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I live and create on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, and I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the grounds and waters that I broadcast and travel across. Paying my respects to Elders past, present, and emerging, I extend this warmth to all the descendants of First Nations artists, storytellers, and knowledge keepers.

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On my way to full blobby mode! ⚪️🔘⚪️🔘💞
📸1: @masonkimber / 2: internets

Marshmallow forts~Glassy aliens~Truffle snowstorm~

Marshmallow forts~Glassy aliens~Truffle snowstorm~ Parrot dialects~Snake dreams~Book foraging~Bricks squashing basil~Poodle quiff~Gallery openings/closings/in-betweenings~Tongue safari~Aboriginal Soil, alwayssssssss~Vortex skating~Honeycomb frescoes~Book charades~Selfies of selfies~Net Ecologies 🌪🪐

💞TY for the Naarm memories @masonkimber @phebechan @audreynewtonart3 @entree.pinays @priyanamana @eugeniuslim @sophiatron @priya_pavri @sandratanwrites @jonnyhonky @sophieprince @contosfox

🔮Encounters: @perimeterbooks @worldfoodbooks @melbartlibrary @centreforprojectionart @gertrude.st.projection.fest @buxton_contemporary @stationgalleryaustralia @serai.melbourne @1301sw_melbourne @sukuhome @thehardwareclub_ @cibi_minanoie @collingwood_yards @openhousemelb @gertrudecontemporary @areadingroom @johnwardlearchitects

🧨 Makers: @edwinagreene @anna_schwann_x @jucromanis @steviefieldsend_ @freyapitt @elenapapanikolakis @jasonphuu @anselm_reyle @rossmagnaye @generalfeelings.sound @matilda.sutho #LewisFidock @_susan_jacobs_ Cover pic: @katjanovi 💜

Most of my days spent trying 2 Airdrop 2 the right

Most of my days spent trying 2 Airdrop 2 the right phone 😂🕵🏻‍♀️🤳🏼🚫☁️ #Airdrop #ComingToAniPhoneNearYou #ByAccident

Image: Qualeasha Wood, Ctrl+Alt+Del, 2021, Cotton Jacquard weave, glass beads; Courtesy Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick © the artist 👼🏾

Gallery craaaaawl 💓🪲 🦾Lu Yang @luyangasia

Gallery craaaaawl 💓🪲
🦾Lu Yang @luyangasia in Ultra Unreal at @mca_australia
🦎Club Ate @newgenderwhodis & @phasmahammer in Ultra Unreal at @mca_australia
🎞Hu Jieming 胡介鸣 in I Loved You at @whiterabbitgallery
🌞 Kalanjay Dhir @kalanjay in New Energy at @4a_aus
🖨Earthworks & Lucifoil Poster Collectives in Sydney Buries Its Past at @tinshedsgallery
🧶D Harding @d_gnidrah & Kate Harding in Through A Lens of Visitation at @ccwm_sydney

#ArtCrawl #Gadigal #Galleries #LuYang #DHarding #胡介鸣 #KalanjayDhir #ClubAte #BhenjiRa #JustinShoulder

Scrumptious BTS from yesterday’s Secret Snacks f

Scrumptious BTS from yesterday’s Secret Snacks film shoot at @4a_aus @nakanodarling @kwafood_sydney featuring designer @_joyli + artist @kalanjay + hungry snack-hunters @katgot.hertongue @phebechan @nadiaodlum @audreynewtonart3 🍢🧋🍬

This juicy segment will screen early August as part of ABC Arts Week! ILY @abc_arts @_kewb_ 💕🥟😋 #Haymarket #Chinatown #4Acentre #Food #ArtAndFood #Snacks #SmallMeals #Hangry #ArtInTheHeartOfHaymarket #4Asecretsnacks

Hungry bellies, head to Haymarket! 🧋 Secret Sna

Hungry bellies, head to Haymarket! 🧋
Secret Snacks is an interactive campaign that connects your mouth with a medley of treats available across restaurants, eateries, and food providers in Sydney’s legendary Chinatown and Haymarket precincts.

🍧I’m crunchy with excitement to work on this tastemaker project for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (@4a_aus) featuring a triage of Asian creatives and their go-to treats. To bring these snacks to life, we’ve teamed up with the brilliant designer Joy Li (@_joyli) who illustrated these profiles, with a peckish nod to old-school food signage, childhood snacks, and anamorphic cartoons! 💯

📲👅Visit 4A's Instagram channel and IG Highlights to explore hand-picked snacks by Kalanjay Dhir (@kalanjay) and EJ SON (@ejhotdogs) + more to come, as well as a growing communal plate of micro-dishes submitted by the public—and where you can hunt them down!

🍦Wanna share your secret snack? Upload a photo to your Instagram Stories, add the location or area, and tag @4A_aus on Instagram. Amplify your snack by searching 'secretsnacks' 🔎GIF stickers on IG. Spoon through this reel for the lowdown📲 Get your belly ready for nom-nom adventures ahead 🧋🍗

#Snacks #Eat #SecretSnacks #ArtAndFood #Haymarket #Snack #SydneyEats #Chinatown #EatingOut #SnackTime #SmallMeals #Squid #Savoury #Sweet #Food #Nibbles

Tasting notes from Soft Stir: Issue 2 ~ Stories of

Tasting notes from Soft Stir: Issue 2 ~ Stories of Healing:

The triple-trinity aromas of cardamom, cinnamon and clove—passed around for ritual sniffing at the end of Shabbat—ground the introduction of Zac Picker’s essay about the tributary healing power of spices. Elsewhere, Jazz Money offers you a blue morning, but as an exchange, asks: “would you cut your moon from sky and come to the earthly plains of me / a silver line that waxes and wanes under the quicks of my skin”. 🌏🌒

A book sharded into multiple designs and experimental formats, Soft Stir’s second edition beams with heartening stories that orbit around healing and the softening of self. Bubbling trauma, dreamscape panaceas, restorative beetroot recipes, and recalibrations of off-Country living are among the tales voiced by thirty-five contributors carving elastic paths towards healing. ❤️‍🩹

Editor-in-Chief: Chloe Hayman (@chloehayman_)
Editor: Alex Stevenson (@hyfe___)
Creative Director: Alex Stevenson (@hyfe___)
Publisher: Soft Stir (@softstir)
Design: Alex Stevenson (@hyfe___), Gab Flood (@gabyflood), Bernie Fingleton (@_everydayboo)
First Nations Curator: Tiarna Herczeg (@tiarna.herczeg)
Copy Editor: Henry Chase Richards (@fonduueee)
Printer: Megacolour

See comments for full contributors list ✨Assets courtesy @softstir

Powerhouse Shop Takeover comprises a suite of newly-published and re-circulated books on art & design, food culture, sociology, and the natural world. Curated by writer and arts worker Mariam Arcilla, these limited-edition titles feature over 150 writers, cooks, artists, academics, and cultural workers and are sourced from independent publishers across Australia. Buy from @powerhousemuseum

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Introducing Runway Journal 45: Asemic (@runway_journal) guest edited by Nancy Mauro-Flude (@sister0_). Featuring nine contributors—eight individuals and one artist collective—who defy easy categories and hegemonic meaning, drawing on their creative subjectivity to take us somewhere new, somewhere transformative. 💚💚

Radical, resonant yet unfamiliar, labyrinthine and abundant—explore Asemic in one sitting or revisit at your leisure.

Explore works by:

Andrew Burrell (@andrewxburrell)
Francesca da Rimini
Expanded Writers Collective: Yoko Akama, Martina Copley (@martinacopley), Linda Dement, Maria Griffin, Pia Ednie-Brown (@poeia.onomato), Anna Farago (@faragoanna), Cleo Farago, and Lucinda Strahan (@lucindastrahan)
Fei Gao (@feithebeast)
Najrin Islam (@notnajjrin)
Jo Pollitt (@pollittjoanna)
Ella Skilbeck-Porter (@ondesvagues)
Matilda Sutherland (@matildasutho)
Denise Thwaites (@operation_escargot)

To celebrate, we invite you to join us at 7–7.30pm AEST tonight (Wednesday 22 June) for a participatory Zoom performance and reading of the work ‘Writing the Virus’ with the Expanded Writers Collective. You can also tune in to Runway Journal’s Facebook Page to watch the event. Visit @runway_journal for more info / Zoom link! 💻🎉

Runway Journal team: @johannarbear @sian_scott_clash @sarah_hibbs_ @marzigold @jane.ey @ellen.gif @soypiccolopls @yunal_ @sylvia.plathleisure @julie_hha ✨

Runway Journal would like to acknowledge Bundanon (@bundanontrust) and City of Sydney (@cityofsydney) for supporting the development of this issue.

Tasting notes from Sweet Cora: Stories and Recipes

Tasting notes from Sweet Cora: Stories and Recipes of Love, Loss and Memories We Baked:

My Lola ran a bakery underneath our family home in the Philippines, so the sugary-savoury aromas of pandesal bread, bibingka, and polvoron candy woke me up in the mornings like an alarm clock targeting my belly. Working as her tiny assistant, I learnt how to knead dough and churn ice-cream; her lessons still guide me in the kitchen today. Similarly, Naarm-based Filipino cook Grace Guinto lovingly envelopes her children into her home baking experience, with the intention to pass down family recipes and stories with every mouthful. 🧁🍰🥄

Grace’s recipe cards salivate with scrumptious Filipino desserts like Calamansi Tart, Halo-Halo Cookie, and Ube & Cheese Pandesal—recipes inherited from her late mother Cora. In her tributary text, Grace describes her mother as having “skin the complexion of condensed milk, freckles the colour of cinnamon… and arms soft and plump like the perfect 'Brazo de Mercedes'.” A maternal love that marinates in the tummy, these familial taste last through time immemorial. 🍩🍪🍬

Launched as part of Powerhouse x Sydney Writers’ Festival, the Powerhouse Shop Takeover presents an exquisite list of newly-published and re-circulated books on art & design, food culture, sociology, and the natural world. Curated by writer and arts worker Mariam Arcilla, these eleven limited-edition titles feature contributions from over 150 writers, cooks, artists, academics, and cultural workers. Available for purchase at Powerhouse Ultimo until 31 July, all books are sourced from independent publishers across Australia. @powerhousemuseum 📕

📇⏲Sweet Cora: Stories and Recipes of Love, Loss and Memories We Baked
👩🏽‍🍳 Author/Cook: Grace Guinto @sweet.cora.cakes
👧🏻Chief Tasting Officer: little Stella Guinto
📷 Photography: Maysie Lecciones @maysiemaysie

#PinoyFood #Baking #RecipeCards #Kusina #AustralianPress #Ube #Polvoron #Pandesal @entree.pinays #GraceGuinto #CreativeCooking

Ziggy zag zag ⚡️We’ve done a second print-ru

Ziggy zag zag ⚡️We’ve done a second print-run of the 4A 2022 Program booklet, so nab your copy of this concertina beauty at 4A today! 🍑🍊🧡Kajillion dollar question: Is this turmeric? Burnt orange? Pumpkin? Fanta Orange? Ps how kewt is the polly pocket mini-booklet mock!!!🐣

📙4A 2022 Program
📃Stock: 250 gsm Grange
🤲🏽 Satin varnish, Pantone 1505 U
💻Designer: Nina M Gibbes @ninamgibbes
🖨Printer: Peachy @peachyprintaustralia
Printed October 2021

Digital booklet available ~ see @4a_aus bio link for the deets + image creds. Or swing by our website 4A.com.au ~ designed by angel @ellewilliams.studio 🖥🔗💜

#ArtCollateral #BTS #ArtBooklet #NicePrinting #Orange #Merch #Concertina #URLtoIRL

Sporadic peek inside Phoenix Central Park Gallery

Sporadic peek inside Phoenix Central Park Gallery (June 2022) featuring Pukatja ceramics, Tiwi Islands ceremonial burial poles, and a plethora of paintings from the Northern Territory and The Kimberley. 100 artists on show, including Djambawa Marawili AM, Pauline Minmila Wangin, Minnie Pwerle, Song Jianshu, Peter Cooley, Joan Nancy Stokes, and Nonggirrnga Marawili 🙏🏽💕

Plus, sonic snaps from a Phoenix visit (March 2021), where I magnetised towards a Klangschaukelstuhl (sound-rocking chair) and a grand piano overlooking the subterranean performance space after an evening sojourn. 💙🎹🎸

🔮@phoenixcentralpark art collection by @whitehotrabbit 🧱Architecture by @durbachblockjaggers & @johnwardlearchitects

#ArtAndArchitecture #Klangschaukelstuhl #Performance
#Phoenix #Architecture #Chippendale #ArtCollectors

Tasting notes from Feeling Small Today: An empowe

Tasting notes from Feeling Small Today:

An empowerment hit that fits into your pocket (or snug on your sleeve, as seen here!) Sarah Firth’s mini-comic reminds us that even the tiniest acts can chariot moments of joy and connection. 💚🫂As a cartoonist and graphic novelist, Sarah transforms blank pages into hypervisual microcosms of knowledge, often with a humorous and compassionate slant. Case in point: she once tiredly misspelled ‘burn out’ as ‘burnt trout’, then proceeded to draw a charred fish. Amusing, relatable. Feeling Small Today is all about navigating this big overwhelming world by appreciating the smaller things in life. 🐌🧫

✏️Illustrator & author: Sarah Firth @sarahthefirth

Launched as part of Powerhouse x Sydney Writers’ Festival, the Powerhouse Shop Takeover presents an exquisite list of newly-published and re-circulated books on art & design, food culture, sociology, and the natural world. Curated by writer and arts worker Mariam Arcilla, these eleven limited-edition titles feature contributions from over 150 writers, cooks, artists, academics, and cultural workers. Available for purchase at Powerhouse Ultimo from 19 May - 31 July, all books are sourced from independent publishers across Australia. @powerhousemuseum 📕

#IndependentPublications #AustralianPress #SarahFirth #ItsTheLitteThings

Tasting notes from The Belly Carries the Feet: Ro

Tasting notes from
The Belly Carries the Feet: Rosh Hashanah recipes
and recollections by Ellie Bouhadana:

The title for this cook book derives from the ancient Jewish belief that our hunger and anticipation for the next meal is what grounds us, and that our bellies are forever interlinked with community. 🤲🏽🥬

Much like the binding ingredients that form a matzah ball, this scarlet-spined, lanky-shaped tome fuses together family photographs, handwritten diary entries, and Jewish holiday recipes that pay ode to chef Ellie Bouhadana’s matrilineal lineage. I often turn to the fried artichoke and Moroccan carrots recipes—they’re super tasty and look divine on the plate, like an assembly of burnt flowers and waxy candle sticks. 🥕🥀

Hurry ~ last batch of these books left at #PowerhouseShopTakeover 🐠📒

🍋Author: Ellie Bouhadana @ellies.table
🍋Publisher, Editor: Long Prawn @long_prawn
🍋Photography: Becca Crawford @beccacrawford
🍋Art Direction (Photography): Stephanie Stamatis @stephanie_somebody
🍋Book Design: PSP (PractiseStudioPractise) @practisestudiopractise
🍋Printer: Pinky Print @pinkyprint.co

Launched as part of Powerhouse x Sydney Writers’ Festival, the Powerhouse Shop Takeover presents an exquisite list of newly-published and re-circulated books on art & design, food culture, sociology, and the natural world. Curated by writer and arts worker Mariam Arcilla, these eleven limited-edition titles feature contributions from over 150 writers, cooks, artists, academics, and cultural workers. Available for purchase at Powerhouse Ultimo from 19 May - 31 July, all books are sourced from independent publishers across Australia. @powerhousemuseum 📕

📷 1,4 courtesy @long_prawn / 2 @r_gallo_ / 3 @marzigold / 5 @mmmargey fanning through her copy, purchased from PH Shop #RoshHashanah
#FamilyFood #Cuisines #IndependentPublications #AustralianPress

Tasting notes from Plurals Can be Weird (You’ll

Tasting notes from Plurals Can be Weird (You’ll See):

A cactus turns into cacti. A mouse breeds mice. During the 2020 COVID lockdown, artist-couple Keg de Souza and Lucas Abela created a paper-cut illustration book to teach their young son Ernie about the wacky world of English plurals, which stemmed from his fascination with the song ‘foot-feet’ 🦶🏽🐾🤯

The family decided to circulate this plural counting book so that other toddlers and kids can learn! It’s a handy reminder for me too, as an adult, considering I was recently deliberating with a poet about the plural word for ‘octopus’. She was adamant it was ‘octupuses’ while I stayed firm with ‘octopi.’ Google overrode us with ‘octopodes’, a claim that honours the singular noun’s Greek origin. Apparently, all three are correct. Plurals are weird; they can grow tentacles too! 🐙

Now on sale as part of #PowerhouseShopTakeover 🌵

Authors & illustrators:
🐭Keg De Souza @fakinandkeggs
🐭Lucas Abela @lucas_granpa_abela
🐰Muse: Ernie @ernie_zoze

Launched as part of Powerhouse x Sydney Writers’ Festival, the Powerhouse Shop Takeover presents an exquisite list of newly-published and re-circulated books on art & design, food culture, sociology, and the natural world. Curated by writer and arts worker Mariam Arcilla, these eleven limited-edition titles feature contributions from over 150 writers, cooks, artists, academics, and cultural workers. Available for purchase at Powerhouse Ultimo from 19 May-31 July, all books are sourced from independent publishers across Australia. @powerhousemuseum

📷 courtesy the artists
#KidsBooks #Learn #Plurals #FootFeet #EnglishLanguage #IndependentPublications #AustralianPress

Umami highlights from this week’s belly safari,

Umami highlights from this week’s belly safari, with a hat-nod to citric acid and oceanic delights 🍋🦪🐠🍊

🇦🇺FIREDOOR
Bonitos tataki, charred salt bush, finger lime, orange / oyster served over smoked juniper w/ desert lime & seaweed / @lennoxhastie @firedoor_surryhills (📷1-2)

🇵🇭 MABUHAY NIGHTS: Salt Sugar Atbp
Fave tastes: Jackfruit & lemon quencher / Kinilaw sa gata temaki cone (nori, gata, fingerlime, sushi rice) / Kalamansi palette cleanser pop / pandan coconut nama choco mochi, single-origin Filipino tsokolate, peanut tart, guanaja mousseline, dulcey ganache @filipinofoodmovement @mabuhaynights @chefmikoaspiras @santiago_cuyugan @will_mahusay @sweetandyummie (📷3-7)

🇫🇮CAFI PACI
Oyster with kumquat mignonette and molasses-glazed potato bread classics @cafepaci (📷8)

🇨🇳🇵🇭LUCKY KWONG
Australian-Cantonese coleslaw w/ South Eveleigh native bush mint and @palisaanderson’s Byron Sunrise finger lime @kylie_kwong @_luckykwong (📷9-10)

Food buddies @katgot.hertongue @_bottomfeeder @aban.eco @masonkimber 👅😘

#Filipino #Cantonese #Finnish #FlavourPalette #Oysters #MabuhayNights #AsianFusion #IndigenousHerbs #Fingerlime #NativeHerbs

📕❤️‍🔥Tasting notes from Feast of Resis

📕❤️‍🔥Tasting notes from Feast of Resistance:

Recipes that call for sea grapes, grounded cherry pits, and fenugreek seeds are mixed with personal accounts of hodgepodge family dinners, reality TV food shows, lockdown recipes, and kitchen conspiracies. Feast of Resistance invites eight artists to reflect on fond food memories and go-to recipes: Shahmen Suku offers up his famed Lime Pickles recipe, while Jinghua Qian praises lazy family mish-mash dinners. Lara Chamas reveals why she associates hummus with ‘crushed-up teeth’, while Moorina Bonini attempts her nonna’s gnocchi. Assembled by curator Priya Pavri, this new publication positions the kitchen as a site for self-reflection and cultural preservation. Everything starts with salt.

FEAST OF RESISTANCE
🌶Curator: Priya Pavri @priya_pavri
🌶Publisher: Person Books @person.books
🌶Printer: Pinch Press @pinchpress
🌶Design: Thomas McCammon @thomas__mc7

Contributors:
🍇Jinghua Qian @sinotrans_
🍇Lara Chamas @lara_chamas_
🍇Nikki Lam @curiousother
🍇Moorina Bonini @yortayorta_warrior_principessa
🍇Sancintya Mohini Simpson @sancintya
🍇Aida Azin @aidapplebaum
🍇Shahmen Suku @id.radha.some

Now on sale as part of #PowerhouseShopTakeover⚡️

Launched as part of Powerhouse x Sydney Writers’ Festival, the Powerhouse Shop Takeover presents an exquisite list of newly-published and re-circulated books on art & design, food culture, sociology, and the natural world. Curated by writer and arts worker Mariam Arcilla, these eleven limited-edition titles feature contributions from over 150 writers, cooks, artists, academics, and cultural workers. Available for purchase at Powerhouse Ultimo, from 19 May-31 July, all books are sourced from independent publishers across Australia. @powerhousemuseum

📷 Illustration pic @aidapplebaum
Book images @thomas__mc7 #FamilyStories #FeastOfResistance #FoodLanguage

Launched as part of Powerhouse x Sydney Writers’

Launched as part of Powerhouse x Sydney Writers’ Festival, the Powerhouse Shop Takeover presents an exquisite list of newly-published and re-circulated books on art & design, food culture, sociology, and the natural world.

Curated by writer and arts worker Mariam Arcilla, these eleven limited-edition titles feature contributions from over 150 writers, cooks, artists, academics, designers, and cultural workers. Available to purchase at Powerhouse Ultimo from 19 May-31 July 2022, all books are sourced from independent publishers across Australia. Support local bookmakers and artists ~ buy your copy from this marvellous list below:

❤️‍🔥FEATURED PUBLICATIONS❤️‍🔥

📕 The Belly Carries the Feet: Rosh Hashanah recipes and recollections by Ellie Bouhadana
📕 Workbook
📕Leyla Stevens: Dua Dunia
📕 Lost Rocks series: Fossil / Mudstone / Copper / Granite / Shale Stalactite
📕 Eavesdropping: A Reader
📕 Feeling Small Today
📕 Temporary Spaces / Edible Places
📕 Feast of Resistance
📕 Soft Stir Issue 02: Stories of Healing
📕 Sweet Cora: Stories and Recipes of Love, Loss and Memories We Baked
📕 Plurals Can be Weird (You’ll See)

⭐️PUBLISHERS ⭐️
@softstir @long_prawn @fakinandkeggs @heartofheartspress @person.books @merkado.by.tep @apublishedevent @sarahthefirth @liquid_architecture @westspace @busprojects

Stay tuned for a full list of authors, editors, contributors, photographers, designers + my tasting notes inspired by each publication 📒🧠
#PowerhouseShopTakeover

TY @r_gallo_ for inviting me to corral together this art fantasy book line-up!
📷 courtesy the publishers 💓
@powerhousemuseum @sydwritersfest

Word up, angels! Join us at Powerhouse Ultimo this

Word up, angels! Join us at Powerhouse Ultimo this Thursday 19 May 5-9pm for a sensational evening of books, talks, workshops, and film screenings as part of POWERHOUSE LATE ✖️ SYDNEY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL ❤️‍🔥

I’ll be curating the Powerhouse Shop takeover and presenting eleven marvellous books on art & design, food culture, sociology, and the natural world. Peep newly-published titles (some are hot off the press this week!) and re-circulated gems available for sale, published by slow-press and independent publications across Australia. More details & publication reveal post-event! 😋📚📒

TYSM to the legendary @r_gallo_ for inviting me to be a part of this cool project! Visit the PH site to view the full program feat. @garru_editions @emilymc_d @jenna.mlee @tony_birch_ @sophtreeofday @jazzmoney_______ @its_t_e_w_h_i_u
@joelsting @marzigold @fbiradio Brian Fuata, Powerhouse Publishing, and Ashley Hay! #whoa🚨😱🧠 Hugs to @powerhousemuseum @sydwritersfest ⚡️

📷 @zanwimberley #ArtBooks #Food #DesignBooks #Powerhouse #UpLate

Out now in the 100th issue of @artcollectormagazin

Stand tall with us (and the trees!) by checking ou

Stand tall with us (and the trees!) by checking out ‘I Vote for the Trees’ — a grassroots awareness campaign that calls on the community to vote with the environment in mind this upcoming Australian Federal election. 🗳✅

To spread the word, The Dirt Witches (@dirt.witches) Romance was Born (@romancewasborn) and Tom Polo (@tompolo) have joined forces to create limited-edition shirts inspired by the majestic power of trees and the crucial role they play to reduce the damaging effects of the climate crisis. Featuring Tom Polo’s illustrations, these t-shirts, which were originally destined for landfill, were salvaged and reconfigured for this campaign.

Tree-t yourself! 👕🌱😍 Get your shirt exclusively via the Romance Was Born website 💻 • romancewasborn.com but hurry, they’re selling out fast! Full profits from all sales go directly towards supporting forest-protection groups across New South Wales through the Nature Conservation Council NSW. Find out more via @ivoteforthetrees ⬅️💓

This coming election, make your vote count by visiting voteearthnow.com (@voteearthnow_) to find out where your government representatives stand on climate values. 💪🏽🌎

📸: Pics from ‘I Vote for the Trees’ launch at @cut.n.polish; photos by Jessica Maurer / Campaign shoot by Hugh Stewart

Heart eyes! We built a home library and it’s a p

Heart eyes! We built a home library and it’s a page-turner’s dream 😮‍💨📚 @masonkimber found an Airtasker dude to construct our odd-sized shelves and we painted it pigeon-gray to make the book spines and artifacts pop out. 💓💅🏽For any painting tasks, I wear my Mum’s red dress with white-flower outlines bc you can hardly tell the stains from the squiggles lol. An array of titles under the umbrella of art, architecture, design, poetry, food cultures, social justice, new media, fashion, the natural world etc + a humble section devoted to the supernatural, including a rare vampire recipe book I found at the Lifeline Book fair in Meanjin🧛🏻🍗 During our bookshelf assembling, the ratty front cover came off and a holographic sticker accidentally kissed it, so now it looks like a hyper-portal? 🦇🌈🕳Ok off to read, BRB!

Home architecture by @adelemcnabarchitect #HomeLibrary #ArtBooks #VisualDesign #Food #DoggyEars #NewMedia #Technology #Publications #Library

Thank you for making the kind of art that falls as

Thank you for making the kind of art that falls asleep inside my heart, healing it ❤️‍🩹
#NguyenPhuongLinh
#SubashThebeLimbu
#DondonHounwn
#BrianFuata
#SaloteTawale
#EmilyNguyenHunt
#ChongKimChiew
#UramatMugas
#SumakshiSingh
#BagusPandega

#APT10QAGOMA @qagoma #Meanjin #QAGOMA #Everything

Knowledge-trading, creative apparitions, and ghost

Knowledge-trading, creative apparitions, and ghosts in the machines (friendly ones!) from Runway Journal’s Bundanon Trust residency on Yuin nation last week. 💓💻🌳This development period with onsite/offscreen/in-spirit contributors and board members will culminate in Issue 45: Asemic ~ out soon (swipe to the last slides for contributors list) 🎊💫

1. Ella Skilbeck-Porter’s collection of books on image/text and translation.
2. Dinner with @sarah_hibbs_ @jane.ey @yunal_ @sister0_ @lucindastrahan @ondesvagues @matildasutho @andrewxburrell
3. Boe-Lin Bastian touring us through @bundanontrust’s show ‘From Impulse to Action’. Lemon-yellow back-lit neon work by @deean.cross says ‘There is nothing to be afraid of’ (a fitting mantra for every artist)
4. My sleeping pod overlooking Shoalhaven river 😱🏞
5. Nancy Mauro-Flude’s holistic computing workshop at the Boyd Education Center (pic by @andrewxburrell)
6. ‘Wings’ back cover by #CatherineVidler, pub. by Cordite Poetry, quote by #AmeliaDale
7. An Merten’s #Algorithms #DataStructure lecture
8. My go-to translanguage inspo @slavsandtatars
9. @runway_journal Issue 45: Asemic contributors list, guest edited by Nancy Mauro-Flude, feat. Andrew Burrell (@andrewxburrell); Denise Thwaites (@operation_escargot); Ella Skilbeck-Porter (@ondesvagues); Expanded Writers Collective: Yoko Akama, Martina Copley (@martinacopley), Linda Dement, Maria Griffin, Pia Ednie-Brown (@poeia.onomato), Anna Farago (@faragoanna), Cleo Farago, and Lucinda Strahan (@lucindastrahan); Fei Gao (@feithebeast); Francesca da Rimini; Jo Pollitt (@pollittjoanna); Matilda Sutherland (@matildasutho); and Najrin Islam (@notnajjrin)

🔮👾🖲 This Runway Journal residency was supported by @bundanontrust and @cityofsydney 🤎

#Asemic #MachineLearning #ConcretePoetry #ElectronicLit #ExperimentalWriting #Bundanon #Ekphrasis #Algolit #NewMedia #Translanguage #CodeSwitch #VisualEssay #GlennMurcutt #ArthurBoyd

Super buzzed to return to Haymarket to welcome peo

Super buzzed to return to Haymarket to welcome people back to 4A! Sheesh, three weeks have flown by fast #StillProcessing😱💓

Catch the current exhibition ‘For us sinners / Para sa ating mga makasalanan’ by my fave babae Marikit Santiago (@marikitsantiago), on show until 15 May. 4A is open Tuesdays to Sundays from 11am-5pm; on Thursdays, we stay open until 8pm. 🇵🇭🥰

Combining the narrative power of Catholicism and the western art canon with her lived Australian-Filipino experience, Marikit Santiago reframes Adam and Eve's story of temptation and sin, brought on by the 'weakness' of woman and the suppleness of the snake. For us sinners explores 'original sin' by freeing the story from its gendered taint of weakness and guilt. In a series of emotionally-charged works that question utopian and dystopian themes, control and transgression, duty and autonomy, sex and sexual difference, paradise and exile, Marikit's first institutional solo exhibition offers nuanced parables fit for the current moment.
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Marikit Santiago:
Para sa ating mga makasalanan 🙏🏽❤️

Pinagsama ang kapangyarihan ng sanaysay ng Katolisismo at ang pamantayan ng kanlurang sining kasama ang kanyang buhay na karanasan bilang isang Australian- Filipino, muling binalangkas ni Marikit Santiago ang kwento ng pagkatukso at kasalanan nina Adan at Eba, bunga ng kahinaan ng babae at katusuhan ng ahas.

Ang Para sa Ating mga Makasalanan ay nagsisiyasat ng “kauna-unahang kasalanan” sa pamamagitan ng pagpapalaya sa kwento mula sa kahinaan at pagkakasala na bahid ng kasarian. Sa serye ng mga obrang puno ng emosyon na nag-uusisa sa temang yutopyan at dystopian, pagpigil at pagsuway, tungkulin at pagsasarili, kasarian at pagkakaibang sekswal, paraiso at destyero, ang unang institusyunal na solong eksibisyon ni Marikit ay naghahandog ng natatanging parabula na nababagay sa kasalukuyang panahon.

📸 (3) by @mmmargey (4/6) by @garrytrinh; the rest are from my pox iphone #ArtInTheHeartOfHaymarket #4Acentre #Kaibigans #Filipino #Haymarket

Friends! 🍨🌽 Sweeten up your Saturday by tuni

Friends! 🍨🌽 Sweeten up your Saturday by tuning in to a free, live-streamed convo between artist Marikit Santiago and storyteller Sandra Tan from The Entree.Pinays!❤️‍🔥🙏🏽

Inspired by the iconic Pinoy dessert halo-halo (‘mix-mix’ in Tagalog), this chat will spoon together the radiant and complex ingredients that make up the Australian-Filipino identity, through the lens of art, food, culture, and family. Our talk is held as part of Marikit’s exhibition ‘For us sinners / Para sa ating mga makasalanan’ at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art until 15 May! Deets via @4a_aus 🎍🦅

Siempre, we’re gonna’ whip up a special batch of sinfully-masarap halo-halo for these gals to sip during our chikahan! Tune in for art chats and sugar spins! 🎨🍧🍮

Saturday 2 April • 10-11am AEDT
Register via Zoom (link in bio) or tune in to @entree.pinays IG Live on the day! 🔗☺️

Malaking pagmamahal @marikitsantiago @_bottomfeeder @katgot.hertongue @maysiemaysie @sandratanwrites 💜

📸: Marikit Santiago; photo: @garrytrinh ; Home-made halo-halo; photo: @sweet.cora.cakes #Meryenda
#HaloHalo #MixMix #Pinays #ArtAndFood #OnlineTalk #Filipino #AustralianFilipino

The effervescent gal who lured me down to Gadigal

The effervescent gal who lured me down to Gadigal land—and changed my life! Years later, I still love trading milestone stories with you @tenistolt #MissYouAlready🌹Pic: 2018 / 2022

In my natural keysmashhhhh habitat 🙇🏻‍♀️ 🤗 ⌨️
Look up ‘lofi type beat’ on YT if you’re up for 3 hours of this earworm aria🥴🎹 #Copywriting #WordBreaking

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