Representation - Search

One of the leading debates in Cultural Studies around the world deals with the issues of cultural difference or ethnicity in relation to concepts of a national culture.

Sneja Gunew

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Performing in Tongues

...Underlying this linguistic fertility is a migrant intuition of the relativity of language, of the lightness and mutability of its phonology, inflections and syntax. Less portentously there is no migrant to this country who has not experienced those punning co-incidences, echoic repetitions, mutual misunderstandings and mishearings which are the basis of my scripts. It may be no accident that in 1992 Australian voices evoke first contact with the New World.

Paul Carter

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Multicultural Artworkers: Sacrificial Anodes?

This is a new notion for me. I'm sure it is a term familiar to most readers. However, just in case, this is my version of what it means. To understand it you need to appreciate that there is an hierarchical order of metals determined by their 'nobility'. A sacrifical anode is less a noble metal which is used to attract impurities away from more noble metals that you do not wish to be eroded. Thus if you wish to avoid erosion in your copper boiler, you can put a sacrificial anode in the water which will attract the impurities in the water and keep them away from your noble boiler. The link between multicultural artworkers and sacrificial anodes is entirely my own!

Helen Andreoni

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Editor's Note: Sculpture

This special issue does not attempt to be a national survey of sculpture. It has focussed on various centres and given others less attention, partly to balance previous material in earlier issues of Artlink of which the following are notes by way of summary.

Stephanie Britton

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

A Fact, A Question

Sculpture is not like painting because it is not flat and does not raise the question of mimesis in the same way. A theory of sculpture must therefore be, somewhere at its deep foundations, different from a theory of painting. Not just a bit different: a lot different.

Donald Brook

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Spatial Shamanism

It is a brief sober guide to certain spatial (and therefore sculptural) behaviours as initially identified and described by Bronte Edwards, Commander in Chief of the Art Army.

David Hansen

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: 1975 Destablising Old Canons

...It was therefore inevitable that by 1975 Tom McCullough's Mildura Sculpturescape would attract an increasing number of artists doing installation, process, earth and other forms of art that emerged when sculpture, as it were, left the pedestal, moved around the room and went outside.

Noel Sheridan

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: An Enchanted Garden

1993 is the 20th annniversary of Sculpturscape '73 an outdoor exhibition that happened in Mildura, a small city on the Victorian side of the Murray River, distant from the state capitals of eastern Australia.

Tom McCullough

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: McCullough and Performance

The Mildura Sculpture Triennials directed by Tom McCullough seemed the liveliest and most ennjoyable art events held anywhere in Australia...

Daniel Thomas

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Australian Humour in Sculpture

Does each country, race and cultural group have a particular sense of humour? And if so, is it possible to define their specific characteristics?

Ken Scarlett

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Sculpture Flourishes in Western Australia

This article is about sculpture in Western Australia and how efforts have been made in the recent past to establish the nature of its practice and the identity of its practitioners.

Robyn Taylor

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Women Sculptors - A New Bread

You could say that much of the most interesting and demanding artwork being done today is being done by women....There are many new languages in the work of contemporary women sculptors. Important overview of the Mildura Sculpture Triennials in terms of women's representation. Great photos!

Stephanie Radok

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Dimensions - Ground Painting in Papunya

Extensive examination of the women's ground painting created at Tandanya (National Aboriginal Cultural Centre) for the Adelaide Festival in 1990.

Richard (Dick) Kimber

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

New Sculpture in Papua New Guinea

Re-evaluation of the current position of artworks from Papua New Guinea looking particularly at sculpture.

Susan Cochrane

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Dancing Sulka Masks

Examination of the role of dance masks in Papua New Guinea culture. The author was in the area to invite 2 Sulka men to Adelaide to dance hemlaut and susu masks at the Pacific Arts Symposium in April 1993. Coloured photos of the dance masks.

Barry Craig

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Richard Dunn: Beyond Dialectics

Minimalism is still misunderstood, not only because its manifestations are so various as to strain the word's usefulness as a blanket term, but more importantly because it stood at the confused fissure between modernism and post-modernism; from this stems the lively contradictory implications of Richard Dunn's art practice.

Ian North

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Melbourne

With commissions over the past year at Southgate, the Great Southern Stand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the Swanston Walk and others, Melbourne's image is undergoing change. Renowned for its Victorian buildings and innumerable memorial sculptures of kings, queens, politicians and military leaders, Melbourne is now seeing contemporary sculpture in unexpected places. (Ken Scarlett)

Simeon Kronenberg

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Sydney

Tony Bond, artistic director of the recent Sydney Biennale suggests that since the staging of the first Biennale in 1973 sculpture and other three dimensional art have been actively promoted in Sydney.

Cecily Briggs

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Perth

Gomboc Gallery and Sculpture Park is an inspiring example of vision and dedication to an artform within the private enterprise system.

Dorothy Erickson

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

In Landscapes and Parks: Lake Districts, Yorkshire, Otterlo

Looks at three locations Grizedale Forest (UK) Yorkshire Sculpture Park (UK) Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller of Otterlo (Netherlands) where one can experience sculpture within the landscape.

Janice Lally

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

In Landscapes and Parks: Gasworks Park Melbourne

Looks at the 5 year sculpture development program at the Gasworks 3.46 hectares of open space in Melbourne - close to the city, accessible with strong community focus and an emphasis on contemporary art.

Philippa Burne

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

New Books on Richard Goodwin and Ari Purhonen

Review of new series of critical monographs Edited by Christopher Allen Ari Purhonen Richard Goodwin Australian Artists Series Oliver Freeman Editions 1992 RRP $49.95

Robert Nelson

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Ceremonial Work in Darwin

Darwin has a burgeoning arts community which produces a unique body of visual art related to festivals and events. Aboriginal culture and proximity to Asia and the Pacific have influenced the work being produced by these artists.

Gwendolyn Broug

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Pacific Arts Association Symposium

Conference review Pacific Arts Association 5th International Symposium University of South Australia Aboriginal and Torres Strait and Pacific Islander Visual Arts Week - Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Centre Adelaide 12 -17 April 1993

Brenda L Croft

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Exhibitions for PAA

Written with Vincent Megaw Visual Arts Exhibitions and the Fifth Pacific Arts Association Symposium Great colour photos of works by indigenous Australians.

Ruth Megaw

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Locations

Exhibition review Location: Contemporary photo-based work from Australia University of South Australia Art Museum 4-27 March 1993

Stephanie Radok

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Gerry Wedd

Exhibition Review Scratch Works By Gerry Wedd Jam Factory Centre of Art and Design February 1993

Cath Kenneally

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Bronwyn Platten and Cecelia Clarke

Exhibition review Possible Clouds: Bronwyn Platten and Cecelia Clarke Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide South Australia 12 February - 14 March 1993

Leon Marvell

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

The Advantages of Isolation

Exhibition Review The Advantage of Isolation Festival of Perth Artplace Claremont Western Australia 28 January - 6 March 1993 and at the Blaxland Gallery Sydney New South Wales 11 February - 7 March 1993

Margaret Moore

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Carol Rudyard

Exhibition review Point of View: Carol Rudyard selected works 1968 -1992 Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Perth Western Australia 29 January - 28 March 1993

Nikki Miller

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

To the Surface

Exhibition Review To the Surface - Contemporary Landscape Plimsoll Gallery Centre for the Arts Hobart Tasmania 10 - 24 January 1993 Curator Ray Arnold

Deborah Wardrop (St Leger)

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Pat Brassington, Edward Colless, David McDowell

Exhibition review Book of Jonah 1932 Pat Brassington, Edward Colless, David McDowell Private House, Mt Stuart, Hobart May 1993

Peter Hill

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Craft in Society by Noris Loannou

Book Review Craft in Society: An Anthology of Perspectives Noris Ioannou (ed.) Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1992 312 pp, RRP $24.95

Anne Brennan

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Multicultural, Aboriginal or Just Plain Australian

A great deal of agonising has gone on since the 1988 Bicentenary about the nature of Australian identity and therefore the nature of our distinctive culture.

James Jupp

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Art and Racism: Inter-National Issues

The way that I want to convey that meaning [racism] here is to use a small number of relatively random examples of current art/race = art/power debates from around the world. They give a flavour of the issues. They have obvious relevance to Australia's relationship to the rest of the world, as well as to relationships within Australia.

Alison Carroll

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Visions in the South Pacific: The Immigrant Artist: A Twice Told Tale

Colonial Ghettoes: the possibilities and limitations of new identity as vision.

Elizabeth Gertsakis

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Understanding/Misunderstanding

A reference to Wittgenstein's Zettel.

Jenny Zimmer

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Heritage Revealed

The Australian National Gallery's library has just completed a project which documented ethnic and immigrant objects in about 750 photographs. The bulk of these photographs show textile and ceramic craft brought with immigrants to Australia or made in Australia following traditional methods and designs. Nearly 20 ethnic groups from Europe, the Middle East and Asia are represented. Photos of textiles included.

George Boeck

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Australian Contemporary Design in Jewish Ceremony

Ritual and ceremony enrich all aspects of Jewish life, its life cycle events and daily life. Jews give constant thanks for God's munificence - for the first fruits of the season, for the food on the daily table, for new clothing donned. Everything is inbued with significance and for all events there are rituals.

Helen Light

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Interview with James Mollison

The Office of Multicultural Affairs talks for Artlink with James Mollison, Director of the National Gallery of Victoria March 1991.

Meredith Smith

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Desultory Remarks from a NESB Museologist

It is evident we are trying to redress an imbalance in the cultural representation of our heritage and arts.

Amareswar Galla

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

The Plan

Looks at the 'National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia' launched by the Prime Minister in 1989 which included provision for the development of a plan for collecting institutions such as museums, art museums, libraries and archives to reflect Australia's cultural diversity in their activities and practices.

Stephanie Britton

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Cultural Diversity and Public Galleries

Written with Joseph Eisenberg. The National Association for the Visual Arts [NAVA] is currently sponsoring a project on 'Multiculturalism and the immigrant artist in Australian visual culture'. Part of the study focuses on the role of public galleries in appreciating, exhibiting, and acquiring the work of Australian artists from non- English speaking backgrounds [NESB].

Janis Wilton

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

As Australian as AMPOL

How much marketability is immanent in the artist's cultural background is a matter of delicate negotiation between dealer and client. Just now, it may appear to some artists an unfortunate fact that for them, Aboriginality is not an option.

Penny Webb

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Metaphors of Multiculturalism

Palimpsest...Vision of a multicultural Australia. An exhibition co-ordinated by the Multicultural Arts Trust of South Australia, December 1990 Chesser Gallery Adelaide. Great colour photos.

Steve Routoulas

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Sprirituality Aboriginality

An exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal art 'Aboriginal Art and Spirituality' opened at the High Court of Australia in 1991. The exhibition to tour after its opening in Canberra.....All of the works in the exhibition speak quite overtly about the highly problematic intervention of the missions, the politics of racism and the way in which Aboriginal spirituality will always remain linked to the land.

Sylvia Kleinert

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Under the Southern Cross

Exhibition Review Under the Southern Cross (survey of Aboriginal Art) Noosa Regional Gallery December - January 1991

Anita Aarons

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Satellite Dreaming

Making a TV documentary about indigenous people's television in Australia. Photographs on location at Ernabella in the Pitjantjatjara lands of far north west South Australia.

Tony Dowmunt

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Other Peoples' Stories, Other Peoples' Voices

Does anyone have their right to represent stories and cultural background not their own? Does anyone have the responsibility to do so? No, I don't think so.....

Ruby Langford

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

SBS TV Arts

With the exception of some programming on SBS and the ABC, artists receive very little exposure on television. The limitations of television, the need to maintain a wide audience reach, the difficult question of what is 'good art' in a televisual sense, all may help to explain the absence of living artists from this, the most powerful of all media.

Geoffrey Dann

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Some Cultural Baggage on the Australian Literary Scene

Above all we need new myths to suit the new Australian culture which is part of the Asia Pacific region. We can't live by Aboriginal myths alone, as some have suggested, in a land so changed by our coming. The unpacking of cultural baggage by writers of all cultural groups, old and new, has to continue until it gives rise to a myth which we all recognise as fitting the Australia to which we have contributed. Wrote David Malouf.

Lolo Houbein

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Bring Your Own and After...Migrant Publishing

It is the responsibility of Australian Collections to preserve this material - correspondence and manuscripts as well as printed texts - in many languages, not as exotic flowers of 'accented' literature, but as integral parts of the history and literature of multicultural Australia.

Andras Dezsery

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

A Very Personal View

A very personal view. And finally there is a need for us to allow art and artists to develop from their own roots, regardless of their country or culture of origin.

Myk Mykyta

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Theatre Oneiron Crosses Cultural Bridges

Theatro Oneiron (Theatre of Dreams) a Greek Australian performance ensemble established in Adelaide in the mid 1980s is the result of dedication and vision. Photo from production of 'The Courtyard of Miracles' 1991 included in the article.

Fotis Kapetopoulos

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Beginning in the Middle

Reflections on an exhibition of abstract art at Linden Gallery St Kilda, Melbourne March 1991. An emigrant artists once said to me "I can never abandon the figure and make purely abstract art, after all I am Greek".

Evangelos Sakaris

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Realising Our Land of Promise

Looks at a number of community arts residencies undertaken in South Australia and the art practices of Andrew Hill and Eugenia Hill.

Sergios Proios

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

'...The Divinity of Optimism', Le Thanh Nhon at Acacia Centre

Le Thanh Nhon and the Acacia Indo-Chinese Children's Centre.

May Lam

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Ngura Kujara - Two Homes

Exhibition Review: Tandanya Adelaide South Australia January - June 1991. Interviews with curators Kerry Giles Kurwingie and John Kean. Images of inma at Ernabella included in the article.

Felicity Wright

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

How Clay Speaks for Neville Assad

The alphabet was invented, so they say, in Lebanon. To some Lebanese, their country represents an un-broken link with the birth of human history. Non-Aboriginal Australians, by contrast, share stories of interrupted family ties, of exile and forgetting. How then do these Lebanese relate to life in Australia?

Kevin Murray

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Images from the Esperanto Suite

During the process of producing his artworks, George looks for ways of translating different philosophical ideas into marks and images.

Phillip George

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Silvia Stansfield

The ceramic work of Silvia Stansfield draws on the cultural legacy of South America. Discussion of the work of this artist with good colour photographs.

Stephanie Radok

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

A Letter from Berlin

Hossein Valamanesh writes from Berlin hoping that this issue of Artlink will help in the understanding of the multicultural nature of Australian Culture and not assist in any way in making pigeon holes to safely classify the issue.

Hossein Valamanesh

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Mirror in Mirror

Standing between the mirrors of East and West, my art always gets an inverted image and a double interpretation. This is me.....

Xiaolin Xue

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Accelerate

"I used to boast about you, my son the painter. You painted trees, now you paint squares to humiliate me." Quote by the artist's father in the early 1970s Melbourne.

Sam Schoenbaum

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Karin Lettau

Brief article looking at the art practice of Karin Lettau. Good colour photographs of the work.

Jane Deeth

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Artists of Malaysian Origin in Melbourne

Survey of five Malaysian artists living and working in Melbourne Australia. Great colour photos of their works.

Chok-Dee Teng

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Film Makers Davor Dirlic and Laszlo Dudas

Fortunately the artists are capable of overturning all the newly acceptable conceits about them, and they might deny most of the assumptions that multicultural academics make about them, whilst still giving a new window on our world, as indeed, all good art from anywhere will.

Anna Epstein

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Milan Milojevic

The artist writes about his art practice. Good colour photographs.

Milan Milojevic

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Observations of a Chinese Painter

Tang Qizhong is a painter and Fine Arts educator from China. He writes about his art practice and the relationship between art practices and institutions in China and Australia.

Tang Qizhong

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

The Odyssey of Salvatore Zofrea

Zofrea wrote "I want my work to sing forever."

Joseph Eisenberg

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Julia Ciccarone

The artist writes about her art practice, in particular her preoccupation with the Australian landscape and how people perceive it. Two images are included: 'Secret Self' and 'Blanket' both from 1990.

Julia Ciccarone

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Elizabeth Gertsakis

Illustration of her current art practice. Includes images of her work 'The Boys in the Band' from 1989.

Elizabeth Gertsakis

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Diario per una Vita Nuova

A multi media installation by Dennis Del Favero.

Mark Hinderaker

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Ginger Riley Munduwalawala: Working on a Heroic Scale

Looks at the art practice of Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, born in 1937 at Ngukurr in the Northern Territory. Good colour photos of the artist and some works.

Anthony Knight

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

The Studio in Deer Park

Paul Borg, an artist of Maltese origin, speaks of his unusual working arrangements.

Paul Borg

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

A Matter of Representation

Since the birth of Australian television, non-anglo Australians have suffered from an acute case of foreign accent syndrome. Unfortunately 35 years on they are still suffering, not only from bad accents usually spoken by Anglo actors playing NESBs, but from the dearth of authentic storylines and subsequently the lack of accurate representation of NESBs on our TV and screens.

Monica Pellizarri

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Alike/Unalike: Cultural Diversity in Australian Independent Film

Cultural diversity is crucial. Film makers may be unlike (in terms of cultural background) but they are also alike (in terms of their value.) In the area of independent film, there are a number of films which deal with multicultural themes and/or give non Anglo film-makers the opportunity to express themselves. One hopes that mainstream film can take up on this lead, because, from all apparent evidence, it remains sorely imbalanced.

Bill Mousoulis

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Zsuzsa Kollo

Looks at the ceramic works of Zsuzsa Kollo which refer to Pre-historic, Eastern, and Christian works. includes b/w photo.

Jane Deeth

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Janusz Kozak

Looks at the art practice of Januzs Kozak, a painter who was born in Poland and who now works and lives in Wollongong.

Helen Haralambous

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Collaborative Impressions

Exhibition review: Works by Nola Routoulas, Helen Karpathakis, Nora Mantzioris and Alexandra Akritidis. Artzone Gallery, Adelaide South Australia April 1991

Nola Routoulas

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Backyard Culture

Questions of memory, history and identity in the work of Leandro Salomone.

Gail Higginbottom

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Unpacking My Cultural Bundle

I migrated to Australia from China in March 1983 with nothing but 60 kg of books and manuscripts plus a big cultural bundle - all the things; the Classical Literature, the History and the Philosophy that I had been taught over the last 24 years....

Xiao-xiong Zhang

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Srecko Radman "... In the 'Start' Position"

Discussion of the artist's practice as an artist from Croatia in Melbourne since 1971 - how is it affected by linguistic and ethnic differences.

Susan Faine

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Concept of Country

Looks at the art practice of Fiona Foley (Thoorgine Country), Terry Ganadilla (Mewenbi Country) and Dale Yowingbala (Gamerdi Country), three aboriginal artists who worked together on an unusual project in Maningrida during 1991.

Fiona Foley

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

4 Artists from WA

Looks at the art practice of four artists in Western Australia - Patrizia Tonello, Alex Spremberg, Cathy Cinanni and Karl Wiebke. Illustrations of their independent works included.

Julian Goddard

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Gunta Parups: A Latvian in Australia

Looks at the art practice of Gunta Parups who was and remains a displaced person. The experience of leaving one's homeland as a refugee at the age of thirteen during the war is etched indelibly into her being.

Andra Kins

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Arriving at a Sense of Position

At times, life feels like a collection of unrelated events, a necklace without the string. Christl Berg writes of her experiences of leaving Germany when she was 25 and having lived in three different continents with three different cultures at varied stages in her life.

Christl Berg

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

People's Cultural Action in Australia: The PACIN Experience

Looks at workshops organised by PACIN - the Philippines-Australia Cultural Interaction Network for Asian and Pacific communities in Sydney.

Christian Ramillo

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Community Arts in Fairfield and Cabramatta

The Fairfield Community Arts Network is a community - based organisation which aims to develop cultural awareness in Fairfield with particular emphasis on the multicultural nature of the area.

Meg Simpson

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

A Living Museum at Work in Melbourne's Multicultural West

Those who come to know Melbourne's western suburbs find many treasures in the region's history, heritage, environment and contemporary culture.

Olwen Ford

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Mixing it in Broome and Darwin

The Broome Mix is useful to bear in mind when thinking on all things multicultural - cultural diversity. In Broome that's culture - a mix of Aboriginal, Asian and European.

Kerry Davies

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

BulaBula: New High Tech Arts Centre, Ramingining

The three storey facility looks incongruous in the ramshackle Aboriginal settlement of Ramingining which crouches along a dirt road in an Arnhem Land eucalypt forest 550 km east of Darwin in the Northern Territory. Photos of people in Ramingining.

Steve Bunk

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Multicultural Arts: Development and Change in Brisbane

It is fair to say that the development of multicultural arts and the recognition of cultural diversity in Queensland is still in its early stages. Photos (6) of an event at the Cafe Folkloric.

Christopher Bowen

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Crossing Cultures in Dance

Looks at the dance practice of the Bharatam Dance Company from Melbourne and at that stage in its 5th year of operation. Photos of the dancers in production included.

Stephanie Britton

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

New Artist's Group: Dihedron

The tendency to pigeon hole 'ethnic' art as a second class art practised by minority groups is common in Australia too... Dihedron is a group of artists and supporters operating in Brisbane who share the common goal of helping artists in socio-cultural isolation.

Anthony Gall

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Reflecting the Mix - Insights: Visual Resource Guide to Film and Video

If mainstream television is not our main source of accurate images, how do people gain access to programs which reflect our society in realistic and creative ways?

Patricia Kelly

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Cultural Iconographies

Cultural Iconographies is an exhibition of work by migrant and refugee artists who have been in Australia for a relatively short time. To take place in the Bondi Pavilion, Sydney during Carnivale October 1991.

Stephanie Britton

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

Are You Being Served? An Open Invitation from MAC

Multicultural Artworker's Committee [MAC] aims to provide all citizens with equal opportunity to access and promote art in its various forms.

Charlie Schiavone

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

National Multicultural Arts Network

The Network links NESB, ethnic and arts organisations, sets up cross cultural and other training programs for artists, arts organisations and the media and lobbies governments and other funding bodies to reassess their policies and practices.

Eugenia Hill

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

A New Multiculturalism-in-the-Arts Program for South Australia

In December 1990 the South Australian Government announced a new 'Multiculturalism-in-the-Arts' Program to encourage major arts organisations in receipt of government funding to increase their activities for people from linguistic and culturally diverse backgrounds.

Stephanie Britton

Arts in a Multicultural Australia

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