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It is the intensity with which she performs her squeaking which sets her apart – she does what all mice do, and yet by making a theatrical performance out of the mundane, thoughtless act of squeaking, she raises it into an art.

Noel McKenna’s series of Dog Posters appear as graphics throughout HEAT Series 2 Number 1.

The lady standing next to us said we had ‘missed the excitement’. A young man had jumped down the Blowhole itself, just after it had blown up its spume, and emerged seemingly unscathed in the ocean below. And now he was encouraging his girlfriend to jump down to him from the cliff.

In our circle of chairs, we read our books after eating: Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich for Varvara, and Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy for me, P.D. James for Tanya, Jane Austen for Eloise. Maybe we should have swapped and learnt something, as Varvara, born in Ukraine, knew little detail about the nuclear catastrophe of 1986 and I knew little about twenty-first century capitalism.

My first pictures were done from inside the excavation, below street level, sitting amongst the muddy rubble, oils, brushes and turps on the ground around me. I’d never before painted anything that changed so quickly – it was like painting a landscape in flux, where not only did the shadows lengthen and the sun go in and out of the clouds, but the very trees and hills changed shape and disappeared before your eyes.

These extracts from artist John Wolseley’s journals and sketchbooks describe the five months which he spent drawing and painting in the Royal National Park in the aftermath of the Christmas 2001 bushfires.

Through photography and prose, Conrad Del Villar traces the significance of the tattoo in the Northern Philippines.

Sometimes I think I'd like to be the world's first Featherwoman, writes renowned cartoonist Judy Horacek.

I don’t know much about cheese, but I know what I like. Crumbly wensleydale. Comté. Provolone. Taleggio. Stilton. Cumin-studded leyden. Sage derby…

Much contemporary art is a bit too worldly for the polite lust of the connoisseur or the headache-inducing world of academic theory. By ‘worldliness’ I mean the application of common taste, acquired from looking not just at art, or texts, but at the world and everything.

By the marvels of science my skeleton had been wholly drawn out from my body and had been replaced in my body by a synthetic substitute.

My life has been in the suburbs, so it is pretty hard for me to avoid houses as subjects, writes artist Noel McKenna.

Street photographer Andrew Stark has been documenting Sydney in gritty and grainy 35mm black and white for over twenty years.

Guan Wei’s artist’s book Method for Eggplant Cultivation is accompanied here with three preparatory sketches for the work.

Eggplants first appeared in Guan Wei’s work more than a decade ago. They appeal to him for their colour, shape and sheen and because they have an element of danger. According to Guan Wei, eggplants are considered slightly poisonous in China, a liability eliminated by cooking them with garlic.

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Art

Josephine’s Song

Dog Posters

Stories and Sketches

Corny Point

On Site

Bushfire Journals

The Last Local Heroes

An Essay on Feathers

Still Life With Cheese

SlipzonesThe Politics of Pleasure in Art Writing Today

Under the Usual Heading (Two Dreams)

Home Delivery

Down South

Method for Eggplant Cultivation

On Guan Wei