The Face
Issue 15:2&3 | September 1995
Double issue. Major discussion of the artist and the industry - a provocative article with responses as well as an examination of issues in portraiture-- in your face, looking for meaning, looking at faces, ghosts from the past-- the portraits of today tell a different story.
In this issue
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Snake/Skin
Ann Newmarch has recently confronted and embraced the problems of ageing ...in a project she calls 'Anti Medusa/Risking Fifty'.
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.
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?
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'.
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.
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.
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.
The Fated Gathering
The artist talks about his work and responses.
Image Bank: Portraiture
Artist's statements and images: Kate Butler, Destiny Deacon, Di Barrett, Thomas Hoareau and Anne Zahalka.
Memory Staccato
Exhibition review Flight/Flight: Alex Rizkalla
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide SA
27 April - 21 May 1995
The Realness of Veneer
Exhibition review Stripped Bare: Nicole Ellis
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide SA
22 March - 16 April 1995
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
Artifice and the Eye
Exhibition review Rob Gutteridge A Few Moments of Gravity
Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide SA
23 April - 11 May 1995
Nikolaus Lang: Evolution
Exhibition review Nikolaus Lang
Adelaide Convention Centre and Adelaide Railway Station SA
April 1995
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
Festival Neglects Visual Arts
Review The Festival of Perth
March - April 1995
Western Australia
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
Image Scavenging
Exhibition review Dangerous Liaisons
Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts,
Hobart Tasmania
7 April - 30 April 1995
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).
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
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
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
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
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
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
Artrave