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

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Unfettered actions: Sportification, playgrounds and public art
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David Cross

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'The work that art does': Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation
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Abigail Moncrieff

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Yours truly, The Department of Homo Affairs
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Jessie Boylan

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City of Unley 2
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First Nations museum memorials: Daniel Boyd and Yhonnie Scarce
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Erin Vink

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Counter-monuments: Challenging distorted colonial histories through public art and memorials
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Transformative communities: Curation and care
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Rayleen Forester

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Guildhouse
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Blue skies, blood moon
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Daniel Mudie Cunningham

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A close-up of Amazon Acres: Helen Grace
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Fiona Kelly McGregor

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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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Marketing from the Top End
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Felicity Wright

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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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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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
Contemporary Gipsland Artists
Review
Louise Dauth

Exhibition review Contemporary Gippsland Artists
A touring exhibition initiated by the LaTrobe Valley Arts Centre
Morwell Victoria
University of South Australia Art Museum
9 April - 8 May 1992

Published June 1992
The Reflections of a Taxidermist
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Tim Ralph

I view my memories as a fragmented collage of life, constantly in review and abstracted through the shifting of time and place. Taking and putting together some of these fragments I recall how I became a taxidermist.

Published June 1992
The Crafts Come of Age
Book Review
Sylvia Kleinert

Book review The Crafts Movement in Australia: a history University of NSW Press $79.95

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Tasdance in Silk
Review
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Launceston Country Club Tasmania

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Futurology...Crafts...
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Margaret Kirkwood

Margaret Kirkwood, craft practitioner from NSW and active in the Craft Council within her State, writes her prediction for the future of crafts in Australia.

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4 Jewellery Co-operatives: Ipso Factory Company
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Carolyn Meloy

Ipso Facto Company formed in 1984 by 5 ex-students from the Sydney College of the Arts.

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Semiotically Speaking: A Craftperson's View
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Jenni Dudley

One need not restrict this semiotic approach to an analysis of the objects of fashion given that the major role adopted by craftspeople in contemporary times is that of drawing attention to otherwise ordinary objects and processes by remaking them in a mode other than mass production.

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Screenprinting the Tiwi Way: An Element of Spontaneity
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James Bennett

It is not accidentatl that amongst the Tiwis of Bathurst and Melville Islands, fabric printing has become such a significant craft form. Of all indigenous Australian cultures the Tiwis historically have perhaps the richest tradition of body painting.

Published June 1992
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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