Local talent
THOR, Hulk and Superman will take a back seat at the Perth Comic Arts Festival next Saturday (July 3). Instead there will be a focus on local comic-making talent with […]
Category Archives: arts
Universal debt
FLASH Gordon, haute-couture and mummy issues collide in the mind-boggling Beginning at the End (of Capitalism). The one-woman show features Phoebe Sullivan performing in a green screen studio, with the audience […]
Off-road art
Perth artist Jo Darvall in her studio. PERTH artist Jo Darvall left her family behind and jumped in the car to go painting in the depths of Wandoo National Park. […]
Fiery festival
• The Truck is one of the great movies showing at the 10th Iranian Film Festival Australia in Perth. IN recent years Iran has become a hot-bed of Middle Eastern […]
Explosive art
AN Aboriginal art graduate has blasted his painting apart with a shotgun in a swipe at the colonial mentality in the contemporary art world. Bradley Kickett stabbed and chopped his […]
Fresh vision
NEW and emerging artists from the Kimberley offer a fresh interpretation of their cultural heritage in the exhibition Boonkaj. Featuring more than 20 artists from two Aboriginal-owned art centres – […]
A pause to rethink books
A NEW exhibition at Tafe’s Gallery East by 65 artist challenges the notion of what is a book at the fifth biennial Between the Sheets. Printmakers, photographers, wordsmiths, textile artists, […]
Thanks, mum
AN innovative one-woman show blends storytelling, poetry and science in a moving ode to migrant mothers in Perth. MoR is performed by Dureshawar Khan, who was an impressionable 15-year-old when her […]
In luck
LUCKY OCEANS will be joined by a who’s who of the Fremantle music scene at his 70th birthday bash later this month. In an amazing career spanning Nashville to North […]
Film tapas
AN engrossing film about the 1936 Spanish coup is just one of the highlights of this year’s Spanish Film Festival. Directed by Alejandro Amenábar (The Others, The Sea Inside), While […]
