A Little Lunch Music – Tinalley String Quartet, A Review
Performing for the 1st time in Sydney’s City Recital Hall the Tinalley String Quartet left their audience draped in a musical mantle of rapture said Rose Niland
Spotlight Stories
David Rankin – A Personal View of His Art by Phillip Harding
Living in New York David Rankin’s commitment to the Australian landscape is an overarching influence on a considerable body of work notes friend Phillip Harding
In, A Month of Sundays, Liz Byrski: Book Review Rose Niland
A Month of Sundays, a novel by Liz Byrski, is about 4 women in their 60s and 70s, Ros, Adele, Judy and Simone, all members of an Online book club for ten+ years
Ensemble Theatre, Sydney – Current & Future, by Rose Niland
During its celebratory 60th Anniversary Season, the Ensemble Theatre, Sydney is staging actor Reg Livermore’s recently written one-man show, The Widow Unplugged
Anne Numont: Incinerator Art Space – Informal Geographies
The modulations and tonality of art and life are revealed in Anne Numont’s exhibition Informal Geographies at the Incinerator Art Space, Sydney says Rose Niland
Unqualified: Ensemble Theatre – Showcasing Two Amazing Women
Written and acted by Genevieve Hegney and Catherine Moore, Unqualified says Rose gives theatre goers a laughfest, showingcasing the talents of two amazing women
Giacometti: Guggenheim Museum, N.Y – Staring into our Soul
Artist David Rankin visited the Giacometti exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, reviewing how his works return our gaze and stare into our soul
Marjorie Prime: Ensemble Theatre – Rose Niland’s Review
Rose Niland notes “The gentle pace and enduring composition of the play Marjorie Prime at Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre, bellies the complexity of the story within”
Educated: by Tara Westover – Determination and Persistence
Determination and persistence are two characteristics defined by Rose Niland in a review of Tara Westover’s book Educated about transformation through knowledge
Women of a Certain Age – Jewel Studded Book says Rose Niland
Women of a Certain Age is a treasure chest of courage, fairness, justice, prudence, love, generosity, vulnerability, truth, discernment, intelligence and wisdom
The White Book by Han Kang – Beauty, Poignancy and Resonance
The White Book by Han Kang offers beauty, poignancy and resonance, a knowledge of what is lost and what is gained; how one becomes the other, says Derek Parker
Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell – Ensemble Theatre Sydney
Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell, the humorous transformation of one woman’s life was first on stage in 1986 and in 2018 opened at the Ensemble Theatre Sydney
The Idea of North – A Premier Contemporary Cappella Ensemble
Pitch, dynamics, rhythm, blend and layering are the demands of a cappella group The Idea of North, attributes gloriously adhered to in concert, says Rose Niland
Jenny Kitchener: Pollinate Review – Grafton Regional Gallery
Pollinate: Exhibition by Jenny Kitchener acknowledges and highlights the function birds and bees perform in servicing the reproductive needs of plants says Rose
Raw Nerve: Leon Golub at The Met Breur – Review David Rankin
“The act of witnessing, recording and painting are the codes of hope for our future” says David Rankin, in a review of the exhibition Raw Nerve at The Met Breur
The Gold Coast & Beyond – The Green and Gold of Nature
Beyond the beaches of the coast is a wonderland of rainforests waterfalls and landscapes; the gold of the coast and green of the hinterland – magic