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While AIDS does indeed affect everyone in our society, at the moment in Australia we are seeing predominantly a gay and lesbian artistic response to the epidemic.

Ted Gott

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Learning to Understand: Art Helps to Dispel Ignorance

The artist looks at the paintings which were developed for the Health Commission on education, prevention and caring in the AIDS environment. Using an Aboriginal perspective these paintings were produced as a powerful series of posters.

Bronwyn Bancroft

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Kumantji and the Contemporary Curator

Across much of Aboriginal Australia the announcement of a death is followed by profound communal mourning, the removal or destruction of the deceased's belongings and most significantly a prohibition on the use of the deceased's name.

John Kean

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Death's Artefact... Recent Art and War

Elena Taylor

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Women's War Memorials

Catherine Speck

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

A Cemetery for the Community: Enfield Memorial Park, South Australia

Thus we come full circle to view the cemetery not as a necessary inconvenience to be isolated on the edge of town and visited once every few years but as a resource that can make a positive contribution to the community.

Hilary Hamnett

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Death in Excess: Nuclear Imagery

Nuclear conflagration - whether real or imagined - captivated the post war psyche. Endist images of one form or another were developed in response to what many foresaw as the likely outcome of a third world war.

Rod James

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

In the Coil of Life's Hunger

Looks at the work of James K Baxter 1926 - 1972 (poet) Colin McCahon 1919 - 1987 (artist) both of whom found in travel through New Zealand recurrent metaphor's for life's journey. The principle referent in their work was death.

Ian North

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Animal Death and an Artist's Culture: Brian Blanchflower's Tursiops Installation

Examination of the installation Tursiops by Brian Blanchflower which refers to the brutal heritage of Western Australia's first settlement at Albany which had a large whaling station until the late 1970s.

John Mateer

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

And Love a Fantasy: Breastfeeding our Sexuality

On 17 March 1993, the body of photographer Angelo Campana was discovered in the burnt out remains of the newly opened IEG Waste Recycling Plant in Corrimal. According to the coroner's report, his death had not been caused by this fire, but from fatal head injuries incurred by the deceased's head being repeatedly bashed with a theodolite. This is the immediate crime which is appears to be investigated in Dennis Del Favero's sleuthian compilation of words and images, objects and installations called 'Prima Facie'.

Fay Brauer

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Guide to...Image Bank

Exploration of images and statements by artists on the theme of death. Artists include William Kelly, Ross Moore, Bette Mifsud and Dennis Del Favero.

Stephanie Britton

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Death, Pleasure and Gender in Film

The cinema's ability to represent death - the act of dying, bodily transformations, decay, the corpse - in astonishing realistic terms helps to explain why film, the moving rather than the static image, has become the central depository of death narratives (ancient and modern) in contemporary culture.

Barbara Creed

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Cinema, Death and the Abject

Cinema is both dead and deathless. Cinema like this can take us to the great chasm in our lives and hold us over the edge.

Adele Hann

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Death: A Post-Mortem

Looks at the exhibition 'Death' co-curated by Felicity Fenner and Anne Loxley held at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery in April 1993. 'Death' was a mixed media survey covering more than 200 years of Australian art which directly addressed the theme of death.

Anne Loxley

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

600,000 HOURS (Mortality) Conference Day 21 October 2, 1994

Examination of the issues addressed at the conference which accompanied the exhibition 600,000 hours (mortality).

John Neylon

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Images of Death 600,000 HOURS (Mortality) Experimental Art Foundation

Images of death explored in the context of the exhibition 600,000 hours (mortality) held at the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide South Australia October 1994.

John Neylon

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

No Drop City: Contemporary Australian Architecture

Book review Contemporary Australian Architecture Graham Jahn Photography by Scott Frances Basel/East Roseville: Gordon and Breach International/Craftsman House 1994 241 pp

Deborah White

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Indecent Exposures and Dissonance: Two New Books from Catriona Moore

Book reviews Indecent Exposures: Twenty years of Australian Feminist Photography By Catriona Moore Allen & Unwin in association with the Power Institute of Fine Arts 206 pp $21.95 Dissonance: Feminism and the Arts 1970 -90 Edited by Catriona Moore Allen & Unwin in association with Artspace 308 pp $21.95

Stephanie Radok

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

A Paradigm Exhibition

Exhibition review Perpetual Motion: Aboriginal Strategies for rejigging art and technology Curated by David Kerr and Doreen Mellor Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide South Australia 8 July - 14 August 1994

Janet Maughan

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Symmetry: Craft Meets Kindred Trades and Professions

Exhibition review Symmetry: Crafts and Kindred Trades and Professions Curated by Kevin Murray University of South Australian Art Museum 8 September - 8 October 1994

Janene Pellarin

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Monstrous Gorgeous

Exhibition review Monstrous Gorgeous Curated by Virginia Barratt Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide, South Australia 8 July - 7 August 1994

Suzanne Treister

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Fania

Exhibition review Fania Curated by Erica Green University of South Australia Art Museum 28 July - 27 August 1994

Angela Valamanesh

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Chris Hopewell

Exhibition review Chris Hopewell: New works Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at the University of Western Australia 2 September - 16 October 1994

Maggie Baxter

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

19th Fremantle Print Award

Exhibition review The Nineteenth Fremantle Print Award Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia 9 September - 23 October 1994

David Bromfield

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Familiarity? Re-Examining Australian Suburbia

Exhibition review Familiarity? Re-examining Australian Suburbia Mikala Dwyer, Michele Beevors, Glen Clarke, Elizabeth Woods, Tony Schwenson and Aleks Danko Curated by Brian Parkes Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania 23 September - 16 October 1994

Sean Kelly

Art & Death: Facing Mortality

Crossovers - Site Works and Symposium

Exhibition review Crossovers: Site works and symposium Tasmanian School of Art and various locations, Launceston, Tasmania 26 September - 2 October 1994

Ian McLean

Art & Death: Facing Mortality