The Cultural Biography of Plants

The cultural biography of plants provides an extremely fertile field for artists to explore. It also encourages artists, and viewers, to explore the interface between cultures and between culture and agriculture.

Published March 1995

Saved by the Demon - Hemp Lives

Cannibis Sativa as a drug, as uses of hemp - textiles, fabric and paper - as building materials, as oils food and protein, for medical and therapeutic applications, biomass energy... so why is there a prohibition?

Published March 1995

Rene Boutin: An Artist and His Garden

New Caledonia has become the first Pacific nation to hold a Biennale of Contemporary Visual Art. Lucienne Fontannaz travelled to Noumea to interview artist Rene Boutin and discovered an artist who takes more than the gallery and his studio as his milieu.

Published March 1995

The food chain starts here: Larrtha'puy, from the mangroves

Published 01 March 1995

Asian Tucker in the NT - new trend, old ecology

An installation work 'Guarding Civilization's Rim' a collaborative effort by 'The Personal Museum' comprising three Queensland artists opened in Townsville in September 1994. The project has been specifically created for and about northern Australia - the last frontier.

Published March 1995

Wolseley and Majzner Read the Land

Looks at the recent work of John Wolseley and Victor Majzner.

Published March 1995

Cate Jones on Photography

Exhibition review Lifeworks: Aboriginal women photographed in action and at work by Aboriginal women photographers
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
Adelaide South Australia
7 October - 4 December 1994

Published March 1995

Ingrid Day on Phil Mullaly

Exhibition review Other Refuge Have I None
Phil Mullaly
New Land Gallery
16 November - 30 December 1994

Published March 1995

Cultivated anatomy: Fiona Hall's Garden of Earthly Delights

Published 01 March 1995

Kay Aldenhoven on Annie Taylor

Exhibition review Doggone: Goddog: godingo: dingod
Works by Annie Taylor
24 Hour Art Darwin, Northern Territory
21 October - 5 November 1994

Published March 1995

David Bromfield on Sculpture

Exhibition review The Games Room
Stuart Elliott at Lawrence Wilson Art Galley
University of Western Australia
21 October - 4 December 1994
Death of a Myth
Michelle H Elliot at Gomboc Galleries and Sculpture Park
6 - 27 November 1994

Published March 1995

Rice on the Terrace

The artist grew up in Baguio, which looks to be quite close to Ifugao on the map, and although I was taught that the rice terraces of this region of the Philippines were the eighth wonder of the world it was many years before he was able to see them.

Published March 1995