Visual Arts
In Conversation with Toni Jordan at the Melbourne Writers Festival
Toni Jordan’s first novel Addition was released in early 2008 to international and local acclaim. It’s been the centre of…
Melbourne Writers Festival: The party!
If you’re an emerging writer like me, one of those people trying on tippee toes to see over the great…
Freedom of Speech: Melbourne Writers Festival
Melbourne Writers Festival Alternate Keynote address: Freedom of Speech: Should there be limits? With Ian Buruma.
Kate Shaw - Underground Sun: Nellie Castan Gallery
The presentation of Kate Shaw’s new series Underground Sun at the Nellie Castan Gallery was surprisingly harmonious.
Space re Place
For anyone who has completed or nearing the end of formal education in a creative sector discipline the prospect of…
The Melbourne Magic Festival: Northcote Town Hall
In the past 12 months magic has been steadily gaining an audience. Tim Ellis and Sue-Anne Webster produced the Melbourne…
Nutcracker – The story of Clara: The Australian Ballet
From the glamorous ballroom of the Russian Tsar to the dusty summer streets of Melbourne, Graeme Murphy’s 'Nutcracker' is a…
Emma Rochester: Timeline
The sea gave Emma Rochester a second grace, an opportunity to rethink what it was she wanted to experience and…
Boolarng Nangamai Aboriginal Art and Culture Studio
Whenever I have been involved in community consultations about cultural development, facilities feature as a very popular topic. Whatever the…
Controversy dogs John Brack retrospective
The first major retrospective on painter John Brack (b.1920, d.1999) in more than two decades opened at Melbourne’s NGV at…