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Unchain my Art: Notes on the role of myths and preconceptions in shaping perceptions of women's art

This article notes the role of myths and preconceptions in shaping perceptions of womens art. In framing art reputations in Australia, the most disputed and uneasy component is gender. Peers looks at the 1970s feminist art movement which was important for providing the blueprint for an ongoing understanding of art as an interrogative gesture and the works of women artists such as Grace Cossington-Smith, Stella Bowen, Joy Hester, Clarice Beckett, Janine Burke, Kiffy Rubbo, Margaret Preston, Hilda Rix Nicholas, A.M.E. Bale, Margaret Olley, Meg Benwell, Judy Perrey and Anne Marie Graham.

Juliette Peers

Frank Bauer Goes Public

German born artist Frank Bauer was raised on the philosophy that art, design and industry could work together to achieve a more visually coherent and democratic society. Over the past thirty years he has produced a huge body of work in metal, which includes jewellery, hollow ware, furniture and lighting. Through this text Fairlamb focuses on Bauers wind sculptures, exhibited at the Powerhouse Museum and JamFactory, which stand over four metres high and bring together his considerable knowledge of balance, precision engineering and sculptural metal work.

Gail Fairlamb

Asher Bilu: Doing Business with the Cosmic

From the beginning, Asher Bilus work has had two loci of concentration: the mystery of matter, its structures, boundaries and possibilities, and Mystery itself, space, sound, reverberations of the invisible, the very universe. Bilu takes on the physical demands of his experiments like a workman, he manipulates them like a technician. This article examines Bilus art practice from his early days as a migrant in Australia and winner of the prestigious Blake Prize to his recent work the Infinity Series.

Heather Ellyard

Beyond Mertz and Whitechapel: 'contemporary' Australian Modernism

Furby raises the issues of women artists role in Australian society and the considerable lack of recognition for this minority. The radical art group, the Contemporary Art Society (CAS), which was founded in Victoria in 1938 to counter attack academic art and to foster original and creative contemporary art, had its majority as women artists. The works of Mirka Mora, Erica McGilchrist, Nancy Borlase, Elsa Russell, Jacqueline Hick and Barbara Robertson are included in this discussion.

Paula Furby

The Art of Living Dangerously: Victor Meertens

Documents the life and work of Victor Meertens: his journey to Europe where he became inspired by the work of the early Flemish painters and Grunewalds Isenheim Altarpiece (c.1505-1510), his involvement with the Third Australian Sculpture Triennial and the Australian Biennale 1988, his various solo shows and other notable achievements within the contemporary Australian art scene of the late 20th century.

Jonathan Holmes

Public Art Boom in Western Australia: It is the edges that make it interesting

The difficulties of public art are universally acknowledged - they are the same across state and national borders and usually result in compromised solutions - however if they are to be considered more as collaborative efforts between artist and community rather than works of 'art' the outcomes become interesting. Millers article addresses this notion through a discussion of recent Western Australian public art programs and in particular the achievements of ArtSource, an employment agency for visual artists. Key figures in this text are Brian McKay, Ahmad Abas, Tony McClure, Jon Tarry, John Elkington, Linnea Glatt and Michael Singer.

Nikki Miller

Space adventures: Collaborations in public art and urban design in Victoria

Local government bodies in Victoria are demonstrating a range of approaches to the development of public art in urban design with recent project examples indicating new possibilities between artists, residents, designers, architects, business and even neighbouring councils. The Skewed Arch example in the City of Yarra is one discussed along with the works of Inge King, Chris Perk, Diane Mantzaris, David Davies, Alistair Knox, Ian Sinclair and Jackie Straude.

Andy Miller

Heroism in the Public Domain

The two most heroic commitments to public art in Australia since Parliament House, Canberra, are for the refurbishment of the Sydney International Airport and the Olympic 2000 Homebush Bay site. These aspirations are eloquently expressed in forms and structures that are surprising , beautiful and of varying quality. The Airport Project features the work of Michael Riley, Robyn Backen, Ron Smith, Kerry Clare, Lindsay Clare, Brook Andrew and Fiona McDonald. Those included in the Homebush Bay Project are Peter Cripps, Terri Bird, Ari Purhonen, Neil Dawson, Paul Carter, Ruark Lewis, Janet Laurence, James Carpenter, Elizabeth Gower and Robert Owen.

Tempe MacGowan

Interview with Peter Sellars: Architecture, Adelaide Festival and Organic Oranges

Urban ecologist and architect Paul Downton interviewed 2002 Telstra Adelaide Festival Director Peter Sellars and Associate Director Cathy Woolcock about urban design and ecology and the attempts to create a shift from the idea of 'ownership' to 'participation' between people and the urban and natural environments. This feature also weaves in comments by Bert Flugelman, Judith Brine and Francesco Bonarto about the way they are prepared to express their feelings about their city and the way it looks and feels.

Paul Downton

Will we get real artist's moral rights?

With the recent boom being enjoyed by public art in Australia, the issue of moral rights legislation has become more pressing. It was in recognition of the power differential between most artists and the users of their work that Australia became a signatory to an international agreement, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works designed to redress the imbalance. Some of the clauses and conditions of this legislation are briefly discussed.

Tamara Winikoff

Gateway to Adelaide: The Process, The Result

Undertaken by Transport SA from 1996 until 2000, the Adelaide-Crafers Highway project resulted in major route reconstruction along a 10 km section of the Prince Highway. This has resulted in artist/ designer/ architect collaborations for the production of three major walls, elements of paving, bus stops and two bus shelters, a water feature and a freestanding sculptural piece. Artists and architects included in the project are George Popperwell, Greg Healey, Tony Bishop, Marijana Tadic, Neil Cranney, Mark Butcher and Rob Williams.

Ruth Fazakerley

A far cry from waiting room wallpaper: Ian North's The Intelligence of Blood

Adelaides newest art commission has recently been installed in the Department of Surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital: The Intelligence of Blood, a challenging work by Ian North. The painting is large, about six metres wide and almost two metres high and abounds with references to surgery, blood, medicine and much more.

Catherine Speck

Texas: Artists Move in on Project Row House

A tidy little row of identical white houses, glowing in the Texas sun, has become the unlikely home of a cutting-edge experiment in public art. Seven houses are for artists installations, while another seven of the houses have been modernized and furnished for young, single mothers and their children. This text discusses the works of artists Vicki Meeks, Tracy Hicks, Radcliffe Bailey, Pat Ward Williams, Natalie Lovejoy, Joseph Havel, Fred Wilson, Shahzia Sikander, Nari Ward, Chen Zhen, Jens Haaning, Annette Lawrence, Deborah Grotfeldt and Rick Lowe.

Nancy Bless

Melbourne's Public Art goes Temporary

The City of Melbourne has made some sweeping changes to its public art strategy that focus on the town hall as a place where public and government meet; an essentially civic space open to the scrutiny of its citizenry. Examples of such change are indicated by Fiona Foleys Lie of the Land installation, Town Hall Transformed by Melbourne artist Ian de Gruchy, a collaborative piece by construction / performance group Bambuco which created a stage for two performances by the Five Angry Men collective entitled Bells. Holt discusses.

Richard Holt

Wendy Mills in the Mall: The 'Water Table'

Wendy Mills was invited in November 1998 to design an artwork that would engage, intrigue, amuse or challenge but not intentionally outrage members of the public. This article discusses Mills piece On This Auspicious Occasion and the ongoing challenges faced during its creation and thereafter.

Michele Helmrich

Stafford and Staff: Queensland's Public Art Agency

Morrell examines the recent structural developments which have taken place at and around the precinct of Brisbanes Roma Street Transit Centre. Under Queenslands Art Built-in policy approximately $1.4 million was proposed to be spent on works of art to feature in the new precinct. Morrell was the public art curator for the Roma Street project and this article developed out of conversations held with the Public Art Agencys Executive Program Officer John Stafford.

Timothy Morrell

Signage to Confuse and Amuse

Richard Tippings installation Signs Signed was in Munichs Salvatorplatz during August 1999. Twenty two reflective signs were placed in the square and streets around the Literaturhaus as a part of the Piazza installation art project, curated by Art Circolo. This feature includes images of Tippings Signs with accompanying text.

Richard Tipping

Polemic: GO BACK You Are Going the Wrong Way

Brook breaks this argument down into sub categories: The rationale of the art history museum, The cabinet of curiosities, Evolution, Cultural evolution, Art as the source of memetic variation and The cultural museum.

Donald Brook

Why You Should Join VISCOPY Now!

While the eyes of many artists glaze over at the mention of copyright, the explosion in use of visuals in communication means that artists creating those images need to be well-informed and well-represented in copyright issues. Mark Ferguson spoke with VISCOPYs new Chairman, Adelaide photographer Mark Fitz-Gerald, about the role of VISCOPY and the developing awareness amongst visual arts and craftspeople of the importance of copyright royalties.

Mark Ferguson

Auctions and Copyright: Moratorium

Recent auctions held by Christie's, Sotherby's and Deutscher-Menzies have clearly demonstrated that the market is now looking towards artists in their fifties and even younger. The relationship between artists and auction houses is here discussed with reference to artists Juan Davila, Charles Blackman, Imants Tillers, Mandy Martin, John Wolseley, Howard Arkley, Lloyd Rees, Emily Kngwarray, Lin Onus and groups Desart, Balgo Artists and Utopia Arts.

Paul Greenaway

Success, Excellence and Iconoclasm

Stephanie Britton

Vis.Arts.Online

Ruth Fazakerley

Letters to the Editor

Noris Ioannou

Art, Architecture and the Environment

This issue of Artlink tries to flag some of the issues for designers in Australia today, and to document just some of the changes which are happening.

Stephanie Britton

Art, Architecture & the Environment

The Art of Living

The place Ecopolis 2, the world's first ecocity. The time -- mid-afternoon 3rd November 2007.

Paul Downton

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Creating Livable Places

Affecting one's city, state or country requires wit, wisdom opportunity and a sense of fun. Robert McNulty, President of the extraordinarily successful Washington based 'Partners for Livable Places' gives a thumb-nail sketch of the last 15 years of the organisation and some of the tools they have used as operational forces for action.

Robert McNulty

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Willmot Playspace Project

Willmot Play Space has taken place over a four year period and has involved the conversion of a disused football field inot a community park.

Marla Guppy

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Acoustic Futures. Sound Noise and Urban Design

Our town planners, our architects and we ourselves need to rethink the city. If downtown spaces, internal and external, are to become inhabitable, there needs to be a dramatic shift away from narrowly architectural conception of them and their functions towards an acoustic analysis.

Paul Carter

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Women's Ideal Environments

It seems clear enough that women feel loss and the lack at the heart of the consumer society. But the creation of other riches, even in imagination, is hard to achieve....We need nevertheless to imagine other worlds, other ways - all of us- in order to sustain hope and inform desire.

Llewellyn Johns

Art, Architecture & the Environment

2040: A Message from the Future

The Brisbane Community Action Group CART (Citizens Advocating Responsible Transport) have recently won two awards....

John Hetherington

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Sustainable Canberra

Australia's capital shows the way in applying sustainability to a city.

Peter Newman

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Material Re-Creation

A new paradigm of design is starting to emerge as a result of the efforts of those members of the design community who are concerned with the extent, as well as the underplaying, of our global environmental crisis.

Tony Fry

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Architecture and Lyndall Milani's Installations

Lyndall Milani uses sculptural installations to question the place of architecture in the landscape and within human life.

Bruce Muirhead

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Solar Houses: an Introduction

Faced with these complexities, it is hardly surprising that many designers find the proto-type solar house to be a preferable starting point.

Susan Coldicutt

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Working with Rules

We all use rules. By looking at them critically we will precipitate a dynamic evolution in our understanding and practice of designing 'with the environment'.

David Week

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Andy Goldsworthy: Everything in the City is Nature

British artist Andy Goldsworthy came to Australia for three weeks in July to work on site at Mount Victor Station east of the Flinders Ranges. During the 1992 Festival of Arts photographs of the works made at Mount Victor and an installation was shown at the Artspace at the Adelaide Festival Centre, a survey of past works was on show at Yarrabee and Goldsworthy produced a permanent work for the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

Stephanie Radok

Art, Architecture & the Environment

The Essential Gift of Ceremonies: Towards a Poetics of Scarcity

"In modern architecture we find difficulty in managing the relation between the physical presence of a building and its intimations of the mental and spiritual. Our architectural objects rarely serve as objects of intermediation between the ordinary, the physical and the present on the one hand, and the mystical, the spiritual and the abstract on the other...."

Deborah White

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Built Form for Well-Being, Not Just Comfort

Looks at issues of energy self sufficiency -- battery banks and photovoltaic solar collector panels.

Emilis Prelgauskas

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Aleks Danko: Day In Day Out

Two recent shows in Melbourne of installations by Alex Danko have investigated issues indirectly referring to architecture and the private and social body within the Australian environment.

Jackie Dunn

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Designing from the Inside Out: Women, Design and Architecture

'Choose a woman architect - there is a difference!' proclaim a multitude of stickers all over Sydney. Constructive Women, the Sydney based association of Women Architects and Planners decided it was time for a new approach.

Eve Laron

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Places for Souls to Play

Looks at the work of Gabriel Poole with statements by Gabriel Poole.

Anita Aarons

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Eco-design Conference at RMIT

Eco-design is probably one of the most far reaching topics to be assembled under the banner of one small hyphenated word. The linking of ecology with design is for many still a novel concept....conference held at RMIT 17 -19 October 1991.

Stephanie Britton

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Response to the Climate in the Top End

It never gets really cold in the Top End. But it does get very humid during the Wet. However, simple steps in house design can make the house comfortable and you don't need fans and air conditioners.

Phil Harris

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Artists and the Mt Leuseur Campaign

Artist's involvement in the Mt Lesueur Campaign -- 200 km north of Perth, Western Australia.

Ric McCracken

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Let There be Light and Power

Berwyn Lewis talks to solar physicist Bruce Robins. Imagine 6 billion people simultaneously turning on lights and electrical appliances. This apocalyptic drain on power would plunge us into an eternal blackout with devastating effects on the environement.

Berwyn Lewis

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Willunga Garden Village

Willunga Garden Village is a 20 acre allotment subdivision on a 10 acre site on the slopes of the north facing Willunga (South Australia) escarpment.

Ian Collett

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Aspects of Earth Building in New Zealand

New Zealand is not only snake less and nuclear free but also has a tradition of earth buildings. In pre European times, Maori utilised the ground's insulating properties by partially sinking thatched roofed houses into the ground.

Graeme North

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Earth-Sheltered Building using Timber

Earth sheltered housing is not new. The most common way of keeping the soils at bay has been with reinforced concrete and masonry walls and roofs.

John Maitland

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Res B: a Design Proposal for Brisbane

In Brisbane the older suburbs are distinctive and a prime source of identity for this sub-tropical city. The timber tradition has left us a rich heritage. For this proposal we have taken an existing suburb with houses on 800m2 blocks. The houses are simple single frontal address buildings.

Rex Addison

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Supporting Remote Places

Today's temperature will be around 37 degrees. At 6 am the relative humidity was 94%. The Monsoon winds haven't found their bearing to the north west, and the prediction is that el nino will prolong the build up this year - a late wet>

Daniel Jang Wong

Art, Architecture & the Environment

On Empowering Clients and Collaborative Design Processes

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead)

Rena Czaplinska-Archer

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Collective Bargaining. Co-op Housing; an Overview

The South Australian Co-operative Housing Bill allowed for the creation of a new housing authority to administer co-operative housing independently of other forms of public housing was passed in October 1991. This coincides with the Federal Government's recognition, through the National Housing Strategy, of the need to explore "innovative forms of social housing which fit between the extremes of private and public tenure."

Meredith Harrison

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Artworkers On the Urban Frontier

Australian cities cannot continue to grow in the manner to which we've become accustomed. The environmental, social and economic costs are simply too great. There needs to be a qualitative change to the way we build and live in them.

Roderick Simpson

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Merz: Tapping the Energy

Written with Paul Mutton. Merz is a new urban artist's village in the inner city suburb of Brompton, South Australia. Photos and drawings of the project.

Dieter Sczesny

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Prospect: Building on its Imagination

In these days of environmental awareness it is pleasing to see a growing awareness of the need to improve urban environments. This is not to say that we should, yet again, be looking after the concerns of people over and above the needs of the natural environment.

Philippa Menses

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Community Architecture: High on People Power, Low on Fossil Fuels

Gregory Burgess and Associates are a remarkable architectural practice which places high value on the collaborative design process with clients and users as well as low energy use now has three major community projects to its credit...

Stephanie Britton

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Restored to Life with a Bypass

Landscape art by Roger Noakes and Flightpath.

Stephanie Britton

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Look See. Gnarogin Park

The headbutting syndrome which is normally associated with the oppositional mental locations of the engineering versus the environmental are here reconciled in the combined communities' new park. It should become their most treasured recreational amenity. Located two hours south of Perth, Western Australia.

Ross Donaldson

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Mundaring Community Park

The Shire of Mundaring is a large semi rural locality in the hills of the Darling Scarp some 35 km east of Perth in Western Australia. Large areas of natural bushland including the John Forrest National Park and the catchment areas of the Mundaring Weir are to be found within its boundaries--- so are some fascinating sculptures and installations.

Andra Kins

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Exponential Losses, Collective Guilt: The Work of Jeannie Baker

Change, and how it effects the evironment and the quality of life, is a recurring theme and metaphor in the work of artist Jeannie Baker. While celebrating the beauty and fragility of the environment she delivers a provocative and powerful message about our responsibilities towards the natural world.

Berwyn Lewis

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Getting our Shit Together

There is a video which shows the noted Viennese artist Hundertwasser sitting on a bucket in his public home unit in Vienna City, uttering this exhortation. He then takes the bucket upstairs to a roof garden of sorts and dumps the contents into a compost bin.

Col James

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Red Gum, Red Light

David Cranswick's work in Perspecta 1991 entitled Constructing Nature was one of the most successful and moving of the Western Sites Component.

David Cranswick

Art, Architecture & the Environment

The Re-humanising of Water

Ecologically sustainable development is a stated aim of our national and state governments. Unless we can stimulate a higher and more sustained level of discussion on what this means, our progressis likely to remain fitful and unfocussed. Hopefully this article will stimulate the debate!

Richard Clark

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Frogs and Serpents: Re-colonising the Suburbs

That the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia are part of the world thought is evidenced by Wonambi, the Rainbow Serpent....

Margaret Bolster

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Memories of Water

The Sandgate Environmental Sculpture has involved the local community in both designing and creating the sculpture.

Alan Rogers

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Reading the Land

The idea for a 7 day 'Reading the Land' Festival came to Wimmera River Catchment Group Chairperson, farmer, artist and environmentalist Barry Clugston during a series of salinity flights.

Stephanie Britton

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Science, Art and Mangroves

The Mangroves Discovery Cycle was a Community Arts Project which gave a group of school children an opportunity to explore the environment. Located in Cairns, far North Queensland.

Jeanie Adams

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Meadows Under the Sea

The Seagrass Project has been cited as a model community arts project. Located in Hastings Victoria, the project has been documented on video and shown on television in Austria and Canada and could potentially achieve wide international exposure.

Ian Cuming

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Mudflats: A Fertile Breeding Ground for Artists

Mudflat arts believes that the landscape is not there to be painted so much as to be protected. The role has changed from one of passive painter to active member of the community.

Charles Zuber

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Memories of Power

Placemaking in Newport, Geelong and North Carlton.

Catherine Murphy

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Gilding the Lillipilli

Tree decorating was revived in Melbourne as part of the larger Treeproject. Looks at some of the issues faced with mounting such an event.

Maggie McLeod

Art, Architecture & the Environment

New Life for Gordonvale

Written with June Fermo. Looks at the issues in a townscape project, faced by the community of Gordonvale 21 km south of Cairns in northern Queensland.

Carrie Bies

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Gateways Project

..the response to a site was very much tied up with the way humans had mediated the experience. Yes trees and forests were sacred but that didn't mean that you couldn't touch them. Our mediation of course must be sensitive - be fearless yet thoughtful... Series of black and white photographs accompany the article.

Chris Downie

Art, Architecture & the Environment

Arts to Ashes

In Tasmania particularly it can be difficult to be vocal about political issues. Here is a chance to be uncompromising, a chance to take risks, a chance to raise community cultural awarenes. And who says art needs to be permanent? Heres a chance to make something and then release it, to allow visual art to metamorphose into performance art. Intrigued? then follow up the article!

Teresa Jordan

Art, Architecture & the Environment

The Art of Living Sustainably

Written with Andrew Bryan The increasing urgency for us to achieve a harmonious relationship with the environment is stimulating artists in many media and designers in a range of disciplines to work in new ways with one another and community groups who share this concern.

Tamara Winikoff

Art, Architecture & the Environment

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