Archive for September, 2014
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Taking a peek through the looking glass
Missy Morrin talks with collage artist Rochelle Summerfield. Next exhibition 7th October- 1st November 2014 at Brenda May Gallery, 5 Danks Street Sydney. When did you first start to get interested in photography? It was part of my art practice but really as scanning, (I loved my scan of a flathead belly) photomedia and photo etching (a traditional etching process called photogravure). It wasn’t till my masters in 2005 that I began to use a lot more photography. I took quite naturally to digital SLR and love the fact that I can delete and get […]
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One man’s journey through music
From a teenage tour around Europe playing classical violin, from pub gigs to corporate events on festival stages across Australia, Paul “Rabbit” Robinson talks to Hannah-Lee Smith about his musical journey. “A committed artist should be prepared to swim in a river of their own blood to get to a show on time, the show must go on…” Born in the heart of the Tweed Shire at Murwillumbah Hospital on the 24th of May 1963, it was the start of a wonderful adventure for this little baby boy. Yet, sometimes we ask ourselves, […]
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Help our homeless youth
Hannah-Lee Smith interviews Gerina Appo from St Joseph’s Youth Service Tweed Heads NSW “We all lock our doors now because the streets aren’t safe anymore” an elderly woman once said. But why? The answer lies in the fact that today’s society isn’t as stable and families are not as involved as they were 20 years ago. Teenagers often come from broken homes, are victims of violence, abuse and neglect, they suffer from behavioural issues such as ADHD and mental illness, have poor diet, they hang out with the wrong group of friends or simply don’t […]