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  • A singer holds a microphone, with a trumpet player, trombonist, pianist and drummer in the background COVID the catalyst for songs of freedom
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    COVID the catalyst for songs of freedom

    18 September 2020

    The pandemic has had an enormous impact on jazz and Garry Lee says there was an atmosphere of joy and relief as WAYJO musicians returned to the stage last night.

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    Reading time • 4 minutesMusic
  • Reading time • 5 minutesMusic
  • Brad Rimmer, Nocturne Eiger Glacier 1, 2017-2020, archival digital print, 75 x 100cm, ed. 3 The image is bleak, monochromatic. A glacier drives between two rocky outcrops. Terrible beauty in exhibition trifecta
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    Terrible beauty in exhibition trifecta

    17 September 2020

    Craig McKeough steps into a series of unsettling and chilling worlds in neighbouring exhibitions by Merrick Belyea and Brad Rimmer at Art Collective WA, and Jacobus Capone at Moore Contemporary.

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    Reading time • 6 minutesVisual Art
  • a painting of gum leaves with some gumnut babies peering out Artist’s vivid imagination still appeals
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    Artist’s vivid imagination still appeals

    16 September 2020

    Saskia Haluszkiewicz says May Gibbs had the imagination of a child. Seesaw’s junior reviewer makes some astute observations about this exhibition, the first of many children’s arts events happening in Perth as part of AWESOME Festival.

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    Reading time • 4 minutesVisual Art
  • Photo: Stephen Heath Photography Tilting away from predictable themes
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    Tilting away from predictable themes

    16 September 2020

    David Zampatti is happy to discover that this year’s student-devised works from WAAPA’s Performance Making students have not been infected with anything of a viral nature.

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    Reading time • 10 minutesTheatre
  • Reading time • 7 minutesDance
  • Oliver-Max Taylor, ‘Bust’, 2020, ceramic; ‘Body #1’ ‘Body #2’ & ‘Body #3’, 2020, photograph. Image courtesy of Mayma Awaida. Cool Change delivers a breath of fresh air
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    Cool Change delivers a breath of fresh air

    10 September 2020

    Cool Change Contemporary has re-opened with an exhibition series that provides a moment for reflection and refreshment, observes Jaimi Wright.

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    Reading time • 4 minutesVisual Art
  • A woman dressed as a man holds a large gun up to two men. They are dressed in trousers, shirts and braces that suggest a scene from the early 20th century. The backdrop is of West Australian bush; a huge gum tree is in the foreground. A fortunate adaptation
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    A fortunate adaptation

    2 September 2020

    Designed to be performed in front of a cinema screen, THEATRE 180 and CinemaStage’s stage adaptation of Albert Facey’s classic novel A Fortunate Life is stylish and innovative, reports David Zampatti.

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    Reading time • 5 minutesTheatre

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