Fashion as Art…so…FART?
Oh, blerg. It’s ‘fashion as art’ season again. This happens every few years – the major public galleries around the country throw their doors and [...]
2014
Discarded Books Transformed Into Exploding 3D Collages
Quiet Please, There’s a Lady on the Stage
Here’s an interesting one… Today, 8 December, marks the 354th anniversary of women first appearing professionally on the English stage as actresses. Funny, [...]
Maggi Hambling is okay by me
Wowsers, I’ve just read probably the most mean spirited review on an artist’s work ever, by Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones (you can read it here if you [...]
Sunday Sculpture – Cathy Rose: she’s an artist
I haven’t been this excited about stumbling across a new (to me) artist in ages. And by ages, I mean ages. New Orleans sculptor Cathy Rose explores ideas of renewal and [...]
Hope & Love: through the eyes of refugees
You know what’s great about Australia’s handling of our refugee ‘crisis’? It’s that no matter how long you take to write about it, it never [...]
The Little Things
“There’s a reason people build miniatures. Doesn’t matter if it’s guys laying out model railroads or women decorating dollhouses. It’s about [...]
John Aslanidis – the art of science
It’s very hard to separate all the facets that make up the area collectively known as The Arts. In fact I’d go so far as to say it’s impossible to. I [...]
Pete Foley: The New Pantheon
Here’s something I never expected to find myself doing late on a Tuesday night – standing in a vacant, candlelit block high up on a hill in Brisbane’s West [...]
Lindy Lee: The Dark of Absolute Freedom
No one gets through childhood unscathed. Even those of us lucky enough to have good, loving families and stable home lives drag the weight of something unresolved to [...]
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