Linde Ivimey: Cross My Heart
When Sydney artist Linde Ivimey was looking for a new studio space a few years ago, she chanced upon a two story warehouse in the inner west that was exactly what she [...]
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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 [...]
Febe Zylstra named a finalist in the RQAS Figurative Art Award 2014
Ah, here’s some happy and exciting news that’s just come to hand. My lovely friend Febe Zylstra, who you may remember from this little feature a few months back, [...]
McLean Edwards’ Local Heroes
A while back I read Roman Payne’s novel Rooftop Soliloquy, a story that was a bit too florid and verbose for me to enjoy, but one that contained a quote I quite liked: [...]
Febe Zylstra’s Fight or Flight
My first introduction to Febe Zylstra was by accident, when a friend and I stumbled across the Mental Illness Fellowship Queensland (MIFQ) annual art exhibition just over a [...]
James’ La Petite Mort
In what might end up being the most artistic album release of all time, British rock band James first studio album in six years launched this week. Titled La Petite Mort, the [...]
Swimming With Stu
Sometimes the hardest part about this blog is finding the words that do justice to the beautiful work I see. It’s a bit like that quote someone once said [...]
It’s chalk or bust for Dangerdust
When I was eight, my teacher sent me to the principal’s office for writing in chalk on the school walls. Mostly it was highly contentious and scandalous gossip such as [...]
Linde Ivimey, Bone Healer
Sometimes you get a look at the inner workings of a person’s brain and what you glimpse in there is so unlike the mind of any other you’ve ever seen, that it [...]
Tove Witzerman Langridge – with a name like that, you’d best be an artist…
It’s a rare privilege to be able to see firsthand an artist’s journey from tentative preteen to self-assured expressionist, but that’s what happens when your oldest [...]
