Published 30 March 2022
Operating both as an industry training ground and as a space for creative experimentation, low budget film and video production must be thought of as an economic and a cultural investment.
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
Museums and larger arts spaces are increasingly looking at ways to improve access to their exhibitions for a wider range of people. Contemporary art spaces face a more difficult battle than museums in trying to become more relevant to their diverse communities.
"If you are real lucky you got CDEP or your are making it selling your art and then you got a good art centre too, maybe. If you are real lucky just when you turn up with a couple of week's art production, maybe yours, maybe the families, the centre's got cash, no one's a bastard, everyone's happy, the store has even got some decent food, even new bikes, toy guns, tape decks and a few tins of Log Cabin. Shit, life's good - sometimes anyway." A personal view of art making in indigenous communities.
The artist describes her attempts to sell her sculpture and the need to take other work. How has this impacted on her artistic approach?
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?
A brief guide to Melbourne's artist run galleries: Ether Ohnetitel, The Women's Gallery, Gallery Gecko, The COOP, A For Art Space, Making Sense Contemporary Art Space, The Basement Project, Argyle Street Studios, West Space, Arts Post, RedPlanet, Another Planet Posters, Red Letter Community Workshop, A.R.T. (artaroundtown), First Floor, Store 5, Room 4, ROAR Studio, Temple 29 and 41 Gold Street.
Exhibition review Dark Nature Anne MacDonald and David Stephenson Dick Bett Gallery Hobart, Tasmania 3 - 22 March 1994
Book review Contemporary Sculpture in Australian Gardens By Ken Scarlett Craftsman House 1993
The City of Noarlunga and the City of Prospect in South Australia are the only two councils who have retained community arts officers.
Box Hill known in the art world for its connection to the Heidelberg School of Painting has maintained its commitment to the arts.
One outcome of the recent spate of local urban design projects and processes has been employment for artists.
