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Walking through the rainforest in the remote west of her adopted Tasmanian home, actor Marta Dusseldorp finds beauty and brutality along the banks that are home to rare Huon pine. At one junction, the clear water of one river meets the yellow, soupy water of another, poisoned by copper mining tailings.
“It’s just extraordinary, the confluence of man and nature,” says Sydney-born and raised Dusseldorp, 52, who, more than seven years ago, moved to the island state with actor-director husband Ben Winspear and their two daughters, Grace and Maggie.
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In Janenne Eaton’s art lies an implicit critique of our over-reliance on digital technology, a musing on the collision of our physical and virtual worlds.
Using a fine grid structure to represent our ubiquitous LED screens, her paintings and installations feature kinetic points of light that give a sense of flux to her often cosmos-like deep black surface plane.
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Long ago, Marina Otero decided she would film her life until she dies, as part of an attempt to understand her pain and her preoccupation with death. “I was sure that salvation lay in art,” she says.
So when she suffered a mental breakdown in 2022, the Argentinian choreographer decided to keep recording. “It seemed interesting to me, recording the darkest parts of a person,” Otero says from Madrid, where she is based.
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