Steve Dow

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Steph Harmon |Jack Callil |Steve Dow |Fiona Wright |Claire Cao |Dee Jefferson | +3 more

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Jan 8, 2025 | artguide.com.au | Steve Dow

Partners in life and art, Will and Garrett Huxley revel in the excess of their sequined wonderland, paying homage to their queer artist forebears. Their first collective survey, showing in Perth where British-born Will grew up, unfurls a decade of photography, music recordings, costume, film and performance. Curator Abigail Moncrieff says Will, 42, is the extroverted one in the relationship, although Melbourne-born and Gold Coast-raised Garrett, 51, became “more sparkly” after the pair met.

Jan 7, 2025 | artguide.com.au | Steve Dow

In Telly Tuita’s self-styled “Tongpop”, time and space are circuitous, like the traditional Tongan manulua pattern he often incorporates into his art based on two birds circling one another. Dressing as divas and deities in dyed raffia and leis for “performative self-portraits”, Tuita accessorises himself, his acrylic and spray paintings and installations with “crazy colours and materials”.

Dec 29, 2024 | theguardian.com | Steve Dow

In 1954, when 22-year-old Sydney model Shirley Beiger went on trial for the alleged murder of her live-in lover, hundreds of spectators, many of them women, queued outside Darlinghurst’s courthouse with sandwiches, Thermos flasks and even babies, hoping for a seat. “They were yelling, ‘God bless you, Shirl’,” says award-winning theatre maker Sheridan Harbridge.

Dec 26, 2024 | theguardian.com | Cassie Tongue |Alison Croggon |Tim Byrne |Jason Blake |Michael Sun |Walter Marsh | +6 more

Big Name, No BlanketsIlbijerri Theatre Company Sydney; Melbourne; Brisbane; Darwin; heading to Perth festival, 27 February – 1 MarchIt’s not often that a jukebox musical would make an end-of-year best theatre list, but Big Name, No Blankets – which tells the story of the iconic Warumpi Band – is no ordinary jukebox musical.