Multi-award-winning Rye painter, Barbara Tyson built enviable parallel careers. Most notably an Archibald Prize finalist and winner of the People’s Choice Award at the Salon des Refusés, amongst other art accolades, she also had a successful career in magazine publishing.
Chris Swayn and the Forbidden Fruits’ new album, Death and Taxes, blends folk, country and blues with thoughtful storytelling and acoustic-driven arrangements.
A boilermaker by trade, Dan is familiar with how to bend metal to his will. Whether he’s making ribbons of steel representing the sea and sky, carving wooden objects or making furniture, Dan has his hands on art.
For Frankston local Steven Gallop, opera was never part of his grand plan. His singing journey began with school musicals in Brisbane, followed by amateur choruses in Queensland, but it wasn’t until in his mid-20s that singing began to take centre stage.
Dayna Fallon’s one-woman show at this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival is centred on a poem she wrote, titled The Manager is Me, and explores invisible labour, caregiving, and the art of keeping it together when it feels like everything is falling apart.
By day, Mark Harvey’s hands are wrapped around the wheel of a truck and trailer. By night, those same hands are bending old spoons and forks into rings, bangles and pendants under the business name Spoontanious.
There’s a particular kind of chaos that takes over a primary school hall when Spectacular Spettacolo rolls into town, and it’s one that Lea da Silva Gomes has spent the past 16 years perfecting without spending a cent on advertising.
A local couple’s travelling bookstore has quickly grown into a series of literary events, bringing together the community to gather around books. Bookneck was started in June by Carolyn Watson and David Moore, who began their careers as writers.
Following her first shoot with a mermaid at Rosebud beach, mother, registered nurse and underwater fine art photographer Jaye Selga was obsessed. That obsession grew into a distinct visual language built on breath-hold, fabric, movement and natural light, with portraits that sit somewhere between photography and painting.