SOCIAL WORK: Sally Smart

Photo by Jeff Wassmann

Which member of your family influenced you the most?

S.S. The Artists in my family. 

Do you have a favourite family story? 

S.S. Love at first sight. 

What do you hope for?  

S.S. The World

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More Heat Than Light: BRETT WHITELEY

Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions National Gallery of Victoria until 28 January 2019

by Alexandra Sassé  

Prolific, intense and successful, Brett Whiteley’s art and life have been difficult to separate. Twenty-six years after his untimely death, his work lives on … Read More

Deep Trouble #7: Manisha Anjali

with Dr Mark Halloran     Or listen on iTunes, Spotify or Stitcher

Indian-Fijian poet Manisha Anjali was born in Suva, the capital of Fiji, and we begin by discussing the importance of familial and national history in the development … Read More

Deep Trouble #9: Prof. Bain Attwood

with Dr Mark Halloran     Or listen on iTunes, Spotify or Stitcher

Professor Bain Attwood has published extensively on the history of colonialism and indigenous history. His latest book, The Good Country (Monash University Publishing): “eschews the generalisations … Read More

Deep Trouble #6: The Hon. Kelvin Thomson

with Dr Mark Halloran     Or listen on iTunes, Spotify or Stitcher

In conversation with the Hon. Kelvin Thomson, ex-federal politician and Shadow Attorney General for the Rudd Labour government, we discuss immigration, population growth, the Rudd-Gilliard-Rudd years, and … Read More

Deep Trouble #5: Dr Olfat Mahmoud

with Dr Mark Halloran     Or listen on iTunes, Spotify or Stitcher

In this episode we are in conversation with internationally recognised Palestinian activist Dr Olfat Mahmoud, a Palestinian refugee, born in a refugee camp in Lebanon 58 years … Read More

Half a Century in the Public Eye

Kaldor Public Art Projects Celebrates HALF A CENTURY IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Art Gallery of New South Wales until 16 February 2020

Half a Century in the Public Eye, is an exhibition created by acclaimed British artist Michael Landy and … Read More

Gothic Beauty

Victorian notions of love, loss and spirituality

Bendigo Art Gallery 6 October 2018 – 10 February 2019

IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

Bill HENSON, Untitled 2011/2012, archival inkjet pigment print, 127 … Read More

Deep Trouble #3: Jennifer Byrne

with Dr Mark Halloran     Or listen on iTunes or Spotify

Professor Jennifer Byrne has spent her scientific career analysing childhood and adult cancers at a molecular level. Her PhD studies mapped loss of chromosome 11p15 loci in embryonal … Read More

Finding the Art in Phuket

A Drop in the Ocean

by Anthony S. Cameron  

The steel comes out of the forge the colour of straw and trapped in the liquid moment that has had me mesmerised for years. In the liquid moment, the steel … Read More