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Wearing the trousers | Mezzo-soprano Caitlin Hulcup at Garsington Opera
Caitlin Hulcup in rehersal for Maometto secondo at Garsington Opera (Image by John Snelling) IF AUSTRALIAN mezzo-soprano Caitlin Hulcup was not so friendly and charming, her prodigious musical...
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Death of a Solider – A Mother’s Story
THE very title of this book immediately stirs emotions and for many of us it is a path we would prefer not to follow. But Margaret Evison’s Death of a Solider is a book that everyone should read. An...
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Rewriting the script | Aussie filmmaker breaking down barriers
DURING the 2012 Cannes Film Festival Nina Moretti successfully petitioned the Palme d’Or Jury to encourage industry-wide discussion about how to “create a greater space for women within cinema”. Skip...
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Tim Minchin’s Matilda loses to Cyndi Lauper’s Kinky Boots at the Tonys
AUSTRALIAN Tim Minchin has missed out on a Tony Award for Best Original Score for Matilda the Musical, won by Cyndi Lauper for her runaway Broadway sensation Kinky Boots. Lauper and Harvey Fierstein...
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Australian designs to feature in London Festival of Architecture
THREE Australian architecture practices will exhibit in the showcase exhibition, Atlas of the Unbuilt World, during this year’s London Festival of Architecture. The Festival of Architecture, held...
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Circa’s animals unleashed at London’s Wonderground
CIRCA, the Australian contemporary circus company unleashes the animal inhabiting each of us in their new show Beyond. Not taking itself too seriously, the show features a cast dressed in animal...
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Falstaff and Vanity, Glyndebourne
ON A rare sunny Sunday, Glyndebourne opera festival premiered Verdi’s Falstaff. This year’s revival production is directed by Australian Sarah Fahie, who has to work with an enormous cast and some...
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Sydney Children’s Choir to perform in London this July
THE internationally acclaimed Sydney Children’s Choir will be performing in London this July as part of their longest-ever International tour, Summer In Europe. Consisting of 41 children between the...
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London to host AusNZ literature and arts festival in 2014
A FOUR-DAY festival celebrating the best of literature, theatre, film and music from Australia and New Zealand will be staged in London for the first time in spring 2014. The festival aims to showcase...
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Australian and NZ literary talent to be showcased at Literary BBQ in London
Craig Silvey, author of Jasper Jones, is on of the Australian authors speaking at the ANZ Literary BBQ in London AUSTRALIA and New Zealand have a wealth of literary talent, recognised both at home and...
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Antipodean talent showcased at London Literary BBQ
Photo by Elixabete Lopez LAST Thursday night the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith played host to a wealth of Australian and New Zealand literary talent at a special Literary BBQ event. A showcase event...
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Author Craig Silvey: Capturing Australia
HAVING written his first book some 10 years ago, you’d think that Aussie author Craig Silvey would have this writing thing down. However, as the 30-year-old explains, even after all these years...
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UK all-Australian orchestra’s Maralinga Lament at Union Chapel
AUSTRALIAN expats in the UK are set to be treated to a truly unique musical experience this October, as London’s all-Australian chamber orchestra, Ruthless Jabiru, perform a special tribute concert at...
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First UK exhibition for Australian landscape artist John Olsen
Coopers Creek © John Olsen, courtesy Osborne Samuel ONE of Australia’s greatest living painters, John Olsen, is set to present his first ever exhibition of works in the UK at the Osborne Samuel...
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Australian artist Charles Billich hosts London show
AUSTRALIAN artist Charles Billich has announced his first show in the UK, an exhibition of paintings and prints at La Galleria in Pall Mall, London during October. Sydney-based artist Charles Billich...
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INTERVIEW | Barry Humphries on his farewell show Eat Pray Laugh!
THIS is it. The Gladys are being pruned for the final time, the purple wig is ready, and those infamously glitzy glasses are getting a polish. Arguably one of Australia’s biggest exports of a...
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Charles Billich; Holding a mirror up to London society
ELATION rings down the phone as artist Charles Billich describes his re-discovered love of London. He normally visits at least once a year, but is in praise that the city is becoming the latest...
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Australian photographer commended in Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Justin Gilligan ‘Hook,line and sinking’/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013 A STRIKING photo by Australian photographer Justin Gilligan has been commended in this year’s Wildlife Photographer of...
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Copper Promises: Hinemihi Haka at Origins Festival
AT 2am on 10 June 1886, Mount Tarawera, a volcano located in New Zealand’s North Island erupted blasting smoke and ash thousands of metres into the sky. Several villages within a six-kilometre radius...
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REVIEW | The Comedy of Change: Rambert Dance Company
FIJI-born choreographer Mark Baldwin is squeezing millions of years of evolution into a few minutes with The Comedy of Change at Sadler’s Wells. Baldwin, who honed his dancing and choreography skills...
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BLAM! at the Peacock Theatre
THREE office workers sit behind desks. Each faces a different direction so as to not distract each other. Regularly monitored by their boss, any interaction between the three is restricted to when he...
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Painting the town Australian; London loves our classic art
CLASSIC Australian art has been having a renaissance in London with the Royal Academy’s showcase of Australian works and an auction held at Christie’s in September. Colonial artist John Glover’s...
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ACCELERATE; a powerful arts tool
BT Australasia and the British Council hosted a special event on Wednesday eventing. On the 34th floor of the BT Tower, High Commissioner Mike Rann welcomed five Indigenous Australian creative...
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History making art; The Namatjira Project by Big hART Inc.
IN 1954, during the coronation tour of Australia, Queen Elizabeth II met Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira. He presented Her Majesty with his painting of Heavitree Gap in Alice Springs. 60 years...
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Living Watercolours – The Namatjira Family Legacy at Southbank
DESCENDANTS of renowned Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira have made the long journey from Alice Springs to London. Slightly jet-lagged, and affronted by the London cold-snap, Kevin Namatjira and...
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All aboard the Australia & New Zealand Festival of Literature & Arts
UPON entering the Exhibition Hall at Australia House, guests were given a Passenger Boarding Pass, and invited to come aboard the ship that is Australia and New Zealand Festival of Literature and...
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Underwater colours; art exhibition at the Great Barrier Reef
A QUEENSLAND artist is holding an underwater art exhibition in the Great Barrier Reef to inspire others to protect it. Abstract expressionist painter BJ Price says the reef is his “creative obsession...
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REVIEW: Parsifal at the Royal Opera House
THE Royal Opera House in Covent Garden is presenting a new production of Richard Wagner’s last opera, Parsifal, as part of ongoing celebrations of the German composer’s birth. It is the first time...
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Christos Tsiolkas, author of The Slap on his new novel Barracuda
“THIS will be the hardest book you will ever have to write coming after The Slap,” Australian author Michelle de Kretser wrote in a letter to Christos Tsiolkas about his new book Barracuda. For...
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Vivid festival lights up Sydney
Cars with “feelings”, large inflatable animals and an interactive xylophone are just some of the weird and wonderful light displays at this year’s Vivid festival in Sydney. Installations around the...
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