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

Surviving the first 12 months: Swing Bridge Art Gallery Dunally

Published March 1994

More Light (Goethe's last words)

Craig Andrae Miscellaneous Remarks
Contemporary Art Centre
Adelaide, South Australia
3 September - 3 October 1993

Published March 1994

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

Published March 1994

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.

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

Different Dreaming

Lap : an installation view. Keitha Phelps
Five Different Homes. Louise Haselton
Contemporary Art Centre
19 November- 12 December 1993

Published March 1994

Far Beyond First Impressions

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

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

Bad Girls: Institute of Contemporary Art London

Review Bad Girls: Institute of Contemporary Art London 7 October - 5 December 1993. Using glamour, virginity and stardom to attract as wide an audience as possible to a show of supposedly anarchic women artists all hoping to confront notions of sexuality and gender was a smart, if questionable, move....

Published March 1994

Memorial to the Survivors

Discussion of the work of Aboriginal artist Hope Neill

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