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Author: Dr Juliet Peers, feature
Far from having no past, Australian women now confront many pasts, provided by both commercial and public galleries. Publications and exhibitions centreing upon women's art especially of pre-1945 vintage have proliferated since c.1991-1992.
Any consideration of women's art in Australia, contemporary or historic, must take into account this renewed emphasis upon exhibiting and promoting historic women's art. I append a considerable list of various events and publications.
Here is an interesting shift in curatorial philosophies since the 1980s. Women had no stated prominence in the major exhibitions generated by "official" celebrations of the Bicentennial. (1) Excellent pieces by various women were seen in Creating Australia, The Artist and the Patron or The Face of Australia, for example, but women's art practice was not a central or exclusive issue for any of these shows.
History, rediscovering, 'taking back' women's 'lost heritage', had been a staple of 1970s feminism. An article in Lip on the 1978 exhibition Women's Images of Women vividly documents the philosophies and emotions that forged 1970s 'feminist' art history. (2) Beyond the affirmations a certain tension arose between mainstream definitions and use of historic art and the independent curators/artists/feminists' search for 'founding mothers'.
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All articles from this issue of Artlink
- Artrave: Artrave
- Book review: Sight Lines
- Feature: A View from the Other Side - Five Women West Australian Artists
- Feature: Bush Women: Narrative Paintings from Outback Western Australia
- Feature: Fatal Attractions: Women and Technology: Norma Wight, Edite Vidins and Lyndall Milani
- Feature: Filipina Migranteng Manggagawa: Feminism, Art and Advocacy in the Philippines
- Feature: HER-ESIES Ancient and Modern
- Feature: Image Bank: The Feminist Project
- Feature: Jillian Davey: Stories on Canvas
- Feature: Knocking on the Inside: Heather Ellyard, Annette Bezor, Janette Moore and Anna Platten
- Feature: Making (A) Difference: Suffrage Year Celebrations and the Visual Arts in New Zealand
- Feature: Nola Farman: The Challenge Continues
- Feature: Re-orienting Feminism in Aotearoa
- Feature: Sadomaschism, Art and the Lesbian Sexual revolution
- Feature: Shedding Skins: Identity and 'Lesbian' Art Practice
- Feature: Someday, Somewhere - Women and Nation in International Art
- Feature: Speaking the Ineffable: New Directions in Performance Art
- Feature: The Art World: More Than a Foothold
- Feature: The Changing Face of Australian Women
- Feature: The Engagement of the Personal
- Feature: The Horror of the Prose: Some Reflection on a Paper entitled The Horror of the Gaze
- Feature: The Price of Liberty
- Feature: Trapped in Paradise - Some Women Artists in Tasmania
- Feature: Update: Projects of Women and Art
- Feature: What Should We Do With The 'Women and Art' Elective?
- Feature review: Nourishment for Tough Times: Bring A Plate Conference
- Review: A Woman's Story: Hunting Grounds
- Review: Bad Girls: Institute of Contemporary Art London
- Review: Different Dreaming
- Review: En-Gendering Resistance: Opening Moves with Game Girl
- Review: Far Beyond First Impressions
- Review: Memorial to the Survivors
- Review: Memories of a Nebula
- Review: Modest Perfection
- Review: More Light (Goethe's last words)
- Review: Porn Shop Art Adventures
- Review: Printmaking and Optimism
- Review: Reaffirming Identity
- Review: Revelations of a decade
- Review: Surviving the first 12 months: Swing Bridge Art Gallery Dunally
- Review: The Amazingness of Women to JUST DO IT
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