Living with Art: A Courtship Collection
Mandy Hall and Nick Edwards met at a time when their lives were busy with work and raising children. Focusing their window of opportunity to court on weekend gallery-hopping dates,
they grew a meaningful and impressive art collection together. Words by Duro Jovicic. Photography by Brian Doherty.
Last Word: Playing with Space
Rose of Sharon Leake talks to design experts about the surprising ways artful hanging from ceilings can transform a space.
Expert Eye: Perfect Matchmakers
Rebecca Gross speaks to three art and design experts who show how artworks can be curated to create feeling, mood and diversity throughout spaces in your home.
Buyer’s Guide: Eye on the Prize
Camilla Wagstaff examines the many
ways art prizes can provide a smart starting point for building or enriching a great art collection.
Artist Profile: Robert Fielding
Mimili man and multi-media artist
Robert Fielding lives and breathes
art, even when he’s dreaming. With
the blessing of his community Elders,
he keeps their stories alive through
his contemporary and experimental
practice. Now, as Canberra Glassworks’ artist-in-residence, he is turning his hand to glass. Zali Morgan writes.
Artist Profile: Kate Just
Discovering the power of knitting to create stories and bonds, Kate Just
took this historically domestic occupation into her own hands and developed an art practice of personal and political protest. Camilla Wagstaff writes.
Project Sheet: Eclectic Chic
A heritage apartment in the heart
of a cosmopolitan Parisian suburb
is masterfully refurbished to blend
the traditional with the modern.
Above all the art curation is an
outstanding example of maintaining
a connection between old and new
in a contemporary residence.
Words by Camilla Wagstaff.
Project Sheet: An Enviable Edge
This coastal apartment strikes a beautiful balance between neutral tones and art that pops. Rose of Sharon Leake writes.
Artist Profile: Katrina Rhodes
A self-described “entrepreneurial artisan”, Katrina Rhodes brings her specialised painting experience to canvases, producing richly-hued and striking artworks which blend classicism and surrealism, and an immaculate decay. Erin Irwin writes.
Artist Profile: Stephen Nothling
The oil paintings of Stephen Nothling dance with surrealism and Pop Art to exist between a time since passed and a future unknown. Rose of Sharon Leake writes.