Moon over Mudgee – Always Was, Always Will Be – Wiradjuri
The Gallery‘Here the people spread out across and remain embedded in the soil. It always was and always will be Wiradjiru because country holds us and we hold it’
Faith Bandler’s‘Faith, Hope and Reconciliation’
The Opinions‘That is the task. If not now, when? If not us, who?’
Be still and talk with trees
The Forum“The idea of quietly staring at a rock, piles of sand, or blinking stars for hours, if not weeks, seems, weirdly, profoundly countercultural today, in a world where people tweet bubbles, livestream the arching of eyebrows and spend holidays distracted by how best to market themselves on Instagram…”
Deceived by her eyes
The GalleryDeceived by her eyes by Thilini Niruja Nuske is the winner of the WMQ Award at the 2020 Art from the Margins Queensland Outsider Art Awards.
Story
The ForumJulia Baird’s Phosphorescence is full of personal stories of encounters with beauty that illuminate hope in situations of darkness.
No-Bodies: on the imageless image of God.
The GalleryDespite the so-called secular turn, religion continues to be a powerful and symbolic institution in the construction of sociality within communities.
The beauty that binds us
The Forum‘I experience beauty as that which connects rather than removes…There is no transcendence here. It is embodiment and connection. It is enfolding, grounding, reminding, startling, unsettling, shaking and restoring.’
Blue Spring Skies: Yoko Ono’s Five Dots (2014) and other prompts for seeing beyond the image
The GalleryWhen my eyes can’t see past the given image, blue, spring skies really do bring relief, but, more than that, they remind me that new possibilities and ways of seeing exist.
Is it Gender Equal? postgraduate study and career development for nurses
The Opinions‘It seems that our female nurses are almost forced to make a choice between their career and their family and I cannot help but wonder how many male nurses are required to make such a choice’
Lament for Depression
The Gallery‘I am tossed around, around and around…’
Hoping for Common Ground with Technocrats
The Opinionsfactory workers are treated like machines. They are counted, rather than named. They are trained with documents that read like software programs, under the assumption that sufficient training will create high quality, repeatable products. This is worse than commodification, it is technification…
Contemplating Phosphorescence
The ForumCan we see the beauty, the desirability, of atypical, even disabled bodies?…To recognise and accept our own beauty requires us to break away from the shackles of our social conditioning.
