Amazing Local Talent at the Brisbane Writers Festival
Image: Betty Churcher’s Notebooks It’s Brisbane Writers Festival time again and Brisbane is in for a real treat when local born and one of Australia’s best loved art critics, Betty Churcher showcases her most beloved works, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, Velzquez, Courbet and Cezanne, with her own amazing illustrations in her latest book, Notebooks, [...]
Get your chalk out!
I am always a sucker for good old hand-drawn typography, but hand-drawn typography on a blackboard is just another level of amazement. Seeing as my blackboard writing skills were clearly tragic when I worked at a school, Dana Tanamachi is my new idol. Take a look at some of her work! If you want to [...]
A Brisbane Papergirl!
I’ve just discovered that the art project ‘Papergirl‘, is happening in Brisbane! Papergirl Brisbane is a project produced by For Us By Us, that involves artists of all varieties submitting their artwork and having it delivered to the public. The art is not curated or filtered, it is just rolled up into bundles of three [...]
Semi-Permanent Hits Brisbane This Friday
Are you one of the lucky ones to score a ticket to Semi-Permanent in Brisbane this Friday? I hope so, because this year’s conference is looking pretty awesome and tickets are sold out! Every year in 8 cities across the world Semi-Permanent showcases the best in graphic design, film, fine art, illustration, web design, interactive [...]
Splendid art at Splendour in the Grass
As one of the 30,000 or so people donning my gumboots for Splendour in the Grass this weekend, I’m getting excited not only for the big acts, but also for the inspiring Spendour arts scene. This year there will be a range of interactive, digital media, street art, sculpture, peformance art and installations from Australian [...]
Marian Drew curates Buoyancy exhibition in Brisbane
Water… what does it mean to you? If you’re a beach baby, you’re probably imagining aqua blue waves crashing onto the shore. Perhaps water brings emotions of tranquility and peace if you seek refuge in being close to the ocean. Or perhaps water brings back sad memories of the Queensland floods this year. For Marian [...]
Accessible food for thought
If not now, then when? If not me, then who? These two interesting questions come from a TED Talk by Mick Ebeling, an entrepreneur who did something amazing and helped “unlock a locked-in artist”. He helped give a paralysed artist who had only the use of his eyes a way to express himself artistically again. [...]
World Press Photo hits Brisbane Powerhouse
The world’s most prestigious photo-journalism annual exhibition, World Press Photo, is coming to Brisbane for its fourth year running. The amazing collection showcases some of the most beautiful, haunting, shocking, and very raw moments from across the globe as photographed by the more than 100 million entrants. Earlier this year the winners were announced (read [...]
‘The Fearful’ by Somerset Mills: creativity on a budget
On Friday night I was treated to a very interesting and exciting bit of theatre, as well as a lesson in ‘creativity on a budget’. In an abandoned lot in West End, Brisbane, against a grungy backdrop of rubble and graffiti, some very talented actors brought “The Fearful” to life as part of the Anywhere Theatre [...]
Come Together Brisbane TVC campaign
I really love the new Brisbane City Council’s “Come Together Brisbane” TV Advertising campaign. It’s fun, energetic and fresh and sends the message that its business as usual in Brisbane and this is the place to see and to have fun. I also love the Hungry Kids of Hungary and Ball Park Music’s rendition of [...]
