Chris Reid



BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY
Chris Reid was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1952 and now resides in Adelaide, Australia. He is a graduate of Flinders University in Adelaide and has worked professionally as an educational administrator for 25 years. He has been a freelance writer on art and music for the last 9 years, and publishes principally in ‘Real Time’, ‘Broadsheet’ and ‘Eyeline’ magazines. Chris Reid occasionally gives lectures and talks on art. He coordinated the development of the undergraduate program of the Adelaide Central School of Art, and manages the guest lecture series at that School. He has been a President of the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia.
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REVIEWS OF ART EXHIBITIONS
”Yokohama Triennale: art as screen”, Real Time, no. 46, Dec. 2001
Review of ‘Wishart and Grounds at CACSA’, Real Time, no. 44 (Web page only), August 2001
”The Worrisome Art of Documenting Art”, Real Time, no. 40, Dec. 2000
”Why This Decade, This Location, These Artists?!”, Broadsheet, vol. 29, no. 4, Dec. 2000
Review of ‘External Links – the revival of a buried dreaming’, Art Monthly (Australia ) Web Pages, Oct. 2000
Review of SALA Week # 3, Art Monthly (Australia) Web Pages, Sept. 2000
”Is Virtual Art as Satisfying as the Real Thing?”, Talk About IT, Flinders University, Sept. 2000
”A Grain of Sand”, Broadsheet, vol. 29, no. 3, Sept. 2000
Review of ‘Wide Eyed’, Art Monthly (Australia) Web Pages, Sept. 2000
Review of ‘Heterogeneous Loves’, Art Monthly (Australia) Web Pages, Sept. 2000
”Minister of Fate Cuts Globalist Ribbon”, Real Time, no. 38, August 2000
Review of ”Remove ...”, Eyeline, no. 44, Summer 2000/01
”Not Taken as Read: Speech Occludes the Visual”, Real Time, no. 3, June 2000


PROFILES OF ARTISTS
”Angela Valamanesh: a Bilingual Artist”, Broadsheet, vol. 30, no. 4, Dec. 2001
”Shifting the Weight”, profile of Jonathan Dady, Broadsheet, vol. 30, no. 1, March 2001
”Deborah Paauwe: a Two Way Mirror”, Broadsheet, vol. 29, no. 4, Dec. 2000
”The Allegorical Imagination”, profile of Sally-Ann Rowland, Broadsheet, vol. 29, no. 3, Sept. 2000


CATALOGUES ESSAYS AND TEXTS
Catalogue essay for Christopher Orchard's exhibition 'Topos' at BMG Gallery Adelaide, Oct. - Nov. 2001
Catalogue essay for Keren Seelander's 2001 Tokyo and New York exhibitions
”Propagation and Mutation”, cat. essay for Annette's Bezor's work in the group show ‘Orbit’ at University of South Australia Art Museum, July 2001
Catalogue essays for eleven artists of Adelaide Central Studios, June 2001, used to establish the Adelaide Central Studios Web-site


REVIEWS OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCES, DANCE, MULTI-MEDIA, ETC
”Raw Meat and Radio; Ex Post facto; Girls on Loos; Derph”, Real Time, no. 45, Oct. 2001
”Kat McGuffie - One to Watch”, Real Time, no. 43 (web-page), June 2001
”New Adelaide Grooves”, Real Time, no. 43, June 2001
”Listening Like Looking”, Real Time, no. 42, April 2001
”New Work Matures in Open Space”, Real Time, no. 41, March 2001
”The Firm gives its all”, Real Time, no. 40, Dec. 2000
”Australian Music is Alive and Well and Living in Adelaide”, Real Time, no. 39, Oct. 2000