond

Examines the 1995 poster for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. How appropriate though, at the moment when Mardi Gras had successfully commodified itself as a cultural event, that its key representation should be through international glamour product photography.

Published December 1995
If Aquarium Gravel Is So Bad For You, How Come It Tastes So Good?
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Shaw Hendry

In the trading card world there are collectors, dealers, curators, critics, interested observers, and of course various magazines. Does this world sound familiar? Looks at the role of collecting...

Published December 1995
Kitsch or Kind: Representations of Aborigines in Popular Art
Feature
Glenn R Cooke

Much contemporary Aboriginal art functions in the inappropriate melding of two visual art traditions and is kitsch within the given meaning within the article.

Published December 1995
A Dual Aesthetic
Review
Judith McGrath

Exhibition Review Patmos Series Paintings
Jules Sher
Perth Galleries
Western Australia

Published December 1995
Destiny Deacon: It's Been Ages Since We Last Marched
Feature
Jo Holder

You can hear her on the radio and see her on the television and contemplate her in better State galleries. Pluralist par excellence, artist, writer and film-maker Destiny Deacon has been blazing away on visual and linguistic fronts since premiering 'Koori Rocks Gub Words' in 'Pitcha Mi Koori' (1990).

Published December 1995
 
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