revisiting my archive
The current national and international attention on women artists prompted me to plumb my archive where I found this 1994 commentary on the status of women in photography.
Category Archives: Equity
The Movement of Women 1996
Another piece from my archive
In a previous post I talked ‘gender, journeys and genres (1994).
Another find was The Movement of Women 1996.
International Women’s Day 2023
Enjoying a morning cuppa in a quiet place in our garden — wearing suffragette colours to celebrate International Women’s Day and the legion of awesome women photographers past and present I have encountered in my curatorial career.
The theme this year is #EmbraceEquity. There are so many gains but still so stubborn a gap in equity, is it time for militancy???
Here’s to all of you — enjoy the day wherever you are…
Parting With Your Art — Women:s Art Register
A Guide for Australian Artists
I have uploaded a page about the Women:s Art Register and their very handy publication Leaving Your Legacy: A Guide for Australian Artists.
The guide is a comprehensive starting point — and the organisation is definitely worth supporting. Click here.
Re-constructed Vision
Contemporary work with photography 25th July-23rd August, 1981
Over the recent years I have been searching through my archives for articles and essays that we have since published on our web-site. I had overlooked one exhibition. That was the 1981 Project Gallery exhibition Re-constructed Vision: Contemporary work with photography at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
It is now uploaded to our web site.
On Our Collections
James Jameson circa 1866–84
Comments and observations on a CVD of a nanny and two children — click here
On Our Collections
E. B. Mowll – Portrait
Comments and observations on a striking portrait by the E.B. Mowll Studio — click here
Curators and Photography
Have uploaded to our photo-web site a special section on the first photography curators — Australian that is. We have listed four: Jennie Boddington, Ian North, Gael Newton (me!), and Alan Davies. The listings for Jennie and myself include 1983 interviews by the Australian Centre of Photography. These are very long! (you have been warned)
If you know of any other useful online material on these people, please make contact.
Michael Riley
The elders: Indigenous photography in Australia
The wonders of looking through your own archive. I realised I had not uploaded an essay from 2006 on Michael Riley. Have now — so here’s the link — click here.
Photojournalism by Jessica Lange
The Guardian online presentation
Highway 61 revisited — photographs of this historic route. Click here
Australian Feminist Photography
Indecent Exposures:
Twenty Years of Australian Feminist Photography
My 1994 review of Indecent Exposures: Twenty Years of Australian Feminist Photography by Catriona Moore, Allen & Unwin in association with the Power Institute of Fine Art, Sydney — click here
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For the list of my essays (being updated) click here
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2018
Celebrating a Pioneer of Australian Photojournalism
Celebrating IWD — 8th March 2018
Adelie Hurley (1919–2010) - The first Australian female commercial photojournalist
Coffee in O’Connor
Keeping warm and enjoying a coffee
Time out on a freezing cold morning in Canberra
Anna Gray AM
Queen’s Birthday honour to former NGA curator
As listed: Dr Anne Mary Gray AM
Maggie Diaz photography prize for women
Call for entries
click on image for details — entries close 26 July 2017
FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE OF THE 1970s
till 29 Jan 2017 — Photographers Gallery London — click on image above
Dina Goldstein
Anne Shelton
Ann Shelton opens at Auckland Art Gallery
click on image for news about the photography exhibition 26 Nov 2016–17 April 2017
A creature from our worst nightmare
Image linked from a site by Amy Dickinson — click here
Female Abstract Expressionists
Yes they were there
click here — for a story on the presence of females amongst the abstract expressionists.
Wei Leng Tay—The Other Shore
Click on image for the exhibition details at China In The World (ANU)
Helen Muspratt
Click on image
International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day 2016
Mansplaining a qualification for being a federal bloke
another male federal politician, another of Malcolm Turnbull’s chosen boys, demonstrates how being patronizing to women must be a qualification for being in the Turnbull government.
Continue reading Mansplaining a qualification for being a federal bloke
Witches both mad and bad: a loaded word with an ugly history
From The Conversation, Michelle Smith, Deakin University
Over the weekend, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton inadvertently sent a text message calling journalist Samantha Maiden a “mad f—ing witch” to Maiden herself, rather than his intended recipient, fellow MP Jamie Briggs.
Continue reading Witches both mad and bad: a loaded word with an ugly history
Peace for Paris
Anne Summers reports
August/September 2015 issue available online — click on the image for the reports
Anne Summers Reports
Anne Summers Reports — April/May 2015
Please download Anne’s latest report on many issues — always a good read. And once you have read the reports, see if you can support this publication by becoming a subscriber. Click on image for the link.
Equity at the movies
There’s a way to go yet to achieve equity
I suspect as with climate deniers, there are people who think that the western world has achieved equity for women and for the non-white races.