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.

Madeleine Swain's Latest Articles

Swell Festival. On a beach a large sculpture comprising metal triangles and attached blue cords is in the centre of the frame. Behind is the sea and a rock island. People are milling about looking at the sculpture.
Sponsored

A sculpture festival that’s bursting with pride

The SWELL Sculpture Festival is a place where art and community are inextricably linked.

A blue and black illustration of a lightbulb with symbols bursting out of it.
Features

Roadmap to Success – Learning Module 1, Essential Elements

The second in a new series of videos offering practical advice for creative businesses and produced by The Big Idea…

StarsStarsStarsStarsStars

Theatre review: A Streetcar Named Desire, Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne

The MTC's take on Williams' 20th century classic impresses, but lacks genuine menace.

A blue and black illustration of a lightbulb with symbols bursting out of it.
Features

Roadmap to Success – Learning Module 1, How We Developed the Roadmap Canvas

The first in a new series of videos offering practical advice for creative businesses and produced by The Big Idea…

Two contemporary dancers make shapes with their bodies in a gallery setting.
Sponsored

New support for UK/Australian collaborations

The British Council has announced the opening of applications for its Connections Through Culture arts grants, supporting new cultural projects…

Ability Fest. Five men in black T shirts are in front of festival crowd, one on the right is in a wheelchair, smiling and holding a microphone.
News

Ability Fest returns and expands to Queensland

The music festival with inclusion baked into its DNA returns this October.

Image is a blue pencil drawing on paper of three dogs fighting a boar.
Sponsored

How 65,000 years of culture can inform contemporary questions of identity

Every year the Cairns Art Gallery hosts exhibitions of Indigenous artists to coincide with CIAF. In 2024, a diversity of…

on the move. image is bottom half of person wearing pink trousers and green shirt on a skateboard in a skatepark.
News

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

New appointments this week include incoming CEOs at Hobart's Theatre Royal and Geelong Arts Centre, plus a festival favourite signs…

A grey-hair Anglo-Australian man wearing a black suit with a dark red pocket square smiles at the camera. Behind him is a green lawn and trees.
News

Richard Watts receives Medal of the Order of Australia

ArtsHub’s esteemed Performing Arts Editor is recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours List for his services to the arts and…

Suddenly Single at Sixty. Image on left is black and white head and shoulders shot of a 60-something Caucasian blonde woman with short wavy hair. She is smiling. On the right is a yellow book cover with an illustration of a hand holding a glass of sparkling wine.
StarsStarsStarsStarsStars

Book review: Suddenly Single at Sixty, Jo Peck

A splendid and heartfelt response to the oldest clichĂ© in the book – the husband who leaves the writer for…

1 3 4 5 6 7 12