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Issue 41:3 | December 2021 | INDIGENOUS_Visualising Sovereignty
INDIGENOUS_Visualising Sovereignty
Issue 41:3 | December 2021
Issue 15:2&3 | September 1995 | The Face
The Face
Issue 15:2&3 | September 1995

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Sovereign city, sovereign self and Warrior Woman Lane

My formal arts education began in a strange place: the Elisabeth Murdoch building at the University of Melbourne where I took an art history elective. Built in 1885 by Joseph Reed, the Gothic architecture reinforced the rigid authority of the colony. Glaringly elitist, it resembled both church and orphanage. It was full of confusing hallways, which remained impossible to navigate. Inside its constructed edifice, middle-aged white men in paisley shirts lectured, with exotic hand gestures, on First Nation artists (when they were spoken of at all). And white women in the faculty asserted a self-righteous paternalism that was far worse.

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Lipstick and Land Rights: A poetic response

I paint my face as my mother’s mothers have done before me

In this new ritual sitting on my bedroom floor

We name each pigment after revolutionaries

Because I am my mother’s daughter

Talk, Torque and the Garden Knot
Report Torque, the Fourth Artists' Regional Exchange, Perth February - March 1995 - a five week residency for visual artists from Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines, an exhibition of work at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art Western Australia and a Symposium (24- 26 March 1995).
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The Artist and the Industry
Close examination of the artist in the arts industry. The demystification project, the mysterious nature of art, the mystification of the artist, the mystery of moral arts and some consequences for the artist are examined with logical persuasion and a sharp sense of humour.
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Donald Brook in the role of Dean Swift: A Response
A response to the challenging article by Donald Brook, 'The Artist and the Industry' in Artlink Volume 15 Number 2 & 3.
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Professional or Pretending?: A Response to Donald Brook
A response to the challenging article by Donald Brook 'The Artist and the Industry' in Artlink Volume 15 No 2 & 3.
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Careful They Might Hear You: A Response to Donald Brook
A response to the challenging article by Donald Brook 'The Artist and the Industry' in Artlink Volume 15 No 2 & 3.
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C(r)ook Brook: Ian North has the Last Word
Ian North has the last word. A response to the challenging article by Donald Brook 'The Artist and the Industry' in Artlink Volume 15 No 2 & 3.
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Closer Up: Into the Sunset
Examines the fate of portrait painting in the twentieth century....the critical focus of contemporary art is undoubtedly elsewhere...Examined with reference to the portraits of artists Mike Parr, Matthys Gerber, Vicente Butron
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Portraiture and Faciality
Each age has apparently had some theory of the face. Article links to the exhibition 'Faciality' curated by Zara Stanhope at the Monash University Gallery. Includes the work of artists Geoffrey Dupree, Chris Barry, Maria Kozic, Gordon Bennett, Peter Kennedy and others.
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In the Company of Women
In the Company of Women along with other components of the National Women's Art Exhibition, offers an opportunity to review the complex ideological ingredients that women modernists brought to their formal experiments. Artworks by Margaret Francis, Elise Blumann, Margaret Morgan and Grace Cossington Smith.
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Portraiture and Technology
The recent revival of portraiture may not be unconnected to the technologies now available which allow artists to appropriate and manipulate images. Artists discussed include Wendy Mills, Adrienne Harris, Caroline Lewens, Regis Lansac, Anna Hurley and Deborah Mooney.
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Snake/Skin
Ann Newmarch has recently confronted and embraced the problems of ageing ...in a project she calls 'Anti Medusa/Risking Fifty'.
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Facets of the Self
Review of the 'About Face' exhibition: Angela Stewart and Jenny Loverock. The last 15 years has seen portraiture rise to particular importance in relation to the politics of representation, particularly self representation by women.
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Narrating a Life: Mary Moore and the Self-Portrait
It goes without saying that for a woman to make a self-portrait, a self-representation, a different world of considerations will be required than if a man entered the same quest. The weight of history, of tradition, the idea of 'truthfulness' and women's unreliability: must I go on?
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National Portrait Gallery
Australia now has an embryonic National Portrait Gallery in five small rooms, one larger room and three corridors in Old Parliament House, Canberra. Photos of the opening and the inaugural exhibition 'About Face'.
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The Fortunes of Anatomy: 1895 - 1995 Venice Biennale
Although the Centenary Venice Biennale has a number of faces, the primary one is to represent the face of contemporary art through international participation of 43 countries at their official pavilions.
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Julie Dowling - Cultural Communication
Historically, depictions of Aboriginal people have their gaze diverted away from the viewer. The work of Julie Dowling confronts the viewer to acknowledge the Aboriginal individual communicating as one human being to another.
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The Mask Behind the Mask
Rei Zunde is a photographer and painter working in Melbourne. His recent photographic work records specific cultural or sub-cultural worlds - rodeos, tattooed men and women, suburban football teams and their supporter and circus workers and their animals.
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The Fated Gathering
The artist talks about his work and responses.
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Image Bank: Portraiture
Artist's statements and images: Kate Butler, Destiny Deacon, Di Barrett, Thomas Hoareau and Anne Zahalka.
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Memory Staccato
Exhibition review Flight/Flight: Alex Rizkalla Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide SA 27 April - 21 May 1995
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The Realness of Veneer
Exhibition review Stripped Bare: Nicole Ellis Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide SA 22 March - 16 April 1995
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I'm not a Charlatan
Exhibtion review Old Dust and Medical Gas Installation by Shaun Kirby Sym Choon Gallery, Adelaide SA 19 May - 12 June 1995
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Artifice and the Eye
Exhibition review Rob Gutteridge A Few Moments of Gravity Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide SA 23 April - 11 May 1995
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Nikolaus Lang: Evolution
Exhibition review Nikolaus Lang Adelaide Convention Centre and Adelaide Railway Station SA April 1995
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Pretty and Witty and Bright
Exhibition review performance art Relatives/Friends/Victims Safe Chamber One was Vicious Queenbitchery First Site Program, Come Out Festival Lion Arts Theatre 29 -31 March 1995
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Festival Neglects Visual Arts
Review The Festival of Perth March - April 1995 Western Australia
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The Continuing March of Western Australian Sculpture
Exhibition review Sculpture Survey 1995 Gomboc Gallery Middle Swan One Hundred Years of Sculpture 1895-1995 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
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Image Scavenging
Exhibition review Dangerous Liaisons Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart Tasmania 7 April - 30 April 1995
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Building with Bits
The Futures Technology Centre Elizabeth College, cnr of Warwick & Murray Sts, Hobart Design team: Paul Ian (architect), Ian Friend (artist), Sarah Lindsay (artist), Kevin Todd (artist).
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500 Women - Why Stop?
Book review Heritage: the National Women's Art Book edited by Joan Kerr an Art and Australia book published by Craftsman House RRP $150
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Waltzing Through a Post-modernist Minefield
Book review Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media and Technological Horizons by Eric Michaels Allen and Unwin RRP $29.95
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Art of the Other
Book review Oceanic Art by Nicholas Thomas 1995 London Thames and Hudson's World of Art Series 216 pp 182 illustrations, 26 in colour RRP $22.95
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5 New Publications on South East Asia
Book reviews Vision and Idea - Relooking Modern Malaysian Art by the National Gallery of Malaysia Modern Artists of Malaysia by Piyadasa and Sabapathy Ismail Zain, Retrospective exhibition Skin Trilogy a visual performance event on a futuristic Malaysia Cultural organisations in Southeast Asia by Jenny Lindsay
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That's History
Book review The Killing of History: How a discipline is being murdered by literary critics and social theorists by Keith Windschuttle Macleay Press, 1994 Sydney RRP $39.95
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Contemporary Arts of the South Pacific
Exhibition review Contemporay arts of the South Pacific University of New South Wales Held in the Gallery of the Alliance Francaise de Sydney 9 May- 2 June 1995
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Artrave
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