World Science Festival Brisbane (WSFB) was to be held 25-29 March 2020 this year, until COVID-19 reared its ugly germs. It’s not an event that immediately screams [...]
There is something eerily familiar about the trees that have begun to sprout up in Tim McMonagle’s work in recent times. An artist who has spent almost two decades [...]
Born in Liverpool during the post-Beatlemania counterculture of the 60s, Ray Coffey realised he might have a talent for drawing when, aged eight, a schoolmate accused him of [...]
Brisbane artist Elysha Rei is the personification of the expression “worldly.” Born in Saudi Arabia, she lived with her family in Australia, Thailand, New Zealand and [...]
“Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.” Salman Rushdie The first time I came across Brisbane artist Jeremy [...]
When the Dobell Drawing Prize was discontinued by the Art Gallery of NSW in 2012, a real disservice was done to Australian art. Though the name has carried through to a [...]
It was short and sweet and over so quickly I almost missed seeing it altogether, but fate intervened and thus it came about that I made it in to Jugglers Art Space for [...]
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 [...]
Berlin people, you are in for a treat! Regular followers of Cultural Flanerie will already be familiar with the work of Linde Ivimey. It’s no secret she’s one of [...]
“I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.” ― Carlos Ruizafón, The Shadow of the Wind [...]