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Interview: Faith47
April 4, 2017 | troublemag[extract] LONELY PLANET: STREET ART
Faith47 is an internationally acclaimed visual artist from South Africa, whose work has been lauded for its ability to resonate with people around the world. She has held solo exhibitions in New York, London and … Read More
Social Work: Brentley Frazer
January 28, 2017 | troublemag“The case for E-Prime rests on the simple proposition that ‘isness’ sets the brain into a medieval Aristotelian framework that makes it impossible to understand modern problems and opportunities.” – Robert Anton Wilson 1
At a tender age, while … Read More
Reg Mombassa: Landscapes
October 30, 2016 | troublemagSOCIAL WORK
Born in New Zealand in 1951, Chris O’Doherty, otherwise known as Reg Mombassa, emigrated to Australia with his family in 1969. After graduating where from the National Art School in Sydney in 1975, he formed rock band … Read More
1787
September 3, 2016 | troublemagExtract from 1787: THE LOST CHAPTERS OF AUSTRALIA’S BEGINNINGS
by Nick Brodie
NOT A PROLOGUE
Australia’s history did not start in January 1788. However habituated we have become to telling it this way, our national story did not … Read More
Cam Rogers: writing Quantum Break
April 1, 2016 | troublemaginterview by Steve Proposch
“Interactive fiction is the next stage in how people tell stories,” says Cam Rogers, and he would know. For the last four years the Melbourne-born writer has been residing in Helsinki in Finland writing for … Read More
Finding the Art in Phuket
February 29, 2016 | troublemagAnthony S. Cameron
Phuket is a strange chunk of paradise. And after four years of living here, I still find it fascinating to watch the daily spectacle as it pours through my window, riding past me on a sidecar … Read More
A Post Encounter with Casper Jean Rimbaud
December 6, 2015 | troublemagSOCIAL WORK
Casper Jean Rimbaud is an author and multi-media artist from Melbourne. His first novel, Post Encounter (Fiction Terrifica, 2015), tells the terrifying story of an ordinary middle class Australian family held captive in their home by a … Read More
Stress Less: Colouring Books for Grown-ups
July 3, 2015 | troublemagIn this otherwise bland and grey inner-city office building a brave experiment in Colour Therapy is being conducted …
The world is spinning faster all the time, it seems. Where advances in technology once offered … Read More
SURFACE by Søren Solkær
March 1, 2015 | troublemagSURFACE is a brilliant photographic anthology of some of the greatest living street artists in the world today. Renowned Danish rock and counter culture photographer Søren Solkær has spent three years connecting and documenting an impressive collection of the most … Read More
Stralian Stories: just_a_girl by Kirsten Krauth
February 3, 2014 | troublemag
by Klare Lanson
“the moment that I step outside so many reasons for me to run and hide” (lyrics by Gwen Stefani and Tom Dumont)
We’re all kinds of mixed up creatures, trying to find that spark … Read More