Artrave

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

Sophistication in the Country

Shire of Eltham on the outskirts of Melbourne Victoria and its commitment to the arts.

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

Jemmy Caution

Exhibition review Jemmy
Mehmet Adil, Craige Andrae, Johnnie Dadie, Simryn Gill, Richard Grayson, Linda Marie Walker, Paul Hewson, Shaun Kirby, David O'Halloran, Bronia Iwanczak, Andrew Petrusevics, Bronwyn Platten, George Popperwell, Jyanni Steffensen, Steve Wigg
Curated by Alan Cruikshank
Ebenezer Studios Basement
February 18 - March 13 1994

Published June 1994

Things I've Seen a Little Different Along the Way - Stories from Up North

"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.

Published June 1994

Drawing Wages

Looks at the Studio School of Painting and Drawing in South Australia. It is essentially a working artist's studio which has admitted students.

Published June 1994

The Green and the Wild

Exhibition review Dark Nature
Anne MacDonald and David Stephenson
Dick Bett Gallery Hobart, Tasmania
3 - 22 March 1994

Published June 1994

The End of an Era? Artists' Week 1994 Adelaide Festival

Artists were left out in the cold at the 1994 Festival of Arts. Examines issues facing organisers of events such as Artist's week in the context of the Adelaide Festival of Arts.

Published June 1994

Pity the Poor Director: Priorities Askew in Low Budget Film and Video

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.

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

Designs on Shopping

Exhibition review 4 Seasons - Objects that Contain
Plimsoll Gallery
University of Tasmania Centre for the Arts
March 4 - 27 1994

Published June 1994