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A baby brushtail possum has just fallen down the chimney into Philippa Northeast’s rented cottage outside Adelaide. The actor takes a towel and wraps it around the joey, then places it beside a hot water bottle in a box, which she carefully leaves outside, having seen the mother looking for the youngster that fell from her back.
“The poor little thing, I think it’s OK,” the 30-year-old star of The Newsreader and Territory reports back after a five-minute break in our interview.
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At 90, Janet Dawson has spent a life drawn to the light and energy of the natural and celestial worlds as she crosses boundaries of abstraction and figuration.
Her dressmaker mother, Olga, was the first to teach her to examine the everyday, from clouds to chooks to a cauliflower on their kitchen bench. “She could draw but recognised in me something she had not had; the power of pushing it further,” the artist recalls now.
Dawson is in Sydney after two days of being driven from her home of recent years in southern Victoria.
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Stephen Page stands wrapped in scarf and beanie against the morning winter chill at Sydney’s Marrinawi (big canoe) cove, at the northern end of Barangaroo reserve. “This mouth of water, one of the biggest in the world, it’s an operatic landscape and it was so inspirational,” he says.
As he looks past the sculpted sandstone across the harbour, the acclaimed choreographer recollects the Eora nation stories that prompted some of his best-known dance works during his 31 years as artistic director of the Sydney-based Bangarra Dance Theatre.
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