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Amala Groom: Cosmic Body of remembrance
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Hannah Donnelly

Published 01 June 2019
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imagineNATIVE at 20
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Pauline Clague in conversation with Jason Ryle

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Sydney Elders: Continuing Aboriginal Stories

State Library of NSW

Feature
Jonathan Jones

Published 01 June 2019
Art Nocturne
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Speaking back to colonial collections: Building living to Aboriginal archives
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Kirsten Thorpe

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Unravelling the past: Barbed wire and campfire learnings
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Ali Cobby Eckermann

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Dark Emu: Thank the Earth
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Bruce Pascoe

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Deaths in custody: We've got to give it everything
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Lorena Allum

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Indigenous storytelling: Deconstructing the archetype
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Pauline Clague

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Exploration of images and statements by artists on the theme of death. Artists include William Kelly, Ross Moore, Bette Mifsud and Dennis Del Favero.

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Death, Pleasure and Gender in Film
Feature
Barbara Creed

The cinema's ability to represent death - the act of dying, bodily transformations, decay, the corpse - in astonishing realistic terms helps to explain why film, the moving rather than the static image, has become the central depository of death narratives (ancient and modern) in contemporary culture.

Published December 1994
Familiarity? Re-Examining Australian Suburbia
Review
Sean Kelly

Exhibition review Familiarity? Re-examining Australian Suburbia
Mikala Dwyer, Michele Beevors, Glen Clarke, Elizabeth Woods, Tony Schwenson and Aleks Danko
Curated by Brian Parkes
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania
23 September - 16 October 1994

Published December 1994
Images of Death 600,000 HOURS (Mortality) Experimental Art Foundation
Feature
John Neylon

Images of death explored in the context of the exhibition 600,000 hours (mortality) held at the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide South Australia October 1994.

Published December 1994
Mourning: Traditions, Symbols and Meaning
Feature
Judith Heaven

Traditions and rituals of mourning for the dead are common to most cultural groups and societies; mourning of the dead is even seen in some animal species.

Published December 1994
Animal Death and an Artist's Culture: Brian Blanchflower's Tursiops Installation
Feature
John Mateer

Examination of the installation Tursiops by Brian Blanchflower which refers to the brutal heritage of Western Australia's first settlement at Albany which had a large whaling station until the late 1970s.

Published December 1994
Indecent Exposures and Dissonance: Two New Books from Catriona Moore
Book Review
Stephanie Radok

Book reviews Indecent Exposures: Twenty years of Australian Feminist Photography
By Catriona Moore
Allen & Unwin in association with the Power Institute of Fine Arts
206 pp $21.95
Dissonance: Feminism and the Arts 1970 -90
Edited by Catriona Moore
Allen & Unwin in association with Artspace
308 pp $21.95

Published December 1994
Death in Excess: Nuclear Imagery
Feature
Rod James

Nuclear conflagration - whether real or imagined - captivated the post war psyche. Endist images of one form or another were developed in response to what many foresaw as the likely outcome of a third world war.

Published December 1994
What is Indefinable is Defined
Feature
Andrew Sayers

The death masks hardly exists anymore. The institution has gone the way of all memorials. It has finally been superseded by the photograph, the twentieth century death mask.

Published December 1994
No Drop City: Contemporary Australian Architecture
Book Review
Deborah White

Book review Contemporary Australian Architecture
Graham Jahn
Photography by Scott Frances
Basel/East Roseville: Gordon and Breach International/Craftsman House 1994 241 pp

Published December 1994
19th Fremantle Print Award
Review
David Bromfield

Exhibition review The Nineteenth Fremantle Print Award
Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
9 September - 23 October 1994

Published December 1994
Fania
Review
Angela Valamanesh

Exhibition review Fania
Curated by Erica Green
University of South Australia Art Museum
28 July - 27 August 1994

Published December 1994
In the Coil of Life's Hunger
Feature
Ian North

Looks at the work of James K Baxter 1926 - 1972 (poet) Colin McCahon 1919 - 1987 (artist) both of whom found in travel through New Zealand recurrent metaphor's for life's journey. The principle referent in their work was death.

Published December 1994
 
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