The Struggle Continues

Cover of The Struggle Continues
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Lipstick and Land Rights: matriarchal sovereign history and the cyber frontier
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Lorna Munro

Published 24 January 2022
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We Don't Fabricate, We Weave: Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and Ngarrindjeri women’s resistance
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Dominic Guerrera

Published 15 December 2021
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Reclaiming the Rock in Project Banaba: Creativity, survival and agricultural colonialism in the Pacific
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Katerina Teaiwa

Published 15 December 2021
Gallipoli Art Prize
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Lipstick and Land Rights: A poetic response
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Lorna Munro

Published 15 December 2021
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Woven Selves, Entangled Countries: Weaving across borders
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Dameeli Coates

Published 15 December 2021
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Sovereign city, sovereign self and Warrior Woman Lane
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Timmah Ball

Published 15 December 2021
Gallery Lane Cove
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Miyurr Mi:wi: Working from home in the spirit of Country
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Tracey Rigney

Published 15 December 2021
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My Sovereign Mind: A practice in two parts
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Hayley Millar Baker

Published 15 December 2021

In every area of the arts where Aborigines are participating there is an intense surge of creative vitality. Once could call it a renaissance period. When I began writing poetry, Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonucul) was the only recognised poet.

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Narrangunnawali in Canberra
Feature
Sylvia Kleinert

Narrangunnawali was an exhibition by Aboriginal artists from Canberra and the surrounding region mounted by the Canberra Contemporary Art Space 31 August - 23 September 1989.

Published June 1990
Desert Designs
Feature
David Wroth

Examines the Desert Designs Company formed by Stephen Culley and David Wroth which began in the early 1980s.

Published June 1990
Two Artists from Yuendumu
Feature
Christine Lennard

Interview with Norah Nelson and Frank Bronson of Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu prior to their first solo exhibition 'Our Dreaming' at the Dreamtime Gallery Perth Western Australia 18 February - 10 March 1990 Perth Festival.

Published June 1990
Kinship and the Dreaming
Feature
Neva Grzybowicz

Looks at a family history project beginning with the Koonibba Mission in South Australia.

Published June 1990
Yolngu Women Artists
Feature
Margie West

If the 70s is remembered as a period of nurture for Aboriginal art, the 1980s will certainly be remembered as the decade of its dramatic development...there has been an eflorescence of community based enterprises in the remote areas of Australia.

Published June 1990
Review of the Review
Feature
Tim Rowse

In 1989, Jon Altman, Chris McGuigan and Peter Yu were asked by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs to look into the viability of the Aboriginal Arts and Crafts industry, to point to ways to improve its efficiency and effectiveness and to advise which government programs could give cost effective support to the industry and to recommend managing and marketing strategies.

Published June 1990
Robert Campbell Junior
Artist Profile
Robert Campbell Jnr

The artist talks about his art practice.

Published June 1990
Judy Watson
Artist Profile
Margriet Bonnin

Looks at the paintings of Judy Watson.

Published June 1990
Balance 1990
Feature
Louise Dauth

Exhibition review Balance 1990 held at Queensland Art Gallery and curated by Michael Eather and Marlene Hall, March 1990.

Published June 1990
Peter Dabah
Artist Profile
Vincent Megaw

Dabah was the Aboriginal Artist in residence at the Flinders University 1989 - 1990.

Published June 1990
The Bicentenary and Beyond: Recent Developments in Aboriginal Printmaking
Feature
Christine Watson

The period of 1986 - 1989 has been epoch making for Aboriginal printmaking, not necessarily because of an improvement in the quality of the prints produced during that time but because Aboriginal prints in forums broadly motivated by the centenary has allowed them to receive the recognition they deserve.

Published June 1990
Murris' Coming Out Show
Feature
Marshall Bell

Hello. My name is Marshall Bell. I live at Inala in Queensland. My father was from the famous Jiman Tribe of Hornet Hill massacre mob. My mother was from the Kamilaroi nation Gunedah/Kooma clans. I was born at the now defunct Charleville Aboriginal reserve in the desert of south west Queensland. Having been living off my art for the last 5 years in a suppressive Queensland environment, I think I know what it is like to be living in isolation.

Published June 1990