Arts Ex-QT journo’s book debunks First Fleet myths THE story of the First Fleet is one of courage, tragedy and of overcoming insurmountable odds. Rob Mellett 19 Nov 2024
Arts Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age - Felicity Smith DUTCH painter Johannes Vermeer lived and worked in the city of Delft where he worked primarily as an art dealer, a business he had inherited from his father in 1652, when he was 20-years-old. Guest Writer 13 Nov 2024
Fassifern Guardian Family fights for new art precinct on mountain SUPPORTERS of an arts precinct on Tamborine Mountain are still hopeful they’ll find a way to buy land currently owned by Scenic Rim Regional Council. Lara Hart 06 Nov 2024
Arts Art of the Ancients - Felicity Smith WE HUMANS are social creatures and gathering around the campfire, sharing food, listening to stories, enjoying music and dancing remains one of our most pleasurable experiences. Guest Writer 06 Nov 2024
Arts Rodin: a man at the crossroads - Felicity Smith AS THE father of modern sculpture, the aptly named Auguste Rodin broke away from the classical tradition and the romanticised figurative works that had dominated the art scene from the Neoclassical period which had been in turn inspired by the works of Ancient Greeks, those masters of idealised human form. Guest Writer 30 Oct 2024
Arts Becoming Picasso - Felicity Smith PROLIFIC and long-lived, Pablo Picasso is one of the Western world’s most celebrated artists. Guest Writer 23 Oct 2024
Arts Where a willow grows - Felicity Smith OPHELIA, a character from William Shakespeare’s play ‘Hamlet’ met a watery end and provided the Pre-Raphaelite English painter John Everett Millais with the subject matter for his painting of the grief-stricken maiden singing to herself as she floats down the river. Guest Writer 16 Oct 2024
Arts A fragrant work of a master painter A BARE purple wall and the scent of rhododendrons determined the fate of one of Australia’s most beautiful still life paintings now on display at the Boonah Art Gallery. Guest Writer 09 Oct 2024
Arts Magritte: a mind liberated - Felicity Smith SURREALISM imagines alternative realities, juxtaposes the imagined world with the real, the irrational with the rational. Guest Writer 09 Oct 2024
Arts Decorum, propriety and taste, the Portrait of Madame X - Felicity Smith NEITHER chaste nor innocent, indecent or inappropriate, John Singer Sargent’s scandalous portrait of the society beauty Virginie Gautreau, caused a stir when it was exhibited in Paris at the Salon of 1884. Guest Writer 02 Oct 2024
Arts The allure of ‘Flaming June’ - Felicity Smith ‘ART for Art’s Sake’ was the mantra of the Aesthetic Art Movement of the 1880s. Guest Writer 25 Sep 2024
Arts Boonah Arts Festival 2024 winners list Mayor Tom Sharp presented the Youth-High School Writing Award to winner, Anna Thompson at the awards night. Photos: LARA HART Staff Writers 18 Sep 2024
Arts The Rise and Rise of Artistic Anatomy - Felicity Smith THERE is so much to discover in a work of art, it can be hard to know where to start. Guest Writer 18 Sep 2024
Arts Get Your Arts Into Gear - 4th September, 2024 The Ipswich Little Theatre Company is bringing to the stage an adaption of the Paramount Pictures film ‘Clue’, written by Jonathan Lynn and the board game from Hasbro Inc written by Sandy Rustin Guest Writer 04 Sep 2024
Arts Ozymandias & the Sands of Time - Felicity Smith REVERED by his subjects, Ramses II ruled Ancient Egypt for 66 years during which time he brought peace and great prosperity; his reign remains the most notable in the history of the pharaohs. Guest Writer 04 Sep 2024
Fassifern Guardian Award winning sculptor’s impressive Swell entry AWARD winning sculptor Colleen Lavender sees beyond the obvious and uses her observations to make art. Lara Hart 28 Aug 2024
Arts The Art of Self Portrait - by Felicity Smith THE work of the painter is to represent life as they see it, and emotion as they feel it - they are the conduit through which society may consciously observe and evaluate itself. Guest Writer 28 Aug 2024
Arts Get Your Arts Into Gear - 28th August, 2024 Local artist Kylie Stevens is teaming up on a project with local historian, author and academic Margaret Cook. Guest Writer 28 Aug 2024
Arts Get Your Arts Into Gear - 21st August, 2024 The Ipswich Musical Theatre Company’s new production of ‘Guys and Dolls’, will open at the Ipswich Civic Centre on September 7, for a strictly limited season. Guest Writer 21 Aug 2024
