Olá de Lisboa!

May 2024

NQ is travelling – watch this space for our interview with a celebrated NL artist, who just happens to be here, doing her fabulous stuff (on tour with an acclaimed production). And we’ll see what else captures our attention on this side of the pond …

(Apologies by the way for this page being offline for a few days. Gremlins have been located and banished 🙂 )

Photo: exhibition, Museu Nacional do Azulejo

NL Q and A: Elisabeth de Mariaffi

BY Joan Sullivan

I usually come to new stories with either a first line or a first image in mind. With Hysteria, it was an image – almost a moment, really. A young mother, lounging on a wooden raft in a quiet pond with her child, suddenly is witness to a strange and unexplainable event. It’s a hot and lazy day, the woman is half-dozing. She looks up to see a second child, a strange little girl, has appeared out of nowhere.

Is a seal a fish?

We’ve often heard that none less than the Pope, or a pope, or the Bishop, or a bishop, decreed that seals were fish – not meat – opening a food…