Artrave

Published March 1994

Re-orienting Feminism in Aotearoa

During the past 8 years or so there have been two distinctive strands of activity which women artists have pursued in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Both are concerned with questions of identity. Artists Fiona Pardington, Emily Karaka, Shona Davies, Christine Webster and Robyn Kahukiwa.

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

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

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 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

Modest Perfection

Bunbury Regional Galleries
November 1993

Published March 1994

Sight Lines

Book review: Sight Lines Women's art and Feminist Perspectives in Australia Sandy Kirby Craftsman House Sydney 1992 RRP $75

Published March 1994

Update: Projects of Women and Art

A survey of current issues, events and projects with respect to women's art from around Australia.

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

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

The Amazingness of Women to JUST DO IT

Rural Australia produces resolute women - astute, sensible, profound. This article examines the work of one of a woman from the south west of Western Australia - what influences and inspires her.

Published March 1994