The Fated Gathering

The artist talks about his work and responses.

Published September 1995

Closer Up: Into the Sunset

Examines the fate of portrait painting in the twentieth century....the critical focus of contemporary art is undoubtedly elsewhere...Examined with reference to the portraits of artists Mike Parr, Matthys Gerber, Vicente Butron

Published September 1995

Pretty and Witty and Bright

Exhibition review performance art Relatives/Friends/Victims
Safe Chamber
One was Vicious
Queenbitchery First Site Program,
Come Out Festival
Lion Arts Theatre
29 -31 March 1995

Published September 1995

I'm not a Charlatan

Exhibtion review Old Dust and Medical Gas
Installation by Shaun Kirby
Sym Choon Gallery, Adelaide SA
19 May - 12 June 1995

Published September 1995

Image Bank: Portraiture

Artist's statements and images: Kate Butler, Destiny Deacon, Di Barrett, Thomas Hoareau and Anne Zahalka.

Published September 1995

Artrave

Published September 1995

The Fortunes of Anatomy: 1895 - 1995 Venice Biennale

Although the Centenary Venice Biennale has a number of faces, the primary one is to represent the face of contemporary art through international participation of 43 countries at their official pavilions.

Published September 1995

Waltzing Through a Post-modernist Minefield

Book review
Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media and Technological Horizons
by Eric Michaels
Allen and Unwin
RRP $29.95

Published September 1995

Portraiture and Faciality

Each age has apparently had some theory of the face. Article links to the exhibition 'Faciality' curated by Zara Stanhope at the Monash University Gallery. Includes the work of artists Geoffrey Dupree, Chris Barry, Maria Kozic, Gordon Bennett, Peter Kennedy and others.

Published September 1995

Talk, Torque and the Garden Knot

Report Torque, the Fourth Artists' Regional Exchange, Perth February - March 1995 - a five week residency for visual artists from Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines, an exhibition of work at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art Western Australia and a Symposium (24- 26 March 1995).

Published September 1995

500 Women - Why Stop?

Book review
Heritage: the National Women's Art Book
edited by Joan Kerr
an Art and Australia book published by Craftsman House
RRP $150

Published September 1995

Snake/Skin

Ann Newmarch has recently confronted and embraced the problems of ageing ...in a project she calls 'Anti Medusa/Risking Fifty'.

Published September 1995