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Sammi Hardwick of Double Tap Agency wants you to harness the power of digital marketing, while also maintaining a healthy work life balance.

On a hot summer’s day in Sydney, world-reknowned artist Ken Done – a man who without a doubt has inspired a generation of Australians to chase a creative life – explains colour, art and the wonders of painting.

Claudio Kirac loves his home, the Gold Coast. He’s a Creative Director and artist and for twenty-plus-years he has played a major role in the evolution of his local arts and culture scene.

Our Culture Partner for this issue, Radical Yes, was founded ten years ago to create, design and sell shoes in a way that radically reframed how the Australian shoe industry was operating at the time — small batches of flat shoes to encourage a life lived under the mantras of ‘little and often’ and ‘hasten slowly’. Life and business don’t have to move at a rapid pace. We don’t have to constantly chase productivity. We can enjoy little bursts of productivity or rest as often as we like. It’s the flow of this balance that inspires the Radical Yes line of products. We spoke with three local women who inspire us to live a life full to the brim of both creativity and rest.

HOTMESS are surrealistic party raunch art classes run by Gabrielle Miller and Sophie Taylor. We asked Gab and Soph to expand on what that actually means.

May 2020: The world is locked down and we are living our lives through our phone screens. So we decided to bring all of our creative friends together, to make something beautiful, to be enjoyed on our phones.

Mel Watson of The Numbersmiths wants to blow your money shame out of the water.

An interview with Gosia, of Seashanty.

I am a creative by nature, a poet at heart and these are very uncreative times.

From pen licence to design studio: an interview with Ally Griffith of Alleyway Designs.

Odette Barry is here to fill you in on what small business owners need to understand.

Sixty years ago, on a lonely stretch of highway between Montreal, Canada and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Betty and Barney Hill got abducted by aliens. They were driving home from their belated honeymoon.

Grape grower, winemaker, wine bar owner and wine slinger Pete Windrim isn’t shying away from the mindful drinking movement – he wants you to join him in raising a glass to it.

An honest behind-the-scenes travel story.

Layla Cluer and Lora Ward are two friends with their own respective art practices.

An exercise in memory.

Our family is big on food – I get regular food deliveries from my mum and grandma filled with home cooked goodies. I guess food is our love language.

With her new album playing in the background, I sat with a cup of tea on a drizzly Byron Bay morning and spoke with musician Indigo Sparke about her experience of this time and her creative collaboration with photographer, Ming Nomchong.

Meet photographer and artist Julie Poly who sees beauty in the trivial.

After 28 years working in universities, artist Sandra Kaji-O’Grady recently finished designing and building her dream home with her partner John in Upper Coopers Creek. Replacing bustling campuses with the rustling forest has helped Sandra spend more time than ever on her art and right now, that means creating collages.

Sammy Hawker is an ACT-based visual artist whose practice investigates sites of the Anthropocene. Through facilitating interaction with more-than-human entities, her work aims to draw attention to and make visible hidden temporal realities and cross-species entanglements of the many worlds in which she encounters.

All of Gerwyn Davies’ photographs are selfies. But instead the reflexive iPhone portraiture we’re accustomed to, Davies buries his own defining features in order to reveal ambiguous, imagined characters – creating art that feels like a gift from another world.

As we dove into this issue’s theme of Mirage it was hard not to find ourselves coming back to the illusory effects of psychedelics.

The humble motel is a stalwart of Australian travel.

This project began as an ode to the importance of dinner time; cataloguing the meal time that the four of us share each night after our service at Fleet – Josh, Rob, Si and myself.

On memory, self and stories.

In writing about writing, Max Favetti excavates his own creative process – inadvertently offering scraps of solace to the other ‘head-banging-against-wall’ creatives out there.

Jony Taylor is in the business of growing big leaves.