THE Ellington Jazz Club has a great, diverse lineup of shows for spring. Things kick off this Saturday afternoon (September 19) with award-winning Creole music band Tchéga. An infectious blend […]

IT could be the most difficult question David Whish-Wilson has ever had to answer. Would he swap his new Premier’s Book gong for the Dockers reaching and winning the Grand […]

The blue sky cuts through the world. I haven’t been myself lately, tethered by gravity and the weight of my bones. I catch my heart and reign it in. Wood […]

James: So my first question is, the dynamic, sometimes closed, sometimes open couplets that you use seem to resemble the gathering of light and shifting of twilight; the unmaking that […]

IT wasn’t the most enjoyable experience, but maybe it was something Andrew Grero had to do. The Bassendean artist has documented his daily struggles with young-onset Parkinson’s in his debut […]

EMILY ten Raa clearly loves trees. She sketched nearly 200 seedlings during her lengthy residency at Trillion Trees’ Hazelmere nursery, and then created a further 200-plus paintings from those drawings […]

THE escalating Israeli violence in the Gaza Strip was the catalyst for the post-apocalyptic dance theatre work Conference on Hope at the Blue Room Theatre. Back in 2023, writer Eliza […]

A fiercely independent Western Australian documentary celebrating one of Perth’s great rock ’n’ roll characters has taken another major step onto the international stage, with GREEN: The Fight for Rock […]

THEY say don’t forget your roots. Well, artist Trevor Bly never left. He’s lived in the same house in Craigie since he was 10. In the intervening 30-odd years, he’s […]

DESPITE a long and illustrious career, painter Geoffrey Wake still draws inspiration from the simple things in life—like walking about Fremantle and talking to folk. Every weekday he travels from […]