Auspicious Plastic

Episode 14: Chris Waite Chris Waite is a meditation teacher with UK mindfulness organisation, Breathworks. He’s also a medical doctor, a ukulele teacher and he’s in the process of finishing a Degree in Music Composition. From South Australia, Chris worked for many years as a GP - also with The Royal Flying Doctor Service - [...]

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Episode 13: Darren Hutchesson Darren Hutchesson has had a lifelong love affair with plastic. A devoted Tupperware fan - and a distributor back in the 80s - he’s also a talented Lego designer ("Adult Fan of Lego") who makes painstaking sculptures out of the tiny plastic bricks. Has done since he was a boy. Also [...]

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Episode 12: Simon Wilson Simon is a second-generation bow hunter who lives in regional Australia. As a kid he'd 'go bush' with his late Dad to hunt for 'pests' such as rabbits and foxes, later feral deer. Bow hunting’s a passionate pastime for Simon. With Australia’s feral deer population now at “problem” proportions, he’s part [...]

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Episode 11:  Lucia & Roly Lucia is an old friend - an Australian ex-pat who's now ensconced in the beautiful English countryside, surrounded by animals and nature. Meeting in the 90s, she and I go 'way back when', sharing intense coffee chats and fun times around the inner-urban streets that formed us. Lucia is one [...]

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Episode 10: Carrie King Carrie King lives and works in Berlin. Originally from Ireland, she travels light - except when it comes to her beloved trove of personal diaries, which she takes everywhere. Having having written and confided in them for 20 years (since she was 9), Carrie's lost count of exactly how many she [...]

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Episode 09: Casey Jenkins Casey Jenkins is an "endurance performance artist" from Melbourne, best-known for her 2013 "craftivist" work "Casting Off My Womb". During it she knitted a huge textile from yarn "inserted daily" into her vagina, for one month. A video about the installation went viral, causing a huge controversy and opening up a public [...]

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Episode 08: Vanessa Ellingham It's the day before Vanessa Ellingham's birthday and the day after the 2017 German Federal Election. Immigration looms large for both: Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing party loses a substantial amount of votes over the issue, while Berlin-based, New Zealand-born Vanessa publishes the first issue of her migration magazine, Nansen. Which just happens [...]

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Episode 07: Danny Walsh While living in Berlin I had the good fortune to meet Melbourne musician, Danny Walsh. A mutual friend introduced us: she'd photographed Danny and partner Emma at their Melbourne home for her blog. Filled with 1970s burnt-orange ceramics and vintage homewares, Kate figured Danny might have a precious object or two [...]

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Episode 06: Sarah Pepin Sarah Pepin is a Berlin-based culture journalist who I met at the 2017 Berlinale. On visiting her apartment I encountered an impressive ornate old wooden sideboard which had belonged to her grandmother. It had recently been sent on an 800km journey from Sarah's original home of Luxembourg to her new one [...]

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Episode 05: Amy Brand Originally from Darwin, Amy Brand is a sustainability project officer now based in Melbourne. Amy is a passionate advocate for the environment and sustainable living - which makes her relationship with plastic complicated! While abhorring the waste that comes with so much plastic packaging, she collects vintage Tupperware for practical use [...]

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