Lip Magazine
recommended reading: lip magazine (1976-1984)
Vivian Ziherl, Autumn 2012
Discipline, no 2.
Front, Lip Anthology
Back, Lip Anthology
The LIP Anthology: An Australian Feminist Arts Journal 1976-1984
Edited by Vivien Ziherl.
Macmillan Art Publishing Melbourne, Kunstverein Publishing, Amsterdam in collaboration with Grazer Kunstverein. 2013
Lip Collective, 1980
Back row: Suzanne Davies, Christine Johnston, Janine Burke, Isobel Davies, Elizabeth Gower, Frida Frieberg
Front Row: Annette Blonski, Lesley Dumbrell, Suzanne Spunner, Meredith Rogers
Photograph by Suzanne Davies
Cover, Nova compendium
lip synch
TEXT of a talk given at a forum in association with the launch of the Lip Anthology in 2013.
A reflection on the formation of LIP magazine.
Cover by Suzanne Davies
Issue 1 • Pink satin
1976
Towards a Feminist Critique of Cinema
Review of Molly Haskell’s ‘From reverence to Rape”
Lip Centrefold
Cover by Mary Callaghan
Issue 2&3 • Black bite
1977
Interview with Phyllis McDonagh
Cover by Mary Newsome
Issue 4 • Tea Set
1977
Valerie Kirwan (about the La Mama Playwright)
Cover by Mirka Mora
Issue 5 • Painted trams
1980
Beyond Glitter: The Role of the female performer- as seen by Robyn Archer in ‘A Star is Torn’.
Making a career of Feminism (about Gilliam Armstrong and ‘My Brilliant Career’)
Cover first issue reprise
Issue 6 • red lip
1981/1982
Vera and Minnie: Wonderful ratbags (about playwright/artist Barry Dickins’ female characters)
Cover first issue reprise reprised
Issue 7 • Lip Blue
1982/1983
Cover Italian washing powder advertisement
Issue 8 • Lip Washing
1984
Lip: Context and Commentary
The Australian Art World
2005
SEE pp 75 – 78 for discussion of LIP magazine
The Winnowing of the Grain: Art and craft magazines in australia, 1963-1996
2006