Gillian Cumming

Brisbane

Travel Writer and Editor at Freelance

Travel writer, editor, media manager. Cyclist, farmer, gardener, reader & cook. Former Arts+Culture Editor at Courier-Mail's Qweekend magazine. Loves to dance

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Articles

The maverick: Undressing Coco Chanel's brilliant career

Sep 22, 2024 | inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Laurie Marsden |Gillian Cumming

The Chanel brand embodies class, timelessness and a certain je ne sais quoi that has kept it relevant since its inception in 1910. Everyone has heard of Chanel with most understanding its significance and influence, both in the luxury space and in our collective culture.
Remembering Betty: Dame Quentin Bryce pays tribute

Sep 10, 2024 | inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Gillian Cumming |Cameron Pegg

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Behind closed doors: Private view into a dancer's world

Sep 10, 2024 | inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Olivia Stewart |Louise Martin-Chew |Gillian Cumming

As a collective of artists with and without disability, Restless Dance Theatre spotlights what unites us all as people. Playing during Brisbane Festival, Private View is the company’s most intimate work yet. Conceived by long-time creative producer Roz Hervey to challenge taboos around sexuality and disability, Private View steps behind closed doors to explore sex and love in a series of vignettes capturing desire, dreams and despair.
Into the tunnel of love - almost with Dire Straits

Sep 10, 2024 | inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Sean Sennett |Gillian Cumming

Two years ago, I received an email from a friend in London telling me she’d been out to see Dire Straits the night before and I should, under no circumstances, miss them when they come to Australia. This was unusual on two counts. Firstly, I had no idea my friend was a Dire Straits fan. Secondly, the band stopped playing live after a gig in Zaragoza Spain in October 1992 on the final stop of their On Every Street Tour. On that tour they played 300 shows in front of 7.1 million ticket-buying fans.
Music review: Realising a Dream

Sep 9, 2024 | inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Edmund Black |PHIL BROWN |Gillian Cumming

In recent decades, jazz has become the music of concert halls and universities. A style that was once considered to be an affront to public morality is now sometimes seen as old-fashioned and inflexible; a music meant only for those in the know. The second night of renowned jazz trumpeter James Morrison’s Collaboration series at the UKARIA Cultural Centre, however, challenged this perception.
Welcome overture as troubled QSO appoints new head

Sep 9, 2024 | inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Olivia Stewart |Louise Martin-Chew |Gillian Cumming

It’s not all bad news at the major arts companies, despite choppy waters recently. In fact, there are some positive things happening. A case in point is the appointment of Michael Sterzinger as chief executive of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Sterzinger, who starts with the QSO in November, is returning to an organisation where from 2013 to 2021 he was involved with the company’s artistic planning, including as director of artistic planning from 2017 to 2018.
A few shockingly Grimm fairy tales for grownups

Sep 8, 2024 | inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Olivia Stewart |Gillian Cumming |Cameron Pegg

X-rated fairy tales – it sounds like an oxymoron until you experience Shake & Stir Theatre Co’s Grimm, now playing at QPAC during the Brisbane Festival. This outrageously original mash-up of the German Brothers Grimm’s stories and characters pushes the limits with pornographic innuendo (there are two references to “golden showers”), hard-core swearing and unsettling depictions of violence.
Our northern queen of couture's Brisbane trifecta

Sep 8, 2024 | inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Louise Martin-Chew |Gillian Cumming

Queensland artist and fashion designer Grace Lillian Lee is not a household name. Yet. But Brisbane Festival 2024 may change that by placing her talents front and centre, giving her work the profile it deserves. Lee is currently the subject of two exhibitions, both of which explore her family and cultural connections. And, excitingly for her international ambitions, her couture creation is a feature of festival headliner Jean Paul Gautier’s Fashion Freak Show. So, who is Grace Lillian Lee?
Green Room: Film Festival sneak peek, winning words

Sep 5, 2024 | inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |PHIL BROWN |Gillian Cumming

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The Puzzle: High-seas shenanigans with David Williamson

Sep 5, 2024 | inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Gillian Cumming |Murray Bramwell |PHIL BROWN

David Williamson first came across “lifestyle cruises” when he was doing online research while planning for a cruise holiday with his writer wife Kristin. The term kept popping up during his searches, and although the celebrated Australian playwright hastens to add that the cruise they booked wasn’t that type of adventure, it nonetheless provided the idea for The Puzzle, his new black comedy about “marriage, desire, polyamory and parenthood”.