Balance Stories

Two alternative opinions on Australia's most obvious cultural exchange - Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal- was the original conception of Balance 1990 Views, Visions, Influences - a collaborative exhibition originally titled Balance 1988: Two views One Vision. Beginning by artists sitting and talking it became obvious that there were more than just two perspectives.

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Australia to the World

In the choice of Rover Thomas and Trevor Nickolls to echibit in the Australian Pavilion at the 1990 Venice Biennale, Australia will present a combination that challenges many conventional attitudes to Aboriginal art. Simultaneously the exhibition offers an appropriate platform to two important if highly idiosyncratic contemporary painters.

Michael O'Ferrall

Keringke Arts

Looks at the Santa Teresa Community 80 kilometres south of Alice Spring and home of the Arrernte people where the Keringke Arts Centre was established in 1987.

Cait Wait

Poetry in Review

Aboriginal poet Ken Canning ( Burraga Gutya) looks at the nature of poetry. 3 poems of Burraga Gutya included in the issue.

Ken Canning

Aboriginal Theatre in Tasmania

"From the time that whites arrived in Tasmania and up until 1983 Aboriginal performing arts especially theatre arts, had become almost as extinct as whites would have people believe Tasmanian Aborigines were. Not so!"

Jim Everett

Abie Jangala

Looks at the works of Abie Jangala from Lajamanu and the country about 500 kilometres north west of Alice Springs.

Sharon Monty

Two Artists from Yuendumu

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.

Christine Lennard

Superstar or Generic

Should art centres cater more for the few 'Top Quality' artists that each has or should they support and encourage artistic activities by all who are interested?

Michael Rae

Lin Onus - Cultural Mechanic

Contemplating the work of Lin Onus the artist, the arts administrator and the panel beating mechanic.

Michael Eather

Robert Campbell Junior

The artist talks about his art practice.

Robert Campbell Jnr

Radio Redfern - The Koori Voice in Sydney

Located in an old terrace house in Cope Street Redfern, is the voice of the Aboriginal Community in Sydney. The terrace house is not unlike any other in the inner city. However with the Koori colours on one wall and the music of Koori bands blasting out from its speakers up on the balcony the house is fairly outstanding.

Wayne Costelloe

Country in Mind

In the 1940s the name Albert Namatjira became a household word and the skill of this Arrernte artist brought the vivid colours and beauty of the central Australian landscape into the galleries and living rooms of Australia. He and other painters who lived around Hermannsburg mission and in Alice Springs came to be known as the Arrernte watercolour school.

Jenny Green

Jumbana Designs

John and Ros Moriarty of Jumbuna Designs in interview.

David Kerr

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