No Hands

CreateAbility with Capital Venues & Events   No Hands is a poetic re-imagining of Isak Dinesen’s The Diver. Set in an Islamic culture somewhere in the timeless past, No Hands uses physical theatre, sound and video projection in an exploration … Read More

David LaChapelle

Ballarat International Foto Biennale (BIFB) 19 August – 17 September

IMAGES IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

All images by David LaChapelle. FRONT COVER: Michael Jason in ‘American Jesus: Hold me, carry me boldly’, Hawaii, … Read More

Renewable Energy – Battersea & Bankside

CLIMATE by Creative Cowboy  

Battersea and Bankside Power Stations demonstrate how great old buildings turn into great new ones. And how the energy world moves on. Both power stations were originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, also the … Read More

Sleepwalking Towards the Apocalypse

recent prints by Peter Ward

by Loris Button

Walk into a space filled with Peter Ward’s prints and you immediately feel uplifted. The majority are highly coloured, joyous even in their immediate impression; however look more closely and it is … Read More

Summation of Force

Trent Parke & Narelle Autio

in Association with Closer Productions and the Adelaide Film Festival

              Directors Trent Parke & Narelle Autio in association with Matthew Bate | Editor Raynor Pettge | Composer Jason … Read More

Barry Dickens : Last Words

SOCIAL WORK : A Masterclass  

Introduction Dr Mark Halloran

Barry Dickens was born in 1949 into a working class family in Reservoir, Melbourne. After leaving school at the age of 16 he worked in factories in North Melbourne for … Read More

Creatures Great & Small

Animal Kingdom

Inga Walton  

As part of the annual the ‘House of Ideas’ series at The Johnston Collection, Animal Kingdom (until 19 September, 2017), positions the work of seven contemporary artists alongside those pieces of a similar theme drawn … Read More

Two Singles to Gifu

JAPAN ART & CULTURE by Creative Cowboy  

The flight into Tokyo’s Narita Airport arrives as the sun is setting, we fly in low over the Japanese coast, small islands off to our left, each with an attendant fluffy cloud … Read More

CyberRunner

Josh Van Zuylen  

CyberRunner, a project inspired by the incredible works of Mike Pondsmith, Syd Mead and David Snyder. The ultimate goal, says Josh Van Zuylen was to stand alongside these high-profile legends, who helped to create and develop … Read More

Fitzroyalty

Brunswick Street : Art & Revolution   INTRODUCTION

Steve Proposch

During the 1950s and 60s the Australian working class became the aspirational middle class and moved in great number to the suburbs. These were mainly prewar babies who, now in … Read More