The first Australian-born western artist of note.
Unassuming and Retiring
Because They’re So Outrageously Lovely: the Art and Activism of Deborah Wace
Featured photograph is by Conny Harris, with Elizabeth Perey. The first thing I saw was a scarf. Or rather, a photograph of one, delicate, exquisitely patterned, with a graceful drape that could only have been silk. It was lifting in a breeze, the corners held proudly and tenderly by a woman. Weirdly, she seemed... Continue Reading →
Faridah Cameron: the Cultural Translation of Physical Existence
Faridah Cameron speaks eloquently about her work and the myriad influences behind it. Her motivations are complex and profound.
At Home and Not-At-Home: the Uncanny World of Amber Koroluk-Stephenson
Koroluk-Stephenson’s work is a confrontation between the realistic and the artificial. Her landscapes appear familiar, and yet there is a sense of a deeper meaning that vanishes as we try to grasp it. This is the experience of dreams.
A World Apart: Dark MOFO, 2017
In rituals, "relationships are suspended, and everyday life is turned upside-down. They become a temporary world apart." Professor Adrian Franklin, The Making of MONA.
The Handweavers, Spinners and Dyers Guild of Tasmania
Behind Tasmania's stone walls, bright things are happening.
Not Lost After All
(For the history of The Handweavers, Spinners and Dyers Guild see here.) That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. from A Shropshire Lad, 1896 by A. E. Houseman It is a glittering autumn day. The streets of Battery Point are bathed... Continue Reading →
Transgressive, Immersive, Delinquent
Dark MOFO has us looking upwards, into the spaces between the stars and inwards, to our darkest thoughts.
Wonderment
"MONA is a theatre of strange enchantments" Richard Flanagan
Tasmania Stories 