Sister Corita’s Summer of Love
By Heath ChamerskiSister Corita’s Summer of Love exhibition shares a message of love, peace and tolerance.
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Mapping the overlapping stories of the Tanami Desert
By Anika BasetPosition Doubtful, a memoir by artist and writer Kim Mahood, is a series of essays that recount the author’s links to remote communities in the Tanami Desert.
Richard Lewer: Worse Luck I am Still Here
By Maggie WatsonTragic love story or an act of murder? Richard Lewer’s moving animation “Worse Luck I am Still Here” explores themes of love, ageing, death and euthanasia.
Afghan-Australian artist Mehdi Jaghuri
Samira Farah in conversation with Mehdi JaghuriRight Now arts editor Samira Farah speaks with Mehdi Jaghuri, an Afghan-Australian artist who fled Hazara targeted persecution when he was a child.
A global human rights imagination?
Paddy Coleridge in conversation with Mark BradleyWhy it is that historians are only now starting to talk about human rights? We spoke with Professor Mark Bradley of the University of Chicago to find an answer.
Emerging voices of refugees on show
By Mabel KwongMabel Kwong was at this year’s Emerge Festival Main Event, an event that gives refugees a platform to express their passion and energy, and begs the question why there isn’t more of it.
More than just soup
By Sadami KonchiArtist Sadami Konchi captures the poignancy of a night spent volunteering with a soup van for homeless people.
Artistic Dreaming – Women, Art and Empowerment in La Perouse
By Jacqui FetchetBy Jacqui Fetchet. This article is part of our April and May focus on Art and Human Rights. “For me the idea of a blank canvas is one of the most empowering things – the thought that you can do anything, go anywhere, say whatever you want. It is freedom of speech. For my people it […]
South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault’s Art Group Blog
By South Eastern Centre Against Sexual AssaultThe images and multimedia included in this article are republished from the South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault’s (SECASA’s) art group blog. The art group blog was established as part of SECASA’s of our ‘year of less text’ initiative, with funding from the Victorian Women’s Trust. The ‘year of less text’ aims to do more […]
Preserves Project
By Berni M JanssenBy Berni M Janssen. This article is part of our April and May focus on Art and Human Rights The Preserves Project is a multi-arts project celebrating the ways people from different cultural backgrounds preserve, share and pass on what they value. The trees are heavy with fruit, not every year, but when the season has […]