Sebastian Smee: ‘The Art of Rivalry’ and Ashleigh Wilson ‘Brett Whiteley :’ Art, Life and the other Thing’

Edition Nine: Sebastian Smee –‘ The Art of rivalry’ and Ashleigh Wilson –‘Brett Whiteley –Art, Life and the other thing.’

    

   

Two fascinating books on artists’s lives. In ‘The Art of Rivalry’, Sebastian Smee shows us how the relationships between artists can influence what we see in our museums, and how art movements have evolved by artists interacting and competing with each other.

Ashleigh Wilson delves ever deeper into Brett Whiteley’s tumultuous  life to reveal the man  behind the artist in  “Brett Whiteley- Art, Life and the other Thing”..

Featured music tracks: “Talk About Love” –My Friend the Chocolate Cake, “All the colours’  by Neil and Tim Finn

Romance in the Australian outback

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Penelope Janu – In at the Deep End, Susan Lattwein – – Lost in Kakadu, Kendall Talbot Arafura- Blood, the wet and tears.

Three romance novelists go into the great wild outback  of Australia and the ocean . Hear them read from their work and discuss it afterward. Music track from Kasey chambers ‘Nullabor Song’.

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David Leser and Nikki Gemmel give us two deeply moving memoirs…

Edition eight: David Leser “To Begin to Know – walking in the shadows of my Father”, Nikki Gemmel ” After”.

         

David Leser reads from his memoir ‘To Begin to Know- in the shadows of my father’, in which he attempts to understand the forces that shaped his father’s childhood and their subsequent relationship. Nikki Gemmel  reads from ‘After‘, an astonishing examination of the aftermath of her mother’s suicide. ( This  interview and read deals with the subject of assisted dying .)

Featured Music track : “Undertow” by Cye Wood

Recorded at Sydney Writers Festival  2016 and Byron writers Festival  2017 respectively.

Daivd Leser and Nikki Gemmel

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David Leser reads from his memoir ‘To Begin to Know- in the shadows of my father’, in which he attempts to understand the forces that shaped his father’s childhood and their subsequent relationship. Nikki Gemmel  reads from ‘After’, an astonishing examination of the aftermath of her mother’s suicide. ( This  interview and read deals with the subject of assisted dying .)

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Catherine Hein – ‘The Healing Season’ and Kelly Hunter –‘Wish’

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Catherine Hein  – ‘The Healing Season’  – a romance novel about an agricultural scientist  in a country town and and Kelly Hunter ?’Wish’- classic ‘ new beginnings’ romance inthe country.

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‘The day that I lost You’ ? Suzannah Espie;  ” Back to the Sun” -Ange Takats

 

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Environmentally speaking: Charlie, Peter and Tim.

Edition Seven: Charlie Veron,–‘ A Life Underwater’, Peter Doherty ‘ ‘The Knowledge Wars’ and Tim Flannery –‘Atmosphere of Hope’

       

 

    

 

Charlie Veron ‘ the father of coral’, recounts “the view from my coffin” as he imagines looking back, Peter Doherty tells you how to sort climate fact from climate fiction, and Tim Flannery says don’t give up on the planet just yet.

Tales of Women in the Workplace

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Tracey Spicer  – ‘The Good Girl Stripped Bare ‘ ,and Mary-Lou Stephens ?’ Sex, drugs and Meditation’ and Suzanne Leal ? ‘The Teacher’s Secret’

Three female authors dealing with issues in the media and education  workplace, fiction and non-fiction and even some comedy! Music’Change’ ?Jodi Martin; ‘Some say I got Devil ‘ ?Inge Liljestrom.

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Sophie Hardcastle and Mark Smith

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Mark Smith reads from 'The Road to Winter' for Narratives.  Author Sophie Hardcastle

Sophie Hardcastle and Mark Winter write Young Adult fiction .

The Road to Winter cover  Breathing Underwater cover

In ‘Breathing Underwater’ Sophie uses her considerable experience as a surfer to write lyrically about her heroine’s struggles, and in ‘The Road to Winter’, Mark Smith places his 15 year old male protagonist into a dystopian future, where most adults have died.  

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Sebastian Smee –‘ The Art of rivalry’ and Ashleigh Wilson –‘Brett whitely –Art, Life and the other thing’

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Sebastian Smee ? delves into history to reveal strange  and fascinating influences that famous artists have had on each other in ‘ The Art of rivalry’ and Ashleigh Wilson  reveals the real Brett in ?’Brett Whitely ?Art, Life and the other thing’ . Music ‘Talk About Love’ ?My Friend the Chocolate Cake, ‘All the colours’ Neil and Tim Finn.

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