A Journal of Australian & International Cultural Reviews, News and Criticism.
The Art world and the literary scene don’t interact in any culturally productive way, yet any writer would admit to feeding off visual art and any visual artist would say the same of literature. Since Tipping is both writer and visual artist, he must be very well-nourished.
Yasmine Gooneratne was a poet, a writer of short stories and novels, and a literary critic, editor and reviewer. Born in Sri Lanka in 1935, while the country was still known as ‘Ceylon’, she was educated at Bishops College School for Girls and the University of Peradeniya, where she was a dedicated student of English literature.
Devika Brendon is a teacher, reviewer and editor of English language and literature. Her poetry, short stories and academic articles have been published in journals and anthologies in Sri Lanka, Australia, India, Africa, Italy and the USA
David Atkinson is an award winning Sydney based poet; his poems have been published widely in Australia, the USA and the UK. David’s awards include the Ros Spencer Poetry Prize (first place), the FAW Jean Stone Poetry Award (first place) and the Tom Collins National Poetry Prize (second and third places).
Grant Bellamy is an emerging artist working on the unceded land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, Sydney. He is a recent graduate of the National Art School where he obtained his Bachelor of Fine Art majoring in painting. Bellamy primarily works in oil paint with a focus on the figure.
Gayelene Carbis is an Australian-Irish-Cornish-Chinese writer of poetry, prose, short film, and plays. Gayelene’s second book of poetry, I Have Decided to Remain Vertical (Puncher and Wattmann) was recently Finalist, International Best Book Awards 2023 (U.S.) and Finalist, Poetry Book Awards 2023 (U.K.).
This book is a representation of various women in the visual sense of being portraits but also a representation of their lives and works. And it’s a representation of Dina’s feminist take on the world: to a large extent, it’s a representation of Dina’s immediate world.
These poems operate in media res, where the writer addresses the reader and engages us in the midst of a flow of ideas and feelings which have begun prior to our arrival, a continuous discourse with that world.
Rochford Street Review 