It is twenty years since a small group of locals came together to talk about a shared space in which artists could exhibit their works. Fortunately, the former Bass Gas shopfront was vacant and the owners, Tania and Guy Lingard, were very keen to see the space used for local art.
So, on 6 June 2006, The Show Room Art Co-operative was officially opened with ten members contributing a varied … Read more »
The much-loved annual Plethora of Postcards exhibition returns to Spiral Gallery from 12 June to 7 July, celebrating 15 years of creativity, community and artistic surprises.
Visitors are invited to explore a fascinating collection of postcard-sized artworks created by artists from the local community and beyond.
Over the many years of annual postcard exhibitions, Spiral Gallery has received many thousands of postcards made from an extraordinary range … Read more »
Reviewed by Wendy Tucker
Heart the Lover
Lily King
Canongate
RRP$32.99
Heart the Lover has been shortlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction and Lily King will be a guest at the Sydney Writers Festival. King is the bestselling author of six novels and the winner of several literary prizes. She is well known in the US but was, until now, not as established in Australia. I came to this novel … Read more »
By Honor Northam
I’ve been sharing the cakes I bake for the Dissenters Lounge in the Once in a While newsletter that you can subscribe to via the Dissenters Lounge website. Now that the café space is also the Honorbread Lounge, you’re welcome to bring your Honorbread coffee, cake and other purchases inside to enjoy in comfort, but we won’t be serving coffee and cake from the Lounge itself.
By Honor Northam
I’ve been sharing the cakes I bake for the Dissenters Lounge in the Once in a While newsletter that you can subscribe to via the Dissenters Lounge website. Now that the café space is also the Honorbread Lounge, you’re welcome to bring your Honorbread coffee, cake and other purchases inside to enjoy in comfort, but we won’t be serving coffee and cake from the Lounge itself.
I’ll keep writing … Read more »
By Mark Evans
In a formal garden, every hedge is crisply clipped, plant spacing is precise and repeated planting patterns create an immediate sense of calm and intention. The effect is composed and deeply satisfying.
Yet this same symmetry carries a hidden vulnerability. When a plant dies, the gap becomes glaring. Replacing it with a small, inexpensive specimen may leave an obvious void for years, whilst buying a … Read more »