On a roll!, Honours Graduate Showcase, Pop Gallery, Queensland College of Art & Design, Brisbane, 2018 Artists: Kim Ah Sam, Michelle Jae Andrews, Rosanna Bird, Alannah Dair, Tara Fraser, Siena Hart, Dianne Hall, Emmalyn Hawthorne, Patrick Lester, Kerrie Mackay, Jean Martin, … Continue reading On a roll!
First published in Art Almanac, Dec 2017-Jan 2018 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 relevant to all Australians. … Continue reading Fiona Foley: Horror has a Face
Continuum, Honours Graduate Showcase, Queensland College of Art & Design, Brisbane, 2017 Artists: Holly Anderson, Anthony Baker, Vivien Bedwell, Thomas Broadhurst, Deborah Eddy, Andrew Gall, Ree Hegh, Peter Kozak, Thomas Oliver, Mandy Quadrio, Sophie Ruby, Tahlia Stehbens, Karen Stephens, Quinn … Continue reading Continuum
If you’re anything like me, you occasionally find yourself wishing you’d started doing what you love earlier in life – be that related to your job, playing sport, having a family, taking up a hobby etc. All that time wasted … Continue reading Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Late Bloomer
David Jones: The Colonial Collective Problem, Bosz Gallery, Brisbane, 2016. David Jones is a crusader. A man of Butchalla, Dalungdalee heritage, he wields his art as a sword with which to cut down some of the most revered myths upon … Continue reading David Jones and The Colonial Collective Problem
Last night at the opening of Queensland Theatre Company’s 7 Stages of Grieving, I made a big statement that I don’t really write about theatre. Not because I don’t enjoy it; rather it’s because I enjoy it too much to spend a whole performance trying to remember what I want to say about it. But then I saw the show and my brain went into overdrive. There are so many places I could take this piece right now. Discussions around family ties, the differences in Aboriginal theatre vs mainstream theatre, Australian politics, Brisbane’s arts scene, the benefit of a good script…lots … Continue reading Seven Stages of Grieving
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