Sophie Cunningham

2 months ago | qantas.com | Sophie Cunningham |Bridget De Maine

San Francisco has been welcoming visitors since the Gold Rush of 1849, through the countercultural 1960s and ’70s to the present day. The entrepreneurial spirit is strong here. It’s a small city that has always punched well above its weight as a centre of both business and leisure. These days it’s a financial capital, home to major global companies and thousands of start-ups and local businesses. The city is well-versed in hosting conferences and other big events.

Jun 28, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Sophie Cunningham

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at Sydney’s Maritime Museum can’t but prompt questions about the role of art and photography in an age of environmental collapse and extinction. It consists of 100 photographs on loan from the Natural History Museum in London, chosen from close to 50,000 entries from 95 countries. They are arresting, sometimes stunningly beautiful, sometimes confronting.

Mar 1, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Sophie Cunningham

In the first column, written in what would be a short, generous, extraordinary 10 months in this paper, Georgia Blain described the instant her life changed: “It was a Thursday. I was in an ambulance, and Andrew was up the front with the driver. An older guy – bald, serious – was sitting at my feet … Apparently I’d had a total global seizure when I was mowing the lawn.”I have always been in awe of Georgia’s bravery as a writer.

Jan 26, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Sophie Cunningham

The third National Gallery of Victoria Triennial is an expansive affair that showcases the work of 120 artists and designers spread across four floors and the mezzanine of Melbourne’s iconic gallery. It begins before you enter the gallery – Julian Charrière’s And Beneath It All Flows Liquid Fire (2019) flickers behind the water wall while an extraordinary eight-metre-long bronze eel trap, created by Wurundjeri artist Aunty Kim Wandin, sits in the moat.

Nov 10, 2023 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Sophie Cunningham

“I’d rather take a picture than be one,” Lee Miller once said, during the height of her fame as a fashion model. That line is now a well-chosen quote on display at the extraordinary survey of her photographs showing at the Heide Museum of Modern Art. It’s a must-see not just for lovers of photography but for anyone interested in the history of the mid-20th century – a century to which Miller had a front-row seat.