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ART MONTHLY
AUSTRALIA
August 2010 #232
Bountiful OzPacifica Issue
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3 Editorial
5 Artful Dodger: The ‘Big Island’ in the Pacific
PAMELA ZEPLIN
11 Asia-Pacific or Asia-Specific?
TIMOTHY MORRELL
15 The Curator in a Sea of Islands: Giles Peterson’s Niu Pasifik
BILLIE LYTHBERG
21 Making Waves in the Torres Strait
SIMON WRIGHT
25 ‘Living Art’ – a work in progress
SUSAN COCHRANE
33 Cook Islands Art NOW
JACQUI DURRANT
38 Wherever it is that we want to go: John Pule’s painting, 1990–2010
NICHOLAS THOMAS
45 Navigating ‘Austronesia’: Contemporary indigenous art from Taiwan and the Pacific
SOPHIE McINTYRE
49 Arts Dock 4th Melanesian Arts Festival, Nouméa
HENRI GAMA (translation by Regis Martin)
51 The Crux of the Matter: Manipulating Cultural Property in Aboriginal Rights Debates
JANE RAFFAN
56 Pacific Storms: beyond sunsets and leis
PRISCA CHANT
58 Just Like Home: Suburban Realities and the Art of Lisa Hilli
TORIKA BOLATAGICI
60 The Culture of Adornment: Materiality in the work of Chantal Fraser and Maryann Talia Pau
KELLEE UHR
62 Eric Bridgeman
BALA STARR
64 Sam Tupou: the tapa treatment
DAVID BROKER
66 Torika Bolatagici and the Big Picture
MAURICE O’RIORDAN
68 Krishna Nahow-Ryall: Blakbird
IMELDA MILLER
72 Putting the pieces together: Pacific Arts at the National Gallery of Australia
MAURICE O'RIORDAN with CRISPIN HOWARTH
74 Pallingjang Saltwater
GENEVIEVE O'CALLAGHAN
76 Just an Ordinary Boy: Gary Lee’s On the Verge
JACQUI DURRANT
78 Mari Funaki 1950–2010
MARIAN HOSKING
79 Artnotes
86 Letter from Art Basel
GENEVIEVE O'CALLAGHAN
96 Opportunity Knocks + Stop Press
Eric Bridgeman, Wilma Jr, (Blacky), from the series The Sport and Fair Play of Aussie Rules, 2008-09, inkjet print on silver rag paper, 140 x 120cm. Image courtesy the artist. This photograph is part of Eric Bridgeman's selection of work showing as a finalist in the 2010 Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, 6 August to 7 November 2010: www.sellersartprize.com.au
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