3 Australian Women Exploring the Landscape

Janet Laurence, Trace Elements (exterior view), 1997. Sandstone from demolished buildings and text. View of installation at the National Trust, Sydney, Australia. Australia owes a lot to the international fashion for installation and site-specific art. Under the influence of artists such as Joseph Beuys and Richard Long, this country moved from the representational sculpture characteristic

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Interview with 1st Floor Artists

Artist-run galleries in Australia in the ’70s and ’80s defined themselves as outside the conservative cultural structure. In the ’90s, artists’ spaces like Melbourne’s 1st Floor Gallery manage projects as if they were small businesses, with a high profile usually reserved for commercial galleries.

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