Saturday 19 January 2019

Research links for second Portico Library exhibition

Paul Daley The Guardian 'flawless hero or bogeyman'

Shayne Williams on the arrival 1770


Parkinson, Sydney, 1745?-1771. Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771 :View of an arched rock on the coast of New Zealand with an hippa, or place of retreat, on the top of it. S. Parkinson del; J. Newton sc. London, 1784. Plate XXIV.. Ref: PUBL-0037-24. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22867534

Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771 :View of an arched rock on the coast of New Zealand with an hippa, or place of retreat, on the top of it. S. Parkinson del; J. Newton sc. London, 1784. Plate XXIV.
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22867534?search%5Bi%5D%5Bname_authority_id%5D=-79612&search%5Bpath%5D=items

Tuesday 15 January 2019

Sunday 13 January 2019

Lock Hospitals

Bernier and Dorre Islands, 50km off Carnarvon, Western Australia
1908 -1919
Acknowledgement ceremony marking 100 years since last person removed from the islands and hospitals closed
ABC Lock hospital article with video
'Between 1908 and 1919, more than 800 Aboriginal men, women and children were removed from their homelands across Western Australia and taken to 'lock hospitals' on Bernier and Dorre Islands for treatment for suspected venereal diseases. Many never returned home.'

Wednesday 9 January 2019

queer, privilege, whiteness

challenging the 'Normative of queer is white person'  https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2014.849165

“The Normative Idea of Queer is a White Person”: Understanding Perceptions of White Privilege Among Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women of Color in Toronto, Canada
Carmen H. Logie & Marie-Jolie Rwigema
Pages 174-191 | Published online: 18 Mar 2014

making queer art 2014

on the shores of queer theory, borderlands 2009

Australian Humanities Review

Aust Hums Review Link uncanny objects

perplexed - still

think about this one by Morgan Meiss and write back - 'perplexed' by art, is it modern or ancient... is that even a question nowadays?

A M Fernando

Human Rights protestor
The Lone Protestor: A M Fernando in Australia and Europe
Fiona Paisley review by DR Oliver Haag

Saturday 5 January 2019

Herbert Mayer

Herbert Mayer
Records relating to World House Galleries in New York, est. 1953. Closed 1968.World House Galleries was founded by Herbert Mayer, Sr. The gallery represented an eclectic group of artists from Austria, France, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Greece, Norway, Spain, and Sweden.

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
Link to catalogue

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