Sketches

SKETCHES

Sketches is our journal. Here we trace the lines of place and creative living through thoughtful storytelling, insights and inspiration. It’s an invitation to slow down, take notice and find connection in the natural world.

The Shadows Within – Bronwyn Oliver

A new, intimate documentary by the ABC in association with the National Gallery of Australia and directed by Catherine Hunter with a gentle touch h...

True to the Land: a new history of food in Australia begins 65,000 years ago

An 1817 painting by Joseph Lycett, depicting First Nation peoples cooking and eating whale meat. National Library of Australia, Author provided ...

Archibald prize

Art of life – The everyday world of Lucy Culliton

Grasses 2021, oil on canvas 137.5 x 137.5cm, Lucy Culliton Lucy Culliton paints the things that she finds beauty in and the things she hop...

australian birds

The Great Aussie Bird Count 2021

Just in case you haven’t heard, the Great Aussie Bird Count is back on this week and we’re getting just a little bit excited. It starts on the 18th...

The Alchemy of SWC – The Art

If you follow the Southern Wild Co journey, you’ll know that visual art plays a crucial role in everything we do. In fact, it was an ‘A-ha!’ momen...

Art

Looking Directly at The Sun – Lloyd Rees

Is it possible for a painter to transform the way we experience the natural world? For us, Lloyd Rees and his painterly perspective has done just t...

australian art

Hidden women of history: Kathleen McArthur, the wildflower woman who took on Joh Bjelke-Petersen

This year marks 50 years since the launch of one of Australia’s first major conservation battles, waged against Queensland’s ultra-conservative, pr...

The Art of Assemblage – Anita Johnson

Taking the ‘soulful assemblage’ concept to the nth is one of our favourite assemblage artists, Anita Johnson. For us, her art vibrates through a k...

The Alchemy of SWC – The Soulful Assemblage

Wherever your eye settles in The Shedquarters, you will find a rich curation of time-worn pieces and found curios. Brimming with character and text...

Hidden Women of History – Emancipated wenches in gaudy jewellery: the liberating bling of the goldfields

Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl. But that’s not all she was. Not by a long stretch. Lola Montez (1847), painted by Joseph Karl Stie...

australian comedy

488 Rules for Life: The thankless art of being correct

We don’t know about you, but we’re seeking out the laughs right now, big time! These crazy times are making us search out joy and humour every day ...

australian interiors

The Alchemy of SWC – The Printed Matter

Have you heard the Japanese term ‘tsundoku’? It translates to the art of acquiring reading materials and letting them pile up unread. We thin...

Art

Etching the Trees – Kasia Fabijanska

Cathedral Ranges, graphite, charcoal & pastel on paper, 2018 ‘Alpha Waves – The Rockies,’ etching & aquatint, 29x89cm Gariwerd – no...