Queenie Chan is a comic book writer/artist. Last year, I tabled with her at a Halloween themed zine fair. So there we were, Queenie and...

In January, I curated for myself a month-long art festival. It took me to many places, including the Louise Bourgeois major...

I dreamed of attending Hamley Studio of Fine Art; it looked just the way a fine art studio should look in all the pictures I saw. As one...

Katika Schultz is an experimental printmaker and artist as well as a printmaking educator. One excessively hot day in Newtown, Sydney, I...

Stencil artist E.L.K (Luke Cornish) is familiar to me from a number of contexts. There's the Archibald, in which Luke has been a finalist...

Artist Peter Drew is perhaps best known for his AUSSIE poster series, along with posters that declare, loudly and boldly, REAL...

N.G. Malla is an urban landscape painter who captures Sydney houses and streetscapes in her signature style. I first met Nicole at a...

I met crime writer Natalie Conyer at Oz Comic-Con in Sydney, where we were on the same panel. We admitted we were both Comic-Con first...

Martin Sims creates alternative sustainable fashion in Sydney under the label SomeWhat Strange Clothing. I encountered some of the...

Heidi Lai is a Sydney-based oil painter. I first noticed her work as part of the online only ACB Selects show of the National Emerging...

Chuck McKenzie is a science fiction and horror author. I knew Chuck's words before I met Chuck the person - he has the honour of...

Wilamina Russo, sometimes called Willy, is a mentor to artists and a broadcaster. I first encountered her through social media - I had a...

Chiranjika (Chira) Grasby is a Kaurna Yerta-based artist, curator, and tattooist. I think it was through the magic of the Instagram...

Sarah Firth is an artist, graphic recorder and writer. We went to school together and even then, it was obvious she was talented. I have...

Sour Doll, a.k.a. Hayley, is a goth chic fashion designer from New Zealand who has a darkly romantic style. Her pieces combine upcycling...

Rosanagh May is a Tasmanian ceramicist who builds by hand at a shed in Yolla. The intensity of her black dots on white reminds me of...

Jocelyn Ng is a fashion designer and painter behind the brand JOCCELYN. I met Jocelyn the person at a Wet Paint Collective group show...

Melbourne-based painter Hop Dac is an artist I associate with still life works that share some or all of these qualities: colours gently...

I met the work of Mira Nurdianti (Melancholy Memento) before I met Mira the person. During the pandemic, a Newtown Japanese restaurant...

Yes, I am interviewing myself. No, not because I ran out of people who would like to take questions. This blog post is because I have...