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The gentle frame – Melinda Giblett

The gentle frame – Melinda Giblett

Melinda Giblett is an Australian artist living on Dharawal land on the NSW South Coast. Her practice in painting and drawing is inspired by the ...

The Alchemy of SWC: The Rituals

The sound of a striking match. The pause while waiting for the water to boil. Pulling on your boots before stepping outside for a constitutional wa...

Kendal Murray’s Tiny Worlds

Upcoming, Homecoming, 2021, mixed media assemblage, Kendal Murray By Chance, At First Glance, 2016, mixed media assemblage, Kendal Murray We’re...

Spectrum – An exploration of colour

Colour, like scent, is central to humankind’s being. It functions at a subliminal level to define the way we perceive the world and the way we feel...

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 ...

Florilegium

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Breaking the silence

As Annabel Crabb fans, we were super excited for this series which is available now on iView and yes, we binged all four in one sitting. So good! T...

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...