Furniture, Ceramics: What the Hell, Let's Do It

Examines the Centre for Furniture Design, the Centre for the Arts in Tasmania and the Atlantis Studio in Townsville Queensland.

Published June 1994

Looking at the Billboard

Written with Lee Salomone exploring the utilisation of prominent billboards on the tram track in Adelaide for the term of one year at no cost for them to be used as public art spaces.

Published June 1994

Strategies for Debunking the Myth of Artist as Wanker

or what I learned at school... the artist Malcolm McKinnon examines his training through the art school in Melbourne in the 1980s.

Published June 1994

Artists -- From Garret to Office

The Premier of Victoria may claim that his government has opened Victoria for business, but it is the important role of local government and the Federal Government in developing arts training and facilities that is really making the running. Artists are no longer in their garrets but in front of pcs in their offices.

Published June 1994

Self-Starting Sculpture

The artist describes her attempts to sell her sculpture and the need to take other work. How has this impacted on her artistic approach?

Published June 1994

Shedding the Bark

Bark painters of Arnhem Land are experimenting with a new medium - canvas- and in so doing both increasing their output and responding to market forces.

Published June 1994

Surviving the Recession

How do artists survive when they are not able to sell work in galleries -- sales are at a record low and many galleries have folded-- or get commissions through State agencies -- because these are few and far between?

Published June 1994

The Jeweller's Apprentice

"As a practising artist/craftrsperson with an interest in education, teaching and learning, the potential of studio based training greatly appealed to me."

Published June 1994

Artrave

Published June 1994

Income, Outcome? Hard Times for Artists + Industry

As an organisation, Arts + Industry is fundamentally concerned with economics and income generation. Assisting artists and designers to either find employment with industry or create opportunities as self-employed designer/makers is integral to their goals.

Published June 1994

Festival of Perth: Visual Arts a Shadow of Their Former Selves

Review A sad thing has happened to the once vibrant visual arts component of the Festival of Perth - the oldest arts festival in Australia. It has become tired if not downright tiresome. The whole event needs a good shake - up.

Published June 1994

Showing and Working Together in WA

To survive financially and professionally a large number of artists in WA have formed themselves into co-operatives.

Published June 1994