Sometimes you need to get out of your comfort zones to see what’s really important in life. For Jeremy Beasley, spending 18 days with a Fijian family earlier this year meant deciding to use his photography skills to help build them a new home. A photographer by trade, Jeremy hails from Melbourne, where he runs…
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Over the past few years developments in technology and social media have caused major changes to how we engage with art, culture and each other. The role of the curator in facilitating creativity has also changed. Portable’s Curators Conference offered a platform to discuss just what it means to be a curator in the digital…
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American body artist Andy Golub has caused a bit of a stir in the media of late with news of his models being arrested for public indecency. But what interests me in Golub’s art making practice is the interaction between these paint-clad models, who are often naturalists, and the spectators. Don’t get me wrong, I…
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With the 18th Biennale of Sydney spread across a range of venues including Cockatoo Island, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Pier 2/3 and the Museum of Contemporary Art, I decided a good tactic would be to separately focus on each venue to avoid an art overload. I began my 18thBoS visit with the…
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Street art is often thought of as a dangerous world dominated by men, so I decided to chat to some female Australian street artists to get their perspective. I asked about their influences, what got them started in this scene and what their thoughts are on street art and the law. The sentiment that street…
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Philippa is an illustrator from Adelaide. She successfully combines pen and ink line drawings with digital collage to bring about interesting effects, which allows her to incorporate an array of fabrics and textures into her work, resulting in the perception of hand made illustration and design. I chat with her to see what she’s been…
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Scientists and artists are often portrayed at the opposite ends of the spectrum, with rational thought at one end and creativity at the other. In many ways this is in itself a modern construct as the great thinkers of the past were often both. Now, in the 21st century we are heading back to a…
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Simone Mangos’s DAMAGED – thalidomide victims in medical documents exhibition focuses on the truly horrifying birth defects caused from the pharmaceutical drug thalidomide. Thalidomide was hailed as a super drug in the 1950s and was widely used to treat women’s morning sickness. In the 1960s it was found to be a cause of birth deformities, although…
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It was with trembling knees and more than just a little trepidation that I entered the State Library of NSW to check out the exhibition Recycled Library: Altered books. I’ve always been taught to treat my books with care (even second hand books bought for $1 from Vinnies) and I was about to enter what…
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Meet Genevieve, an emerging artist currently primarily dabbling in documentary and portraiture photography, filmmaking and painting pictured here at the Premiere of her film The Three Minute Project, shot by Christopher Arblaster. Her journey to becoming an artist came as an unexpected wave of abstract creativity inspired by Jackson Pollock, as opposed to her original…
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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…
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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…
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“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,…
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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…
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