Author: Your Herald
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BATHROOM “selfies” snapped in privacy while getting ready for a night out are quite common, says artist and photographer Emily Hornum. By day the Edith Cowan University student works in a photo lab and she’s intrigued by the changes the digital era has wrought on photography: the way images are shared, concepts of private and…
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AN artist from NSW has beat out local competition to win the $35,000 Harold Schenberg art prize at PICA’s Hatched national graduate show. Andrew Styan’s piece The Bell Buoy featured a rotating hunk of coal filmed live and projected into the gallery resembled “a hyper-realistic asteroid looming ever closer,” a comment on humanity’s impact on…
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THIS solid brick home on Crawford Street in Inglewood offers generous proportions: an increasingly rare commodity in space-deprived suburbs close to the city. More house than townhouse it’s an immaculate four-bedroom/two-bathroom abode that is all about space and comfort, and value for money. Built in 2007, it’s so fresh both inside and out you’d be…
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POCKETS of dangerous methane gas could scupper plans to build a new cafe down at the Maylands foreshore. After 10 years of umming and awwing, Bayswater city council recently set aside $21,500 to investigate building a sea-container style cafe at the river. But the plans might never get off the drawing board because of pockets…
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BEING queer, young and Muslim is like being a “crescent-shaped peg” fitting into a “Southern Cross-shaped hole” according to new theatre troupe Third Culture Kids. Writer Dure Khan, originally from Peshawar in Pakistan, based her new play Once We Were Kings on her experiences with other young people navigating their way through being queer and…
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THE Beaufort Street Network wants to hear “the good, the bad and the ugly” about the street so it can keep improving it. Network chair Pam Herron says Beaufort Street has seen some big changes over the past few years, such as murals, new trees, public art, the colourful Beaufort Street sign and the quirky…
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DOG-fostering has helped Maylands woman Christine Jones recover from a violent dog attack that injured her and killed her pooch, Jeremy. It’s almost five months since two great danes attacked her on Railway Parade in Maylands, killing her little kelpie/King Charles cavalier cross who had been named after Jeremy Irons. In the months since, she’s…
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YOU might soon see Bayswater locals nibbling on yams and beetroots in local parks after the council approved the creation of edible gardens on its reserves. The council will develop a policy that lets locals turn designated areas into fruit and vegie patches. “This is all about empowering locals to take ownership of their parks,”…
