You probably would not take your parents to see her perform. In fact, she did not even let her biological parents hear any of her “funny songs”. [WARNING: strong language follows] If you did not understand English you would swear Nikki Lynn Katt (pictured) was an angel singing. But when you understand her, it’s a […]

Paper is the theme of an exhibition by art students of the Queensland College of Art this Saturday. Titled “Paper Walls”, the exhibition showcases the work of 13 students, mostly in their final year, from different disciplines. Organised and put together entirely by students, the exhibition is part of a learning project where students learn […]

Brisbane’s world premiere Music Video Mash Up Competition came to a close last week as winners were announced at the Brisbane Powerhouse. The competition began on April 30 when 19 local bands and young filmmakers were randomly paired together and given three days to create a music video. The videos were revealed at the UQ […]

Wide blue skies, a windmill atop ochre coloured hills, and the token sheep of an outback station set the opening scene of the QPAC production The Elixir of Love firmly in Australian territory. The light-hearted opera, written in two acts by prolific Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti, premiered as L’elisir d’amore in Milan in 1832. This […]

Nash Theatre More than 2000 years since it was written, any modern staging of Antigone requires an element of creativity to make it fresh and relevant. The New Farm Nash Theatre’s current production is certainly creative. Director Jeff Zayer has put together an eclectic production that borrows elements of ancient Greek and Roman aesthetic in […]

Tickets to Queensland Theatre Company’s educational production of Waiting For Godot sold out last week, proving the 1949 play still has appeal for Generation Y. The play is a dense absurdist drama about two characters waiting on a desolate road for someone called Godot, who (plot spoiler!) never arrives. Queensland University of Technology Drama Discipline Leader […]

The Queensland Art Gallery’s collection of East Asian pottery is small, but shows the development of the form from its crude beginnings into the post-modern realm of conceptual art. The oldest pieces in the collection, Japanese and Chinese pottery and earthenware from 3500-2000BC, show the beginnings of pottery as a functional, sturdy craft, crudely decorated […]

The Bridge Under Construction, Roland Wakelin, 1928 A partially-built Sydney Harbour Bridge and a street in what is probably Sydney’s North Shore. A crane perches on top of the unfinished arch of the bridge, and in the street in front of us two trams carry passengers, as people walk around. The painting confidently asserts that […]

This is a raucous play about the depraved and crazy antics of a flatshare in Brisbane.

When Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji a millennium ago, he probably didn’t expect to be lauded in the 21st Century as the author of the world’s first novel. Nor would the Japanese novelist have foreseen his Casanova-like character’s tales depicted on large scale artworks in faraway lands. The Queensland State Art Gallery is currently showing Tosa […]

Hats, hats and more hats, in every shape, style, colour and size imaginable. If this sounds like your idea of heaven then head to the Queensland Art Gallery, where the exhibition Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones, is currently running. The exhibition is a collaboration between London’s Victoria and Albert museum and one of the […]