theatre review: the glass menagerie
For his last show as the Artistic Director of State Theatre Company of SA, Adam Cook has selected a well-known and much loved author. Tennessee Williams once described The Glass Menagerie as the saddest play he’d ever written. To depict that kind of emotion on the stage as a farewell would be a stunning departure, [...]
crumbling ecologies: craft, community, fragility
Craft and community are intertwined concepts, but both are under threat. Our affection for all things handmade has not been enough to preserve the fringes of arts education during tough economic times. Artist Jasmine Targett noticed this, and from it sprang a sprawling, delicate project that brought countless crafters together. What emerged was her series [...]
art review: the clock
Time schedules our day. This is obvious. We get up at a particular time, we get to work or meet people at specified times. We might like lunch at midday or one o’clock or one thirty. If we are late to appointments, we run the risk of missing the person we want to see. We [...]
project 300
“Lend a moment to your imagination and cast your mind back to your childhood, but replace your suburban surroundings with the Nepalese countryside. Where planned streets and roads are replaced by scarcely scattered buildings and rolling hills, with opportunities for schooling few and far between. Now that your mind has carried you there in thought, [...]
interview: valentina palonen
Melbourne based artist Valentina Palonen has been exhibiting since her undergraduate years and doesn’t mind changing her approaches. She’s an interdisciplinary artist, at home with sculpture, installation as well as conceptual art. I recently interviewed Valentina during her residency in Tasmania. You’ve recently completed a residency at University of Tasmania, in Launceston, can you tell [...]
adelaide fringe theatre review: just like the movies
I do understand that the goal of most Adelaide Fringe theatre productions (or indeed, any and all arts productions) is not to appeal to me, personally. And yet, as I watched Just Like The Movies at the cosy Paper String Plastic, I wondered if maybe this one had been tailored specifically for me, such was [...]
adelaide fringe theatre review: sepia by emily steel
Sepia is a play about cuttlefish. It’s also not about cuttlefish at all. It’s a play about family, about big company construction and small town politics, about the environment, about opportunity – all jammed into about 50 minutes. Directed by Nescha Jelk, Sepia tells the story of a Whyalla family, tracking their progression through life [...]
Confessions from a girl who doesn’t ‘get’ Visual Art: A review of the Paste-Up Project
I have a confession: This morning I woke up in a cold sweat when I remembered that I was reviewing the first day of the Paste-Up Project (a You Are Here festival event that involves turning the outside wall of the Canberra Museum and Gallery into an open-air gallery). I called myself a variety of [...]
adelaide fringe comedy review: bob downe, 20 golden greats
Bob Downe is one of those Australian comedians who most of you would probably identify as just “that guy”. You know, those people who have been around for ages but don’t seem to do much these days to warrant their continual presence on your cultural radar. When Bob and his polyester pants returned to Adelaide [...]
adelaide fringe theatre review: status update, a guide to early 21st c life
Over the course of my creative arts degree, I had to do a couple of subjects in screenwriting. I liked them, but given that my interests are in poetry and nonfiction, these subjects never seemed quite as useful to me as did others. Until I saw Status Update. Thanks to said subjects, I was able [...]
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