Aboriginal Arts Unit Australia Council

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Risky business: Engaging adolescents at the Art Gallery of South Australia
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Kylie Neagle

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MCAD Manila: Learning, sharing and conversation
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Joselina Cruz and Paula Acuin

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Museum MACAN: Critical conversations through art
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Aaron Seeto

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Falling in love (Or is the curatorial a methodology?)
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Tara McDowell

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Being an artist and an art teacher
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Henry Ward

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Trying to be at home in the world: New parameters for art education
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Gert Biesta

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Choose your own immersion: Art schools as a site of creative becoming
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Una Rey

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Vanishing into action: Art beyond the contemporary
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Alasdair Foster

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The Aboriginal Arts Board was dis-established in June 1989...the Australia Council established the Aboriginal Arts Committee to replace the Board.

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Mural at Port Lincoln: Kerry Giles and Melanie Howard
Artist Profile
Felicity Wright

Kerry Giles and Melanie Howard talking to Felicity Wright about the mural in Port Lincoln South Australia.

Published June 1990
Bluey Roberts
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Noris Ioannou

Interview with Bluey Roberts.

Published June 1990
Designer Aboriginals
Feature
Bronwyn Bancroft

Looks at her art practice and design issues, copyright and textiles.

Published June 1990
Jukurrpa
Feature
Dorothea Philips

Jujurrpa is a Warlpri word meaning Dreaming and it is the Dreamtime stories that are depicted on the canvases of a group of Warlpri, Pitjantjatjara, Luritja and Anmatyerre women from the Alice Springs area.

Published June 1990
An Artist's Project: Banduk Marika
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Margie West

Margie West talks to NE Arnhem Land artist Banduk Marika about artists working in Yirrkala, an Aboriginal community. She addresses traditional ceremonies today, the appropriate use of traditional designs, payment for work, copyright, and working to redress environmental damage to the beaches and lands by regenerating native trees and plants.

Published June 1990
Night Cries - A Rural Tragedy; A film by Tracey Moffatt
Feature
Anne Rutherford

Two people suspended in a soundscape - a space punctuated by a stark and corrosive sound. The wail of a dingo, an owl, the grating beat of an iron lung, a gasp, a cry for breath and above all a cacophony of memory.

Published June 1990
Bibliography
Feature
Vincent Megaw

Supplementary bibliography to the major work by Adrian Marrie 1987 'A Topical bibliography of Australian Aboriginal Visual Arts 3' ed ASTEC SA College of Advanced Education (now the University of South Australia) Underdale SA.

Published June 1990
Copyright and Issues of Appropriation
Feature
Lin Onus

This is the text of the Copyright session given at the National Aboriginal Artists Forum Art Gallery of Western Australia February 1989.

Published June 1990
Isolation: Jimmy Pike and Patricia Lowe in the Great Sandy Desert
Feature
Patricia Lowe

There can be few artists who live and work in such isolation as does Jimmy Pike. His isolation is not merely geographical, though our camp on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert is two and a half hours' drive in dry weather from Fitzroy Crossing and inaccessible in dry weather, but also social and artistic.

Published June 1990
Lin Onus - Cultural Mechanic
Artist Profile
Michael Eather

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

Published June 1990
Waringarri Arts Centre
Feature
Joel Smoker

Located in Kununurra Western Australia Waringarri Arts was set up for artists in the Kimberley region.

Published June 1990
The Aboriginal Copyright Cases
Feature
Martin Hardie

At the 1988 Conference in Broome the author spoke of the growing unlawful use of Aboriginal art by T shirt companies and the fashion industry generally.

Published June 1990