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Unchain my Art: Notes on the role of myths and preconceptions in shaping perceptions of women's art

This article notes the role of myths and preconceptions in shaping perceptions of womens art. In framing art reputations in Australia, the most disputed and uneasy component is gender. Peers looks at the 1970s feminist art movement which was important for providing the blueprint for an ongoing understanding of art as an interrogative gesture and the works of women artists such as Grace Cossington-Smith, Stella Bowen, Joy Hester, Clarice Beckett, Janine Burke, Kiffy Rubbo, Margaret Preston, Hilda Rix Nicholas, A.M.E. Bale, Margaret Olley, Meg Benwell, Judy Perrey and Anne Marie Graham.

Juliette Peers

Frank Bauer Goes Public

German born artist Frank Bauer was raised on the philosophy that art, design and industry could work together to achieve a more visually coherent and democratic society. Over the past thirty years he has produced a huge body of work in metal, which includes jewellery, hollow ware, furniture and lighting. Through this text Fairlamb focuses on Bauers wind sculptures, exhibited at the Powerhouse Museum and JamFactory, which stand over four metres high and bring together his considerable knowledge of balance, precision engineering and sculptural metal work.

Gail Fairlamb

Asher Bilu: Doing Business with the Cosmic

From the beginning, Asher Bilus work has had two loci of concentration: the mystery of matter, its structures, boundaries and possibilities, and Mystery itself, space, sound, reverberations of the invisible, the very universe. Bilu takes on the physical demands of his experiments like a workman, he manipulates them like a technician. This article examines Bilus art practice from his early days as a migrant in Australia and winner of the prestigious Blake Prize to his recent work the Infinity Series.

Heather Ellyard

Beyond Mertz and Whitechapel: 'contemporary' Australian Modernism

Furby raises the issues of women artists role in Australian society and the considerable lack of recognition for this minority. The radical art group, the Contemporary Art Society (CAS), which was founded in Victoria in 1938 to counter attack academic art and to foster original and creative contemporary art, had its majority as women artists. The works of Mirka Mora, Erica McGilchrist, Nancy Borlase, Elsa Russell, Jacqueline Hick and Barbara Robertson are included in this discussion.

Paula Furby

The Art of Living Dangerously: Victor Meertens

Documents the life and work of Victor Meertens: his journey to Europe where he became inspired by the work of the early Flemish painters and Grunewalds Isenheim Altarpiece (c.1505-1510), his involvement with the Third Australian Sculpture Triennial and the Australian Biennale 1988, his various solo shows and other notable achievements within the contemporary Australian art scene of the late 20th century.

Jonathan Holmes

Public Art Boom in Western Australia: It is the edges that make it interesting

The difficulties of public art are universally acknowledged - they are the same across state and national borders and usually result in compromised solutions - however if they are to be considered more as collaborative efforts between artist and community rather than works of 'art' the outcomes become interesting. Millers article addresses this notion through a discussion of recent Western Australian public art programs and in particular the achievements of ArtSource, an employment agency for visual artists. Key figures in this text are Brian McKay, Ahmad Abas, Tony McClure, Jon Tarry, John Elkington, Linnea Glatt and Michael Singer.

Nikki Miller

Space adventures: Collaborations in public art and urban design in Victoria

Local government bodies in Victoria are demonstrating a range of approaches to the development of public art in urban design with recent project examples indicating new possibilities between artists, residents, designers, architects, business and even neighbouring councils. The Skewed Arch example in the City of Yarra is one discussed along with the works of Inge King, Chris Perk, Diane Mantzaris, David Davies, Alistair Knox, Ian Sinclair and Jackie Straude.

Andy Miller

Heroism in the Public Domain

The two most heroic commitments to public art in Australia since Parliament House, Canberra, are for the refurbishment of the Sydney International Airport and the Olympic 2000 Homebush Bay site. These aspirations are eloquently expressed in forms and structures that are surprising , beautiful and of varying quality. The Airport Project features the work of Michael Riley, Robyn Backen, Ron Smith, Kerry Clare, Lindsay Clare, Brook Andrew and Fiona McDonald. Those included in the Homebush Bay Project are Peter Cripps, Terri Bird, Ari Purhonen, Neil Dawson, Paul Carter, Ruark Lewis, Janet Laurence, James Carpenter, Elizabeth Gower and Robert Owen.

Tempe MacGowan

Interview with Peter Sellars: Architecture, Adelaide Festival and Organic Oranges

Urban ecologist and architect Paul Downton interviewed 2002 Telstra Adelaide Festival Director Peter Sellars and Associate Director Cathy Woolcock about urban design and ecology and the attempts to create a shift from the idea of 'ownership' to 'participation' between people and the urban and natural environments. This feature also weaves in comments by Bert Flugelman, Judith Brine and Francesco Bonarto about the way they are prepared to express their feelings about their city and the way it looks and feels.

Paul Downton

Will we get real artist's moral rights?

With the recent boom being enjoyed by public art in Australia, the issue of moral rights legislation has become more pressing. It was in recognition of the power differential between most artists and the users of their work that Australia became a signatory to an international agreement, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works designed to redress the imbalance. Some of the clauses and conditions of this legislation are briefly discussed.

Tamara Winikoff

Gateway to Adelaide: The Process, The Result

Undertaken by Transport SA from 1996 until 2000, the Adelaide-Crafers Highway project resulted in major route reconstruction along a 10 km section of the Prince Highway. This has resulted in artist/ designer/ architect collaborations for the production of three major walls, elements of paving, bus stops and two bus shelters, a water feature and a freestanding sculptural piece. Artists and architects included in the project are George Popperwell, Greg Healey, Tony Bishop, Marijana Tadic, Neil Cranney, Mark Butcher and Rob Williams.

Ruth Fazakerley

A far cry from waiting room wallpaper: Ian North's The Intelligence of Blood

Adelaides newest art commission has recently been installed in the Department of Surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital: The Intelligence of Blood, a challenging work by Ian North. The painting is large, about six metres wide and almost two metres high and abounds with references to surgery, blood, medicine and much more.

Catherine Speck

Texas: Artists Move in on Project Row House

A tidy little row of identical white houses, glowing in the Texas sun, has become the unlikely home of a cutting-edge experiment in public art. Seven houses are for artists installations, while another seven of the houses have been modernized and furnished for young, single mothers and their children. This text discusses the works of artists Vicki Meeks, Tracy Hicks, Radcliffe Bailey, Pat Ward Williams, Natalie Lovejoy, Joseph Havel, Fred Wilson, Shahzia Sikander, Nari Ward, Chen Zhen, Jens Haaning, Annette Lawrence, Deborah Grotfeldt and Rick Lowe.

Nancy Bless

Melbourne's Public Art goes Temporary

The City of Melbourne has made some sweeping changes to its public art strategy that focus on the town hall as a place where public and government meet; an essentially civic space open to the scrutiny of its citizenry. Examples of such change are indicated by Fiona Foleys Lie of the Land installation, Town Hall Transformed by Melbourne artist Ian de Gruchy, a collaborative piece by construction / performance group Bambuco which created a stage for two performances by the Five Angry Men collective entitled Bells. Holt discusses.

Richard Holt

Wendy Mills in the Mall: The 'Water Table'

Wendy Mills was invited in November 1998 to design an artwork that would engage, intrigue, amuse or challenge but not intentionally outrage members of the public. This article discusses Mills piece On This Auspicious Occasion and the ongoing challenges faced during its creation and thereafter.

Michele Helmrich

Stafford and Staff: Queensland's Public Art Agency

Morrell examines the recent structural developments which have taken place at and around the precinct of Brisbanes Roma Street Transit Centre. Under Queenslands Art Built-in policy approximately $1.4 million was proposed to be spent on works of art to feature in the new precinct. Morrell was the public art curator for the Roma Street project and this article developed out of conversations held with the Public Art Agencys Executive Program Officer John Stafford.

Timothy Morrell

Signage to Confuse and Amuse

Richard Tippings installation Signs Signed was in Munichs Salvatorplatz during August 1999. Twenty two reflective signs were placed in the square and streets around the Literaturhaus as a part of the Piazza installation art project, curated by Art Circolo. This feature includes images of Tippings Signs with accompanying text.

Richard Tipping

Polemic: GO BACK You Are Going the Wrong Way

Brook breaks this argument down into sub categories: The rationale of the art history museum, The cabinet of curiosities, Evolution, Cultural evolution, Art as the source of memetic variation and The cultural museum.

Donald Brook

Why You Should Join VISCOPY Now!

While the eyes of many artists glaze over at the mention of copyright, the explosion in use of visuals in communication means that artists creating those images need to be well-informed and well-represented in copyright issues. Mark Ferguson spoke with VISCOPYs new Chairman, Adelaide photographer Mark Fitz-Gerald, about the role of VISCOPY and the developing awareness amongst visual arts and craftspeople of the importance of copyright royalties.

Mark Ferguson

Auctions and Copyright: Moratorium

Recent auctions held by Christie's, Sotherby's and Deutscher-Menzies have clearly demonstrated that the market is now looking towards artists in their fifties and even younger. The relationship between artists and auction houses is here discussed with reference to artists Juan Davila, Charles Blackman, Imants Tillers, Mandy Martin, John Wolseley, Howard Arkley, Lloyd Rees, Emily Kngwarray, Lin Onus and groups Desart, Balgo Artists and Utopia Arts.

Paul Greenaway

Success, Excellence and Iconoclasm

Stephanie Britton

Vis.Arts.Online

Ruth Fazakerley

Letters to the Editor

Noris Ioannou

Editor's Note: Sculpture

This special issue does not attempt to be a national survey of sculpture. It has focussed on various centres and given others less attention, partly to balance previous material in earlier issues of Artlink of which the following are notes by way of summary.

Stephanie Britton

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

A Fact, A Question

Sculpture is not like painting because it is not flat and does not raise the question of mimesis in the same way. A theory of sculpture must therefore be, somewhere at its deep foundations, different from a theory of painting. Not just a bit different: a lot different.

Donald Brook

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Spatial Shamanism

It is a brief sober guide to certain spatial (and therefore sculptural) behaviours as initially identified and described by Bronte Edwards, Commander in Chief of the Art Army.

David Hansen

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: 1975 Destablising Old Canons

...It was therefore inevitable that by 1975 Tom McCullough's Mildura Sculpturescape would attract an increasing number of artists doing installation, process, earth and other forms of art that emerged when sculpture, as it were, left the pedestal, moved around the room and went outside.

Noel Sheridan

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: An Enchanted Garden

1993 is the 20th annniversary of Sculpturscape '73 an outdoor exhibition that happened in Mildura, a small city on the Victorian side of the Murray River, distant from the state capitals of eastern Australia.

Tom McCullough

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Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: McCullough and Performance

The Mildura Sculpture Triennials directed by Tom McCullough seemed the liveliest and most ennjoyable art events held anywhere in Australia...

Daniel Thomas

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Australian Humour in Sculpture

Does each country, race and cultural group have a particular sense of humour? And if so, is it possible to define their specific characteristics?

Ken Scarlett

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Sculpture Flourishes in Western Australia

This article is about sculpture in Western Australia and how efforts have been made in the recent past to establish the nature of its practice and the identity of its practitioners.

Robyn Taylor

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Women Sculptors - A New Bread

You could say that much of the most interesting and demanding artwork being done today is being done by women....There are many new languages in the work of contemporary women sculptors. Important overview of the Mildura Sculpture Triennials in terms of women's representation. Great photos!

Stephanie Radok

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Dimensions - Ground Painting in Papunya

Extensive examination of the women's ground painting created at Tandanya (National Aboriginal Cultural Centre) for the Adelaide Festival in 1990.

Richard (Dick) Kimber

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

New Sculpture in Papua New Guinea

Re-evaluation of the current position of artworks from Papua New Guinea looking particularly at sculpture.

Susan Cochrane

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Dancing Sulka Masks

Examination of the role of dance masks in Papua New Guinea culture. The author was in the area to invite 2 Sulka men to Adelaide to dance hemlaut and susu masks at the Pacific Arts Symposium in April 1993. Coloured photos of the dance masks.

Barry Craig

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Richard Dunn: Beyond Dialectics

Minimalism is still misunderstood, not only because its manifestations are so various as to strain the word's usefulness as a blanket term, but more importantly because it stood at the confused fissure between modernism and post-modernism; from this stems the lively contradictory implications of Richard Dunn's art practice.

Ian North

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Melbourne

With commissions over the past year at Southgate, the Great Southern Stand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the Swanston Walk and others, Melbourne's image is undergoing change. Renowned for its Victorian buildings and innumerable memorial sculptures of kings, queens, politicians and military leaders, Melbourne is now seeing contemporary sculpture in unexpected places. (Ken Scarlett)

Simeon Kronenberg

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Sydney

Tony Bond, artistic director of the recent Sydney Biennale suggests that since the staging of the first Biennale in 1973 sculpture and other three dimensional art have been actively promoted in Sydney.

Cecily Briggs

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Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Perth

Gomboc Gallery and Sculpture Park is an inspiring example of vision and dedication to an artform within the private enterprise system.

Dorothy Erickson

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In Landscapes and Parks: Lake Districts, Yorkshire, Otterlo

Looks at three locations Grizedale Forest (UK) Yorkshire Sculpture Park (UK) Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller of Otterlo (Netherlands) where one can experience sculpture within the landscape.

Janice Lally

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In Landscapes and Parks: Gasworks Park Melbourne

Looks at the 5 year sculpture development program at the Gasworks 3.46 hectares of open space in Melbourne - close to the city, accessible with strong community focus and an emphasis on contemporary art.

Philippa Burne

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

New Books on Richard Goodwin and Ari Purhonen

Review of new series of critical monographs Edited by Christopher Allen Ari Purhonen Richard Goodwin Australian Artists Series Oliver Freeman Editions 1992 RRP $49.95

Robert Nelson

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

Ceremonial Work in Darwin

Darwin has a burgeoning arts community which produces a unique body of visual art related to festivals and events. Aboriginal culture and proximity to Asia and the Pacific have influenced the work being produced by these artists.

Gwendolyn Broug

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

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

Brenda L Croft

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

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.

Ruth Megaw

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Locations

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

Stephanie Radok

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Gerry Wedd

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

Cath Kenneally

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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

Leon Marvell

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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

Margaret Moore

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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

Nikki Miller

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To the Surface

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

Deborah Wardrop (St Leger)

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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

Peter Hill

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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

Anne Brennan

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CHEMISTRY: Art in South Australia 1990-2000: The Faulding Exhibition

Art Gallery of South Australia 16 September to 5 November 2000

Christopher Chapman

Rhopography

photographs by Joachim Froese SOApBOx Gallery, Brisbane 6-27 September Queensland regional tour 2000-2001

Robyn Daw

Watermarks: Crossings, Carolyn Lewens and Neil Stanyer and Illuminating Evidence, Felicity Spear and Sarah Winfrey

Geelong Art Gallery 11 August - 13 September 2000

Lesley Harding

Talking Together

Lola Greeno (curator), Amanda Baxter (Pilakui), Michelle Brown, Destiny Deacon, Dulcie Greeno, Len Maynard, Nennerpertenenner (Sammy Howard), Francesca Puruntatameri, Thecla Bernadette Puruntatameri University Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston September 2000

Gregory Leong

Hilda Rix Nicholas: Her Life and Her Art by John Pigot

Miegunyah Press (MUP) 2000 ISBN 0 522 848907

Joanna Mendelssohn

Paramor: Lost and found

Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, NSW 9 September - 39 October 2000

Joanna Mendelssohn

Allan Baker, A Survey

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery University of Western Australia, Perth 8 September to 20 October 2000

Margaret Moore

Chiasm; An Enduring Symbol; Objectum; Core

Chiasm - Donna Fulton, Richard Giblet, glamorama, Bevan Honey, Andrew Smith, Ric Spencer An Enduring Symbol - Mark Hummerston Objectum - Mark Cypher Core - Matthew Hunt Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 29 September - 29 October

Philippa O'Brien