Olympia Bukkakis

I was a drama kid in high school. Not to the overbearing extent of the Anne Hathaways of this world, but I was pretty invested, nonetheless. And while I didn’t think about it so much at the time (partly because I went to a girls school) I predominantly performed in male drag. I remember playing lead Viking

Anna Brownfield

It is hard to know what to expect from a visit with Mother Porn. While she may not immediately reach for the title herself (in a humble rejection of its reverent rather than lowbrow tones)  speaking with the documentarian, and award-winning feminist erotic filmmaker Anna Brownfield, she seems an apt matriarch for the growing porn community

Molly Rose Dyson

When we sit down in Molly Dyson’s bedroom-cum-studio, the illustrator and artist is waxing lyrical about her favourite topic- her occasional portrait subject, and constant companion, the dachshund-cross-chihuahua, Chippy. “Her armpits and her bottom lip are my favourite bits about her,” she says, as she nuzzles her freckled nose into the small threadbare patch of

Zoë Croggon

Zoë Croggon’s Footscray home feels like it belongs to a real grown up. When I enter I am a shy six-year-old again, trailing close behind my mother’s ankles, on a visit to an adult family friend’s house. I remember knowing, without being told, that no matter how bored I was, when we entered these child

Bernadette O’Sullivan

Through Bernadette O’Sullivan’s studio windows the city looks cold. The thin white panes carve buildings into square fragments of grey and muted beige. They look out of focus, like a painted backdrop, distorted by the intense mist. The windows radiate an uncomfortable white light that illuminates the contents of the room.
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Fiona Waters

There’s a new kind of cafe-culture bourgeoning out of Melbourne’s inner west. The spindly black-clad hipsters of Melbourne’s north have all but been replaced by a new breed. Baby-bouncing, pedigree-dog coveting, piccolo-latte sippers, the lot of them. All vying for a table at one of the cafes on Seddon’s up-and-coming strip. The words Sour Dough