Archive for October, 2009

As recently as fifty years ago, Australia was pursuing a policy that actively sought to remove Aboriginal people from their traditional lands, separate family groups and thereby prevent the inheritance of cultural knowledge, rites, language and religion. The incremental reversal of this policy has been a long time coming and events like the Cairns Indigenous [...]

Amidst the crippling shortage of inner-city studio space currently being suffered in Western Australia, Fremantle Arts Centre has been providing relief in the form of a residency program being run from a small studio in its picturesque grounds.

This initiative is proving critical in allowing early and mid-career artists to produce less commercial, exploratory works that [...]