May 2010 Issue 229
1 Keeping It Visual: The Studio-based PhD: PETER HILL
Yvette Watt, Second Sight series, 2008/8, gicleé print on Hahnemuehle photo rag paper, 65 x 58cm; clockwise from top left: sheep, cow, chicken, pig
2 gone in no time: KEN BOLTON
Nick Selenitsch in limbo. Photograph by Nick Selenitsch
3 9 shots 5 stories: IAN McLEAN
Imants Tillers, The nine shots, 1985, acrylic and oilstick on 91 canvasboards; overall 330 x 266cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of the artist, 2008
This is the second part of an essay which began life in a conference paper at the 2nd Imagined Australia conference, Bari, Italy, in June 2009, and the Daphne Mayo lecture, University of Queensland, September 2009. The first part (including the first two stories, ‘From beginning to end’ and ‘The story’) is published in AMA #228, April 2010
4 The Quick and the Dead: AMBER NAISMITH
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Conversation I, 2005, video installation, 5 videos, duration 12 minutes. Dimensions variable. Photograph by Eeakarach Prangchaikul. Courtesy the artist by arrangement with 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok
5 Beauty: nature and art: MARK DOBER
Julia Morison, Myriorama #6 Wayzgoose, Configuration #4, 2010, laser jet print, Indian ink wash, gesso, aluminium/polyurethane laminate: 6 panels, 60 x 80cm each. Image courtesy of the artist and Two Rooms Auckland, New Zealand. Julia Morison is one of several New Zealand artists who will be showing in the 17th Biennale of Sydney
6 Melbourne
John Nixon, Portrait of Jenny Watson, c. 1980, Polaroid photograph. © Courtesy John Nixon
7 Hopper’s Imaginary Line: MELISSA AMORE
Dennis Hopper, Self-portrait (Within a Man of Light, there is only Light; Within a Man of Darkness, there is only Darkness), 1997, digital inkjet printing, transparency and lightbox. Image courtesy Linda and Jerry Janger. © Dennis Hopper
8 Albert Tucker: The Intruder – The Perfect Allegory: IVAN DURRANT
Albert Tucker, Cannibal Pearce, 1968
9 Weaving of country lost in translation: the problem of exhibiting environmental art: TAMSIN KERR
Jan Dunlop, wardrobe for and of the rainforest
10 Cecile Williams: Contained: NALDA SEARLES
Cecile Williams, Greta’s Garden (detail), 2010, found and recycled plastics
11 Controversy & acclaim: 60 years of the Mosman Art Prize: JEREMY ECCLES
Lucy Culliton, Still Life / White Ground, 2000, oil on board, 120 x 120cm, From the Collection of Mosman Art Gallery Mosman Council. Images courtesy the artists
12 Quixotic Pursuit: Tim Miller’s Sundown: PATTI MILLER
Tim Miller, 19.2.09, pastel on paper, 12 x 17cm. Courtesy the artist and Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
13 Not the void exactly: Species of Spaces: JOHANNES KLABBERS
Melissa Laing, borderline, 2008, video loop on DVD
14 Madrid and the essential youthfulness of art: MATTHIAS KRUG
Crowds gather in front of the Picasso’s Guernica at the Reina Sofia museum
15 Letter from London: JOHN CONOMOS
Richard Hamilton, Shock and Awe, 2007-08. Inkjet print on Hewlett-Packard Premium canvas 200 x 100cm. © 2010 Richard Hamilton
16 Letter from Auckland Triennial: GENEVIEVE O’CALLAGHAN
Michael Stevenson, On How Things Behave (video still), 2010, HD and 16mm transferred to DVD, 16:9 ratio, colour, sound, 15:43min, commissioned by Objectif exhibitions, Antwerp and the 4th Auckland Triennial. Image courtesy the artist and Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
17 Letters to the Editor
Re-thinking Literacy
If there is something distinctly Aboriginal in NOT learning to write, in NOT working, in NOT attending school and in refusing to become ‘like whitefellas’ as Jennifer Biddle writes (‘Art under Intervention: the radical ordinary of June Walkutjukurr Richards’, AMA #227, March 2010, pp. 35-37), then these Australian Aboriginals are truly destined for ‘wretched extinction’ as Captain James Cook originally predicted
Ian Bernadt. March 2010
Read more: pp. 62-63 AMA #129
