Artrave

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

Sadomaschism, Art and the Lesbian Sexual revolution

Black leather, blood, piercing and tattooing, glamourised dominance and submission should be approached with political discernment and discrimination.

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

Trapped in Paradise - Some Women Artists in Tasmania

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.

Published March 1994

Printmaking and Optimism

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

Bush Women: Narrative Paintings from Outback Western Australia

Article written with Karen Dayman Works being produced by senior indigenous women artists around Western Australia use figurative elements as well as symbols to doucment their own histories during a period of unprecedented social and environmental upheaval.

Published March 1994

En-Gendering Resistance: Opening Moves with Game Girl

All New Gen Game Girl
by VNS Matrix
(Josephine Starrs, Francesca Da Rimini, Julianne Pierce, Virginia Barratt), Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide South Australia
21 October - 21 November 1993

Published March 1994

More Light (Goethe's last words)

Craig Andrae Miscellaneous Remarks
Contemporary Art Centre
Adelaide, South Australia
3 September - 3 October 1993

Published March 1994

The Horror of the Prose: Some Reflection on a Paper entitled The Horror of the Gaze

Some reflections on a paper entitled the Horror of the Gaze. Art criticism is, perhaps, an art form and not expected primarily to make sense. There is no consensus about what art is, but we do seem to share an urge to understand what critics say about it.

Published March 1994

The Art World: More Than a Foothold

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.

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