Guides

  1. Finding purpose through creative pop-upsI used to think purpose would arrive as a clear professional title, a perfectly formed business idea, or a sentence I could repeat at networking events.…
  2. The jewellery maker who sources gemstones from demolished buildingsSome gemstones arrive in velvet boxes. This maker’s most memorable stones arrive in rubble sacks, timber crates and site-salvage bins, still carrying flecks of…
  3. Bad drawings and belly laughs: a meetup built on creative surrenderIn a rented room above a Brunswick wine bar, twenty strangers clutch paper like it might explode. Some have drawn a dog that looks like a bin. Others have…
  4. Why a photographer commits to film, even at fast-paced eventsThe hum of a digital sensor, the instant preview, the safety net of a thousand exposures per card. For most photographers working events today, that is the…
  5. Painting over the past: a muralist on building through layersIn a narrow warehouse studio tucked behind a Brunswick café, painter Mira Hollow covers her own finished murals as calmly as if she were stirring a pot of tea.…
  6. The Weaver Turning Abandoned Lots into Living ColourAt the edge of a Melbourne laneway, an old parking strip can look like wasted space: cracked asphalt, waist-high weeds and a fence softened by windblown grass.…
  7. Sounds for the Quiet Hours Before Australia WakesThere is a particular kind of stillness that arrives in the hours before sunrise, when the sky begins to lighten but most of the world remains asleep. In those…
  8. The Poet Who Types a Haiku for a StrangerAt a folding table in a busy market, a poet invites strangers to offer three things: a name, a mood and one small detail from their day. Then the keys begin to…
  9. The Creative Power Of Saying NoA collaborative project can arrive wrapped in all the language that makes a creative person feel needed: exciting, urgent, community-minded and “a great fit”.…
  10. A stop-motion filmmaker who builds worlds from baking ingredientsThere is a quiet corner of contemporary cinema where cupcakes become mountains, bread slices become forests and rolling pins become dollies. Emma Park, a…