August 2008 Issue 212
1 Captain Cook’s Eye-patch: KATRINA SCHLUNKE
Lines in the Sand: Botany Bay Stories from 1770, exhibition installation view Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, with right: Daniel Boyd, Captain No Beard, 2006; left: E. Phillips Fox, Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay, 1902; adjacent left: Daniel Boyd, We Call Them Pirates Out Here, 2006; centre: Daniel Boyd, Untitled (installation with model ship), 2006. Image courtesy Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
2 Storylines in Tasmania: VIVIEN JOHNSON
Bangarra Dance Theatre dancers Elma Kris and Patrick Thaiday in a scene from the company’s current production Mathinna. Image courtesy Bangarra Dance Theatre. Photograph by Jeff Busby. Choreographed by Bangarra’s Artistic Director Stephen Page, Mathinna is based on the life of Mathinna (1835 - 1856), a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman tragically caught ‘between two cultures’. Mathinna is currently showing at the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House until August 23, 2008
3 hand in hand: sexy and dangerous: DANIEL BROWNING
Shigeyuki Kihara performs Taualuga: the last dance at the Boomali opening of hand in hand, with Darrell Sibosado’s mural, Untitled, 2008 in the background. Image courtesy Jenny Fraser
4 Be True to Yourself: HOLLY-MAE EMERSON
David Rosetzky, Nothing like this, 2007, still from 16mm film transferred to DVD, Courtesy the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
5 Bibliomania: The Paintings of Victoria Reichelt: JESSICA BERRY
Victoria Reichelt, Collapse, 2007, oil on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne
6 (When you wake) you’re still in a dream: RYSZARD DABEK
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, The Murder of Crows, 2008, sound and mixed-media installation with audio speakers, amplifiers, computer, electronics, miscellaneous media, 30 mins, installation view in 16th Biennale of Sydney 2008 at Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay. Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna for the 2008 Biennale of Sydney. Courtesy the artists; Luhring Augustine, New York; and Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin. Photograph by Greg Weight
7 Gotcha ... under my skin: eX de Medici
Installation view with (left to right) Helmet, 2006 and Helmet’s Skull, 2006, watercolour on paper. First exhibited as part of the WHO CARES? group exhibition, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, 21 February to 24 March 2006. Courtesy the artist and Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
8 Transcendence in Sam Jinks’s Still Life: Pietà JACQUI DURRANT
Sam Jinks, Still Life, Pietà, 2007, mixed media, silicon, fibreglass, human hair. Courtesy the artist and Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
9 Brian Njinawanga Campion (c.1934 – 2008): DR CHRISTIANE KELLER & LUDGER DINKLER
Brian Njinawanga Campion, Malnyangarnak Story, 1978, natural ochres on bark. Collection National Gallery of Victoria. Courtesy the artist’s estate
10 Letters
‘Nude Girl Art Outrage’ In the interest of facilitating some debate around the issue of children as subjects in art, AMA publishes some of the letters in response to both the controversy related to the July edition’s cover image and the broader issue
11 Conversations with a Crow: Karla DickenS: DJON MUNDINE
Karla Dickens, Forever in my arms, 2007, mixed media on canvas. Images courtesy the artist
12 Julie Dowling: Eegarra Beearaba (To Arise from Sorrow): PATRICK HUTCHINGS
Julie Dowling, Amazing Grace, 2008, acrylic on canvas. Melbourne
13 The Laverty Collection of Indigenous art in print and on exhibition: JEREMY ECCLES
Beyond Sacred: Recent Paintings from Australia’s remote Aboriginal communities, Edited by Colin & Elizabeth Laverty Published by Hardie Grant Books rrp $120
