Vanessa Francesca

Vanessa Francesca is a writer who has worked in independent theatre. Her work has appeared in The Age, The Australian and Meanjin

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Exhibition review: Transpires, Brett Colquhoun

Expansive paintings that provoke wonder and contemplation of time.

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Theatre review: Caught

A puzzle of a play that intricately folds in issues about art and social justice.

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Theatre review: Birthday Book of Storms

A magical realist imagining of the triangle of poets: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill. But whose story is…

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Exhibition review: Sieve See: Ann Debono

The world as seen by the artist through 'grids, grilles, apertures, detritus, reflections and shadows.'

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Theatre review: Anna K

A modern day interrogation that riffs off Anna Karenina and explores how women are treated in the public arena.

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Theatre review: Medea: Out of The Mouths of Babes

Euripides' classic tale as seen through Medea's children is flamboyant but muddied.

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Theatre review: My Self In That Moment

Chamber Made's latest work explores the fragmented self in the digital age.

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Exhibition review: And she was wearing trousers

New multimedia commissions from African artists take from the past and the present.

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Theatre review: The Amateurs, Red Stitch

Parallelisms explored between plagues past and present, and the shift between the Dark Ages and the Enlightenment.

A grey-haired woman wearing a white shirt and white-framed glasses sits in front of a crowded bookcase.
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The work will outlast the life: Gwen Harwood as feminist icon

Gwen Harwood may be one of Australia’s most celebrated 20th century poets but has often not been seen for the…

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