A Journal of Australian & International Cultural Reviews, News and Criticism.
The Nightmare Sequence is a profound and deeply moving act of truth-telling created by poet Omar Sakr and artist Safdar Ahmed. It is bravely published by University of Queensland Press, in an almost unprecedented period of censorship in Australia’s artistic and literary scene.
Mountain, water and cave refer to three places where Gary Shinfield’s recent work has been made – the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast, and the Grampians.
Multi Award winning poet and photographer, John Bennett has teamed up with well-known musician and sound engineer John Laidler to produce a story of hope and beauty, celebrating endangered wetlands reclaimed after years of industrial pollution.
Carol Archer lives on Worimi land near Bulahdelah in the Myall Lakes region of NSW. Her work spans drawing, painting and printmaking and explores her relationship with trees and forests. Such places are especially precious for an artist who spent many years based in the hyper-urban city of Hong Kong.
I think this is a marvellous and engrossing publication which so beautifully showcases how the two art forms complement and enhance each other – there haven’t been too many collaborations between differing artists in Australian poetry
The Wisdom of Infants. A suite of 6 pictures (enamel on timber construction) by Tony Twigg
with poetry by Mike Ladd
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.
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.
McKimmie uses pigments, salvaged materials and metal-point to create paintings that are psychological landscapes of genuine abstraction, and they have been created slowly with a focus on mark making, and the object as lasting artefact in mind and place.
Rochford Street Review 