Arts Boobs, butts n’ nips: the minimalistic, brutally honest art of Caroline Walls by Claire Deakin Through sensual abstractions, Melbourne-based artist Caroline Walls reifies feminine beauty like no other. Twisting limbs and folding skin depict the female body through a distinctly feminine lens that reveres every…
Music One small step for herself and one giant leap for Aussie music, let the tunes of Alex the Astronaut lift you to space by Claire Deakin Moving from strength to strength is the name of the game for Aussie folktronic songstress Alex the Astronaut. Over the past few months alone Alex has released a new single Already…
Arts News 1 in 6 Australian women experience domestic violence, but the abuse remains behind closed doors. Susan O’Doherty is opening the conversation on this glaring issue by Claire Deakin Susan O’Doherty’s latest exhibition Pinned to the Wall is guaranteed to make your head spin and send chills up your spine. Juxtaposing surreal, geometric backdrops and ghostly appendages with run-of-the-mill…
Arts What does it cost an artist to work for free? We talk childlike wonder, the meaning of colour and working for exposure with Amy Summer by Claire Deakin Radiating the light of a thousand dopamine-laced, technicolour suns is Amy Summer’s array of pastel-rich collages and self-portraits. With a playful exuberance, Summer’s art hits you right in the inner…
News PREMIERE: Goodbye Moon’s latest offering Overbite covers more genres than a setlist from your favourite music festival by Claire Deakin Underground music is one of the most innovative and exciting categories of music and correspondingly, often the subject of intense, cultish fascination the world over. Cue new kid on the block Goodbye…
Arts Man-made or computer generated? When you see Kate Vassallo’s procedure driven art you may not be able to tell the difference by Claire Deakin Scratching our obsessive-compulsive itch for uniform perfection is Kate Vassallo’s exhibition Logical Alterations, a body of geometric artworks that, upon closer inspection, are actually made up of thousands of painstakingly hand drawn…
