ABOUT
The Artist’s Chronicle is a bi-monthly publication established in 1991 by the Editor, Lyn DiCiero, and focuses on the visual arts in Western Australia. The Artist’s Chronicle is the longest running independent visual arts publication in Western Australia’s history, celebrating its 30th year of publishing in 2021.
Editions each year: January/February, March/April, May/June, July/August, September/October and November/December.
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ABOUT LYN DI CIERO
Lyn Di Ciero is a visual arts writer, curator and filmmaker who established the Artist’s Chronicle in 1991, the longest-running independent visual arts magazine in Western Australia’s history, and is a former visual arts feature writer for The West Australian newspaper (2010-16).
She was the Australian Manager for the School of Colour in the 1990s, which included operating distance education courses across Australia. She has documented several art collections including the City of Belmont, City of Rockingham, Town of Mosman Park and Perth Airport.
She has curated the City of Rockingham’s Castaways Sculpture Awards since its inception in 2008, which focuses on an environmental message through sculpture created from recycled materials, and the annual Soroptimist International of Fremantle Help the Homeless Art Auction from 2009 to 2023, raising over $280,000 for critical services for the homeless and at-risk homeless in the community, From 2020-2022 she was curator of the Mandorla Art Award, Australia’s most significant thematic Christian art prize.
Since 2013 she has explored filmmaking as another form of storytelling in the visual arts, with her filmography including commissions from the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the City of Rockingham, and St John of God Health Care.
In 2024 she founded Artoble, a free-to-download art finder App, aiming to increase visitor numbers across a range of art events.
CONTRIBUTORS
Laetitia Wilson is a former Exhibitions Manager for the Janet Holmes à Court Gallery and previously held curatorial positions at the University of Western Australia. She has also worked independently as a curator and curatorial consultant and a freelance arts writer for local and national arts publications. Earlier in her career Laetitia earned her doctorate in contemporary media art theory at the University of Western Australia and lectured within the School of Design from 2004-2016.
Annette Peterson began painting in 2007 after working as a journalist in the Pilbara, in Western Australia. In 2017, she graduated from Curtin University with Graduate Diploma for Art and Design and a Masters of Applied Design and Art, where she received a commendation from the Head of School for Art and Design and won the Art Award for her Master’s degree. She has won many awards since, more recently as Overall Winner of the 2021 City of Stirling Art Awards. Her works are held in the collections of the City of Stirling, Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital and the City of Melville. She utilises photography and painting techniques to facilitate both realistic and impressionistic style landscape paintings.
Sam Beard devotes much of his time to writing about art in Western Australia. He has worked in the arts for nearly a decade and held positions at the Australian Museums and Galleries Association, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, and The Lester Prize for Portraiture, and is the current treasurer of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. Sam holds degrees in the history of art from the University of Western Australia, and visual art and design from Edith Cowan University. He is the co-founder and editor of the art criticism journal Dispatch Review and is currently working on the journal’s first anthology.
Cartoonist John Gerrish is dedicated to observing and revealing the lighter, tongue-in-cheek, quasi-tragic lives of artists. A former demonstrator of art materials at a leading art supply company, he plied art materials to artists and institutions, providing a rich source of material for future cartoons.