Distant Lives/ Shared Voices

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Writing through the archive: the art writing marathon
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Jacqueline Millner
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Ethics and aesthetics: D Harding, Luciano Benetton and Terra Incognita: inclusiveness is a good way
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Ian McLean

Published 30 March 2022
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In conversation: Sebastian Goldspink and Una Rey
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Sebastian Goldspink and Una Rey

Published 30 March 2022
Desert Mob
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The museum fell silent
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Elspeth Pitt

Published 30 March 2022
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Kings of wishful thinking: internet irony and its illusionary critics
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Olivia Bennett

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Damper is a language word for art
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Dominique Chen

Published 30 March 2022
The David Roche Foundation
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Someone has to be innocent: a reflection on the post-2020 art critic
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John Mateer

Published 30 March 2022
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A case for writing contemporary art history
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Aneta Trajkoski

Published 30 March 2022

Written with Janis Jefferies. Discusses the 1992 artist initiated and organised international forum for tapestry weavers in Lodz Poland.

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Helmut Lueckenhausen, craft practitioner from NSW and active in the Craft Council within his State, writes his prediction for the future of crafts in Australia.

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Yurundiali - Reasons for Optimism
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The predominant group in Moree (outback New South Wales) are the Gomilleroi people who are considered the most cohesive moiety group in Australia. Looks at the indigenous artists co-operative Yurundiali which is marketing its screen print designs.

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Touching Things Lightly: The Furniture of Kevin Perkins
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Kevin Perkins and the Parish Church of St Thomas Acquinas, Charnwood ACT. A model for collaborative design. Consummate technical skills, the continuance of long-established traditions which focus on excellence and a fundamental reverence for the qualities of the materials are discussion points that are, at times, given minimal attention when the products of today's craftspeople and designer/makers are discussed.

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After the Art/Craft debate: Critical Writing into the 1990s
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Noris Ioannou

Most writers and researchers in the visual arts and crafts would now consider the debate about the difference between art and craft to be an old chestnut whose day has well and truly gone. Refers to the debates between David Bromfield and Anne Brennan.

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Craft, Science and the Natural: An Introduction
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Jim Falk

There seems to be a consensus that craft is in a state of crisis. But consensus or not, the observation of this alleged crisis is sterile if we do not place it against its background. Is this crisis unique to craft, or is it a manifestation of a more general crisis which extends across other cognate areas? If it is more general, does it nevertheless have special implications for craft?

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Toward a Typology of Small Objects
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Robert Nelson

With increasing anxiety, we face searching questions of the viability, the integrity, the destiny of craft. In themselves, the questions are salutory and point to an intellectual vitality in craft culture, a vigour and toughness which have not existed since the Arts and Crafts Movement. Responses to the challenge vary from relish in the contradictions of craft practice to the old-fashioned despair for any debate whatsoever.

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The Archaeological Metaphor: A Personal Excavation
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Diana Wood Conroy

Now as a much older woman with another career as an artist I have been reconsidering my experience in Museums, reconsidering the structures of archaeology which grid and measure the chaotic site.

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Design Visions: International Exchange: Time for a Stocktake
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Dorothy Erickson

Design Visions; The second Australian International Crafts Triennial on show at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in August September 1992 provided a chance for local viewers, historians, critics, artists, designers and 'craftspeople' to discuss and possibly take stock of our place in the international arena.

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Parables of Criticism
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Sue Rowley

Looks at the current issues in the art versus craft debate and the impact of post modern theories.

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The Floating Web
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Dorothy Jones

For centuries now, textiles and the skills required in their creation - spinning, weaving, embroidery, sewing, quilting - have been considered women's work, occupying them indoors while men engaged in more serious activities like warfare.

Published June 1992
Marketing from the Top End
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Representatives from seven screenprint workshops in remote and indigenous Australia came together in March 1992 to attend a textile marketing forum in Darwin organised by Steve Anderson, co-ordinator of ANCAA (Association of Northern and Central Australian Aboriginal Artists).

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