Published 30 March 2022
Australian women artists still see grey skies when they look out of their studio windows. This study examines the experiences of women in the hierarchical Australian contemporary art scene.
Exhibition review I'sland (I'l)n. Exhibition of prints Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania 23 December - 2 January 1994
Published March 1994
Black leather, blood, piercing and tattooing, glamourised dominance and submission should be approached with political discernment and discrimination.
Looks at the art practice of 5 Western Australian women artists: Helen Taylor, Alison Rowley, Moira Doropoulos, Michelle Elliot and Linda Banazis.
The Women's Art Register contains a public access slide library of 20,000 slides, 14,000 information folders representing (as at 1994) 2,400 Australian based women artists.
Craig Andrae Miscellaneous Remarks Contemporary Art Centre Adelaide, South Australia 3 September - 3 October 1993
The artists were selected because their work embraces not only questions of gender, but also addresses the distinctive duality between the superficial look of things and the complex web of underlying meaning, desire, fear, experience, and memory that they have located and interpreted for us. Featured artists are Jane Eisemann, Jacqui Stockdale, K.T. Prescott, Helen Wright and Megan J Walch.
Women's courses since the 1970s have become a familiar if marginalised component of most art school curricula, their initial aim being to compensate for the absence of women in the Art History and Theory syllabus and to encourage the development of feminist art practices.
Tangerine Dreams: a matter of Western Australian Style 1970 - 1980 Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery University of Western Australia
Fountain installation by Derek Kreckler Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide South Australia 2-24 December 1993 and 11-23 January 1994
Looks at the work of Heather Ellyard, Annette Bezor, Janette Moore, Anna Platten.
Women from non-English speaking backgrounds are adding another dimension to the picture of women in Australian art. Informed by other cultures and dealing with issues of ethnic difference, the images on these pages create a broader idea of what it is to be an Australian woman.
