Arts+Culture

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A feeling has come over me recently ever since my legs have stopped rubbing together on the Lighty -- but only after investing in traditionally daggy workout-wear that actually works, guys (over continuing to suffer in something ‘cooler’).

When Tom Day created the album Sounds of the Conservation Reserve, he handed the microphone over – to the residents of the old-growth Yellowbox tree, to the howling wind (that nearly claimed one of his tripods!), to the insects, and to the birds.

Tim Nathan is a young Australian director with a background in photography.

Ry Eden, artist and producer known as RY X, is an internationally acclaimed musician hailing from Angourie, Northern NSW.

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.

My friend Jess Blume, or Jume, as we all know her, started her clothing label out of a small bungalow down on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula in 2018.

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.

Lee McConnell is an eclectic artist with a passion that has seen him work with legendary label, Mambo, design album covers for incredible bands such as Grinspoon and Dune Rats, and now become the Lord of Art at this year’s Splendour in the Grass.

Nimbin based acrobat, director and performer Darcy Grant premiered a new work at Adelaide Festival, he is performing in NORPA’s site-specific show Dreamland in Bangalow in May and his own work Fold: A Domestic Circus premieres at NORPA in June before a European tour.