1984
Catalogue / Memoir
Introduction
Pictures
Objects
Animations
PICTURES are both finished and ephemeral works made for animations.
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Child
Self
1984 Child Self
Acrylic on canvas with fabric
Destroyed
Child:
Mummy, I'll be sad when you die. It'll just be Daddy and Joey and me.
Self:
But I'll fly up to heaven. I'll turn into an angel. You'll turn into an angel too, when you die.
Child:
And will we be together?
Self:
Yes.
Child:
Will we be alive again?
Self:
The part of you inside your head that looks through your eye holes stays alive and changes into an angel.
Child:
And will my tummy come too?
Lisa Roberts / Euphausia superba
Diary entry
22-8-84
1984 Each in their space
Ink and coloured pencil on paper
Artist's collection, Sydney
Kate:
I'm washing the clown.
Andrew:
When are you going to finish?
Kate:
In about 40 years time.
Lisa Roberts / Euphausia superba
Diary entry
6-9-84
1984 Puppet Theatre
Acrylic on canvas with fabric
Destroyed
Cassie
Whereabouts unknown
1984 Tree Theatre
Acrylic on canvas
Tom Roberts collection, Melbourne
1984 Masked
Acrylic on canvas with fabric
Destroyed
1984 Mother
Acrylic on canvas
Destroyed
1984 Each in their own space
Page in sketch book
Ink and coloured pencil on paper
Artist's collection, Sydney
1984 Each in their space
Acrylic on canvas
Artist's collection, Sydney
1984 Sunni
Pencil on paper
Artist's collection, Sydney
1984 Sunni 2
Pencil on paper
Artist's collection, Sydney
EVENTS
January 10 - The United States and the Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations.
January 24 - Steve Jobs launches the Macintosh personal computer in the United States.
February 7 - John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another, resulting in a live birth.
February 7 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
March 5 - Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons; the United Nations condemns their use on March 30.
April 19 - Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
May 8 - The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
May 11 - A transit of Earth from Mars takes place.
May 13 - Severomorsk Disaster: an explosion at the Soviets' Severomorsk Naval Base destroys two-thirds of all the missiles stockpiled for the Soviets' Northern Fleet. The blast also destroys workshops needed to maintain the missiles as well as hundreds of technicians. Western military experts called it the worst naval disaster the Soviet Navy has suffered since WWII.
May 14 - The one-dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
June 16 - The Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil is founded.
June 19 - 17-year-old Ricky Kasso murders Gary Lauwers in Northport, New York, contributing to the Satanic panic association of heavy metal music and satanism.
July 1 - Liechtenstein becomes the last country in Europe to grant women the right to vote.
August 1 - Australian banks are deregulated.
September 2 - Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia.
Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
September 26 - The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.
October 23 - The world learns from moving BBC News television reports presented by Michael Buerk of the famine in Ethiopia, where thousands of people have already died of starvation due to a famine, and as many as 10,000,000 more lives are at risk.
October 25 - The European Economic Community makes £1.8 million available to help combat the famine in Ethiopia.
December 2 - 1984 Australian federal election: Bob Hawke's Labor government is re-elected with a reduced majority, defeating the Liberal/National Coalition led by Andrew Peacock.
1983-85 famine in Ethiopia intensifies with renewed drought by mid-year, killing a million people by the end of this year.
Crack cocaine, a smokeable form of the drug, is first introduced into Los Angeles and soon spreads across the United States in what becomes known as the crack epidemic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984
Written by me, Lisa Roberts/Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill), on
21/04/2026
