In iso-limbo, these things have helped me to drift rather than row against the tide.
Pioneer portraits
British composer Jessica Dannheisser (pictured) used seven portraits of...
A new book by Plastic Free July founder Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and author Joanna Atherfold Finn encourages people to quit single-use plastics. In this Q&A...
NEWTOWN: As Covid-19 lockdowns lifted, Newtown-based sustainable fashion label, the Social Outfit, came up with a fun way to raise awareness and vital funds...
Lost ways. Lost bees. Lost serenity. It would be hard to watch this twice Oscar-nominated documentary and not feel devastated for Hatidze Muratova – one of the last Macedonian wild beekeepers.
Isla’s Family Tree is a delightfully conceived picture book that features a little girl who can’t see how the twins her heavily pregnant mother is carrying will fit into her family.
“For us it’s about creating love in a black takeaway container,” said Two Good’s head chef Jane Strode. “We work with our suppliers to get the best ingredients. Each dish is full of fresh, nutritious produce and cooked with love by our Two Good team.”
As the coronavirus pandemic bites more deeply, people across the globe are hurting and grieving – the people of South Sydney among them. Over the last month, we have watched and listened with pride and gratitude as people in our area have reached out, acted generously and banded together online and (safely) through other means.
Poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield’s fourth collection, Toward Antarctica, (Red Hen Press), is an insider’s love letter to one of the world’s most iconic wild places, and I found it unique, moving and brilliantly informative.
Urgent cooperative action is needed to prevent further destruction of the world’s reefs, including the Great Barrier Reef, and of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans on which many creatures and ecosystems depend.
Kirli Saunders was recently selected as NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year. In this Q&A she talks about her groundbreaking project Poetry in First Languages, and her award-winning writing.
EVELEIGH: Carriageworks feels very different from my previous visits thanks to the colourful hues of Rebecca Baumann’s “Radiant Flux” shifting across the walls and floors in response to sunlight.
Bakarra (long-necked turtles), jinma (bull sharks), and gundhurru (olive pythons) are three of the ten animals children will love counting as they turn the pages of Jill Daniels's Counting Our Country.
In a summer of catastrophic bushfires, devastating loss of life, and relentless political slyness Vicki Hastrich’s Night Fishing: Stingrays, Goya and the Singular Life is a book of solace.
WATERLOO: In 2018, when Australian environmentalist Bob Brown called for artists to visit the threatened ecosystem of the Tarkine in north-west Tasmania and to...
Cornelia Parker’s genius finds its perfect expression in her large-scale installation War Room, 2015. In this work, the prominent UK artist has suspended the...
The Redfern-Waterloo Tour of Beauty features prominently in the How the City Cares exhibition at Customs House in Circular Quay. It sits proudly among...
These two books use evocative imagery and few words to tackle human and inhuman reactions to migration – and illustrating their consequences to younger readers.
This strange and unsettling novel begins with its protagonist driving and hitting something on Lawson Street, outside Redfern station. When he returns later, the blood on the road convinces him it really happened. But where is his victim?
Trust me: these books are more than misery memoirs ...
Daughterly consolation
“People live on, I thought, thinning themselves out until you can see right through...
Redfern-based music producer and manager Vicki Gordon, founder of Australian Women in Music Awards (AWMA), has long championed gender and cultural equality in the Australian music industry.
After a series of personal losses, Balmain artist Naomi Downie found that painting water and nature was soothing. “By the end, I started to lift off, like the water had done its job.”
Curved humans with egg-shaped faces, maternal figures that might be the Madonna, suns that could be halos, strolling lovers, and Greek and Australian landscapes...
People born in a non-English speaking country have similar rates of disability as other Australians but are about half as likely to receive formal disability services according to a report launched in Redfern on February 13.
Siena Stubbs was just 12 years old when she captured the bird photos that feature in this delightful book – birds she’d seen in and around Yirrkala in North East Arnhem Land all her life.
