The Drawing Room

Across this expansive land, our great range of landscapes and environs play host to the buildings in which we live, work, learn, worship, and play. 

Self-professed ‘architecture nerd’ Tim Ross explores examples of Australia’s built environment, both historical and contemporary, and how they inform our sense of culture and community in the second series of 'Designing A Legacy'

On June 6, 1944, in Normandy, the Allies launched the largest seaborne invasion in history known as D-day or Operation Overlord.

79 Years later and another war is still raging in Europe.

It can be hard to connect to something that is happening so far away and so long ago. So, what is our connection to war and peace … and why does history repeat itself?

Our fascination with the intersection of light and nature and rituals around painting the night sky is something that designer, innovator, architect poet, and educator Daan Roosegaarde is delving into - in his latest exhibition SPARK, a new sustainable celebration at Federation Square in Melbourne for Rising Festival.

Folk Bitch Trio started as a joke when three teenagers were 17, now they're living together and sharing the stage with names like Julia Jacklin and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.

Their three-part harmony has been described as heavenly and while the band is making serious moves Gracie, Jeanie, and Heide are making sure they still have fun. Chain mail included, of course. 

Could there be anything more romanticised than the bohemian share houses of your youth, with a cast of random characters, perhaps painters, activists, addicts, the odd petty criminal, all floating around on the philanthropy of couches and begged cigarettes?

Where I Slept by Libby Angel is autofiction, blending autobiography and fiction about living on the fringes of Melbourne society in the 1990's.

Dylan Thomas's famous poem 'Do Not Go Gentle Into The Night' is befitting of the story of Captain Robert Scott’s historic attempt to reach the south pole in 1912, in the latest play from Patricia Cornelius. 

Combing Thomas's words and themes and Scott's legendary journey, Sydney Theatre Company’s new production Do Not Go Gentle explores the importance of living to the fullest, ageing, and dying.

Oral traditions often provide a rich and incontestable foundation for artists … but what do you do if that heritage is a combination of Filipino, Wiradjuri, and European origins, in a family packed to the rafters with musicians? 

Mo’Ju uses a mixture of soul, blues, and R&B to explore and make sense of their histories.

Could there be any other domain, more male or more Australian, than the barbecue.

But Australian born cook, author and influencer Jess Pryles has come to challenge both those stereotypes, and living in Texas, has become a sensation even in American barbecue culture.

Anthony Joseph was born on the warm, spiced trade winds of Trinidad and Tobago. Before he moved to the rainy doldrums of England at the age of 22 and becoming the lead singer of a heavy rock band.

Cut to earlier this year and the poet, writer, and academic won the T. S Eliot Prize for his book ‘Sonnets for Albert’. 

Some of us, like me, adore camping, the great outdoors, getting away from it all. But usually we’d have a tent, sleeping bag, maybe a portable burner, perhaps a double pronged telescopic marshmallow fork, for the camping maximalist.

But the winner of the Australian series of ALONE, the successful TV import from the US and Canada, survived in the wilderness longer than anyone else… completely alone and unequipped.