Arts & Travel

DESIGN Canberra returns for its seventh year from 9-29 November 2020 with the annual three-week festival taking over the nation’s capital and celebrating Canberra as a global city of design…

Head On Photo Festival, Australia’s leading international annual photography event, announced the winners of the 2020 Head On Photo Awards. Judged anonymously by a panel of internationally recognised photographers, editors…

Elise Hawthorne A great man died this week; not good news. But saying that, I’d like to celebrate the life of George Surtees by posting an article I wrote in…

Announcing the Sydney premiere of Joanne Hartstone’s internationally acclaimed solo show – The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign – headlining as a feature event at the Innocent Bystander…

Collective memory is the basis of a new project that brings 50 years of temporary artworks back to life. Kaldor Public Art Projects is inviting Australians to submit their memories…

Elise Hawthorne I’ve known the remarkable Jaslyn Hall for quite a few years; she is a legend in the music and event world; her creativity and intelligence never ceases to…

Elise Hawthorne Not sure what I’d give my son for his birthday, I remembered he’d enjoyed a photography workshop run by the Aperture Club at a community event a few…

Elise Hawthorne On a recent family trip to Europe, I made sure to include visits to the old Jewish quarters in Vienna (my dad’s home town), Venice and Barcelona. The…

Elise Hawthorne Bursting on to the Australian art scene in the mid-1980s, award-winning artist Wendy Sharpe has gone on to stamp her mark in the art world as an artist…

Elise Hawthorne Getting to the heart of a person takes insight and wisdom, morphing into someone else entirely in front of a packed theatre night after night takes guts and…