Rochelle Siemienowicz

Rochelle Siemienowicz is Screen Content Lead at Screenhub. She is a writer, film critic and cultural commentator with a PhD in Australian cinema and was the co-host of Australia's longest-running film podcast 'Hell is for Hyphenates'. Rochelle has written a memoir, Fallen, published by Affirm Press. Her second book, Double Happiness, a novel, is out with Midnight Sun on October 1, 2024. Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle Twitter: @Milan2Pinsk

Rochelle Siemienowicz's Latest Articles

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Features

The Artist's Way Week 4: Recovering a sense of integrity

A new sense of awareness and clarity emerges as we look in the mirror of Morning Pages and take ourselves…

A young woman in a tutu is in an underground railway carriage and swirling around a pole.
Features

The Artist's Way Week 3: Recovering a sense of power

Growth can be erratic and uncomfortable, but it's all part of the process. This week we look at anger, shame…

Features

ABC TV’s new arts show to feature Trent Dalton and Patricia Piccinini

Australian screen luminaries Warwick Thornton and Marta Dusseldorp are among the six creatives interviewed on the new ABC arts show.

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Features

The Artist's Way: Week 2 – recovering a sense of identity

Self-definition is a major component of recovering our creative selves. This week we look at drawing new boundaries and avoiding…

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Features

The Artist’s Way Week 1: Recovering a sense of safety

Fear is the great enemy of creativity. This week we work towards building a sense of safety so we can…

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News

What does the Universities Accord Final Report mean for the arts?

This blueprint for major reform of tertiary education contains little that's specifically about the arts or humanities, but it's there…

Features

Why we need to advocate for visual arts careers at high school

Students and parents need help to overcome limited understanding of careers in the visual arts, says passionate teacher and visual…

Book cover of The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, photographed against a background of an oil painting with a calligraphy pen resting on top.
Features

The Artist's Way – an invitation to change your life

Julia Cameron's creativity manual is still a global bestseller, three decades after it was first published. Come on the journey…

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Career Advice

Me and my mentor: Oakey and Catherine Truman

Paired as part of the groundbreaking Guildhouse Catapult mentorship program, these two South Australian visual artists talk about their process.

NVAEC, Two women in black stand side by side in front of Indigenous wall hanging art. Kelli Cole, Warumungu and Luritja peoples, Curator, Special Projects, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Hetti Perkins, Arrernte and Kalkadoon peoples, co-Curator, in Emily Kam Kngwarray, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2023. Photo: Sam Cooper.
Education & Student News

Repositioning: teaching and learning in the visual arts

The fifth National Visual Art Education Conference (NVAEC) saw teachers, artists and curators gathering to share ideas, inspire each other…

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