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.

On Awe, Wonder And Things That Sustain You When The World Goes Dark

Phosphorescence by Julia Baird No less than three friends gifted us this book last year and it’s taken us this long to finally take the dive below ...

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Florilegium

Through still life paintings of indigenous flora and fauna, artist Jane Guthleben uses the traditions of vanitas and its messages around ‘the trans...

Art

Eight artists to watch and buy now

Thank goodness for Instagram and online galleries as some of us head into our 8th week of lockdown! We so feel for all the creatives working in the...

australian art

Hadley’s Art Prize

Hopefully Tassie will stay ‘un-locked down’ for the 2021 Hadley’s Art prize. One of the richest prizes for landscape art in the country, the $100,0...

POETRY

For the Love of Poetry

We will make them together of grasses and winds We find along the river of time, made of smooth stone – Joy Harjo and Ali Cobby Eckermann from ‘Sto...

australian photography

Battered landscapes and fragile, wispy youths

A new collection of previously unseen important photographs feature in this stunning suite of works on show now at the Tolarno Galleries in Melbour...

australian cinema

10 Classic Australian Films to watch

We wanted to create a list of the best Australian films ever.. but then we realised that some of our top 10 like ‘Love and Other Catastrophes’ and ...

annabel crabb

Breaking the silence

The four-episode series gives a raw and honest account of politics from the perspective of women who led the way! Crabb already has strong relation...

A yarn with…

There’s gold in them hills

Taking inspiration from the lives of Hill End’s gold rush inhabitants, Camie Lyons upped the anti on her physical making process, dragging branches...

Art

How to start an art collection

For anyone thinking about starting an art collection or wanting to understand more about how the contemporary art market works, Nanda Hobbs has pro...

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South by Southwest – Paul Ryan

One of the things we love most about Paul Ryan’s work is his sense of the theatrical and his use of black, black humour to express the underbelly o...

Archibald prize

Finding the Archibald

Ever since she played Muriel’s feisty friend Rhonda, we’ve felt Rachel Griffiths is our special friend too and it’s lovely to see her take on the A...

Art

Art and play

We always look to contemporary artists when thinking up ideas for kid’s art projects. Here’s a few inspired ideas that are fairly low mess and a li...