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In 2014, self-taught Walmajarri-Nyikina painter and poet Edwin Lee Mulligan was talked into becoming a dancer. The cross-cultural dance company Marrugeku from coastal Broome in Western Australia had travelled 400km east to remote Fitzroy Crossing, seeking untapped talent.
Derby-born Mulligan, who grew up in Yakanarra and spent his earliest years in bough sheds and tents among “the last of the nomads”, had many stories to tell.
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Pop, installation, music and photographic artist Darren Sylvester is putting the last touches to his consumerist art sculpture garden. Serendipitous finds are being laid for visitors to his 20-year career survey here at the National Gallery of Victoria’s Federation Square site: looking beyond the hamburger- styled couches in various sizes, new art surprises have been secreted in cavities behind the plinths.
Photos have been set upon large, freestanding walls within the space: the oldest, an image of a little girl wearing a Panasonic Discman, from 1998, becomes a memento mori for past pop technologies as well as the flicker of a fleeting experience.
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Fifty essays and dispatches on what it means to be gay today.
On sale at Amazon and iTunes.
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