Futurology...Crafts...

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Foreign returned: Between expatriate and repatriate in Mumbai
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Balamohan Shingade

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Human flow in Melanesia: Taloi Havini's artefacts and habitats
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Nicholas Thomas

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Living and dying under surveillance: Xu Bing's Dragonfly Eyes
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Sasha Grbich

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Inhuman flow: Censorship and art in the two Chinas
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Sublime Plight: Richard Mosse, Ai Weiwei and the social turn
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Wes Hill

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YARN: The art of conversation
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Coby Edgar interviews Warren Roberts, CEO of YARN Australia

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Editorial: Kanarn Wangkiny/Wanggandi Karlto (Speaking from Inside)
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Clothilde Bullen with James Tylor

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Katie West: Living well
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Katie West

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David Walker, craft practitioner from Western Australia and active in the Craft Council within his State, writes his prediction for the future of crafts in Australia.

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Tim Burns - Paintings and Drawings
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Peter Hill

Exhibition review Cape Bruny Winter 1990 - 1991
Paintings and Drawings by Tim Burns
Dick Bett Gallery Hobart Tasmania
7 - 26 May 1992

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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.

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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
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).

Published June 1992
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.

Published June 1992
...But Never by Chance..., Skin and From Women
Review
Jude Adams

Exhibition review ...but never by chance
(eroticism) editor/curator Linda Marie Walker Exhibitors Jennifer Hamilton, Melanie Howard, Bronia Iwanczak, Sheridan Kennedy, Rosemary Laing, Rosslund Piggott, Carol Rudyard
Skin
Curators Annette Bezor, Julianne Pierce, Exhibitors Maria Kozic, Jan Nelson, Sally Smart, Josie Starrs
Contemporary Art Centre Adelaide South Australia
May 1 - 31 1992
From Women
Curator Vivonne Thwaites
Exhibitors Maria Cruz, Michele Elliot, Nicole Page-Smith, Lucia Tancredi
Artspace Adelaide Festival Centre
10 April - 23 May 1992

Published June 1992
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.

Published June 1992
Touching Things Lightly: The Furniture of Kevin Perkins
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Glenda King

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.

Published June 1992
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.

Published June 1992
The Watch, the Pen and the Biro
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Pat Hoffie

To demonstrate the extent to which our relationship to the objects we possess has changed, Kevin Murray recently gave a short impromptu performance during a recent lecture, systematically removing a number of possessions and apparel from his person.

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The Western Way - Linney's, Argenta and Others
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Dorothy Erickson

Western Australia has a tradition of artist/craftspeople with studio - gallery -shops.

Published June 1992
Why Craftwork Does Not Compute
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Alan Roberts

Will the computers, mobile or immobile, take over craft work in the near or medium future? Are craftspeople doomed to the fate of the Indian hand loom weavers of the last century-- will their bones bleach the plains? The answer is........

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