artist profile: sara tatai
Sara Tatai is an Australian Sudanese artist. Sara has a BA in Painting and Photography from Deakin University, and a MA Design from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Sara is currently based in Melbourne, Australia. How would you best describe your style and method? My style is about colour, pattern and texture, and my [...]
artist profile: vera ada
Véra Ada is a 22 year old linguistics graduate with a keen interest in photography and languages. Whilst the latter is the main focus of her career, she considers picture-making as her creative self. After picking up a point & shoot digital camera 5 years ago, she now works in multiple formats, including 35mm and [...]
artist profile: amy blue
Amy Blue is a 26-year-old artist studying a Bachelor of Illustration at NMIT. How would you best describe your style? Sometimes rough, sometimes soft. I feel like I have two distinctive styles: one direct and one understated. What mediums are used in your work? I love my pacer pencil! I also use ink, pantones, charcoal, [...]
artist profile: nikita burt
Describe your work in five words or less. Creative deconstruction and reconstruction How did you get started in this business? Initially through studying fine art, and then creative arts therapy Did you want to pursue art when you were growing up? Who were your early influences? Yes, always. I think my family were in many [...]
artist profile: aida sabic
Melbourne artist Aida Sabic wields her pencil (usually, though all mediums are her playthings) to create darkly and beautiful feminine realistic portraits and intricately captured moments in time. The various displays of elegance, raw winsomeness and symbolic measures of darkness all coalesce perfectly in the hands of Sabic. How did you first discover your passion [...]
art profile: mika ninagawa
Dramatic, vivid, loud, beautiful… These words spring to mind when admiring the stand- out photography of Mika Ninagawa, with almost every colour in the rainbow making an appearance in many of her photos, along with daring and dramatic lashings of femininity. Ninagawa, born in 1972 in Tokyo, Japan, specialises in both portrait photography and still [...]
29 Ways to Stay Creative
Being creative is hard. It’s unpredictable, and difficult to control. Sometimes it just flows (for me, it’s usually when I’m in that in-between state of consciousness, about to fall asleep- which is both wonderful and incredibly annoying), other times you feel like there’s an empty void where all your ideas should be. But there’s nothing [...]
Covering Lolita
“Lo-li-ta.” One of the most incredible, beguiling, mesmerising books in the history of English literature. Also one of the most controversial- which perhaps adds to its inherent allure. On the one hand, it’s a beautiful, deeply painful love story. Then you remember the creepy underbelly, and it hits you all over again. Descriptions of such [...]
Katy Grannan: Poet of the down-and-out
There’s something disarming about Katy Grannan’s sun-bleached, strangely melancholy portraits. Taken against white stucco walls under the strong, unforgiving midday light of Hollywood Boulevard and San Fransisco’s Tenderloin District, Grannan’s images capture the strange and familiar, nakedly exposing their subjects as they have chosen to be seen. It’s a narrative of a first encounter, imbued [...]
For Japan: Wish on paper cranes
Watching the horrifying aftermath of the earthquake in Japan, all most of us can do is send our wishes. It’s overwhelming, perplexing. It’s easier to just hide away and shut it out. But if you’re feeling too defeated by it all to even send hope out into the universe, this lovely drawing by Kelly Smith [...]
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