Issue 12
| September 3, 2010
Our Issue 12 cover artist George Gittoes tells of his award-winning career as a painter and documentary maker in the world’s most troubled hotspots. We also meet with feminist icon Deborah Kelly; Tim Maguire unveils his latest foray into film; and Joe Frost discusses bad language in art criticism.
Featuring
George Gittoes
Deborah Kelly
Also Inside
Lara Merrett
Moya Mckenna
Tim Maguire
Penny Byrne
Godwin Bradbeer
Giacomo Costa
Plus Essays, Reviews, News
Joe Frost on Cliched Art Terms
Laura Fischer on Ethics in Indigenous Art
Steve Lopes on Leon Golob


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Carvings have been made for all time by Aurukun men. However, the more recent innovation to emerge from Aurukun are paintings. Vested in Country and...
A stone’s throw from the Illawarra escarpment at Campbelltown Arts Centre, the introduction to Draper’s ecosphere is a gathering of rainbow forms which, as an...
In 1991, Maurice and Katia Krafft died during the Mount Unzen eruption on Japan’s island of Kyushu. Herzog’s documentary does meditate on their deaths and...
Ruby Arrowsmith–Todd started attending the AGNSW film program in its early days as a self-educated, die-hard film fan, immersing herself in the cinematic sea of...
For most painters, tape has a prophylactic function. Stuck temporarily onto a canvas (or a doorframe, for that matter), tape protects what lies beneath or...
Deborah Halpern’s studio is engulfed with works in progress occasionally dispersed with other images and sculptures that illicit happiness. In the vast double window space,...
I recently left my home-studio on the Vaucluse clifftops in Sydney, with the whale and ocean views, and have set up a new studio in...
On a research trip to see the disused Mayday Hills Asylum, where Mike Parr will create his video projection on the exterior of the Birches...