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Testing the Waters

Stephanie Britton

The First Asia Pacific Triennial, at the Queensland Art Gallery was not only a large imaginatively curated exhibition from many Asian countries and Australia but a ground-breaking conference Identity, Tradition and Change: in which historians, curators, administrators and artists all had equal billing. Well funded, it was able to bring hundreds of people together to enjoy as well as critique the event, and feedback was sought to inform the future form of the event.

Published December 1993

Confess and Conceal: Asia/Australia Exhibition at AGWA

Review of Confess and Conceal a group show of 4 Asian and 7 Australian artists organised by the Art Gallery of WA and touring South East Asia. Catalogue has essay by Apinan Poshyananda discussing Thai women artists but fails to provide background to the other Asian works or whether Australia shares the sense of reorientation being experienced in Asia or whether it can be thought of as part of Asia.

Published December 1993

Streams of Indonesian Art and Perceptions of Paradise

Brita Miklouho-Maklai

'Streams of Indonesian Art from Pre-historic to Contemporary'
Published by the Committee of the Festival of Indonesia, Jakarta, 1991.
A series of essays by Indonesian writers.
'Perceptions of Paradise: Images of Bali in the Arts'
By a US scholar Garrett Kam,
Publishedby the Museum Neka, Bali, 1993.
Both publications help to fill the gaps in written art history. 'Streams' tries to sanitise the history of the oppression of artists by political forces and ongoing social inequities.

Published December 1993

Making Asian Art Accessible to Westerners

Review of book 'Modern Art in Thailand, 19th and 20th Centuries'
By Apinan Poshyananda
Published by OUP, Singapore, 1992.
An exemplary study of this period tracing traditional practice, regional categories, ethnic divisions, foreign arrivals, and the advent of modernism and westernisation in art and life. The reader gains insight into Buddhism and social structures including kingship in the course of looking at this complex history.

Published December 1993

Refocusing the Gaze

Joanna Mendelssohn

Review of the First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Sept - Dec 1993. The rationale for selection, search for different voices from each country, enormous diversity, some common threads eg experience of colonisation; politicisation; role of religion in some countries. Dramatic performances by Dadang Christanto (Indonesia) and S. Chandrasekeran (Singapore). Theme of environmental pollution also appears in several works.

Published December 1993

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

Published June 1993

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

Published June 1993

To the Surface

Deborah Wardrop (St Leger)

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

Published June 1993

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

Published June 1993

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

Published June 1993

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

Published June 1993

Gerry Wedd

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

Published June 1993

Locations

Stephanie Radok

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

Published June 1993

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.

Published June 1993

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

Published June 1993

Floral Tributes: The Flower

Exhibition review The Flower
Curated by Paul Zika
Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts
Hobart Tasmania

Published March 1993

Transformation of the Real: Constantine Koukias and Ann Wulff

Review To Traverse Water
IHOS Opera Hobart, Tasmania
Constantine Koukias and Ann Wulff

Published March 1993

A Golden Threat: Feminisms

David Bromfield

Exhibition review Feminisms
Curated by Niki Miller
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Western Australia
November 1 - 28 1992

Published March 1993

Journey by Proxy

Dorothy Erickson

Exhibition review Crossings Mary Knott: Drawings and Sculptures 1988 - 1992
Curated by Tony Geddes
The Art Gallery of Western Australia
October 3 - December 13 1992
Geraldton Regional Gallery
December 18 -January 21 1993
Bunbury Art Galleries
January 30 - March 7 1993

Published March 1993

Come Again: Aldo Lacobelli

Exhibition review Souvenirs Aldo Iacobelli
Experimental Art Foundation
South Australia
22 October - 15 November 1992

Published March 1993

Pretty as a Picture: Women Artists and the Heidelberg Era

Exhibition review Completing the Picture: Women artists and the Heidelberg era
Carrick Hill, South Australia
8 November - 6 December 1992

Published March 1993

Colonial Patterns Repeated: Robert Harrison

Exhibition review Architecture without Walls Robert Harrison
University of South Australia Art Museum
10 September - 3 October 1992

Published March 1993

The Pure and The Impure: Shaun Kirby

Exhibition review Cultic Gloss: Shaun Kirby
Contemporary Art Centre
Adelaide, South Australia
October 23 - November 24 1992

Published March 1993

Delayed Voyage: George Popperwell

Richard Grayson

Exhibition review George Popperwell: Recent Works
Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide, South Australia
September 25 - October 8 1992

Published March 1993

NAVA

Mandorla Art Prize

Guildhouse

Barossa Arts Festival

City of Unley