Features
Why lying down is an artistic superpower
Going from our habituated upright selves to more horizontal positions can do wonders for creative thinking.
Fringe benefits: does playing Edinburgh really help your career?
Four Australian artists reflect on their trip to the world’s biggest arts festival and consider whether the benefits of attending…
Women artists on making at home
What do artists Louise Olsen, Karen Black and Zoe Young have in common? Learn how ‘home’ has influenced how and…
Dealing with an annoying colleague without losing your cool
We’ve all had days of tearing our hair out over a colleague who has annoying habits. But there are ways…
How to navigate the writer-editor relationship
Working on a manuscript together necessitates compromise, humility and humour.
More than luck: why succession planning matters
Mentoring and internships are embraced in the arts, but succession planning can strengthen these initiatives for a sector-wide impact.
Are ‘quiet firing’ and ‘quiet quitting’ real in the arts?
Are the arts the perfect breeding ground for the global trend of ‘quiet firing’ and ‘quiet quitting’, systemically plagued by…
How video games are bringing orchestral music to new ears
Wonderful orchestral and art music is being composed for video games along with greats of the classical canon repurposed into…
The bleed of visual artists into theatre
Tim Storrier is the latest to join the long history of visual artists designing theatre sets. We take a look…
What’s happening to arts censorship in the age of cancel culture?
If politics and social media are pushing public dialogue to extremes, what does that mean for artistic freedoms?