Deborah Eddy’s Domesticity
My second favourite household chore is ironing. My first is hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. Erma Bombeck WASH. IRON. COOK. CLEAN. WORK. WORK. WORK. Repeat. [...]
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Yarrenyty Arltere Artists
Situated at the Larapinta Valley Town Camp at the base of Mt Gillen in Alice Springs, the Art Room of the Yarrenyty Arltere Learning Centre has quickly become one of the most [...]
Verge Collective: Super Natural
At a bush residency west of Brisbane, six metropolitan photomedia artists gathered to explore the natural world. There were no plans to collaborate, though they saw [...]
The Mathematics of Longing
“Maths is a language created by humans to find the wonder and the transcendental about the world and the universe, as well as the beauty, power and fragility of the human [...]
Fiona Foley: Horror has a Face
For over 30 years, Badtjala artist Fiona Foley has been an advocate for Indigenous political and social equality, using her art to educate and inform on Indigenous issues [...]
Briefs: Close Encounters
It feels like forever since I’ve viewed the world through rose-coloured glasses. Idiot leaders, global financial crises, wars, environmental disasters, more idiot [...]
Coast at Edwina Corlette Gallery
From the long sandy beaches of Western Australia, to the mangroves and saltmarshes of Arnhem Land, Australians have a profound connection to the coast. For many, it beckons [...]
Fran O’Neill’s Next Move
First, it’s the capture of light that draws your attention, refracted across the canvas like rippled water in a creek. Then it’s the way colour and movement wrestle in [...]
Opera Q’s Ruddigore at QPAC
Opera Q is knocking it out of the park at the moment, and I say that as someone who doesn’t know enough about either sport or opera to use such metaphors. But I do [...]
Bizet’s The Pearlfishers at QPAC
Whenever I’m researching opera (which I need to do a lot of when I write about it – I am to opera what Pauline Hanson is to elocution), it strikes me that [...]
