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Art making is how I understand the world: Reed Weir
Can you tell us a little about yourself and your art practice? I am a multidisciplinary visual artist. I sometimes describe myself as a “serial material monogamist,” meaning that I…
“You should go to university.” What was there to fear? But the mother of all fears lived inside of me …
by Donna Morrissey “You’re so smart,” said my friend, Jude, in a crowded bar one night over drinks and smokes. We were sitting in a booth, the four of us…
The Dog, The Dress & Memorial
By Eva Crocker It’s damp early spring and my across-the-hall neighbour, Michael, is stacking smashed car windshields in the hall outside his unit. Michael collects cracked windshields from garages, and…
“There’s an ease and freedom to making up a story, paring it down, sending it away; anything can happen to it then”: Nicholas Ruddock takes us around Planet Earth
You are very versatile with literary forms – with the NQ alone you’ve published non-fiction and poetry, and you’re also a novelist, with Last Hummingbird West of Chile just released…
Have camera (and dog), will go birding: Sheldon Anthony shares some snaps
Winter wren Tiny, short-tailed, plain-brown wren with a huge voice. Subtly patterned, with indistinct pale eyebrow and diffuse dark barring on flanks and wings. Constantly keeps tail cocked at an…
A History of Her Majesty’s Penitentiary: David Harvey takes readers Inside the Walls
Can you talk about the format of this history – it’s almost a scrapbook of news articles, training manuals, personal documents. How did you organize and contextualize all this? This…
Smoke On the Water
Nora Kelly is an illustrator, oil painter, and muralist based in Montreal, Quebec. She lives with her partner, an Argentinian tattoo-artist and muralist, and her Boston Terrier named Squid. On…