Outsider Art: Flavour of the Month

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Wardlipari Homeriver Vulnerable observations
Feature
Uncle Lewis Yarluburka O’Brien and Ali Gumillya Baker

Published 01 March 2019
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Local colour: Dyeing and women's wealth
Feature
Julie Ewington

Published 01 March 2019
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Revisiting colour problems: Emily Vanderpoel, Hilma af Klint, Becca Albee, Clare Milledge
Feature
Amelia Wallin

Published 01 March 2019
ACE Open
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Queer uses of colour: A tinted hermeneutics
Feature
Abbra Kotlarczyk

Published 01 March 2019
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Meet Lisa Walker in her workshop: VR in the museum
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Justine Olsen and Prue Donald

Published 01 December 2018
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Eugenie Lee's Seeing is Believing: VR in pain management
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Dylan DeLosAngeles

Published 01 December 2018
Dan McCabe
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Artificial imagination: Deepfakes from latent space
Feature
Sean Dockray

Published 01 December 2018
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Brenda Laurel's Placeholder: In dreams everybody flies their own way
Feature
Claire L. Evans

Published 01 December 2018

Looks at the art market and the great beast of commercialism.

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Eccentric Gardens of Australia
Feature
Jennifer Isaacs

In country towns, suburban lanes and backstreets, tucked behind barricades and fences or alternatively displayed for all to see, are the gardens and decorated outdoor spaces of many 'other' artists. These gardens or 'exhibitions' could generally be called quirky. Many coloured photographs.

Published December 1992
The Dictionary of Australian Artists
Book Review
Daniel Thomas

Book review The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870
Edited by Joan Kerr
Oxford University Press Melbourne
RRP $200

Published December 1992
Nyungar Landscapes: Wetern Australia
Feature
John E Stanton

In a remote corner of the south west of Western Australia, a school teacher who had never trained in art, was the catalyst for a school of landscape painting reminiscent of the style of Namatjira. Everything about this story was remarkable, not least that this happened over 40 years ago and that the average age of the artists was 10. The place was a tiny settlement known as Carrolup, now known as Marribank near Katanning.

Published December 1992
From Stone Henge to Post-Feminist Creatures
Feature
Lawrence Hall

Tattoo in Aotearoa/ New Zealand
Tattooing is not 'Outsider' or 'Other' art. To suggest this is to fall once more into the tiresome quagmire of Western art definitions. Looks at an exhibition 'Tattoo' 1993.

Published December 1992
Now Who is Being Naive?
Feature
John Kean

Naive is a tag used to describe the style of a particular artist and by inference the content of their work. In this examination of 4 contemporary artists working in what can be characterised as a naive style. the author illustrates that they are being anything but naive in the analysis of events, issues and stereotypes.

Published December 1992
Tivaevae
Book Review
Susan Cochrane

Book review Tivaevae: Portraits of Cook Island Quilting
By Lynnsay Rongokea
Photographs John Daley
Published Daphne Brussell Assocs Press Wellington New Zealand

Published December 1992
Self, Image and the Gaze: Anna Platten
Review
Jude Adams

Exhibition review Works by Anna Platten: Paintings and Studies 1982 -1992
University of South Australia Art Museum
30 July - 29 August 1992

Published December 1992
A Living Treasure: The Topiary of Jack Cashion
Feature
Audrey Hutchison

As a sculptor working in metal I have been interested for some time in combining plants with the hard surfaces of copper and steel. The issues involved in using shrubs and trees are many, including that the work isn't trivialised or lacking in credibility, transport and of course storage.

Published December 1992
MFG: A Report on the First Eight Months of Greenaway Art Gallery
Review
Stephanie Radok

Review MFG: A report on the first eight months of Greenaway Art Gallery Opened in March 1992

Published December 1992
Maria
Feature
Julian Goddard

Looks at the environment of Maria "Mad Mary" Hermann at her house in Leederville Western Australia.

Published December 1992
Bill Sorrell
Feature
Julian Goddard

Looks at the environment of Bill Sorrell working in the small farming town of Toodyay in the Avon Valley about 80 kilometres from Perth Western Australia.

Published December 1992
The Australian Collection of Outsider Art
Feature
Philip Hammial

Outsider Artists in Australia? Of course. The phenomenon is universal.

Published December 1992
 
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