Northcote’s 2011 Northern Exposure Festival is bringing the gallery to the street, with fifty artists collaborating with over thirty local businesses for a two week art extravaganza. This year’s festival will comprise of three main types of art displays: High …
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Art often acts a social snapshot, historically recording our reaction to specific events and life in general. Current Melbourne exhibitions such as Black and White: documenting Indigenous Australia, Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed, Albert Tucker’s Images of Modern Evil and …
Mark it on your calendar now: Mother’s Day, Sunday 8 May. Forgetting Mother’s Day could possibly be worse than forgetting your Mum’s birthday. The barrage of commercial reminders from numerous card and chocolate companies for weeks before Mother’s Day mean …
Last month many people (including myself) seemed to be dropping like flies from a miserable summer flu and an assortment of other ailments. Those I knew who weren’t sneezing and wheezing their way through the month seemed to be suffering …
March is a manic month in Melbourne with the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival and Melbourne Food and Wine Festival drawing all the fashionistas and foodies out of the woodwork. Whilst everyone else is strutting and slurping their way through the …
It’s no surprise that school holidays result in more family-friendly events and exhibitions, but the start of 2011 has been jammed-packed full of incredible events that have the power to magically whisk us back to those golden years of childhood. …
Apartment-living in Melbourne rocks. Whilst sacrificing space in exchange for close proximity to the city centre might not be for everyone, the prospect of fabulous food and entertainment on your doorstep is certainly appealing. Cities are the hubs and centres …
As a challenged photographer myself, I take my hat off to anyone who can master this art form. I have been known to unintentionally crop the odd head or even worse, whole people when attempting to take group shots at …
Who in their right mind would write a list of 150 instructions for themselves, such as: “swallow a lump of marble, repeatedly drop a brick on your foot, let a dog drink some of your blood, press some glass into …
I have had my work cut out for me this month, cramming as many exciting events as possible into this little article. It would appear that October is the month of art festivals in Melbourne (although, is there ever a …
