I recently read a blog about why offices, bookshops, universities, and retail outlets will all soon become coffee shops. The article points out that in the 17th Century coffee shops were often used as offices – so we shouldn’t feel too smug and modern about it. Now we in the arts should be experts in this...

With a new intake of JUMP mentoring artists earlier this year, I decided it might be nice to start hearing from them.  To kick it off here's a contribution from the eloquent Michelle Law: In celebration of International Women’s Day last week, this blog post is dedicated to women who like reading books about women, which...

A timely guest blog by artist Luke Hayes discussing his solution for the future of democracy: What do you think of Democracy? Would you like to have more input into how the the modern society which you live in actually runs? Well there is another way and it's a completely new page in human history. If...

We’re all inspired by the art that is created by the young people we support.  But I often find myself being inspired by the arts administrators who I’m lucky enough to name amongst my colleagues too. One of these is Karen Bryant, who, as Deputy Director of Adelaide Festival Centre, became the JUMP mentoring program’s Queensland...

The final in the series, Tania Clarke answers Birgit's fashion questions. Tania has her own label and was a participant in the 2011 Starburst program. Check out Tania's blog online. A huge thank you to the five lovely young ladies of fashion who took the time out of their busy lives to participate in this Q&A...

As I've mentioned before, I am an internet addict and go all nanna-like for a good cup of tea. To spread this malady of mine, I wanted to share my top 5 tea and blogs. This will be my last blog for YAQ so I wanted to leave you with something nice to sit down and...