Madeleine Swain

Madeleine Swain is ArtsHub’s managing editor. Originally from England where she trained as an actor, she has over 25 years’ experience as a writer, editor and film reviewer in print, television, radio and online. She is also currently Vice Chair of JOY Media.

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Features

Selling Yourself – Learning Module 2, Writing Your Bio

The third of five videos in this second module, offering practical advice for creative businesses and produced by The Big…

Laak Boorndap. A gardener in a pink shirt and grey cap is tending a flower bed in an urban garden alongside a path on which people are walking. In the foreground a young blonde girl dressed in white is crouched down touching flowers.
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Invitation for a Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung artist to create a permanent commission in new Melbourne urban garden

The Melbourne Arts Precinct transformation project is seeking Expressions of Interest for an artwork to be situated in Laak Boorndap’s…

Laak Boorndap. A gardener in a pink shirt and grey cap is tending a flower bed in an urban garden alongside a path on which people are walking. In the foreground a young blonde girl dressed in white is crouched down touching flowers.
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Unique opportunity to create a permanent artwork for new Melbourne urban garden

The Melbourne Arts Precinct transformation project is now seeking Expressions of Interest for an artwork to be situated in Laak…

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Selling Yourself – Learning Module 2, Think Like an American

The second video in this second module, offering practical advice for creative businesses and produced by The Big Idea in…

Alfred Lowe and MA Art Prize winning ceramic 'All dressed up I', a large scale blue vessel with a narrow spout and a fluffy pink scarf around it.
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Opportunities and awards

This week's opportunities and awards include Regional Arts Development Fund grants, Opera Australia Young Artist Program, winners of the Queensland…

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Selling Yourself – Learning Module 2, Managing You

The first video in this second module, offering practical advice for creative businesses and produced by The Big Idea in…

Pamela Rabe, will co-conceive and direct a new production of Beckett's 'Happy Days' with Nick Schlieper. A woman with black hair streaked with white is covered with bits of rubbish, cast offs of material and other detritus.
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Kip Williams signs off as Artistic Director with STC 2025 season announcement

The STC's 2025 season features some Australian classics, returning and interstate hits, plus some intriguing debuts.

Sulari Gentill, Lucinda Gifford (F), Amy Doak, Alison Goodman, Christine Keighery, Monica Vuu, Andrew Harrison (representing Rebecca Hazel, Kelly Gardiner and Carmel Shute at Sisters in Crime's 24th Davitt Awards.A group of smiling women and one man hold books and prizes in front of a banner that reads Sisters In Crime.
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Opportunities and awards

This week's opportunities and awards include grants from Carclew, the winners of Sisters in Crime's 24th Davitt Awards and more.

The opening night of Hibberd's final play, 'Killing Time' at the Carlton Courthouse. L-R: John Timlin, Jim Daly, Jack Hibberd, Don Bridges, Evelyn Krape. Photo: Courtesy of Don Bridges.
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Vale Jack Hibberd – great Australian playwright and author of Dimboola

Jack Hibberd, the author of 'Dimboola' and one of Australia's best known and most prolific playwrights, has died.

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Career Advice

Roadmap to Success – Learning Module 1, Finding Your Success

The final video in this first module, offering practical advice for creative businesses and produced by The Big Idea in…

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