Omar Musa — poet, rapper, wood block carver, and, lately, kickboxer — is someone whose work I've encountered for many years. Maybe it's...

I met Joe Whyte about a year ago through the wonderful National Emerging Art Prize - we were both finalists and he was the overall...

I mostly know Fiona Smith for her vibrantly coloured, Baroquely detailed paintings of native Australian birds in interiors. They're all...

Patrick Lenton is an author and journalist. I remember a Zoom book launch for his short story compilation, Sexy Tales of Paleontology ....

Of the now-42 creatives who have answered my five questions, I know Jen Hsieh quite well. We have exhibited together multiple times and...

I know Australian fashion designer Gail Sorronda is a starry sort of person - she has won praise from Karl Lagerfeld and collaborated...

When I'm in Sydney, a city I have adopted as my own, I see street artist Will Coles' work all the time. Not in galleries or in shows, but...

Siang Lu, a Brisbane and Kuala Lumpur-based author, is having something of a moment if moments can be measured in lengthy library request...

Sophia Cai, a Melbourne-based curator and writer, put together a show I loved at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. A Soft Touch...

Ainy Cormac is a dark fantasy and science fiction author. Spec fic writers in Australia often know each other because, I suppose, we're...

I met multidisciplinary artist Anney Bounpraseuth at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art where a dazzling large-scale work of hers was...

Claire L. Smith is a horror/fantasy author, artist and designer. As we are both dark-haired women called Claire, with an L in our name...

Kean Onn See is many things: a wood-carving visual artist, a zombie movie enthusiast. An Archibald finalist, and whimsical enough to...

Coco X. Huang is a writer, musician and scientist. When I met Coco, she was winning acclaim not for music, writing or science - but for...

Libby Moore is a multi award-winning painter who I associate with luminous, clear objects rendered with brightness and brilliance in...

Melanie Schubert is a Melburnian writer and podcaster who co-hosts Of the Publishing Persuasion with Angela Montoya. Having listened to...

Kathy Liu is a Sydney-based painter whose work I first encountered in Belle Magazine - she was among my cohort of National Emerging Art...

Grace Chan is a speculative fiction writer, a Malaysian-born Melburnian, a psychiatrist and in possession of an admirable array of...

It says something about Stavroula Adameitis that, at an event as attention-grabbing as Barbie's milestone birthday party, my eyes snapped...

You know the part of your brain that lights up around capsule toys, Saturday morning cartoons, Christmas baubles, sugary cereal and the...