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A regional Queensland university reawakens the creative arts
After an unprecedented year in the tertiary sector, University of Southern Queensland’s School of Creative Arts has launched a slate…
Film Review: Creed II
With this follow-up to 2015’s Creed, the Rocky franchise delivers its first direct follow-up with heft and weight.
The Innocents
Retracing history and probing iconography and assumptions, Anne Fontaine's convent-set drama steps beyond the monochrome.
Diversity and decolonisation: making the invisible visible
How do populations that have been historically subjected to the forces of imperialism not only prosper within the arts, but…
How to be a socially engaged artist
The path to making socially engaged art is paved with questions that a creative practitioner must ask themselves.
How to work the performing arts market
Advice for those working the room at the Australian Performing Arts Market applies to anyone with creative product they want…
God Willing
An attempt to offer an amusing look at science versus religion ends up testing faith on screen and off.
The Lobster
Slyly cynical yet unwavering beautiful, Yorgos Lanthimos' English-language debut is a stroke of social commentary brilliance.
Where no scientist has gone before...the arts
As the first scientist in residence at an art gallery and the first scientist to judge the Man Booker Prize,…
Regional arts leverages cultural tourism
Small towns are building big business with festivals and exhibitions that bring people from larger population centres.