‘Mike Fordham lies under a makeshift canvas shelter at the turn-off, dying.’
Mike Fordham lies under a makeshift canvas shelter at the turn-off, dying. It’s only fifteen kilometres on to Maria Lagoon, where Ginger Riley, the Aboriginal painter, has his permanent outstation camp. Not far to go, considering we’ve already come more than a thousand. But now, after driving ti…
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‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
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‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
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‘Grief has a warring logic; it always wants something impossible, something worse and something better.’
An extract from Biography of X by Catherine Lacey.
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Laura Maw on the photography of Corinne May Botz.
Nick Drnaso on the making of his new graphic novel Acting Class, in this exclusive mini-documentary.
‘The self is the work of art. Criticism puts that self in the service of other art.’
The authors discuss the multiplicity of the self, the idea of necessity, and how to work with what you lack.
‘How long has it been since Noah and his passengers set off in their vessel?’
