Fassifern Guardian Push for arts precinct on Tamborine Mountain AT THE heart of plans for an arts precinct on Tamborine Mountain is the love for Kate Tardy, a mother and grandmother who lost her battle to breast cancer in February last year. Lara Hart 24 Apr 2024
Arts Unladylike Desires - by Felicity Smith SHE has a museum dedicated to her works which have sold for millions of dollars but she was buried in a pauper’s grave, largely forgotten, unforgiven. Guest Writer 24 Apr 2024
Arts Masterpiece or masterstroke, the art of being Banksy FEW know who he is, and none will give him up. Banksy is both admired and admonished, but this anonymous graffiti artist and art world sensation is so much more than a hooligan with a spray can. Keith Hawley 17 Apr 2024
Arts The Dark Ages - how dark were they? WHAT were the Dark Ages, how did they get their name, and do we know what happened? Guest Writer 10 Apr 2024
Arts Art is always a reflection of Society - by Felicity Smith NONE of us develops in a vacuum, there is no such thing as self-taught - that’s mere wishful thinking. We are all subject to a myriad of influences, at every stage of our development. Guest Writer 03 Apr 2024
Arts New president a playmaker with plans AN ON stage performance of a radio play, a fresh look for the annual arts festival and building closer ties with other community organisations are some of the priorities for the newly installed president of the Boonah and District Cultural Foundation. Wendy Creighton 27 Mar 2024
Arts A Very Good Boy - touching on dogs through art and culture through the ages - by Felicity Smith MOST faithful of friends, dogs have been our constant companions for 40,000 years. Guest Writer 27 Mar 2024
Arts Is there more than one Mona Lisa? - by Felicity Smith RESEARCHING for any story leads to more information in the wastepaper bin than in print. Guest Writer 20 Mar 2024
Arts La Joconda and her ‘Mona Lisa’ smile by Felicity Smith MONA LISA to English speakers, La Jaconda to the French, La Gioconda to the Italians, this most recognisable of portraits from Western Art was started by that quintessential Renaissance man, the artist, architect, engineer, inventor and mathematician Leonardo da Vinci in 1503. Guest Writer 13 Mar 2024
Arts Get your ARTS into gear with Glen Smith - 13th March 2024 LOCAL artist Kerry Lindquist otherwise known as The Crooked Little Potter is opening up her studio and Little Shop at 40 Bird Street, Bundamba and you’re invited to come along and celebrate her dream. Guest Writer 12 Mar 2024
Arts Home and abroad Starr shines bright Ipswich artist Starr is known for her explosion of colour, a trademark that has made her one of the most popular artists around. BRIAN BENNION met with Starr in her studio to talk about the music, dance and travels that have inspired her impressive body of work. Brian Bennion 06 Mar 2024
Arts All the Things - the Rosetta Stone, by Felicity Smith A LITTLE over a mile from the pyramids of Giza, a new museum awaits the return of the Rosetta Stone. Guest Writer 06 Mar 2024
Arts Get your ARTS into gear with Glen Smith - 6th March 2024 Scenic Rim artist, Suzy Buhl believes that you should live and breathe Art, every day. I think for Suzy this motto is more prevalent now than ever before. Guest Writer 05 Mar 2024
Arts Pushing for Ethical AI Usage - by Felicity Smith HUMAN hands are rocking the AI cradle. Guest Writer 28 Feb 2024
Arts What is art, what is not? by Felicity Smith WHAT is art, and what is not? Defined as an attempt by the artist to comment on their experience of the world, art is necessarily human and cannot be generated by an unthinking AI logarithm scanning code. Guest Writer 21 Feb 2024
Arts Shadowlands - AI and the Artist ANXIETY is a rational response to Artificial Intelligence. We are primed to fear the unknown so alarm and suspicion are to be expected when we are faced with the potential for unbridled artificial intelligence and the danger that AI may develop an agenda Guest Writer 14 Feb 2024
Arts Laughing in the face of old age “YOU don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” Rob Mellett 07 Feb 2024
Arts Get your ARTS into gear with Glen Smith - 7 February 2024 The Ipswich Library has a program called ‘Chasing our Past’ where family historians, museum curators and enthusiasts bring to life a presentation about all things past Ipswich. Guest Writer 06 Feb 2024
Arts A BLOCK OF MARBLE LEFT FOR DEAD THE year was 1501 and Michelangelo was in Rome having recently completed his sculpture La Pieta in the Vatican when he heard that an enormous block of Carrara marble which had languished in the yard of the General Work Department of the Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral in Florence for 25 years might shortly become available. Guest Writer 20 Dec 2023