Good Spot for a Pot Shot

The time is post-recession, the economic climate is uncertain, Australian designers and consumers inhabit the suburbs but are cut off from each other, and someone decided to do something about it in the City of Caulfield, Victoria.

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

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

Artists Pave the Way

One outcome of the recent spate of local urban design projects and processes has been employment for artists.

Published June 1994

Artrave

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

No Vacancy: The Art of 400 Artists

Looks at the artist run space 'No Vacancy' located in Melbourne, Victoria.

Published June 1994

Noarlunga: Backwater No Longer

The City of Noarlunga and the City of Prospect in South Australia are the only two councils who have retained community arts officers.

Published June 1994

Focusing on the River

Every State has one - a local council that is outstanding in its commitment to the arts and in Western Australia, the credit for innovation and energy goes to the City of Gosnells, who have arguably led the pack for the last 5 years in interesting community arts projects...

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

The Spirit of Collectivism: A Brief Guide to Melbourne's Artist-run Galleries

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.

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