The Engagement of the Personal

How do we define ourselves? What are the choices for women these days?

Published March 1994

HER-ESIES Ancient and Modern

"Women in art must look to the future as they have no past" said Mary Cecil Allen at an opening of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors in 1935. A critical examination of the current art practices of women in Australia.

Published March 1994

What Should We Do With The 'Women and Art' Elective?

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.

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

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

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

A View from the Other Side - Five Women West Australian Artists

Looks at the art practice of 5 Western Australian women artists: Helen Taylor, Alison Rowley, Moira Doropoulos, Michelle Elliot and Linda Banazis.

Published March 1994

Memories of a Nebula

Fountain installation by Derek Kreckler
Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide South Australia
2-24 December 1993 and 11-23 January 1994

Published March 1994

Reaffirming Identity

Fab art: Works by Kerry Giles (Kurwingie)
Gallerie Australis
Adelaide South Australia
23 November - December 1993

Published March 1994

Someday, Somewhere - Women and Nation in International Art

However, feminist artists, curators and writers could collaborate in establishing alternative frameworks for international exhibitions that would render unthinkable the omission of female artists or the implicit erasure of gender as an interpretive key.

Published March 1994

Knocking on the Inside: Heather Ellyard, Annette Bezor, Janette Moore and Anna Platten

Looks at the work of Heather Ellyard, Annette Bezor, Janette Moore, Anna Platten.

Published March 1994

Surviving the first 12 months: Swing Bridge Art Gallery Dunally

Published March 1994