Merran Esson : Standing Still and Silently Balancing

The Western Sydney University Sculpture Award & Exhibition has been postponed until 2021 due to COVID-19, but the finalists have been announced. Congratulations to: Mark Booth, Jennifer Cochrane, Chris Edwards, Harrie Fasher, John Fitzmaurice, Jim Flook, Martin George, Akira Kamada, … Read More

Hey COVID-19 Thanks for the Good Times

Callum R. Scott

One afternoon you rock up to your hospo job with a hangover, only to find that it’s closed its doors indefinitely and suddenly you’re unemployed again. With fuck all in your savings account, you decide to drown … Read More

Head On Photo Festival

1 – 17 May 2020

This year the festival will stage an online version of the event, accompanied by a program of online seminars and events throughout the Festival period. The festival will then work to present a scaled-back physical … Read More

Dear Tree

a listening experience created by Rose Turtle Ertler 

“Dear tree,

Thank you for being here today for me and for everyone,

casting shade and giving a fresh breath

with deep and bold colours and gentle stillness.”

– by a contributor … Read More

Love in a Time of Coronavirus

by Callum R Scott

And just as the zombie apocalypse kicked in, I quit my job. I’ll tell you why later in the piece. So, now I find myself unemployed at 50, in the middle of a pandemic. This is … Read More

Synthetica : art, technology & us

Dr Cameron Rose

Art and technology are by definition divorced from nature. Art is the product of human creativity and technique; it is an object, image, sound or movement that exists as a unique manifestation of our imagination. Technology comes … Read More

CAN’T DO TOMORROW

Australia’s largest showcase of urban & street art

20 – 29 February 2020

This inaugural festival will see over 100 street artists and musicians take over Melbourne’s iconic multi-level warehouse, The Facility, transforming it from top to bottom with paintings, … Read More

The Road to Darwin

Chapter 4 – The Alice

Rolled into Alice Springs, literally: a strong head wind burnt up all the petrol. As the sun set in the west (I presume it was the west because that’s where the sun sets where I … Read More

Terminus : Jess Johnson & Simon Ward

Heide Museum of Modern Art presents

a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, explored via a network of travellators and gateways.

2 November 2019 – 1 March 2020 

IMAGE CREDITS: … Read More

Arthur Boyd : Landscape of the Soul

by Alexandra Sasse

Have you had any lessons? The enquiry came from a woman and her friend who had been loitering behind me as I painted en plein air in a local park. It seemed a particularly stupid question, especially … Read More