Sometimes, I'm blown away by what I can have for free, what I can just take - and what I was able to take in, all for nothing, on 26...

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...