Arts

Murray Fredericks previously photographed a series of large-scale landscape photographs with fire as their central theme. While shooting, he filmed BLAZE, an observational documentary by Academy Award-nominated team Bentley Dean (director) and Tania Nehme (editor). From the start of his career Fredericks process has involved prolonged solo journeys to remote and often extreme locations. Using [...]Read More... from ARTS FRIDAY: Head On Photo Festival with Murray Fredericks

News photographer, Jake Nowakowski’s, Superheroes in lockdown was produced during Melbourne’s restrictive and prolonged 112-day COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. The subjects are serious cosplayers who would usually spend their days visiting patients in hospitals or attending Comic-Con events, but just like the rest of the Melbournian population, they were confined to their homes. Jake Nowakowski, [...]Read More... from ARTS FRIDAY: Head On Photo Festival with Jake Nowakowski

John Donegan is an artist with a background in photojournalism. His artistic practice searches for the beauty in ordinary rhythms of everyday life, often highlighting the seemingly unimportant, insignificant, or unseen. The Broken Creek marks a turning point, whereby Donegan is exploring finding peace within nature and himself. John Donegan, Photojournalist Exhibition: The Broken Creek [...]Read More... from ARTS FRIDAY: Head On Photo Festival with John Donegan

Moshe Rozenveig OAM is the founder, creative director and lead curator of the Head On Photo Festival and he joins us now to provide insight into this year’s Head On Photo Festival program. [...]Read More... from ARTS FRIDAY: Head On Photo Festival with Moshe Rosenzveig

A history of an institution could be dull, but not when it’s about the Art Gallery of New South Wales and written by Steven Miller, the gallery’s archivist – who writes with style, wit and great knowledge. The book’s title – The Exhibitionists – gives an intriguing idea of what might be inside! Arts Thursday’s [...]Read More... from THIS CULTURAL LIFE: THE EXHIBITIONISTS

Textiles breaking the barriers of technology, form and material.   On Arts Thursday 28 April 2022, Maisy Stapleton visited  the exhibition Pliable Planes, a major exhibition of experimental textiles and fibre practices by leading Australian practitioners at the UNSW galleries. Maisy interviewed Co Curator of the show, Catherine Woolley and artist Kate Scardifield, who worked [...]Read More... from THIS CULTURAL LIFE: PLIABLE PLANES

With the 22 federal elections to be held on 21 May 2022, arts voters might like to consider future support for the arts, when making their mind up about candidates and political parties and groups. Arts Thursday, with Maisy Stapleton spoke to Penelope Benton, the Executive Director of NAVA – the National Association for the [...]Read More... from THIS CULTURAL LIFE – VOTE FOR ART

Renowned architect Richard Johnson speaks of his philosophy and approach when designing exhibitions [...]Read More... from designing for art exhibitions

Window, Cricket Bat is a performance developed for the exhibition Happy Objects now on show at the Australian Design Centre. The exhibition celebrates the power of objects to link us to people and places, ideas and memories. Written by Hilary Bell, Window, Cricket Bat is a collaboration between Griffin Theatre and the Australian Design Centre, [...]Read More... from SMASHING!

On 13 May Maisy Stapleton spoke to Deborah Ely AM about her role at Bundanon. Bundanon on the Sholhaven River near Nowra was given to the nation by Arthur and Yvonne Boyd in 1993 as a remarkable cultural and environmental asset. For the last 15 years, CEO Deborah Ely has nurtured, developed and transformed its [...]Read More... from Considering the Arts – Deborah Ely, CEO of Bundanon

Jennifer Bott AO joined Maisy Stapleton on Arts Thursday July 8 for a thoughtful discussion on the value of the arts. It was also a nopportunity to to explore Jenny’s stellar career in the arts and in cultural leadership roles. Jenny’s distinguished career has embraced almost every form of the arts from community practice, to [...]Read More... from Considering the Arts … Jennifer Bott

Coupe has written the definitive biography on one of Australia’s greatest rock icons. His book, ‘The Man, The Music and the Life in Between’,  describes insights about the highs and lows of Kelly’s career from humble beginnings to the everlasting legacy we now know today. [...]Read More... from Paul Kelly by Stuart Coupe

A one-off special looking at the impact of coronavirus on the world of Arts. As Australia adapts to life under new rules, Eastside’s Arts programming is changing. In this podcast we ask how Sydney’s Arts scene is adapting. Featuring an in-depth interview with Dr Fiona Stanaway, clinical epidemiologist at the University of Sydney. Also featured [...]Read More... from ARTS SPECIAL: Coronavirus and Creatives

Paul & Anthony chat with Waverley Council Mayor Paula Masselos on Arts Monday on Eastside Radio. Paula discusses that the pavilion will stay the centre of the community and remain the centre of arts for the community as well. During the interview she tells us how the whole building is going to be refreshed. To [...]Read More... from Mayor Paula Masselos Restoring Bondi Pavilion

Sienna Brown, author of Master of My Fate discusses her novel of one man’s story – being born into slavery in Jamaica, later captured as a convict, sent to NSW and imprisoned at Hyde Park Barracks. A wide variety of topics ranging from Brown’s inspiration, characters and the central role of women in the novel [...]Read More... from PJ from Dial Afrika talks with author Sienna Brown

Megan Washington is curating and performing We Are Twenty, the 20th birthday concert for the City Recital Hall and joining her on the line up will be Queensland innovators Topology, the Luke Howard Trio and Electric Fields. Megan will be performing a brand new work with Topology based on the speeches of Swedish climate activist [...]Read More... from Megan Washington Talks About We Are Twenty

Paul Kildea, the newly appointed Artistic Director of Musica Viva outlines his vision and previews the 2020 concert season. [...]Read More... from The new Artistic Director for Musica Viva talks to Arts Monday

Caroline Mackaness was responsible for the delivery, on behalf of the Trustees, for the Centenary of Anzac legacy project to complete the original 1930s design vision for the State’s Memorial in Sydney’s Hyde Park – along with significant new community and education facilities. She was Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday 2 October 2019, filling us in [...]Read More... from ANZAC Memorial Hyde Park with Sylvia Rosenblum

Would you love your name on a plaque, recognising your charitable contributions? Do you donate to causes and charities because helping others improves lives? Giving makes you feel good. Lucy Bloom knows a thing or two about how charities run. Lucy is a writer, speaker and consulting CEO who raised an impressive $7million for an [...]Read More... from Lucy Bloom talks about her memoir “Get the Girls Out” on Arts Friday with Claudia Chan Shaw

In this chapter, Ed talks of the challenges of an ever-expanding Sydney and nominates the following 5 areas as critical: population, water, geography and topography, transportation and infrastructure, the harbour and waterfront. Remember to download this chapter (and the others) at https://medium.com/sydneyxxxl   [...]Read More... from Sydney XXXL Chapter 4 with Sylvia Rosenblum