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The Local Project •

Longview by Studio Carson Kelly | The Local Project

While the Victorian terrace retained its charm, a 1960s addition at the rear of the property was in decline. Maintaining the terrace’s integrity, builder Verdecon removed the 60s add-on and skilfully excavated the tight corner site in order to create a basement level, which now hosts a warm family room. The architect also designed an extension which wraps gracefully around the terrace’s rear and side, allowing for more living space and opportunities to soak up sunshine throughout the year.
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Look magazine •

Marikit Santiago | Look magazine

I pull up on Marikit Santiago’s street and walk to the last townhouse along a lane edged with cypress
trees. I ring the doorbell and Santiago welcomes me into her home. I notice some of her exquisite
paintings on the walls. They portray her children when they were babies surrounded by foliage and
glinting gold leaf. In her lounge room, a large rug features a stylised snake that reminds me of the
serpents that adorn her paintings. I start to wonder where her studio could be.

What inspires our specialist tour leaders' creative travel? | Art Gallery Society

Three experts leading international art tours for the Art Gallery discuss the beauty of learning, creating and travelling, with an eye for adventure.Gina Fairley Arts writer, curator and contemporary jewellerHow do you approach your creative practice? Studio time is only one part of making. For me, that creative practice starts long before in the form of feelings and connections that spark for me through walking and diarising. As a journalist I am hardwired to digest ideas. As a jeweller, enteri...
Museum of Brisbane | MoB •

MoB Sunday Stories: Emma Miller | Museum of Brisbane

A seamstress, suffragette, unionist, and labor activist, Emma Miller was born on 26 June 1839 in Chesterfield, England. Emma first found her passion for social justice when her egalitarian, Chartist father took her along to political meetings from a young age.
Throughout her youth, Emma trained as a seamstress and pattern maker (the latter being a rare skill amongst other women of the trade).

A seamstress, suffragette, unionist, and labor activist, Emma Miller was born on 26 June 1839 in Cheste...
Museum of Brisbane | MoB •

A City Submerged: The 2011 Floods 10 Years On | Museum of Brisbane

In 2021, we reflect on 10 years since the 2011 floods devastated our city and acknowledge all who were affected. In this online exhibition, artist Holly Neilson (Paper Hands) responds to quotations from Brisbane’s community about the floods, encompassing a range of emotions, observations and reflections. Brisbane’s position on a floodplain, cyclonic weather system, and changing climate mean the city’s residents are no strangers to floods. Prolonged heavy rainfall and a strong La Niña weather pat...

Loribelle Spirovski | Art Gallery of NSW

A stone’s throw away from Newtown’s Enmore Road are lines of peaceful terrace houses. Bathed in sunlight on this spring day, Loribelle Spirovski’s street is leafy and narrow. I open the gate to her home and she invites me into her living room with a warm smile. As we settle on the couch, her cat Nana nestles between us making a perfect croissant curl.Spirovski was born in the Philippines in 1990 and, at the age of eight, immigrated to Australia with her parents. She tells me, ‘As a kid, I really...

Painting pixels | Art Gallery of NSW

Looking around the shared space dotted with works-in-progress from paintings and soft sculptures to fashion design, I ask how she finds sharing her environment. ‘I really love it,’ she says. ‘When leaving art school, the first thing I missed was the community that it fosters. I like that I can walk into the next room and talk to somebody likeminded.’Connection is important for Warner and offers a healthy balance to her practice which dives deeply into the experience of isolation. ‘The fragmentat...
Art Gallery of New South Wales •

Mucha and the art of advertising | Art Gallery of NSW

Following the success of Gismonda 1894, featuring Sarah Bernhardt, Mucha was in high commercial demand. His designs endorsed a range of products from biscuits to baby food, champagne and bicycles. During his time in America, Mucha was even invited to design soap boxes that were named in his honour, making him the first artist to feature on a household product. Mucha did not disparage his commercial opportunities. Rather, he drew on his skill as an illustrator to create advertisements that were e...
Onespace Gallery •

Brontë Naylor | Onespace Gallery

Bronte Naylor (b. 1993) is an Australian Visual Artist working across exhibitions, public art, installation, research and community engagement. In 2022, she completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) Graduating First Class at University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Collaborations with St+ART India, Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans, First Coat International Art Festival and Big Picture Festival have firmly positioned her as a prominent practitioner within the international public art land...
Puzzle Gallery •

Half-Finished Heaven | Puzzle Gallery

15 March – 13 April 2025Helen MorganExhibition text by Emma McLeanPoster design by Ivy ChenInstall by Tom Favelle and Joel WalkerOrganised by Luna Wenxin XuSponsored by No.9 Space Design StudioHalf-Finished Heaven An installation by Helen MorganAnd here, below with the ghosts, in the empire of bitter endings, be the clinking glass that, even as it shatters, rings.— Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, part 2, #13Next to artist Helen Morgan’s war...
Puzzle Gallery •

DRIFT | Puzzle Gallery

What is a liminal space? Intuitively, we know them when we’re in them. They’re the rooms we pass through in order to be somewhere else. They aren’t built to be lingered in, they aren’t warm and cosy, but they help us on our way. Consider waiting rooms, airports, hospital corridors, foyers, break rooms, stairwells and multi-storey car parks. These spaces often announce the start or finish of something: your day, your lunch break, your holiday.

Unlearning | Art + Australia

A recent University of Queensland marketing campaign encourages students to ‘Own the Unknown’. In this time of global uncertainty, the University’s message acknowledges that students face fewer linear career pathways and more global disruption than in years past. Within this pedagogical space, The University of Queensland Art Museum presents Unlearning, a timely and bold conceptual art exhibition, which challenges the context of its display: an institution traditionally dominated by higher acade...

Three of a kind: colour artworks | Art Gallery Society

It’s got to be one of the most important things in an artist’s artillery: colour. If the colours aren’t right, an artwork just won’t sing. The below artists take interest in the placement of colours, how they offset each-other and interrelate.Antoni MiraldaColoured bread 1973Miralda agitates our colour associations in this installation. He asks, ‘Think about why these colours? Why is it easier for me to eat the yellow than the blue? Bread baked in unexpected colours disconnects us from a predict...