The Changing Face of Australian Women

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.

Published March 1994

A Woman's Story: Hunting Grounds

Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
5 November - 10 December 1993

Published March 1994

Image Bank: The Feminist Project

Presentation and artist statement by contemporary female art practitioners. Women looking as feminist, feminine, female, femme, feminal. Artists featured: Frances Joseph, Angela Stewart, Maryanne Coutts, Noela Hjorth, Jill Kempson, Maria Kuczynska, Rosslynd Piggott, Eugenia Raskopoulos, C. Moore Hardy, Alex Macfadyen, Janet Neilson, Deborah Paauwe, Virginia Barratt, Linda Dement, Susie Hansen, Janina Green, Joy Smith, Madeleine Winch, Kathie Muir, Libby Round, Pam Johnston, Merryn Eirth, Dee Jones, Di Barrett, Frances Phoenix and Ella Dreyfus.

Published March 1994

Filipina Migranteng Manggagawa: Feminism, Art and Advocacy in the Philippines

Overseas contract workers from the Philippines support their families and their country as whole through many lonely years of exile.

Published March 1994

Porn Shop Art Adventures

Written with Barbara Holloway Exhibition review Joe Blow: A very erotic art exhibition by Jo Ernst
Adam and Eve Gallery Canberra
December 1993

Published March 1994

Bad Girls: Institute of Contemporary Art London

Review Bad Girls: Institute of Contemporary Art London 7 October - 5 December 1993. Using glamour, virginity and stardom to attract as wide an audience as possible to a show of supposedly anarchic women artists all hoping to confront notions of sexuality and gender was a smart, if questionable, move....

Published March 1994

Modest Perfection

Bunbury Regional Galleries
November 1993

Published March 1994

Different Dreaming

Lap : an installation view. Keitha Phelps
Five Different Homes. Louise Haselton
Contemporary Art Centre
19 November- 12 December 1993

Published March 1994

Making (A) Difference: Suffrage Year Celebrations and the Visual Arts in New Zealand

Suffrage year celebrations and the visual arts in New Zealand.

Published March 1994

Speaking the Ineffable: New Directions in Performance Art

Looks at Linda Sproul's 'Listen' and Barbara Campbell's 'Backwash'.

Published March 1994

Surviving the first 12 months: Swing Bridge Art Gallery Dunally

Published March 1994

Nola Farman: The Challenge Continues

Examination of the art practice of Nola Farman.

Published March 1994