Of change and resilience
TWO years in the making, Farm is a unique collaboration between Merredin farmers and Spare Parts Puppet Theatre. Spare Parts’ creative team immersed itself in the daily lives of the […]
TWO years in the making, Farm is a unique collaboration between Merredin farmers and Spare Parts Puppet Theatre. Spare Parts’ creative team immersed itself in the daily lives of the […]
WILLAGEE playwright David Milroy and mate Geoffrey Narkle planned to write a play about travelling boxing shows, but something kept getting in the way. “Once we started, the big issue, […]
THERE’S an edge of darkness to Neil Simon’s Laughter on the 23rd Floor, despite the laugh-a-minute jokes that sent chuckles and guffaws around the State Theatre this week. Set in […]
IT started with a couple of “naive” 25-year-olds being asked to put on a short film festival to attract young people to Rottnest in winter. Ronan Freeburn had a look […]
ONE day when my children were little John Anthony (pictured, right) stuck his head and one arm through the rear window of my car and, with a challenging tone, asked “how […]
LIGHTHOUSES and the sea tie Fremantle and Rottnest Island together. Apt then that Fremantle Arts Centre’s first Rottnest artist-in-residence Lorraine Biggs uses the themes to draw on her family history […]
BARACK OBAMA’S face beamed from the back of Fremantle artist Tania Ferrier’s jacket, attracting plenty of attention in the southern states of the US as the president campaigned for a […]
AUSTRALIA’S sense of identity came from the art of the likes of Frederick McCubbin and Arthur Streeton, drawing on heroic struggles on the land, but that’s changing as country folk […]
ARE Fremantle’s artists hiding in back rooms and gathering furtively in fellow artists’ studios sketching nudes? It’s an interesting image thrown into the mix during a recent interview with artists […]
A JACKET knitted from dog fur and a matching hat and bag, donned to take the dog out for a walk? It’s not as daft as it may sound, especially […]