Posts in Arts+Culture
UFO Curious

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.

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Ken Done sees all the colours

Known for his vibrant and pulsing-with-energy paintings depicting iconic Australian moments from Sydney Harbour-scapes, to lazy beach scenes, to tropical coral reefs, to gardens bursting with flowers and life, Ken Done is an internationally acclaimed artist who aims to bring the experience of beauty and joy to a diverse audience.

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Indigo Sparke

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.

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Architecture, eroticism and art as therapy

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.

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Arts+CultureLila Theodoros
A psychedelic take on a Sugimoto seascape

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.

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Arts+CultureLila Theodoros
I Look Really Good

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.

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And so, We Listen

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.

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