Published 30 March 2022
Not all public institutions are devoted to blockbusters and cultural elitism. Regrettably, contempt for the masses is not anachronistic.
Exhibition review Memento celebration sentimentality Contemporary jewellery by Julie Blyfield Jam Factory Gallery 8 April - 29 May 1994
Published September 1994
Joan Kerr rewrites Australian art history to gain a better understanding of the present. Her ambitious projects question who wrote what, how and about whom. Discussion of 'Heritage: The National Women's Art Book'. Photograph of Joan Kerr in the article.
Once a very marginalised group, the gay and lesbian communities have now become a part of mainstream Sydney culture.
The most incisive commentary on the visual arts in Sydney usually occurs in private conversations that are not repeated in print for fear of the NSW defamation laws. But there is a great deal published on the visual arts....
Exhibition review em/body recent work by Sue Lorraine Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre South Australia 13 May - 25 June 1994
Published 01 September 1994
Editorial by guest editor Joanna Mendelssohn. What after all is different about Sydney? I have tried to give some idea of the debates which are not always expressed in writing - the incestuous nature of the mighty arts organisations; the way that words influence or corrupt understandings of art; and the limits on public debate because of fear of the consequences.
Exhibition review Q. Would you recognise a Virtual Paradise? and other paintings Suzanne Treister Contemporary Art Centre South Australia 29 March - 24 April 1994
Exhibition review Laws of Physics/Principles of Mathematics Kate Breakey Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre South Australia 8 April - 7 May 1994
Western Sydney can be seen as another city with another culture. This is not quite accurate, but it is the fasted growing region where the bulk of the younger population of the city live. And it has art.
Exhibition review Looking Towards the Future: Contemporary Aboriginal Art Flinders University Art Museum South Australia 13 May - 24 June 1994
Exhibition review Imperfect Drawings Juan Davila Greenaway Art Gallery Adelaide South Australia 11 May - 1 June 1994
