The Artist's Chronicle is a bi-monthly magazine for artists and collectors in Western Australia, providing information for and about artists in a variety of media. The magazine lists current exhibitions, associated suppliers and services to the arts in Western Australia. Articles include current events in the visual arts in Western Australia, as well as the Eastern Australian States, Europe and America with topics from painting to sculpture, printmaking and new release art books.
The Artist's Chronicle includes coverage of the visual arts in the South of the State, as well as in the capital of Perth, and is distributed around the State.
Editorial
at the Holmes à Court Gallery in East Perth, on show until 16 August, which offers a rare opportunity in
this State to see works from contemporary artists living in Tasmania. Organised in conjunction with Bett Gallery in Hobart, the show also highlights issues current to the State.
In another rare opportunity, Selected work of Helen Grey-Smith is on show at Pemberton in September in a retrospective curated by her children. A full catalogue will accompany the exhibition, with an essay by Maggie Baxter, who curated a retrospective of her work at Curtin University in 1987. There are no plans to tour the show.
Third-year students of the Advanced Diploma in Environmental Art and Design at Swan TAFE have devised an enticing Blind Box Sale to raise funds for their end of year graduation exhibition. The interiors of the closed boxes have been created by established and emerging artists, with their contents being revealed to prepaid purchasers by random numbering on the opening night of the exhibition.
We feature National Lifestyle Villages Annual Art Award, this year held in Busselton, and expected to be held in 2010 in Rockingham. We also reveal the Shire of Busselton's exciting cultural plan for the future.
Portraits from a Land without People is one of those iconic books every Australian should have in his/her personal library. The book is the result of an incredible feat of research by John Ogden who viewed literally hundreds of thousands of photographic images since colonisation, before selecting a cohesive group which would honestly represent the story of Indigenous Australians. Joel Smoker presents his early photographic record of the north in The Kimberley Series, and author/illustrator Bruce Mutard is published by Allen and Unwin with The Silence, a punchy, thought-provoking book depicting the often contentious artist/gallery equation in the new genre of the graphic novel.
Lyn DiCiero
Editor