Outsider Art: Flavour of the Month

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Unfettered actions: Sportification, playgrounds and public art
Feature
David Cross

Published 25 August 2021
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'The work that art does': Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation
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Abigail Moncrieff

Published 25 August 2021
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Yours truly, The Department of Homo Affairs
Feature
Jessie Boylan

Published 25 August 2021
NAVA
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First Nations museum memorials: Daniel Boyd and Yhonnie Scarce
Feature
Erin Vink

Published 25 August 2021
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Counter-monuments: Challenging distorted colonial histories through public art and memorials
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Published 25 August 2021
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Transformative communities: Curation and care
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Rayleen Forester

Published 25 August 2021
Guildhouse
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Blue skies, blood moon
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Daniel Mudie Cunningham

Published 25 August 2021
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A close-up of Amazon Acres: Helen Grace
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Fiona Kelly McGregor

Published 25 August 2021

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

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Foils for the Silver City
Feature
Matthew Simon

Disillusioned with the contemptible familiarity of our environment in the South Australian School of Art a group of fellow students and I decided to take our art somewhere else. So, displaced and gung-ho, our controversial creations in tow, we set off to Broken Hill, the self proclaimed art capital of 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
Naive Archive
Feature
Stephanie Britton

A national survey of Australian Naives - short biographies by various contributors as well as the artists themselves and images many in colour. Artists include Bernard Jeffery, Hugh Schulz, Bill Yaxley, Sam Byrne, Maitreyi Ray, Pam Bartley, Roma Higgins, Phyl Delves, Alison Vodic, Gwen Mason, Reny Mia Slay, Stella Dilger, Del Luke, Muriel Smith, Elfrun Lach, Susan Wanji Wanji, Miriam Naughton, Gwen Clarke, Selby Warren, Malcolm Otton, Harold Kangaroo Thornton, Ivy Robson, Lorna Chick and George Deurden.

Published December 1992
Nothing if Not Innocent
Feature
Victoria Coles

Artists of the modern era have always been fascinated by the primitive, be it the obsession of the surrealists, futurists and modernists for the art of the Negro, the passion of a handful of British in the 60s for the work of the Cornish primitive Alfred Wallis or Jean Dubuffet's exploration of children's art and the art of the asylum which he termed Art Brut.

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
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
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
Arcanum (Extracts from the Archives)
Review
Kerry Giles Kurwingie

Exhibition review Union Gallery
Adelaide University
South Australia
19 August - 4 September 1992

Published December 1992
Masterminded Masterpieces: Legendary Art
Feature
Rimas Riauba

Mrs Iris Frame is going to be bigger than Elvis Presley. She told the author so herself. Her dream is to establish a museum of her life's work on her property just like Gracelands.

Published December 1992
Reflections on Being: Being and Nothingness
Review
Penny Mason

Exhibition review Being and Nothingness
Works by Bea Maddock
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Launceston
August 1992

Published December 1992
Stage Sets for Suburban Dramas
Feature
Olga Sankey

Photographs by Dianne Longley of domestic dwellings in and around Adelaide South Australia.

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
 
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Desart 1
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