Published April 2021
Cinema is both dead and deathless. Cinema like this can take us to the great chasm in our lives and hold us over the edge.
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
Exhibition review Symmetry: Crafts and Kindred Trades and Professions Curated by Kevin Murray University of South Australian Art Museum 8 September - 8 October 1994
Thus we come full circle to view the cemetery not as a necessary inconvenience to be isolated on the edge of town and visited once every few years but as a resource that can make a positive contribution to the community.
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.
Exhibition review Monstrous Gorgeous Curated by Virginia Barratt Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide, South Australia 8 July - 7 August 1994
Exhibition review Chris Hopewell: New works Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at the University of Western Australia 2 September - 16 October 1994
Exhibition review The Nineteenth Fremantle Print Award Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia 9 September - 23 October 1994
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.
Across much of Aboriginal Australia the announcement of a death is followed by profound communal mourning, the removal or destruction of the deceased's belongings and most significantly a prohibition on the use of the deceased's name.
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
Looks at the exhibition 'Death' co-curated by Felicity Fenner and Anne Loxley held at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery in April 1993. 'Death' was a mixed media survey covering more than 200 years of Australian art which directly addressed the theme of death.
