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Art & the Feminist Project

Issue 14:1 | March 1994

Very popular issue looking at art and women's issues. Reprinted. Articles examine difference, women looking at women, heresies, women and nation. Includes new statistics. Reviews.

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Features

A View from the Other Side - Five Women West Australian Artists
Feature
Estelle Barrett

Looks at the art practice of 5 Western Australian women artists: Helen Taylor, Alison Rowley, Moira Doropoulos, Michelle Elliot and Linda Banazis.

Published March 1994
Bush Women: Narrative Paintings from Outback Western Australia
Feature
John Kean

Article written with Karen Dayman Works being produced by senior indigenous women artists around Western Australia use figurative elements as well as symbols to doucment their own histories during a period of unprecedented social and environmental upheaval.

Published March 1994
Fatal Attractions: Women and Technology: Norma Wight, Edite Vidins and Lyndall Milani
Feature
Nicholas Zurbrugg

Looks at the work of three Queensland artists working in different ways with computers.

Published March 1994
Filipina Migranteng Manggagawa: Feminism, Art and Advocacy in the Philippines
Feature
Julie Ewington

Overseas contract workers from the Philippines support their families and their country as whole through many lonely years of exile.

Published March 1994
HER-ESIES Ancient and Modern
Feature
Juliette Peers

"Women in art must look to the future as they have no past" said Mary Cecil Allen at an opening of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors in 1935. A critical examination of the current art practices of women in Australia.

Published March 1994
Image Bank: The Feminist Project
Feature
Stephanie Britton

Presentation and artist statement by contemporary female art practitioners. Women looking as feminist, feminine, female, femme, feminal. Artists featured: Frances Joseph, Angela Stewart, Maryanne Coutts, Noela Hjorth, Jill Kempson, Maria Kuczynska, Rosslynd Piggott, Eugenia Raskopoulos, C. Moore Hardy, Alex Macfadyen, Janet Neilson, Deborah Paauwe, Virginia Barratt, Linda Dement, Susie Hansen, Janina Green, Joy Smith, Madeleine Winch, Kathie Muir, Libby Round, Pam Johnston, Merryn Eirth, Dee Jones, Di Barrett, Frances Phoenix and Ella Dreyfus.

Published March 1994
Jillian Davey: Stories on Canvas
Feature
Jenni Dudley

Jillian Davey works at the Ernabella Arts Centre on the Pitjantjatjara Lands of the north west of South Australia.

Published March 1994
Knocking on the Inside: Heather Ellyard, Annette Bezor, Janette Moore and Anna Platten
Feature
Stephanie Radok

Looks at the work of Heather Ellyard, Annette Bezor, Janette Moore, Anna Platten.

Published March 1994
Making (A) Difference: Suffrage Year Celebrations and the Visual Arts in New Zealand
Feature
Christina Barton

Suffrage year celebrations and the visual arts in New Zealand.

Published March 1994
Nola Farman: The Challenge Continues
Feature
Christine Sharkey

Examination of the art practice of Nola Farman.

Published March 1994
Re-orienting Feminism in Aotearoa
Feature
Anne Kirker

During the past 8 years or so there have been two distinctive strands of activity which women artists have pursued in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Both are concerned with questions of identity. Artists Fiona Pardington, Emily Karaka, Shona Davies, Christine Webster and Robyn Kahukiwa.

Published March 1994
Sadomaschism, Art and the Lesbian Sexual revolution
Feature
Sheila Jeffreys

Black leather, blood, piercing and tattooing, glamourised dominance and submission should be approached with political discernment and discrimination.

Published 01 March 1994
Shedding Skins: Identity and 'Lesbian' Art Practice
Feature
Barbara Bolt

What does it mean to present as a 'lesbian' artist? The very identity categories 'gay', 'lesbian', 'heterosexual' are extremely problematic. Now that 'I' am out, I find that I am in - inside a category that reduces rather than expands possibilities for me, not just as an artist, but as a person.

Published 01 March 1994
Someday, Somewhere - Women and Nation in International Art
Feature
Sue Rowley

However, feminist artists, curators and writers could collaborate in establishing alternative frameworks for international exhibitions that would render unthinkable the omission of female artists or the implicit erasure of gender as an interpretive key.

Published March 1994
Speaking the Ineffable: New Directions in Performance Art
Feature
Amanda King

Looks at Linda Sproul's 'Listen' and Barbara Campbell's 'Backwash'.

Published March 1994
The Art World: More Than a Foothold
Feature
Melissa Cater

Australian women artists still see grey skies when they look out of their studio windows. This study examines the experiences of women in the hierarchical Australian contemporary art scene.

Published March 1994
The Changing Face of Australian Women
Feature
Anna Epstein

Women from non-English speaking backgrounds are adding another dimension to the picture of women in Australian art. Informed by other cultures and dealing with issues of ethnic difference, the images on these pages create a broader idea of what it is to be an Australian woman.

Published March 1994
The Engagement of the Personal
Feature
Teri-Ann White

How do we define ourselves? What are the choices for women these days?

Published March 1994
The Horror of the Prose: Some Reflection on a Paper entitled The Horror of the Gaze
Feature
Donald Brook

Some reflections on a paper entitled the Horror of the Gaze. Art criticism is, perhaps, an art form and not expected primarily to make sense. There is no consensus about what art is, but we do seem to share an urge to understand what critics say about it.

Published March 1994
The Price of Liberty
Feature
Merran Ricketson

The Women's Art Register contains a public access slide library of 20,000 slides, 14,000 information folders representing (as at 1994) 2,400 Australian based women artists.

Published March 1994
Trapped in Paradise - Some Women Artists in Tasmania
Feature
Victoria Hammond

The artists were selected because their work embraces not only questions of gender, but also addresses the distinctive duality between the superficial look of things and the complex web of underlying meaning, desire, fear, experience, and memory that they have located and interpreted for us. Featured artists are Jane Eisemann, Jacqui Stockdale, K.T. Prescott, Helen Wright and Megan J Walch.

Published March 1994
Update: Projects of Women and Art
Feature
Stephanie Britton

A survey of current issues, events and projects with respect to women's art from around Australia.

Published March 1994
What Should We Do With The 'Women and Art' Elective?
Feature
Jude Adams

Women's courses since the 1970s have become a familiar if marginalised component of most art school curricula, their initial aim being to compensate for the absence of women in the Art History and Theory syllabus and to encourage the development of feminist art practices.

Published March 1994

Also In This Issue

Artrave
Artrave
Edblog

Published March 1994
Sight Lines
Book Review
Jude Adams

Book review: Sight Lines Women's art and Feminist Perspectives in Australia Sandy Kirby Craftsman House Sydney 1992 RRP $75

Published March 1994
A Woman's Story: Hunting Grounds
Review
S Lavinia Hartley

Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
5 November - 10 December 1993

Published March 1994
Bad Girls: Institute of Contemporary Art London
Review
Suzanne Treister

Review Bad Girls: Institute of Contemporary Art London 7 October - 5 December 1993. Using glamour, virginity and stardom to attract as wide an audience as possible to a show of supposedly anarchic women artists all hoping to confront notions of sexuality and gender was a smart, if questionable, move....

Published March 1994
Different Dreaming
Review
Jyanni Steffensen

Lap : an installation view. Keitha Phelps
Five Different Homes. Louise Haselton
Contemporary Art Centre
19 November- 12 December 1993

Published March 1994
En-Gendering Resistance: Opening Moves with Game Girl
Review
Deborah White

All New Gen Game Girl
by VNS Matrix
(Josephine Starrs, Francesca Da Rimini, Julianne Pierce, Virginia Barratt), Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide South Australia
21 October - 21 November 1993

Published March 1994
Far Beyond First Impressions
Review
Lorraine Hepburn

Order Australis
Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
August 1993.

Published March 1994
Memorial to the Survivors
Review
Stephanie Britton

Discussion of the work of Aboriginal artist Hope Neill

Published March 1994
Memories of a Nebula
Review
Steve Wigg

Fountain installation by Derek Kreckler
Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide South Australia
2-24 December 1993 and 11-23 January 1994

Published March 1994
Modest Perfection
Review
David Bromfield

Bunbury Regional Galleries
November 1993

Published March 1994
More Light (Goethe's last words)
Review
Richard Grayson

Craig Andrae Miscellaneous Remarks
Contemporary Art Centre
Adelaide, South Australia
3 September - 3 October 1993

Published March 1994
Porn Shop Art Adventures
Review
Mary Hutchison

Written with Barbara Holloway Exhibition review Joe Blow: A very erotic art exhibition by Jo Ernst
Adam and Eve Gallery Canberra
December 1993

Published March 1994
Printmaking and Optimism
Review
Sean Kelly

Exhibition review I'sland (I'l)n.
Exhibition of prints Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania
23 December - 2 January 1994

Published March 1994
Reaffirming Identity
Review
Janet Maughan

Fab art: Works by Kerry Giles (Kurwingie)
Gallerie Australis
Adelaide South Australia
23 November - December 1993

Published March 1994
Revelations of a decade
Review
Christine Sharkey

Tangerine Dreams: a matter of Western Australian Style 1970 - 1980 Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
University of Western Australia

Published March 1994
Surviving the first 12 months: Swing Bridge Art Gallery Dunally
Review
Joerg Andersch

Published March 1994
The Amazingness of Women to JUST DO IT
Review
Mara Mann

Rural Australia produces resolute women - astute, sensible, profound. This article examines the work of one of a woman from the south west of Western Australia - what influences and inspires her.

Published March 1994
 
Barossa Arts Festival
Guildhouse
City of Unley
NAVA
Melbourne Art Fair