With her new album playing in the background, I sat with a cup of tea on a drizzly Byron Bay morning and spoke with musician Indigo Sparke about her experience of this time and her creative collaboration with photographer, Ming Nomchong.
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Meet photographer and artist Julie Poly who sees beauty in the trivial.
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Four years ago, Vince Hunt and Angela Brickwell arrived on a piece of land on Bundjalung country in Billinudgel with big and humble dreams- driven by a desire to cultivate a life closer to nature, community and themselves. First, they started the lifelong journey of regenerating the soil. Simultaneously, they explore what it means to regenerate the spirit.
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Everyone told them it would be a disaster. The house wasn’t even on the market. It was a wreck. It is more than 100-years-old and falling apart. It was inhabited by a long term hoarder and quasi-squatter which meant mould, slanting, draft, dirty carpets, a flooding bathroom, holes in walls and a whole lot of work to be done. Mimi and Sam invited me over to show me how they were about to DIY their dream home.
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After 28 years working in universities, artist Sandra Kaji-O’Grady recently finished designing and building her dream home with her partner John in Upper Coopers Creek. Replacing bustling campuses with the rustling forest has helped Sandra spend more time than ever on her art and right now, that means creating collages.
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Sammy Hawker is an ACT-based visual artist whose practice investigates sites of the Anthropocene. Through facilitating interaction with more-than-human entities, her work aims to draw attention to and make visible hidden temporal realities and cross-species entanglements of the many worlds in which she encounters.
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All of Gerwyn Davies’ photographs are selfies. But instead the reflexive iPhone portraiture we’re accustomed to, Davies buries his own defining features in order to reveal ambiguous, imagined characters – creating art that feels like a gift from another world.
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Bank Australia customers Julia and Jordy Kay have made the first ever Australian-made home compostable cling wrap.
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A feeling has come over me recently ever since my legs have stopped rubbing together on the Lighty -- but only after investing in traditionally daggy workout-wear that actually works, guys (over continuing to suffer in something ‘cooler’).
Read MoreWhen Tom Day created the album Sounds of the Conservation Reserve, he handed the microphone over – to the residents of the old-growth Yellowbox tree, to the howling wind (that nearly claimed one of his tripods!), to the insects, and to the birds.
Read MoreTim Nathan is a young Australian director with a background in photography.
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Ry Eden, artist and producer known as RY X, is an internationally acclaimed musician hailing from Angourie, Northern NSW.
Read MoreAs we dove into this issue’s theme of Mirage it was hard not to find ourselves coming back to the illusory effects of psychedelics.
Read MoreThe humble motel is a stalwart of Australian travel.
Read MoreThis project began as an ode to the importance of dinner time; cataloguing the meal time that the four of us share each night after our service at Fleet – Josh, Rob, Si and myself.
Read MoreOn memory, self and stories.
Read MoreIn writing about writing, Max Favetti excavates his own creative process – inadvertently offering scraps of solace to the other ‘head-banging-against-wall’ creatives out there.
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