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Therese Ritchie Interview
The 31st Darwin Festival begins on the 12th August showcasing the creative forces of the Top End across all genres of dance, music and art. Of the 75 different events appearing at this year’s festival 47 incorporate local artists and performers.
“31 years ago this was a festival for the people of Darwin, and now thirty-one years on Darwin’s local artists and art makers have developed to such a high standard, nationally and internationally, that the festival has now returned to them”, says Artistic Director Jo Duffy.
Design Federation caught up with participating artists, Therese Ritchie to have a chat about her work and art in the Territory.
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Sam & Henry the Handsom Interview
Design Federation chats to Sam & Henry from new Australian label Handsom about cracking into the Fashion Industry.
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Travis Dewan of Vegas Spray Interview
Vegas Spray.Com is an online gallery dedicated to the promotion and development of Brisbane Emerging Art so Design Federation decided to talk to the Travis Dewan the Vegas Spray director about all things Brisbane. Reasd the full Travis Dewan of Vegas Spray Interview →
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Ben Thomas Interview
Some call it smallgantics, others tiltshift, but Ben Thomas’ Shrunken Cities are absolutely breathtaking.
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Interview with Nick Hallam of Positive Posters
“Positive Posters is an international poster competition that publishes positive design in and around city streets all over the world. The aim is to inspire individuals and make a positive difference in the lives of people everywhere.”
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Interview with Claire McCarthy
With special thanks to our friends at Hopscotch, Design Federation was lucky enough to ask Writer/Director Claire McCarthy some questions about her latest film The Waiting City which stars Radha Mitchell and Joel Edgerton.
Directed by Australian rising talent Claire McCarthy, THE WAITING CITY tells the story of an outwardly happy Australian couple who journey to India to collect their adopted baby. When they arrive in Calcutta they discover that the adoption arrangements have still to be finalised. Soon the intoxicating mystic power of the city pulls them in separate and unexpected directions and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to reveal itself. The first Australian feature film to be shot entirely in India, THE WAITING CITY is an intimate, complex love story of transformation, set against the exhilarating epic backdrop of Calcutta.
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Matt Huynh – The Asperatus Interview
In a world where natural frontiers seem to have all been conquered, 2009 saw those with their eyes on the skies get excited about a new discovery.
Asperatus both the name of a newly proposed cloud formation discovered last year (the first addition to the International Cloud Atlas in over fifty years) and also the name of Matt Huynh’s first exhibition in 3 years.
It means to “agitate” or “roughen” in Latin, though Huynh suggests we “take that as you will.”
The illustrator selected the location of the exhibition with care. Finding a home for his latest series of 14 starkly de-saturated / black and white prints, which he describes as baring the dramatic fragility of “singular symbols and notes,” was fraught with difficulty. But the Skeleton Gallery at the Australian Museum will be the befitting destination of the June 1 opening, chosen finally because it offered what other venues couldn’t, with Huynh looking for “an environment that could turn the volume up on the artwork, that could bleed the lines off the page and into the air between each easel and engulf the entire atmosphere surrounding the audience”.
He’s a busy man this week but he did take some time out to catch up with Design Federation.
