Recently South Australian JUMP mentoring artist, and First Class Honours graduate, Celeste Aldahn, travelled to Brisbane to meet with her mentor Mikala Dwyer.  Celeste reflects on her time in Brisbane, and the craft of her practice. Art is sometimes like good magic. You spend time and energy investing an idea into your work, in an attempt to cast a spell upon...

Melbourne-based musician and audio engineer, Dean Whitby, is in the midst of success.  His band, Drunk Mums, is releasing their first full-length album later this year, and his sound engineering studio, Little Ghost Mastering, boasts multiple ARIA award winners, The Audreys, as clients. But as Dean’s career in the music industry swells, he laments that his hometown of Cairns wasn’t a...

I recently heard of Ray Oldenburg’s concept of The Third Place.  And I liked Ray’s thinking. Put simply, the first place is your home – where you spend most of your time.  The second place is your work – where you probably spend most of your time if you work in the arts :)  And third places are best described by...

In the year 2003 – while I was avoiding finishing my honours thesis – I went to volunteer at the Magdalena Festival.  I met some performers from Sarajevo who had continued to make work and find audiences in the middle of the Balkan war. Don’t get me wrong here; I’m well aware I don’t live in a war zone.  It’s...