How do the visual arts and other disciplines throw light on the changing cultural meanings of drought? Please see below the link to a public panel discussion on this topic featuring artist-in-residence Yaseera Moosa together with Parched team members Jacqueline Millner and Karen Twigg. The panel was held at the Mildura Art Centre on 24 […]
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1 June 2024. In an article in Garland Magazine, Jacqueline Millner reveals what artist residencies can tell us about the lived culture of drought. The full article can be read at the following link: https://garlandmag.com/article/parched/ (Image: Ponch Hawkes, WIP for Emotional Language of Drought 2023-24)
Still Life: The Food Bowl (2011) by Ken and Julia Yonetani forms part of the Mildura Art Centre’s (MAC) collection of contemporary art. It is a sculptural installation featuring a life-size produce-laden table. The work emerged from a three-month residency the artists undertook in Mildura in 2010 as part of the arts festival Palimpsest, sponsored
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Story: This rather cringeworthy poem and illustration (Argus, 16 May 1938, p. 14) takes the frequent Mallee duststorms of the 1930s as an opportunity to reinforce gender stereotypes. The girl child’s fruitless attempts to dust her doll’s house mirror her mother’s battle with duststorms, but the diminutive poem, like the toy house, minimise the global
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When the district was first set up, we had a water right. That is, we had X amount of water that we were provided by right for the property. As time went by, that was changed by government … where we don’t have the right anymore. We have a license and that license figure relies
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