JUST days after filming started on a documentary about outback Aboriginal police officers changing law enforcement culture, news broke that Geraldton police had killed Yamatji woman Joyce Clarke. Director Cornel Ozies, an Aboriginal man from the Kimberley, said it gave the project a new dimension. “I think at that point we realised how important the documentary…

SAMUEL PILOT-KICKETT is one of several emerging Aboriginal WA artists featured in the exhibition Revealed 2020. His contemporary artworks combine the cosmos and WA landscape into something very unique and slightly mystical. The talented Perth artist, who has exhibited in Paris and Madrid, has his fingers in lots of pies and is also an actor,…

AWARD-WINNING Perth muso Siobhan Cotchin played a rip-snorting gig at Mojo’s in Fremantle last weekend. But before you call the self-isolation police, there was no audience there and the performance was streamed live. It’s just one of the innovative ways artists are getting live music out to the public while social gatherings are restricted. Cotchin says…

NOAH DILLON’S never going to crack it as a Matthew McConaughey impersonator, so it’s lucky he’s got rock superstar written all over him. The up-and-coming Freo muso portrays McConaughey in the video to his latest single, a back-handed tribute to the impossibly charismatic Texan that’s getting rave reviews from fans. And while the clip to…

NOONGAR artist Sandra Hill has been selected to create a new Wellington Square artwork acknowledging the Stolen Generations. Part of the square upgrades, the work will replace the Sorry Pole which was unveiled by the Bringing Them Home Committee in 2006 for the Sorry Day held there each May 26. The Bringing Them Home Committee…

WITH everyone a little house-bound, local author Alan Hancock wants to help people unleash their inner Charles Dickens – and keep Jack Torrance from The Shining at bay. Dr Hancock, who spent 10 years lecturing in creative and professional writing at Curtin University and runs courses  at the Hamilton Hill Hub and Spearwood Library, has…

THE Perth Comedy Lounge is putting some recent shows online to cheer people up during these dark times. For just $1 you can watch some much needed stand-up with all proceeds going to the comics, and the lounge bar staff who lost their jobs because of the lockdown. The Lounge Laughs series includes stand-up by…

ARMED with a family-size bag of chips and a remote control bigger than a police truncheon, I took to the couch to battle the lockdown. Here are my TV picks to get you through some long nights in the house: The third season of the highly-popular Ozark was recently released on Netflix. The show follows…

THREE diverse video exhibitions create a strange, alternate reality at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. In Chalkroom, the white gallery walls have been transformed into giant blackboards by American artist/musician Laurie Anderson and Taiwanese media artist Hsin-Chien Huang. Viewers were set to don virtual reality headsets, but that element of the exhibition has been…

THE Over The Fence Comedy Film Festival is turning 22 this year and the line up of international short films keeps getting better, director Greg Coffey says. The theme of this year’s festival is Scrambled! with 14 comedies delving into the pitfalls of relationships, including for the first time movies from Holland, South Africa and…