Guides

  1. Make Old School Art New AgainThere is a particular kind of joy in finding a half-remembered artwork in a family cupboard: the lopsided clay pot, the sun painted purple, the collage made…
  2. Painting in Slower Hands: Making Art with Chronic IllnessFor years I treated my fatigue like an enemy. From the couch in our Fitzroy flat I would watch the afternoon light drift through the window and feel my hands…
  3. Ink, impression, and intention inside a letterpress vow studioIn a quiet studio tucked behind a converted warehouse in Fitzroy, the smell of oil-based ink and damp paper drifts into the lane. Here, a calligrapher named…
  4. Preserving the artists history nearly left behindA conversation with an archivist on preserving the work of forgotten artists begins with a deceptively simple question: what does it mean to be remembered? For…
  5. A Broken Piano Became a Sound Sculpture in a Melbourne LaneIt was a wet Tuesday in Brunswick when Tessa Velar spotted a baby grand pushed up against a skip, its lid warped and three legs snapped clean off. Locals had…
  6. The Photographer Who Sees Modern Life Through a Century-Old LensIn a world of instant images, one photographer is choosing a slower instrument: a camera built roughly a century ago, with a bellows, a mechanical shutter and…
  7. A playlist for a night of dancing alone in your studioThere is a particular kind of freedom in dancing when nobody is watching. The studio becomes less like a workplace and more like a private club: the lights…
  8. Hand-painted sneakers and the shoemaker behind the canvasIn a small studio tucked behind a Brunswick workshop, a shoemaker is reimagining what it means to wear a pair of kicks. Each pair of custom sneakers is treated…
  9. Finding creativity in the quiet spaces of boredomI spent most of last summer convinced I was wasting my life. The hours between commitments felt like gaps to be filled, blank patches that needed patching over…
  10. The Writers Who Meet Where Their Clothes SpinOn Tuesday evenings, a laundromat in inner-west Sydney becomes a temporary writing room. The fluorescent lights stay bright, the dryers hum against the walls,…