List of Asia-related writing

Looking Outwards; The Need for an Australian International Cultural Agency“, The Arts and Soft Diplomacy; Discovering How to be Australian, The New Platform Papers, Volume 3, Currency House, December 2023, 211-22.

Being Present; Australia in Indonesia“, Artlink, issue 43:1, 2023, 92-5.

The Past is Present: reflecting on 150 years of Chinese art at the National Gallery of Victoria” The Conversation, 2022

‘Where have all you Australians gone?’ Australia’s shrinking role in cultural diplomacy” The Conversation, 2022

Cultural Diplomacy Communicating with Purpose and Value, Asia-Europe Foundation, 2021  (Singapore, 121 pp), 75-84

Women at the height of their artistic powers present a powerful reckoning in SOUL Fury” The Conversation, 2021

Modern art exchanges in Asia – an unlikely beginning?” Art Monthly Australasia, summer 2020-21, 86-91

Ancient rhythms: Shirin Neshat and the dream space that contemporary Persian art can unlock” The Conversation, 2020

APT9: World historyEyeline, 2019, 91:82-6

Chinese art’s role in the hardening of soft diplomacyArtsHub, 16 October 2019

The vexed future of Indonesian art” Indonesia at Melbourne, University of Melbourne, 2019.

Indonesian art is fresh, energetic and lively. Why do we not see more of it?The Conversation, 2019 (Indonesian translation)

A scope as big as humanity can conjure: the Terracotta Warriors & Cai Guo-Qiang” The Conversation, 2019

Three exhibitions in London, Oceania, Turner Prize and new Islamic galleries” Review, ArtsHub, December, 2018

Raden Saleh and Juan Luna in Singapore” Review, Eyeline, June, 2018

“Peter Townsend, Art Monthly and Asia” Art Monthly, #300, August 2017, 48

“Life and Times of the Asia Pacific Triennial” Eyeline, 2016, 85, 46-9

The political and the personal: Australia’s experience in visual arts exchange in Southeast Asia through the 1990s” in The 1990s: The Making of Art with Contemporaries, Art Studies 02, The Japan Foundation Asia Centre, 2016, Tokyo, 66-71

“Korean Heat at the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane” Artlink, vol. 35, # 4, December, 2015, 64-9 (reprinted in The Artro, Platform for Korean Contemporary Art, Seoul, November, 2015)

Ways of thinking culturally in Asia today” in Jo Caust (ed) Arts and Cultural Leadership in Asia, 2015, London: Routledge, Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies, 192-200

People and Partnership: An Australian Model for International Arts Exchanges — The Asialink Arts Program, 1990–2010”, in Michelle Antoinette and Caroline Turner (eds), Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions; Connectivities and World-making, Australian National University Press, Asian Studies Series Monograph 6, 2014, chapter 9 (199-218)

Beyond the material world; abstraction in Asia” Artlink, vol.33, #1, March 2013, 72-5

White paper leaves a blank spot on developing the performing arts’ connection with Asia” Canvas, The Age, 12 November, 2012, 17

We must get serious about our region” Arts, The Australian, 1 November 2012, 17

“‘In my new robe, this morning – someone else’ Some thoughts on the cultural underpinnings of critical discourse in Asia” Art Monthly Australia #250 June 2012, 62-5

(with Carrillo Gantner) “Finding a place on the Asian stagePlatform Paper no.31, (64pp) Currency House, Sydney, April, 2012; part reissued through The Conversation; in The Australian:  “Leaving Asia out of the loop (The Australian 16 04 12) Reviews:  in; The Age (1) , The Age (2)

Australian Art Abroad, doing it b-e-t-t-e-rArtlink, vol.32, #1, (March 2012), 80-1

Asialink Arts: Through the Looking Glass Asialink, May, 2012

Reflections of the soul – Chinese contemporary ink wash paintingArtlink, vol.31, #4, 2011, 89

People, action and working together: Asialink engaging with IndonesiaArt Monthly Australia, # 244, October 2011, 8-11

Paradoxical NeglectAustralian Book Review, July-August, 2011

“Bridging the Gap: Art in Asia 1900-2000” Asian Currents, May 2011, 18-20

Gauguin and the idea of an Asian paradiseAsian Art News, Hong Kong, March-April, 2011, 62-7

Air to life: 20 years in the Australian-Asian arts atmosphere” Art Monthly, November 2010, #235, 5-7

“Circles of connection, or blowing in the wind”, Griffith Review edition 30; the Annual Fiction Edition, October, 2010.

The Revolutionary Century; Art in Asia 1900-2000, Macmillan Australia, 2010 (208 pp)

Every 23 days; 20 years touring Asia (with Sarah Bond and Claire Watson), Asialink, 2010 (94 pp)

When I hear the words paper cranes, I reach for delete”… The Australian Story and the Development of Australian Curriculum for the Arts, Asia Education Foundation, 2010

Ignorance is not bliss; Art and its place in Australia-Asia relations” The Asialink Essays, no.10, December, 2009

Sun Walking; Australia-Japan Visual Arts Partnerships Program 2005-9, Asialink, 2009

Indonesian journeygang re:Publik; indonesia-australia creative adventures, Gang Festival, Sydney, 2008, 63-7

“Curatorial Asia; a twenty year perspective” Artlink, vol.28, no.4, 2008, 36-9

East and West? A different story: the impact of Mexico on 20th century Asian artArt Monthly Australia, September, 2008, 11-6.

Masters and pupils; the rise of the modern art school in Asia; some key issues on their establishment, their curricula and their place in their communities” Educating in the Arts; The Asian Experience: Twenty-four essays, ed. Lindy Joubert, UNEVOC, Springer, Dordrecht, 2008, 31-45

“Asialink and overseas cultural policy” Australian Arts; Where the bloody hell are you? University of Sydney Press & Research Institute for Humanities and Social Research, University of Sydney, 2007, 57-62

“Australian Government funding for our art overseas”, Art Monthly, December 2006-February 2007, 46-9

“The Asian experience” Artworkers Alliance Newsletter, Autumn 2006, n.p

“Letter from Indonesia” Art Monthly Australia #183, September 2005, 3-5

Choppy Waters: Arts Infrastructure and Networks in AsiaArt and Social Change: Contemporary art of Asia and the Pacific ed. Caroline Turner, Pandanus Press, Canberra, 2005, 542-53

“Mappings; Gulammohammed Sheikh”, International Tapestry Yearbook, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, 2004, 42-3

“Near and far: an Australian response” Links, Platforms, Networks, Contemporary Asian Art Forum, Hong Kong, 2004, 32-4

“Fairness of expression or sleights of hand” Gloss, Art and Exhibition Project, issue 3, Mockumentary, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2003, 12-3

“Starry Night” Artlink, vol.22, #4, 2002, 32-5

“Light Black” Object, no.39, 2002, 53-5

“What is the Artist’s Role Today” Tokyobook 2, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2001, 59

Opinion “Asian influence takes effect in the longer term” The Age, 20 November 2000

“Australian Artists in Vietnam; the Asialink Experience” My Thuat, (Vietnamese art magazine, Hanoi), no.28, 8-2000, 19-22

“A Floating World; Prospects for the future of Asian Art” ARTAsiaPacific, Issue 28, (2000) 28-9

“New Models/New Art/New Century” pp.162-64; “Asia Pacific Art: Beyond the Future” Reportage, 134-5 Beyond the Future, Conference Papers, Third APT, Queensland Art Gallery, 2000

Myths and Histories: A Vietnamese StoryArtlink, vol.20, #2, June, 2000, 16-7

“A Personal Journey; interview with Hossein Valamanesh” Internal Travel, Asialink, 1999, 10-2

“A Fractured Whole; Pakistan, South Asia and the Triennial” Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, 1999, 113

“Thinking Globally” Art of Sight; Art of Mind, NAVA Newsletter, March 1999, 14-5

Ancient Cultures – New Worlds.  Really?” Museum National, February 1999, 22

“Australians in Asia” Artlink, vol.18. no.4, 28-30; 45.

“Postcard from Pakistan”, ARTAsiaPacific, no.21, January, 1999, 36-7

“Home Thoughts from Abroad; the Melbourne Biennial of Art and other recent international shows” Art Monthly, July 1998, 21-2

“Australia” Commonwealth of Art, traditions, imagination & independent nations, National Art Gallery, Malaysia, 1998, 17-9

“Some Recent Australia-Asia exchange exhibitions models” Asia-Europe, A Newsletter for Cultural Partnerships, Visiting Arts, London, vol.1

“The Asian Crisis – or is it?” Object, 2 – 98, 38-40

Other Stories, in Colombo

Other Stories; Five Australian Artists, Asialink, 1997, 20 pp

“Ocean Traffic’ craft and other exchanges” Neighbours; South East Asia and the Indian Ocean Rim, Craft West, 1997, 16-7

“Glue and Yeast; Asian Perceptions and the year 2000” Artlink, September, 1997, vol.17, no.3, 46-7

Art, Art Museums, Asia and usMuseum National, August, 1997, 8-10

“Cultural Futures: What will “Cultural Exchange” in Asia be in 2020?” Present Encounters, Papers from the Conference of the Second Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, 1996, 41-3

“Networks” Second Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, 1996, np

The Hermit’s New WorldSecond Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, 1996, np

“Baggage” Fire and Life, Asialink, 1996, vol.I, pp.12-14; “For the Pleasure” Fire and Life, vol.II, 22-3

Beyond the Material WorldAdelaide Installations, Adelaide Festival of Arts, 1994, vols 1 & 11, 6-45 and 10-21

“Australian Art in Korea” Art Monthly, August 1993, no.62, 35

“6 x 6 and a workshop” Art Monthly, May 1993, no.59, 30-1

Parallels: Nationalism in Filipino, Indonesian and Australian art“, ART and AsiaPacific, vol.1, no.1, March 1993, 38-44

“Making Asian art accessible to Westerners; Review of Modern Art in Thailand; Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Apinan Poshyananda, 1992″ Artlink, vol.13, nos 3 & 4, 44

“Where to the Orient?” New Space, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, 1991

Art from Australia; Eight Contemporary Views, AETA, 1990, 72 pp

Out of Asia, Heide Park and Art Gallery, 1990, 32 pp

“Links and Bridges” Promoting Cultural Relations in Asia – Ways and Means Occasional Papers, Asian Studies Association of Australia, 1988

East and West; The meeting of Asian and European Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1985, 64 pp