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The daily experience of tending a tract of land in the south-east of South Australia is the raw material of artist–farmer James Darling. The land which comprises Duck Island is watercourse country where sand, water, salt and native vegetation are the elements from which, over decades of passionate attention, he and his partner Lesley Forwood have developed a farm which includes a special salt-tolerant grass for their cattle. His exhibition, Define the Country, at Riddoch Art Gallery in Mount Gambier is a response to this farmed landscape.

James Darling

Culture/Agriculture

Cultivated anatomy: Fiona Hall's Garden of Earthly Delights

Dorothy Erickson

Culture/Agriculture

The food chain starts here: Larrtha’puy, from the mangroves

Djon Mundine

Culture/Agriculture

Agriculture and culture go back a long way. The fact that they actually meet and marry in the word 'cultivation' makes this clear....when it comes to direct experience, city and country are more distinct in Australia than in many countries.

Stephanie Britton

Culture/Agriculture

The Terratransformers of Planet Three

Re-creation of a living landscape has to happen in farmyards, back-yards, and city squares, it has to be understood and practised at the small scale as well as the large. The remake the landscape for an ecological future we must make it fit for all living beings.

Paul Downton

Culture/Agriculture

Culture/ Agriculture

Story 1: A story about land owners and nomads. Story 2: Never terra nullius. Story 3: Genetic imperialism. Story 4: The politicization of hunger. Story 5: Kunde and the perception of order.

Pat Hoffie

Culture/Agriculture

The use of Aesthetics: Food for Thought

Aesthetic value is determined by commonly held notions of taste, beauty and attractiveness and differs from culture to culture. How does this influence us in our choice of nourishment - our daily bread, fruit or snack food? Why does food today look like it does?

Anna Jean Bonshek

Culture/Agriculture

Living with the Land

If there is a contemporary issue for landscape artist to engage with, it must be the process of developing a relationship with the landscape, even if it is at the level of s sustain[able] failure, a low level antagonism or an uneasy peace. It is as difficult and as complex as any other issue, and it ultimately speaks of the human condition.

Geoff Levitus

Culture/Agriculture

Asian Tucker in the NT - new trend, old ecology

An installation work 'Guarding Civilization's Rim' a collaborative effort by 'The Personal Museum' comprising three Queensland artists opened in Townsville in September 1994. The project has been specifically created for and about northern Australia - the last frontier.

Christine Burry

Culture/Agriculture

The Cultural Biography of Plants

The cultural biography of plants provides an extremely fertile field for artists to explore. It also encourages artists, and viewers, to explore the interface between cultures and between culture and agriculture.

Susan Cochrane

Culture/Agriculture

Plant a Yam, Paint a Yam

Explores the relationship between food and its representation in the northeast of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Remember, dangerous themes make dangerous art.

Michael Christie

Culture/Agriculture

Harsh Realities: Artists and the Land

Even in the shiny spaces of the big cities, for some the dirt of the paddocks is only just below the surface. Michael Eather talks to three artists who were born and raised in the country, about their current attitudes to the land as a place of production.

Michael Eather

Culture/Agriculture

Rice on the Terrace

The artist grew up in Baguio, which looks to be quite close to Ifugao on the map, and although I was taught that the rice terraces of this region of the Philippines were the eighth wonder of the world it was many years before he was able to see them.

Santiago Bose

Culture/Agriculture

Saved by the Demon - Hemp Lives

Cannibis Sativa as a drug, as uses of hemp - textiles, fabric and paper - as building materials, as oils food and protein, for medical and therapeutic applications, biomass energy... so why is there a prohibition?

Jamnes Danenberg

Culture/Agriculture

Wolseley and Majzner Read the Land

Looks at the recent work of John Wolseley and Victor Majzner.

Lee Ferguson

Culture/Agriculture

The Struggle for LESS Interesting Pictures

Beth Field is a farmer and a photographer in the WA wheatbelt facing a curious loss, one she is happy to accept - the dramatic colours of sunsets reflected in the salt lakes which she used to photograph may soon be hard to find as revegetation reclaims the soil. She recounts the changes she has seen in the last decade.

Beth Field

Culture/Agriculture

Portrait of the Farmer as a Mature Potato

"As with everything else, the country that I have been talking about is frequently regarded as a commodity, be it in relation to yields of primary produce or to spectacles and hypothetical experiences marketed for tourist consumption. Here's the main thing to understand: this commodification is entirely at odds with the appreciation of landscape that I've been trying to tell you about."

Malcolm McKinnon

Culture/Agriculture

Photographing the Drought

"I used to think there was no link between farming and art...well, most art reflects the environment in which it is produced and the artist who produces it..."

John A Williams

Culture/Agriculture

A Piece of EcoCity

The Halifax EcoCity Project is not just the seed for a future ecological Adelaide; it is the embodiment of a new paradigm that is sweeping the planet.

David Munn

Culture/Agriculture

Rene Boutin: An Artist and His Garden

New Caledonia has become the first Pacific nation to hold a Biennale of Contemporary Visual Art. Lucienne Fontannaz travelled to Noumea to interview artist Rene Boutin and discovered an artist who takes more than the gallery and his studio as his milieu.

Lucienne Fontannaz

Culture/Agriculture

Husbandry and the Coporate Collection

Making taste? Making money? Melbourne historian Juliet Peers scrutinises a group of books and catalogues on corporate art collections to see whether boardroom fancies and their lavish publications reflect a wider role in shaping popular visions of Australian painting.

Juliette Peers

Culture/Agriculture

Paul Hay Diary

Exhibition review Four Point Bearing: Simon Barley, Paul Hay, Ian Parry and James Smeaton Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 26 December 1994 - 25 February 1995 Artist's journal by Paul Hay

Paul Hay

Culture/Agriculture

Robyn Daw on Elsje King

Exhibition review Elsje King: Textiles University Gallery University of Tasmania, Launceston 9 September - 7 October 1994

Robyn Daw

Culture/Agriculture

Maggie Baxter on High Fibre Diet

Exhibition review High Fibre Diet Fremantle Arts Centre Western Australia 29 October - 4 December 1994

Maggie Baxter

Culture/Agriculture

David Bromfield on Sculpture

Exhibition review The Games Room Stuart Elliott at Lawrence Wilson Art Galley University of Western Australia 21 October - 4 December 1994 Death of a Myth Michelle H Elliot at Gomboc Galleries and Sculpture Park 6 - 27 November 1994

David Bromfield

Culture/Agriculture

Margot Osborne on Marijana Tadic

Exhibition review Passionate Habits Marijana Tadic Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia 11 November - 4 December 1994

Margot Osborne

Culture/Agriculture

Ingrid Day on Phil Mullaly

Exhibition review Other Refuge Have I None Phil Mullaly New Land Gallery 16 November - 30 December 1994

Ingrid Day

Culture/Agriculture

Cate Jones on Photography

Exhibition review Lifeworks: Aboriginal women photographed in action and at work by Aboriginal women photographers Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Adelaide South Australia 7 October - 4 December 1994

Cate Jones

Culture/Agriculture

Kay Aldenhoven on Annie Taylor

Exhibition review Doggone: Goddog: godingo: dingod Works by Annie Taylor 24 Hour Art Darwin, Northern Territory 21 October - 5 November 1994

Kay Aldenhoven

Culture/Agriculture

Mark Stephens on 600,000 Hours

Exhibition review 600,000 Hours (mortality) exhibitions Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide South Australia 15 September - 4 December 1994

Mark Stephens

Culture/Agriculture