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trouble was grass roots arts publishing at its best, made by artists for artists, and was dedicated to reflecting the best of the contemporary Australian art scene and the creatives who make it.
Teaspoon Full
April 2, 2016 | troublemag
It’s been passed down
not like a WW2 sibling’s shrunken jumper
to make ends meet in this then innocent country
but a curio of words that squeezed
between the searchlights under the wires
holding its breath … Read More
Finding the Art in Phuket 2
April 2, 2016 | troublemagPOSSESSIONS, PIERCINGS and PROCESSIONS: The Phuket Vegetarian Festival
by Anthony S. Cameron
I ride through the dawn and make it to Bang Niow shrine by 6.30am, just as the first fireworks break the eerie quiet of the Phuket Town … Read More
Salon April 2016
April 1, 2016 | troublemagDeb Mansfield, The Armchair Traveller (two-seater) 2013, photo-tapestries upholstered onto a reproduction Louis two-seater frame, 93 x 130 x 70 cm. Courtesy the artists and Galerie pompom, Sydney. Interiors / Exteriors, MOP Projects, 2/39 Abercrombie St, Chippendale (NSW), until … Read More
Cam Rogers: writing Quantum Break
April 1, 2016 | troublemaginterview by Steve Proposch
“Interactive fiction is the next stage in how people tell stories,” says Cam Rogers, and he would know. For the last four years the Melbourne-born writer has been residing in Helsinki in Finland writing for … Read More
The Venice Biennale
April 1, 2016 | troublemagby Jim Kempner
Jim explores the Venice Biennale, the City of Love … or is that Paris?
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SALON: March 2016
February 29, 2016 | troublemagCOVER: Ron ROBERTSON-SWANN, Maquette for Vault 1978, synthetic polymer paint on balsa wood, 19.8 x 41.5 x 25.7 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased with the assistance of the NGV Foundation, 2005 (2005.243) © Ron Robertson-Swann/Licensed by VISCOPY, … Read More
Finding the Art in Phuket
February 29, 2016 | troublemagAnthony S. Cameron
Phuket is a strange chunk of paradise. And after four years of living here, I still find it fascinating to watch the daily spectacle as it pours through my window, riding past me on a sidecar … Read More
Blah Blah Ma
February 29, 2016 | troublemagby Jim Kempner
Jim learns the fate of artwork he entrusted to his Mother.
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Darby Hudson: handy poems on the go
February 29, 2016 | troublemag
Darby Hudson writes for a living. He writes for people and the buildings that the people are inside of. At the moment he is re-writing a university’s website in Melbourne. His dreams get more boring the older he … Read More
Andrez Bergen: Magpie
February 29, 2016 | troublemagSOCIAL WORK Andrez Bergen / Magpie (writer) Oi Oi Oi! Issue #7, published by Comicoz February 2016
Andrez Bergen is an Australian expat who’s lived in Tokyo these past fifteen years, working as a journalist, author, musician and artist. … Read More
ACTease April 2014
April 2, 2014 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
What is your favourite children’s book? No matter how hard I try, I can’t choose one. Now that my eldest daughter is nearly two, I have to confess that I’m enjoying rediscovering my old favourite … Read More
ACTease March 2014
March 3, 2014 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
The things that inspire artists constantly amaze and excite me. It could be a word, a feeling, their home or local environment and surroundings that trigger the greatest creative sparks. The beauty of these humble … Read More
ADEloud February 2014
February 8, 2014 | troublemag
by Cassandra Scalzi
Well, Santa may have come and gone and I didn’t get what I wanted, but the silly season is still rife in Adelaide, with a giant cockroach recently being erected in Rundle Mall. Must the … Read More
ACTease February 2014
February 4, 2014 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
“I ain’t no saint, but I’ve tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God … I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. … Read More
Conversations with the Black Square
December 16, 2013 | troublemag
Revisiting the art and theory of Kazimir Malevich through the sculpture of Gill Gatfield
by Jennifer Choat
“I HAVE fished myself out of the rubbishy slough of academic art,” Kazimir Malevich announced in 1915. The Russian artist … Read More
AdeLOUD Dec2013 / Jan2014
December 15, 2013 | troublemag
by Cassandra Scalzi
Do you still believe in Santa? I used to. In fact, I used to visit the big man with the long, white beard every year since I turned 21, inform him of my good behaviour … Read More
ACTease December 2013 / January 2014
December 2, 2013 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
What are the best art exhibitions and shows you’ve seen this year? The last year has been a very special one for Canberra, with 2013 marking the centenary of this extraordinary city. Whilst I’ve enjoyed … Read More
ACTease November 2013
November 1, 2013 | troublemag
Courtney Symes
One of my favourite excursions on a sunny weekend in Canberra is a stroll around Lake Burley Griffin, followed by a wander through the NGA and National Portrait Gallery (and a sneaky coffee stop at one … Read More
ACTease October 2013
October 2, 2013 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
I’m not a camper, So I can empathise with the shock that Belconnen artists Carolyn Fitzpatrick and Carole Osmotherly would have experienced as they reluctantly left the comfort of their Canberra homes to venture on … Read More
ACTease September 2013
September 3, 2013 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
September is one of my favourite months in Canberra. The show-stopper event of the month is Floriade (think one million flowers in Canberra’s Commonwealth Park attracting more than 400,000 visitors), which starts on 14 September, then … Read More
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Dressing the Movies Part One by Inga Walton
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