‘Entities: The Concepts and Post-Object Exhibitions’ exhibition essay
‘Entities’ highlights the work of two, related Adelaide art spaces: the Contemporary Art Society of South Australia (CAS (SA)) and the Experimental Art Foundation (EAF).
Revisiting archival subversions: Artist-collection projects in Australia in the 1990s
This paper seeks to remind us of the pronounced nature of four precursory artist-collection projects involving the work of artists Gordon Bennett, Julie Gough, Leah King-Smith, and Luke Roberts.
Past practices future challenges: Exhibition-making in South Australia
This paper examples the ways exhibition-making is expanding beyond traditional frameworks and aligning with the ambitious objectives described by the discipline’s surrounding discourse.
Achieving Environmental Sustainability in Preventive Conservation Practice: Learning from the National Portrait Gallery, Australia
This paper considers the NPG's measures to increase and maintain environmentally sustainable preventive conservation practices in line with accepted benchmarks and guidelines.
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott exhibition essay
Australia's most celebrated potter. Her works built on the tradition of functional ceramics and bridged the assumed divide between craft and fine art.
Museums Australasia Conference
Notes on ‘Facing the Future: Local, Global and Pacific Possibilities’ Museums Australasia Conference, Auckland New Zealand.
Numerous policies supporting public art in Brisbane has produced a central business district bursting with contemporary art in public places. While some are common sights, the best are nestled in spaces you’d be excused for missing.
'Always, Always, Others: Non-Classical Forays into Modernism' exhibition review
Demonstrating a polyvocal modernism, the exhibition showcases works from the vast Mumok collection with unexpected ends.
Exhibition and conservation: practices for handling and display
Industry accepted practices to enable continued care and access to contemporary and heritage Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collections.
Museums Australia National Conference
Notes on ‘Connecting the Edge: within and beyond the Museum’: Museums Australia Conference, Launceston Tasmania.
Inaccessible public museum and gallery collections
The digital capability exists but our important gallery and museum collections remain largely inaccessible.
The Hermannsburg School exhibition essay
The Hermannsburg Mission was established in 1877 at the base of Mount Hermannsburg,125km west of Alice Springs, NT.
An emancipated woman ahead of her time, Ellis Rowan earned an international reputation as a flower painter, naturalist and adventurer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.