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Overcoming common roadblocks to getting started
With any new idea, creative direction, or career path, there are common blocks that stand in our way. Madeleine Dore…
Making it as a regional artist – the realities and the wins
Nicole Welch bypassed Sydney, moving from London to Bathurst. Fourteen years on, she talks about the changes and the challenges…
Embracing risk: moving interstate to further your career
Theatre-maker Steven Mitchell Wright and dancer Ngioka Bunda-Heath discuss their respective decisions to leave Brisbane and embrace Melbourne as their…
Can sound help facilitate self healing?
Whether it’s gongs, mantras, new age music, or a sound bath, there’s a growing awareness of the importance of music…
All at sea: the cannibalisation of the Australian arts industry
The arts in Australia are at risk of being cast adrift from culture and the diverse social and artistic values…
Rehearsing intimacy after #MeToo
Fight directors coordinate fight scenes in theatre, and choreographers assist with movement sequences. Why shouldn't sex scenes also be carefully…
Nginha ngurambang marunbunmilgirridyu: I love this country – but do you?
Jonathan Jones’ Artstate keynote talk offered fresh pathways forward in our complex colonial conversation.
The turgid trajectory of sculpture in education
An international panel at the Sydney Sculpture Symposium asked whether our education system is failing sculpture.
The importance of 'selves-care' on the road
Fresh from a gruelling national tour of Prize Fighter, theatre-maker and physiotherapist Margi Brown Ash discusses the importance of ‘selves-care’…
How well do we remember our artists?
Remembering artists today goes beyond the retrospective exhibition or coffee-table monograph. Find out what’s leading the trend in keeping those…