Masterminded Masterpieces: Legendary Art

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

Self, Image and the Gaze: Anna Platten

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

Frank 'Bronco' Johnson - The Poetics of Defence

He was always delighted to be fighting with someone....

Published December 1992

The Chronic Population

Art Brut is that manner of making something whereby all of the individual is.

Published December 1992

The Boundary Riders: The Art of Everyday Life

The diversity of work found in the art of everyday life transgresses many of the implicit boundaries about art practice laid down by the art world. Other art meets all the criteria by which we usually evaluate art works such as skill, commitment and self-expression yet is rarely seen in a gallery context. In order to recover meaning and value for the art of everyday life the question must be asked: why have these artists been marginalised by the art world?

Published December 1992

Nothing if Not Innocent

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

Tut's Whittle Wonders

Written with David Wood. Explores the work of Tut Ludby who whittles wood in the small town of Strahan in Tasmania.

Published December 1992

Now Who is Being Naive?

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

Arts Project Australia: Creativity, marginality and the politics of difference

Published 01 December 1992

Arcanum (Extracts from the Archives)

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

Published December 1992

I just had this Inkling...

Interview with Tazz a tattoo artist in South Australia.

Published December 1992

Stage Sets for Suburban Dramas

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

Published December 1992