Artist Maria Radun in her studio. By Keith Platt Photos Yanni & supplied IT would be easy for audiences to miss the nuances that go into the staging of reality shows on…
Arts
Cameron Stynes has always been creative, drawing and painting whenever he had the chance. So, when he and his family started talking about creating a gallery and studio space, it was a…
Fay Plamka is an award-winning artist, commercial and court illustrator, jeweller, tapestry designer, and teacher. Having arrived in Australia 70 years ago as a post-war refugee from Poland, she now calls the…
Dan Byrne has always loved music but he had no idea how therapeutic it could be until he discovered an instrument on YouTube called the handpan which is a harmonic drum. Dan…
By Melissa Walsh Photos Yanni She may only be 17 and still attending school but Bridget Allan is a young singer/songwriter with a massive future. The Elisabeth Murdoch College student talks to…
By Andrea Louise Thomas Photos Yanni Who would think that an inanimate object could have a life of its own? Take the humble barrel for instance. The oak it’s made from begins…
By Melissa Walsh Photos Gary Sissons A revolutionary painting technique from the mid-1880’s called stippling has provided a new lease of life to local artist, Donna Taylor, proving old techniques can be…
When Peta Hanrahan first read Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” she was not prepared for the effect it would have on her. Reading the book for the first time as…
The idea for Local 7 originated over several cups of coffee at a local breakfast haunt in Rye, where artist, Miodrag Jankovic does a lot of his thinking. The well-known peninsula man…