Reviews

It's Things That Matter
Book review The Barossa Folk: Germanic Furniture and Craft Traditions in Australia By Noris Ioannou Craftsman House 1995
Taste Meets Kitsch
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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Paul Hay Diary
Exhibition review Four Point Bearing: Simon Barley, Paul Hay, Ian Parry and James Smeaton Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 26 December 1994 - 25 February 1995 Artist's journal by Paul Hay
Culture/Agriculture
Robyn Daw on Elsje King
Exhibition review Elsje King: Textiles University Gallery University of Tasmania, Launceston 9 September - 7 October 1994
Culture/Agriculture
Maggie Baxter on High Fibre Diet
Exhibition review High Fibre Diet Fremantle Arts Centre Western Australia 29 October - 4 December 1994
Culture/Agriculture
David Bromfield on Sculpture
Exhibition review The Games Room Stuart Elliott at Lawrence Wilson Art Galley University of Western Australia 21 October - 4 December 1994 Death of a Myth Michelle H Elliot at Gomboc Galleries and Sculpture Park 6 - 27 November 1994
Culture/Agriculture
Margot Osborne on Marijana Tadic
Exhibition review Passionate Habits Marijana Tadic Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia 11 November - 4 December 1994
Culture/Agriculture
Ingrid Day on Phil Mullaly
Exhibition review Other Refuge Have I None Phil Mullaly New Land Gallery 16 November - 30 December 1994
Culture/Agriculture
Cate Jones on Photography
Exhibition review Lifeworks: Aboriginal women photographed in action and at work by Aboriginal women photographers Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Adelaide South Australia 7 October - 4 December 1994
Culture/Agriculture
Kay Aldenhoven on Annie Taylor
Exhibition review Doggone: Goddog: godingo: dingod Works by Annie Taylor 24 Hour Art Darwin, Northern Territory 21 October - 5 November 1994
Culture/Agriculture
Mark Stephens on 600,000 Hours
Exhibition review 600,000 Hours (mortality) exhibitions Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide South Australia 15 September - 4 December 1994
Culture/Agriculture
No Drop City: Contemporary Australian Architecture
Book review Contemporary Australian Architecture Graham Jahn Photography by Scott Frances Basel/East Roseville: Gordon and Breach International/Craftsman House 1994 241 pp
Art & Death: Facing Mortality
Indecent Exposures and Dissonance: Two New Books from Catriona Moore
Book reviews Indecent Exposures: Twenty years of Australian Feminist Photography By Catriona Moore Allen & Unwin in association with the Power Institute of Fine Arts 206 pp $21.95 Dissonance: Feminism and the Arts 1970 -90 Edited by Catriona Moore Allen & Unwin in association with Artspace 308 pp $21.95
Art & Death: Facing Mortality
A Paradigm Exhibition
Exhibition review Perpetual Motion: Aboriginal Strategies for rejigging art and technology Curated by David Kerr and Doreen Mellor Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide South Australia 8 July - 14 August 1994
Art & Death: Facing Mortality
Symmetry: Craft Meets Kindred Trades and Professions
Exhibition review Symmetry: Crafts and Kindred Trades and Professions Curated by Kevin Murray University of South Australian Art Museum 8 September - 8 October 1994
Art & Death: Facing Mortality
Monstrous Gorgeous
Exhibition review Monstrous Gorgeous Curated by Virginia Barratt Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide, South Australia 8 July - 7 August 1994
Art & Death: Facing Mortality
Fania
Exhibition review Fania Curated by Erica Green University of South Australia Art Museum 28 July - 27 August 1994
Art & Death: Facing Mortality
Chris Hopewell
Exhibition review Chris Hopewell: New works Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at the University of Western Australia 2 September - 16 October 1994
Art & Death: Facing Mortality
19th Fremantle Print Award
Exhibition review The Nineteenth Fremantle Print Award Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia 9 September - 23 October 1994
Art & Death: Facing Mortality
Familiarity? Re-Examining Australian Suburbia
Exhibition review Familiarity? Re-examining Australian Suburbia Mikala Dwyer, Michele Beevors, Glen Clarke, Elizabeth Woods, Tony Schwenson and Aleks Danko Curated by Brian Parkes Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania 23 September - 16 October 1994
Art & Death: Facing Mortality
Crossovers - Site Works and Symposium
Exhibition review Crossovers: Site works and symposium Tasmanian School of Art and various locations, Launceston, Tasmania 26 September - 2 October 1994
Art & Death: Facing Mortality
Suzanne Treister
Exhibition review Q. Would you recognise a Virtual Paradise? and other paintings Suzanne Treister Contemporary Art Centre South Australia 29 March - 24 April 1994
Sydney: The Big Shift
Jun Davila
Exhibition review Imperfect Drawings Juan Davila Greenaway Art Gallery Adelaide South Australia 11 May - 1 June 1994
Sydney: The Big Shift
Sue Lorraine
Exhibition review em/body recent work by Sue Lorraine Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre South Australia 13 May - 25 June 1994
Sydney: The Big Shift
Julie Blyfield
Exhibition review Memento celebration sentimentality Contemporary jewellery by Julie Blyfield Jam Factory Gallery 8 April - 29 May 1994
Sydney: The Big Shift
Kate Breakey
Exhibition review Laws of Physics/Principles of Mathematics Kate Breakey Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre South Australia 8 April - 7 May 1994
Sydney: The Big Shift
Still Looking at the Billboard
Exhibition review Aroha Terrace, Forestville June 1994 In the last issue of Artlink 9Vol 14 No 2 - the art of survival) we looked at an innovative art program being run in Adelaide. The 1994 bilboard project at Aroha Terrace Forestville continued until the end of the year, with different artists represented each month.
Sydney: The Big Shift
Contemporary Aboriginal Art - Flinders University Art Museum
Exhibition review Looking Towards the Future: Contemporary Aboriginal Art Flinders University Art Museum South Australia 13 May - 24 June 1994
Sydney: The Big Shift
Absence of Evidence - Fremantle Art Centre
Exhibition review Absence of Evidence Fremantle Arts Centre Western Australia 15 May - 26 June 1994
Sydney: The Big Shift
Visualising Masculinities - Claremont School of Art
Exhibition review Visualising Masculinities Claremont School of Art Perth Western Australia 20 May - 15 June 1994
Sydney: The Big Shift
What's Worth Showing? - Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Exhibition review What's worth Showing? Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Launceston Tasmania
Sydney: The Big Shift
Constructing Space - Plimsoll Gallery
Exhibition review Constructing space Plimsoll Gallery Tasmanian School of Art Hobart, Tasmania 13 March - 6 June
Sydney: The Big Shift
Jemmy Caution
Exhibition review Jemmy Mehmet Adil, Craige Andrae, Johnnie Dadie, Simryn Gill, Richard Grayson, Linda Marie Walker, Paul Hewson, Shaun Kirby, David O'Halloran, Bronia Iwanczak, Andrew Petrusevics, Bronwyn Platten, George Popperwell, Jyanni Steffensen, Steve Wigg Curated by Alan Cruikshank Ebenezer Studios Basement February 18 - March 13 1994
The Art of Survival
The Case of the Cigarette and the Egg
Review Women and sexuality in Asian-Pacific Cinema Media Resource Centre Adelaide South Australia February 26 - March 11 1994
The Art of Survival
Festival of Perth: Visual Arts a Shadow of Their Former Selves
Review A sad thing has happened to the once vibrant visual arts component of the Festival of Perth - the oldest arts festival in Australia. It has become tired if not downright tiresome. The whole event needs a good shake - up.
The Art of Survival
Aboriginal Art Exhibitions in Western Australia
Review The Festival of Perth presented two major exhibitions of Western Australian Aboriginal art Bush Women at the Fremantle Arts Centre and This is my country at the exciting new exhibition venue 'Artplace' in Claremont.
The Art of Survival
The Green and the Wild
Exhibition review Dark Nature Anne MacDonald and David Stephenson Dick Bett Gallery Hobart, Tasmania 3 - 22 March 1994
The Art of Survival
Designs on Shopping
Exhibition review 4 Seasons - Objects that Contain Plimsoll Gallery University of Tasmania Centre for the Arts March 4 - 27 1994
The Art of Survival
Missing in Action
Book review Body and self: Performance Art in Australia 1969 -1992 By Anne Marsh Oxford University Press Australia 1993
The Art of Survival
A View of the Perennials
Book review Contemporary Sculpture in Australian Gardens By Ken Scarlett Craftsman House 1993
The Art of Survival
Bad Girls: Institute of Contemporary Art London
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....
Art & the Feminist Project
Sight Lines
Book review: Sight Lines Women's art and Feminist Perspectives in Australia Sandy Kirby Craftsman House Sydney 1992 RRP $75
Art & the Feminist Project
Memorial to the Survivors
Discussion of the work of Aboriginal artist Hope Neill
Art & the Feminist Project
The Amazingness of Women to JUST DO IT
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.
Art & the Feminist Project
Porn Shop Art Adventures
Written with Barbara Holloway Exhibition review Joe Blow: A very erotic art exhibition by Jo Ernst Adam and Eve Gallery Canberra December 1993
Art & the Feminist Project
Surviving the first 12 months: Swing Bridge Art Gallery Dunally
Art & the Feminist Project
Printmaking and Optimism
Exhibition review I'sland (I'l)n. Exhibition of prints Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania 23 December - 2 January 1994
Art & the Feminist Project
Far Beyond First Impressions
Order Australis Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania August 1993.
Art & the Feminist Project
A Woman's Story: Hunting Grounds
Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia 5 November - 10 December 1993
Art & the Feminist Project
Modest Perfection
Bunbury Regional Galleries November 1993
Art & the Feminist Project
Revelations of a decade
Tangerine Dreams: a matter of Western Australian Style 1970 - 1980 Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery University of Western Australia
Art & the Feminist Project
Memories of a Nebula
Fountain installation by Derek Kreckler Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide South Australia 2-24 December 1993 and 11-23 January 1994
Art & the Feminist Project
Different Dreaming
Lap : an installation view. Keitha Phelps Five Different Homes. Louise Haselton Contemporary Art Centre 19 November- 12 December 1993
Art & the Feminist Project
More Light (Goethe's last words)
Craig Andrae Miscellaneous Remarks Contemporary Art Centre Adelaide, South Australia 3 September - 3 October 1993
Art & the Feminist Project
Reaffirming Identity
Fab art: Works by Kerry Giles (Kurwingie) Gallerie Australis Adelaide South Australia 23 November - December 1993
Art & the Feminist Project
En-Gendering Resistance: Opening Moves with Game Girl
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
Art & the Feminist Project
Delayed Voyage: George Popperwell
Exhibition review George Popperwell: Recent Works Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide, South Australia September 25 - October 8 1992
Film & Video
The Pure and The Impure: Shaun Kirby
Exhibition review Cultic Gloss: Shaun Kirby Contemporary Art Centre Adelaide, South Australia October 23 - November 24 1992
Film & Video
Colonial Patterns Repeated: Robert Harrison
Exhibition review Architecture without Walls Robert Harrison University of South Australia Art Museum 10 September - 3 October 1992
Film & Video
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
Film & Video
Come Again: Aldo Lacobelli
Exhibition review Souvenirs Aldo Iacobelli Experimental Art Foundation South Australia 22 October - 15 November 1992
Film & Video
Journey by Proxy
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
Film & Video
A Golden Threat: Feminisms
Exhibition review Feminisms Curated by Niki Miller Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Western Australia November 1 - 28 1992
Film & Video
Transformation of the Real: Constantine Koukias and Ann Wulff
Review To Traverse Water IHOS Opera Hobart, Tasmania Constantine Koukias and Ann Wulff
Film & Video
Floral Tributes: The Flower
Exhibition review The Flower Curated by Paul Zika Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts Hobart Tasmania
Film & Video
Blue Bush, Blue Sky and Silver
Book review Blue Bush, Blue Sky and Silver Guide to artists and galleries of Broken Hill.
Naive & Outsider Art
The Dictionary of Australian Artists
Book review The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870 Edited by Joan Kerr Oxford University Press Melbourne RRP $200
Naive & Outsider Art
Tivaevae
Book review Tivaevae: Portraits of Cook Island Quilting By Lynnsay Rongokea Photographs John Daley Published Daphne Brussell Assocs Press Wellington New Zealand
Naive & Outsider Art
Self, Image and the Gaze: Anna Platten
Exhibition review Works by Anna Platten: Paintings and Studies 1982 -1992 University of South Australia Art Museum 30 July - 29 August 1992
Naive & Outsider Art
A Room of Their Own
Exhibition review Contemporary jewellery at the Jam Factory Leslie Matthews "Inner Vane" 13 August - 13 September 1992 Cecelia Cmielewski 15 May - 5 June 1992 Jam Factory Adelaide South Australia
Naive & Outsider Art
Desire Caught by the Tail: Jyanni Steffenson
Exhibition review it (ca) speaks...it (ca) sucks. "i(t) too was drag(g)ed into this sub-plot" Installation by Jyanni Steffensen Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide South Australia 6 August - 6 September 1992
Naive & Outsider Art
Arcanum (Extracts from the Archives)
Exhibition review Union Gallery Adelaide University South Australia 19 August - 4 September 1992
Naive & Outsider Art
MFG: A Report on the First Eight Months of Greenaway Art Gallery
Review MFG: A report on the first eight months of Greenaway Art Gallery Opened in March 1992
Naive & Outsider Art
The O/S Experience
Rediscovery: Australian Artists in Europe 1982-1992 Universal Expo Seville June/July 1992 Curator Jonathon Holmes
Naive & Outsider Art
Reflections on Being: Being and Nothingness
Exhibition review Being and Nothingness Works by Bea Maddock Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Launceston August 1992
Naive & Outsider Art
Powder: Four Adelaide Sculptors
Exhibition review Powder: Jam Factory Bullring Adelaide South Australia October 1990
10th Birthday Issue
Breaking the Toy
Exhibition review Zerospace at the Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide South Australia 1990
10th Birthday Issue
A Lyrical Containment: Sculpture by Nicole Page-Smith
Exhibition review Nicole Page-Smith Tony Oliver Gallery Melbourne Victoria
10th Birthday Issue
Art and Architecture Thesaurus
Book review Art and Architecture Thesaurus: Toni Peterson (director) New York: Oxford University Press Published on behalf of the Getty Art History and Information program 1990 Set of three volumes ISBN0-19-506403 -8
10th Birthday Issue
The Crafts Come of Age
Book review The Crafts Movement in Australia: a history University of NSW Press $79.95
Thinking Craft, Crafting Thought
Tasdance in Silk
Exhibition review Greg Leong Launceston Country Club Tasmania
Thinking Craft, Crafting Thought
Anne Newmarch - Superimpositions
Exhibition review Superimposition Ann Newmarch Prospect Gallery Adelaide South Australia 23 February - 22 March 1992
Thinking Craft, Crafting Thought
...But Never by Chance..., Skin and From Women
Exhibition review ...but never by chance (eroticism) editor/curator Linda Marie Walker Exhibitors Jennifer Hamilton, Melanie Howard, Bronia Iwanczak, Sheridan Kennedy, Rosemary Laing, Rosslund Piggott, Carol Rudyard Skin Curators Annette Bezor, Julianne Pierce, Exhibitors Maria Kozic, Jan Nelson, Sally Smart, Josie Starrs Contemporary Art Centre Adelaide South Australia May 1 - 31 1992 From Women Curator Vivonne Thwaites Exhibitors Maria Cruz, Michele Elliot, Nicole Page-Smith, Lucia Tancredi Artspace Adelaide Festival Centre 10 April - 23 May 1992
Thinking Craft, Crafting Thought
Hossein Valamanesh Recent Work
Exhibition review Hossein Valamanesh: Recent Work Greenaway Gallery Adelaide South Australia 3 May - 3 June 1992
Thinking Craft, Crafting Thought
Contemporary Gipsland Artists
Exhibition review Contemporary Gippsland Artists A touring exhibition initiated by the LaTrobe Valley Arts Centre Morwell Victoria University of South Australia Art Museum 9 April - 8 May 1992
Thinking Craft, Crafting Thought
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