Far Beyond First Impressions

Order Australis
Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
August 1993.

Published March 1994

Artrave

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

Surviving the first 12 months: Swing Bridge Art Gallery Dunally

Published March 1994

Fatal Attractions: Women and Technology: Norma Wight, Edite Vidins and Lyndall Milani

Looks at the work of three Queensland artists working in different ways with computers.

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

Shedding Skins: Identity and 'Lesbian' Art Practice

What does it mean to present as a 'lesbian' artist? The very identity categories 'gay', 'lesbian', 'heterosexual' are extremely problematic. Now that 'I' am out, I find that I am in - inside a category that reduces rather than expands possibilities for me, not just as an artist, but as a person.

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

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

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

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