Mike and Emilie Fantuz: Places We Are Found
I am a part of all that I have met – Tennyson, Ulysses A sense of place resonates as more than mere background. A hillside, a river, the ocean, an…
Bill Brennan: “The first thing I played was a home-made drum set. I must have driven my mother crazy.”
Did you grow up in a musical household? I grew up in a very musical household. My Dad was a great singer, and my Mother played piano a little. I…
Breaking the boundaries of the painting: a conversation with David Baltzer, Part Two
You’ve presented a couple of pop-up exhibitions, with the Memetic-Self Portraits at the Neele Building in 2018 and most recently When Gravity Fails at the Arts and Culture Centre. Why…
David Baltzer: “I feel art has to say something”
Can you tell us a little about yourself? I was born in Michigan, and moved when I was ten to California, southern California, and when I was 17 moved to…
“The novel is fiction, but my own experiences couldn’t help but colour the story”: Willow Kean debuts with Eyes in Front When Running
Why a novel? How was the writing process different than playwrighting? Even though it’s in the third person, so much of the story is internal; Cleo working through things in…
The Gull Workshop: At some point my son said, ‘That would be a cool title for a book’
These stories strike me as quite different tonally from your novel The Artificial Newfoundlander – they’re still (broadly) contemporary and full of wit, but the situations often hint at, or veer…