Get the appTasmanian artist Joy Mackey was this month's Artist of the Month at the Pear Shed in White Beach. Sixteen of her small paintings, collectively called Connected, were displayed on one wall. Mackey said she was asked to take the role for October back in January.
University of Melbourne academic Louisa Lim argues Australia has long overlooked its Chinese history, and that this silence has lasting costs. She describes persistent racism, including a 2023 Lowy Institute finding that one in five Chinese Australians reported being called offensive names in the past year. Lim points to the Bendigo dragon tradition, which began in 1892, and to the work of poets and artists who are recovering lost stories. She says Australia must reckon with its Asian past to engage fully with the region.
Darklight Designs has won several honours at the Design Matters National Building Design Awards for Old Ladies Club, a family home in Watermans Bay, Western Australia. The brief called for a fun, practical home for a couple raising three energetic boys, with gardens visible from every main room. The architect responded with a split-level pavilion design, a rumpus room opening onto a lawn, and parking tucked underneath, while keeping a mature street gum. The judges praised its clean planning and restrained materials.