When Emily Floyd was a child, she’d go on protests with her mother and father, demonstrations that focussed on the rights of working women and the need for state-subsidised day care centres for children.
Artist Profile
18.12.21
Artist Profile: Libby Hathorn
When Libby Hathorn ‘s first picture story book came out in 1979, the publisher cavilled at the species of tree being depicted in the tale.
18.12.21
Artist Profile: Catherine Hill
Catherine Hill says inexperience was sometimes a plus when making her first feature film, Some Happy Day. The shoot involved 60 actors, 60 crew and more than 150 community supporters.
25.10.21
Advice from a freelance arts hack
For this month’s newsletter I’ve been asked to write a piece about the best way to prepare for a media interview; I acknowledge the irony in the timing, given that most people in the creative industries have never been so challenged or so un-interviewed, except for the odd story of career blight and dreams dashed.
15.06.21
Artist profile: Arnie Zable
One of my first encounters with the writer Arnold Zable was in the form of a small suitcase that had belonged to his father. It was part of an exhibition at Melbourne’s Jewish Museum in 2011.
21.03.21
Artist Profile: Daniel Crooks
When Daniel Crooks was a film student at VCA in the 1990s, he filled his bedroom with old TVs. The local Northcote tip sold obsolete sets for a dollar and he’d take them home and play around with their capabilities.
14.12.20
Artist profile: Lisa Roet
We’re discussing the study of humans, their ancestors and the other species to which we’re related. This subject and the fragile environments humans have created for so many species, is at the core of Roet’s practice, which includes works on paper, large-scale installations, sculpture and jewellery.
05.10.20
Artist profile: Rhys Mitchell
Sleeping in a walk-in wardrobe might not be everyone’s idea of the Hollywood dream but for Rhys Mitchell, a bit of deprivation on the road to success is par for the course.
23.06.20
Artist Profile: Yvette Coppersmith
When Yvette Coppersmith was fifteen she visited her first Archibald Prize exhibition. “I looked at them all,” she comments “and remember standing there wondering how the artists painted them”.
10.12.19
Gallerist profile: Stuart Purves
Home was the Australian Galleries, founded by his parents Anne and Tam in 1956. Stuart was ten when it opened and that’s when his real education began, he says.
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