Georgina Gaylor well recalls her first performance with comedy outfit The Big Hoo Haa: And she’d appear on stage near-naked any day rather than go through that again. “Underwear pales into insignificance to standing back stage at Lazy Susan’s,” the exuberant 32-year-old tells the Voice. Which is just as well as the Fremantle local is…

An Aussie “holiday” turned into a new life and a highly successful career as a sculptor for UK-born Stephen Glassborow. The artist’s brother had “persuaded” him to come to Australia to help build a boat in the ‘80s. Sunshine, family and an idyllic lifestyle saw a “couple of years” turn into more than a quarter…

A Scantily-clad young woman hides between a wardrobe and wall while nearby a bare male foot pokes from underneath a wardrobe door. The poster-sized photographs are two in a series for Aaron Bradbrook’s Borderland exhibition at the Perth Centre for Photography. They were taken in his former home in Maylands where, luckily for him, the new…

Rinehart Noir is emerging as a new genre of crime fiction. Fremantle author David Whish-Wilson says the WA mining industry is attracting global attention and thrusting local novelists who write about its rapacity into the limelight. “In a mining boom all of the human frailties, like greed, betrayal and deception are amplified,” he says. “It…

A smooth white leg sticks up in the air, a red wheel attached. Next to it a walking stick wears a single shoe. Theo Koning’s latest exhibition is full of quirky pieces sure to make viewers laugh, and ponder. As I spoke to Koning it struck me that a lack of academic success seemed to…

The elephant in the room was in fact a pelican, according to Stormboy director John Sheedy. The play that starts September 21 at the Heath Ledger theatre marks the 50th anniversary of one of Australia’s most beloved stories, and is, says Sheedy, a fitting tribute to the book and author Colin Thiele. “There’s a reason…

Sundowning Syndrome is an increasingly recognised state in which people with Alzheimers become agitated at sundown and prone to wandering. Maylands couple Arielle Gray and Tim Watts, and mate Chris Isaacs were looking at creating a play around “the call of the wild”, when they came across the syndrome. “We were fascinated by that natural…

Watching a colleague hit the net for 45 minutes only to fail to score tickets to Springsteen’s February concert aptly demonstrated the power of the Boss’ music on young people. The fact his boss—usually a middle-aged grump with little patience for time-wasting—gave the ticket-seeking endeavour his blessing (by allowing our colleague to miss a meeting)…

It was a hometown hero’s welcome for UK artist Mackenzie Thorpe’s exhibition in Middlesborough in the UK’s north east three years ago. Twelve-foot banners of the renowned artist’s works lined the main street and 25,000 saw the exhibition over three months. Thorpe’s heart is as big as his reputation as one of the UK’s most…