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Porn Shop Art Adventures
Written with Barbara Holloway Exhibition review Joe Blow: A very erotic art exhibition by Jo Ernst
Adam and Eve Gallery Canberra
December 1993
Sight Lines
Book review: Sight Lines Women's art and Feminist Perspectives in Australia Sandy Kirby Craftsman House Sydney 1992 RRP $75
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.
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.
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.
Making (A) Difference: Suffrage Year Celebrations and the Visual Arts in New Zealand
Suffrage year celebrations and the visual arts in New Zealand.
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.
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
Different Dreaming
Lap : an installation view. Keitha Phelps
Five Different Homes. Louise Haselton
Contemporary Art Centre
19 November- 12 December 1993
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.
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.
The Engagement of the Personal
How do we define ourselves? What are the choices for women these days?