Novelist Romy Ash discusses how the Melbourne lockdowns affected her connection with the city upon hearing Deborah Cheetham’s (Yorta Yorta, Yuin) “The River Sings” played at sunrise and sunset next to Birrarung (Yarra River) across a deserted Melbourne. She writes: “Art can be felt in the body and the heart, that it’s transformative”. That’s how WfaAR feels about art, culture and our Republic. [“Planting a Vision”: interview with Katrina Sedgwick, former Head of Arts for the ABC, Chief Executive of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and soon to take up the position as Chief Executive of the Melbourne Arts Precinct by Romy Ash, The Saturday Paper, 16-22 April 2022]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
