The Forever Princess

by Inga Walton

(re-edited article originally published in Trouble October 2009)  

A long time ago, in a film franchise not too far away, the Museum of Science in Boston and Lucasfilm conjured up an exhibition …

It is fair … Read More

SALON February 2016

Relevant sites

– blindside.org.au – liverpoolstgallery.com.au – nightterrorstour.com – latrobe.edu.au/vac – sheppartonartmuseum.com.au – sutherlandshire.nsw.gov.au/ – federation.edu.au/pogallery  

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David Bowie: The Man Who Fell to Melbourne

Inga Walton (originally published Trouble isn 128, October 2015)

  “We keep talking about Bowie, and actually we’re talking about ‘the myth of Bowie’. I’m not sure he even knows who he is anymore, rather like some actors … because … Read More

Masayoshi Sukita: Photographing the Starman

Inga Walton (originally published Trouble isn 94, September 2012)

  “It’s very hard for me to accept that Sukita-san has been snapping away at me since 1972, but that really is the case. I suspect that it’s because whenever he’s … Read More

Wood & Tradition: Joined at the Hip

Gordon Dowell  

Sitting on a shaving horse (aka The Pleasure Pony) and armed with a razor-sharp drawknife, Lachie Park is using the centuries-old method of green woodworking known as ‘bodging’ to produce two hundred wooden pegs. He is adamant … Read More

Memento Park: An Audience with the Comrades

Inga Walton  

When your Socialist utopia crumbles under the weight of decades of anger and seething resentment on the part of the brutalised proletariat, what becomes of the visual representations of that oppression? Any despotic régime worthy of a … Read More

A Post Encounter with Casper Jean Rimbaud

SOCIAL WORK  

Casper Jean Rimbaud is an author and multi-media artist from Melbourne. His first novel, Post Encounter (Fiction Terrifica, 2015), tells the terrifying story of an ordinary middle class Australian family held captive in their home by a … Read More

Trent Parke: the camera is god

ALL IMAGES: Trent Parke, courtesy of the artist and Stills Gallery (Sydney) – Trent Parke: the camera is god, Monash Gallery of Art (MGA), 860 Ferntree Gully Road, Wheelers Hill (VIC), 26 November 2015 to 21 February 2016 – mga.org.au … Read More

How To Run An International Film Festival: SURVIVAL GUIDE

Neil Boyack

Community Engagement Coordinator & Director, CAFS Survival International Film Festival  

You might think that social welfare organisations and film festivals have little in common, but it has become apparent to me, as both a writer and organiser … Read More

Australian Print Triennial

the inaugural

Mildura BMW Australian Print Triennial 29 October – 1 November 2015  

Spearheaded by local gallery The Art Vault, the Mildura BMW Australian Print Triennial was a major international art event, bringing together artists, academics, arts ambassadors and … Read More