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Interview w Lisa Capon re: Jasmine Jan Studio Gallery Sunday Showcase

Local jeweller Lisa Capon is working on some new treasures. Scheduled for a showing at Jasmine Jan’s Studio Gallery, the brooches and pendants are composed of hearts riveted onto layers of mottled metal and encircled by radiating faded patterns. The … Continue reading

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Interview w Chayni Henry re: Foundation

“I used to work a lot faster before I started breeding,” Chayni Henry laughs. As open and engaging as her art, Henry’s just put her youngest to bed, made some tea, and is now kicking back in the bowerbird’s nest … Continue reading

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Interview w Coco Meacham and David Wickens re: sentenced zine

It wasn’t until a year had passed that a game of exquisite corpse, scribbled over a late-night glass of wine, blossomed into the first edition of sentenced zine. This zine followed the hodgepodge story of a wandering bean can and … Continue reading

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Harriet Body – The 24 Hours Series

Dot dot dot. Grammatically speaking, this symbol (“ellipsis”) is used to signify an omission of one or more words from a greater section of text, and often indicates an indefinite beginning or end. In Harriet Body’s The 24 Hours Series … Continue reading

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Interview w Shilo McNamee re: Darwin Life Drawing

One of the things that characterises untutored life drawing sessions across the board – apart from the fact there’s always at least one person there posing with their kit off – is the tacit silence that accompanies them. It seems … Continue reading

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Interview w Natalie Sprite re: The Darwin Fridge Festival

It’s only been a couple of years since a typo in an email to Darwin Community Arts resulted in a fridge-themed art exhibition outside the Malak shops one afternoon – but that hasn’t stopped this year’s Fridge Festival from evolving … Continue reading

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DRAFT: Cafes

I’ve worked in a few cafes in my time. Such jobs taught me to despise customers, and vow quite sincerely that I would never work in hospitality ever again. But cafés didn’t engender this hatred by virtue of any inherent … Continue reading

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DRAFT: Feeling good being a girl

I started working at The Basement because I hated my job at the café. It was supposed to be all about organic, slow-cooked, fair-trade, ethical cuisine… Sometimes it was some of those things. Plus I was sick of getting up … Continue reading

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DRAFT: First kiss

My first kiss was when I was 16 or so. I was new at an all-girls boarding school, and we went to this horrible thing called a social at some neighbouring boys’ school. It was the first and last time … Continue reading

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DRAFT: First memory

I think I remember back when we lived in Western Australia. My memories were birthed there, not on the sparse white shores those Western beaches are famed for, but in the bush, in a one-storey house. Perhaps it had a … Continue reading

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