Features

Creative pathways for young people
Creative career opportunities are out there but we can’t rely on formal schooling to prepare for them.

Meet the artists selected to decorate the White House for christmas
A mosaic designer, a glassmaker, a paper sculptor, and a terrarium designer all have a hand at bringing festive cheer…

What ideas are fashionable?
Audiences, grant-givers and art-makers can all be fashion victims, whether they know it or not.

The Australian comic book renaissance
Are Australian graphic novels entering a new golden age?

How to forge powerful relationships
Networking is a skill not a social activity. Here is our guide to forging strong career-building relationships.

Tricky and Mish: A madness to the method
Tasmanian artists Tricky and Mish are inviting you under the skin of their isolated and eccentric fictional figure, Henri Papin.

Christopher Downes
Hobart-based cartoonist, illustrator, dad and beard grower, Christopher Downes swapped the American South for the Australian one.

Soda_Jerk
Soda_Jerk is a New York/Sydney-based two-person international art collective that works with found material to trouble existing formulations of cultural…

50 Shades not bad enough for Sex Awards
E.L. James’ 50 Shades of Grey and J.K. Rowling’s adult novel Casual Vacancy have missed out on the shortlist for…

Top ten films that are better than the book
The usual verdict on a film adaption is almost universally that the book was better. But is that always the…