Guides

  1. How Knitters Turned a Street Pole into a Yarn-Bombed LandmarkA plain street pole can disappear into the visual noise of a neighbourhood: parked cars, traffic signs, shopfronts and power lines. Add colour, texture and…
  2. From footpath chatter to tracks: an Australian composer profileIn a foam-paneled back room of a Brunswick share house, a Melbourne-based composer builds entire songs from the voices of strangers. No instruments are played…
  3. Why I Stopped Comparing My Art to My Friends' ArtI spent years scrolling through other artists' work on Instagram in my share house in Newtown, feeling that familiar twist of inadequacy every time someone I…
  4. Trading half-finished creative projects at a community swapIn a quiet studio above a Brunswick café, a painter hands a half-completed canvas to a stranger who promises the final brushstrokes. Down the road in Fitzroy,…
  5. worlds from thrifted finds with a set designer's eyeIn a narrow studio tucked behind a Surry Hills café, set designer Marlowe Quinn transforms forgotten relics into breathing landscapes. Their recent work on an…
  6. Faces in tannin: an Australian portraitist in coffee and teaThere's a quiet corner of a studio in Melbourne's inner north where the air smells less like turpentine and more like a freshly pulled espresso. Here, an…
  7. A Playlist for the Walk Home When Rehearsal Leaves You GlowingThere is a particular kind of energy that arrives after a late rehearsal. Your shoulders are tired, your ears are still ringing softly, and every streetlight…
  8. Capturing Australia's late-night diner regulars over one yearFor twelve months, Sasha Velkovic kept unusual hours. While Sydney slept, she slipped into fluorescent-lit rooms in Surry Hills, Newtown, and inner-Melbourne…
  9. The calligrapher who writes letters for strangers at a farmers marketOn a slow Saturday morning, between a woman selling native finger lime marmalade and a teenager hawking homegrown tomatoes, a small wooden table holds a glass…
  10. From Kiln Ash to a Living GlazeIn a ceramic studio, waste can become part of the work’s identity. For one Australian ceramicist, the pale ash gathered after wood firing is more than residue…