Finding the Art in Phuket

Junk Art Adornment: Hanging Around with an Ocean Alien

by Anthony S. Cameron  

Some of us wear our art on our sleeves, others spray it out in all directions hoping to leave a stain of some sort. Some people … Read More

So Long & Thanks for all the Art

Interview with Martin Paten by Steve Proposch   This year’s Castlemaine State Festival will be the fifth and final event under the direction of Martin Paten. Glyn Roberts, previously Creative Producer at La Boite Theatre Company and Curator of Brisbane … Read More

Trapping the Island Tide

The Sculpture of Jon Eiseman   by Jennifer Choat  

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin,” wrote Aldous Huxley in Brave New … Read More

Social Work: Brentley Frazer

“The case for E-Prime rests on the simple proposition that ‘isness’ sets the brain into a medieval Aristotelian framework that makes it impossible to understand modern problems and opportunities.” – Robert Anton Wilson 1  

At a tender age, while … Read More

Aunty Donna: Aussie Christmas Carol

Thank you to everyone for reading, watching and supporting Trouble in 2016.

Because every new Aunty Donna post is an event at our place, like a warm familial moment together, we wanted to share this video with you. Done … Read More

Bvlgari Belissima

by Inga Walton  

“The only Italian word Elizabeth knows is Bulgari”. (Richard Burton on Elizabeth Taylor).1   Widely recognised as the quintessential Italian jewellery and luxury accessories company, Bulgari actually has its origins in Greece with the silversmith Constantinos … Read More

Desperately Seeking Fox

THE LEN FOX PAINTING AWARD CASTLEMAINE ART GALLERY

by Alexandra Sasse  

Categories. They are very useful things. All sorts of unlikely objects or ideas can be clumped together simply on the basis that they have one thing in common. … Read More

Travels in Clownland: Part 4

Judith Lanigan    

Being handed the keys to the moment …  

On the map of Clownland, we have to now go a bit off to the left, then quite far south, into the country, to a railway hotel … Read More

Surreal Worlds

JOHN LESLIE ART PRIZE Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale

by Alexandra Sasse   This landscape painting prize, based in Sale, is one of those generous moments when a local benefactor makes a significant contribution to the nation’s cultural life. Art awards … Read More

Reg Mombassa: Landscapes

SOCIAL WORK  

Born in New Zealand in 1951, Chris O’Doherty, otherwise known as Reg Mombassa, emigrated to Australia with his family in 1969. After graduating where from the National Art School in Sydney in 1975, he formed rock band … Read More