Features
Smartphone feature film production rises and rises
As the funding environment gets worse, smartphone filmmakers get organised and grow their aesthetic.
Exit interview: Jenny Ryssenbeek, ex-Executive Director, VAPAC
After 15 years as Executive Director of the Victorian Association of Performing Arts Centres, Ryssenbeek has stepped across into a…
Yes to visibility and queer (re)tellings
Authentic narratives are vital for equality, and art can empower these voices and their retelling of history.
Innovation and the art of collaboration
The digital space needs generalists and collaborators for innovative projects to succeed.
Vale Robert MacPherson
Closing a long career, Brisbane artist Robert MacPherson leaves an incredible legacy of weaving the conceptional with the everyday.
Why local engagement is key in repatriating cultural artifacts
Community-based initiatives in culture and heritage help break down colonial power structures at home and abroad, say Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown and…
Celebrating difference through dance
Adelaide’s acclaimed Restless Dance Theatre celebrates 30 years of working with artists with and without disability.
Why Australian crime writers are killing it
Two upcoming crime fiction festivals threaten to spill the beans (and the blood).
Landscape photographers reinvented the colonial project in Australia
Colonial Australia was a product of vision and imagery: literally developed through chemicals, glass and light, says Jarrod Hore.
Environmental art with activist bite
As world leaders struggle to put climate change up front, we look at artists whose work shows they are miles…