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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Price of Liberty

The Women's Art Register contains a public access slide library of 20,000 slides, 14,000 information folders representing (as at 1994) 2,400 Australian based women artists.

Published March 1994

Artrave

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

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

Memorial to the Survivors

Discussion of the work of Aboriginal artist Hope Neill

Published March 1994