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ABC News
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Yes Boone
Eora/Sydney-based rising star Yes Boone brings us into his world on new track 'Modern Life'. Loading We're saying hell yes to this feel-good mix from an Unearthed artist we reckon you'll love if you're a fan of acts like Four Tet and Jamie as Boone, you make have caught Sydney-via-Adelaide based producer and DJ Yes Boone tearing it up at festivals like Ability Fest and Wildlands or on support for Crooked Colours an EP on the way later this year, he's already dropped some stellar singles that we've been loving including 'library' and most recently 'Modern Life'. Utilizing samples, Yes Boone creates a sonic storyline full of grooves and big dancefloor nrg – check it out here:Clocking in for his first ever Friday Mix set, he's bringing us 24 minutes of classic club bangers, ranging from funk-fuelled disco to French house, along with a couple of unreleased cuts from his own archives. Don't miss it!
The Age
19-05-2025
- Business
- The Age
Sydney Fish Market artworks to honour ancestral fishing practices
Long before fishing trawlers berthed at what is now known as Blackwattle Bay in inner Sydney, the Saltwater clans of the Eora nation would cast their woven fishing nets from its shores. In the late afternoon, women would take out their babies in bark nawis, small fires smoking in the canoe hulls, to fish for the night's dinner. When the $836 million Sydney Fish Market building is complete, three sculptures honouring these ancestral fishing practices will grace its eastern and western promenades. All have been cast in bronze. The last of the hot pours occurred last Thursday at the Australian Bronze Foundry at North Head. 'For thousands of years, the Saltwater clans of the Sydney region have been traditional custodians of this land, with Blackwattle Bay serving as a vital site for fishing, swimming and gathering,' Lands and Property Minister Steve Kamper said. 'These installations will honour ancestral fishing traditions and share the stories of the Saltwater people with the millions of visitors anticipated at the new Sydney Fish Market.' Some 6 million visitors a year are expected to visit the new fish market – double the number of those attending the current Pyrmont site. While the construction project itself has been beset by delays, cost blowouts and legal wrangles, the artworks are almost finished. Five major art installations have been commissioned – the three bronzes and an interactive water play area, Land of the Giant Pippies, and Coal Loader, paying homage to the area's industrial heritage. The roof itself is made of 400 panels resembling fish scales.
Sydney Morning Herald
19-05-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Fish Market artworks to honour ancestral fishing practices
Long before fishing trawlers berthed at what is now known as Blackwattle Bay in inner Sydney, the Saltwater clans of the Eora nation would cast their woven fishing nets from its shores. In the late afternoon, women would take out their babies in bark nawis, small fires smoking in the canoe hulls, to fish for the night's dinner. When the $836 million Sydney Fish Market building is complete, three sculptures honouring these ancestral fishing practices will grace its eastern and western promenades. All have been cast in bronze. The last of the hot pours occurred last Thursday at the Australian Bronze Foundry at North Head. 'For thousands of years, the Saltwater clans of the Sydney region have been traditional custodians of this land, with Blackwattle Bay serving as a vital site for fishing, swimming and gathering,' Lands and Property Minister Steve Kamper said. 'These installations will honour ancestral fishing traditions and share the stories of the Saltwater people with the millions of visitors anticipated at the new Sydney Fish Market.' Some 6 million visitors a year are expected to visit the new fish market – double the number of those attending the current Pyrmont site. While the construction project itself has been beset by delays, cost blowouts and legal wrangles, the artworks are almost finished. Five major art installations have been commissioned – the three bronzes and an interactive water play area, Land of the Giant Pippies, and Coal Loader, paying homage to the area's industrial heritage. The roof itself is made of 400 panels resembling fish scales.
SBS Australia
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- SBS Australia
O-T Fagbenle on playing Luke Bankhole in The Handmaid's Tale (Interview)
SUBSCRIBE to the Eyes on Gilead podcast: | | Join in the conversation: #EyesOnGilead CREDITS Eyes on Gilead is an SBS Australia production. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia, and meet on the lands of the Cammeraygal people of the Eora nation. Host, producer: Fiona Williams Hosts: Haidee Ireland, Natalie Hambly, Sana Qadar Audio editor and mixer: Jeremy Wilmot Theme song: 'You Don't Own Me' from 'Girl Garage 2'
Indianapolis Star
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indianapolis Star
'Visual language': A look inside the Indigenous Australian art at Newfields' Lume
Kate Constantine incorporates influences into her art from lived experiences that she describes as two different worlds. Growing up in Sydney, she was influenced by Western technology, education and societal norms. But as she became an adult and developed her art practice, she delved deeper into her heritage as a descendant of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the first people to live in the area that is today Sydney. "We're a water culture; our clan totem is a whale. Everything that we do circulates around the harbor and the sea," Constantine, who is a cultural advisor to Newfields, told IndyStar. Known by her artist name Konstantina, Constantine explores water as part of her identity in her work, which appears in the latest exhibit at Newfields' Lume, "Connection: Land, Water, Sky — Art & Music from Indigenous Australians." The installation depicts how the continent's First Peoples interact with the natural world as they navigate seasons, carry on traditions and pass down stories. The new cinematic installation shows more than 100 contemporary artists who draw on the traditions and cultural stories from myriad communities. About 120 projectors will beam images of their work as a soundtrack by legendary and modern Australian musicians plays. "Connection" began as a smaller-scale show between Grande Experiences, Newfields' longtime Lume partner, and the National Museum of Australia, Constantine said. She joined the project about five years ago and has seen it grow with each installation, watching more and more people learn about Indigenous artforms that date back at least 65,000 years. "People understand visual language," Constantine said during a tour of the Lume. "This is the one thing that connects all of us, regardless of our race, regardless of our language, regardless of our social status. We can all visually story-tell from a really authentic and sincere way. And that's something that Aboriginal Australian culture has been doing since time immemorial." At Newfields, Constantine has created art for a collaborative, interactive piece. Patrons can color in her drawings of a platypus, kangaroo and kookaburra and then scan them into a larger mural, where they'll live with others' creations on the wall in the activities room. "Connection," which opened May 10, will continue through early 2026. In late June, the Lume will change over the accompanying featurettes to creations by students at the Herron School of Art & Design. Here's a look at some of the highlights. Newfields unveils new plans: Canal bridge, Monday hours and new board chair In 1989, art collector Harrison Eiteljorg, known for launching the eponymous Eiteljorg Museum, gifted the Indianapolis Museum of Art several mid-20th-century bark paintings created by Indigenous artists in Arnhem Land, an area in the northern part of Australia. The institution has kept the pieces in storage — until now, when they were unveiled in the Lume's gallery that's reserved for physical art. Using natural pigments and eucalyptus bark, Bob Bopani, Dawidi Birritjama and others painted creation stories, spiritual beings and animals. To explain the iconography for the works' museum debut, Newfields curators worked with Henry Skerritt, an assistant professor in art history at the University of Virginia. "The pattern making that we see in these artworks (is) part of body paints or scarification or sacred practices within these communities," said Robin Cooper, Newfields' manager of curatorial affairs. "A lot of that knowledge is not known beyond the elder system or initiation system." Among the works are "suitcase" paintings, which artists created on smaller, hardier canvases so that visiting collectors could more easily transport them. Two such works at Newfields show mimihs — tall, thin, live spirits from community folklore that jump around Arnhem Land's rocks, Cooper said. Nearby is 2018's "Maruwa" by Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, a member of the Pintupi nine nomadic group that lived without contact with Europeans on the continent until 1984. The artist's acrylic on linen — on loan from Amsterdam's SmithDavidson Gallery — depicts the religious cycle of ancestral travel while embedding some secrets only recognized by those who know the culture's full origin story. "He creates very circular patterns ... that relate to his community's tale of of creation and how they walked in a circular motion and kind of ended up where they began, and that is home; that is what their country is," Cooper said. "The entirety of the tale, of their creation story, is only known to those that are initiated." About halfway through the Lume experience sits Cafe Ngura, where several recognizable treats use ingredients common in Australia. The goal, Executive Chef Patrick Russ said, was to source foods from the continent but not attempt to mimic traditional Indigenous food. "How do we take these ingredients and how do we not appropriate a culture?" Russ said. So the culinary team concocted treats that would allow the ingredients to shine, he said. Across dishes like tea cookies, power bars, beet salad, sausage rolls, cocktails and pavlova, Russ used macadamia nuts, ironbark honey, finger limes, wattleseed and lemon myrtle and other ingredients they were able to source from Australia. "They're all very, very unique and kind of fun to play around with," Russ said. The IndianapoLIST newsletter has the best shows, art and eats — and the stories behind them What: "Connection: Land, Water Sky — Art & Music from the Indigenous Australians" When and where: Open May 10, 2025-early 2026. The Lume at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, 4000 Michigan Road Tickets: $29 adults, $25 ages 55 and up, $20 ages 6-17 and free ages 5 and under. Members receive discounts. Tickets include admission to museum and grounds.
