Vanessa Francesca
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Exhibition review: Transpires, Brett Colquhoun
Expansive paintings that provoke wonder and contemplation of time.
Theatre review: Caught
A puzzle of a play that intricately folds in issues about art and social justice.
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…
Exhibition review: Sieve See: Ann Debono
The world as seen by the artist through 'grids, grilles, apertures, detritus, reflections and shadows.'
Theatre review: Anna K
A modern day interrogation that riffs off Anna Karenina and explores how women are treated in the public arena.
Theatre review: Medea: Out of The Mouths of Babes
Euripides' classic tale as seen through Medea's children is flamboyant but muddied.
Theatre review: My Self In That Moment
Chamber Made's latest work explores the fragmented self in the digital age.
Exhibition review: And she was wearing trousers
New multimedia commissions from African artists take from the past and the present.
Theatre review: The Amateurs, Red Stitch
Parallelisms explored between plagues past and present, and the shift between the Dark Ages and the Enlightenment.
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…