Contemporary Art and Feminism, website masthead

  • Plus clipping includes both Viv Binns and Margaret Smith at Lake Cargelligo with local council members, The Lakes News, Wednesday 20 October 1982. Arts OutWest Archive, Charles Sturt University Bathurst.

  • Margaret Smith possibly hauling the Full Flight Regional Arts Caravan, c 1982-83. Photographer unknown.

Bathurst Symposium

SPEAKERS + TALK

Sarah Gurich
Curator of BRAG http://www.westernadvocate.com.au/story/2972841/out-of-the-storage-and-into-the-spotlight/

Fiona MacDonald
Visual Artist http://www.fiona-macdonald.net/

Gillian Fuller
UNSW National Institute for Experimental Arts, DAAO http://www.niea.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-gillian-fuller

Margaret Smith
Founder of Arts Out West http://artsoutwest.org.au/

Jo Holder and Catriona Moore
Co-convenors FFA, The Cross Arts Projects http://www.crossart.com.au/

PARTICIPANTS

Karen Golland, Kate Hodgkinson, Briony Hodgson, Miranda Samuels, Tracey Sorensen, Vi Turle, Hayley West, Miriam Williamson, Rebecca Wilson, Julie Williams


LINKS + REFERENCES

The ‘Full Flight’ Archive Project: artist Fiona MacDonald in conversation with Catriona Moore, 2016 > Download as pdf
Tracey Callinan, Notes for Feminist Archive about Arts OutWest (AOW), 2015. > Download as pdf
Margaret Smith, Notes for Feminist Archive about Arts OutWest foundation, 2015 > Download as pdf
Eric Riddler Bathurst Artists in AGNSW Archive http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/blog/authors/eric-riddler/  > Download to come


Bronwyn Hanna, Re-gendering the landscape in NSW. Report for he Department of Environment and Conservation.
The report includes a case study of landscape art and imagery associated with Hill End Historic Site. The report carefully considers the particular relationship women have had - and continue to have - with Hill End.
Documents to download: Re-gendering the landscape in New South Wales


PARTICIPATING ARTIST + ARCHIVE

Fiona MacDonald
Working with Vivienne Binns’ Central Western NSW community arts project Full Flight (1981-83), Arts OutWest archives, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

Works: Vivienne Binns, Full flight views of life in the Central Western Region N.S.W., through the creative expression of those that live there, 1982, four colour screen print, 56 x 43 cm
Fiona MacDonald, Full Flight Out West, 2016, artist proof proof for two colour screen print– ed 30, 40 x 57 cm
Fiona MacDonald, Future Feminist Archive – Full Flight Many Hands 1-4, 2015, digital poster print, 81 x 61 cm
Shelf: Full Flight Newsletters 1-9, written by Vivienne Binns, Full Flight, 1981-83



  • (Left) Fiona McDonald, Full Flight Out West, 2016, artist proof for two colour screen print – ed 30, 40 x 57 cm. (Right) Fiona McDonald, Arts Caravan, 1982 and 2016, archival collage and digital print, 2016.