Portrait

The Book of Exodus director Adena Jacobs on the ethereal connection between the stage and the audience.

Artist Yhonnie Scarce captures the aftermath of Maralinga in her new exhibition Thunder Raining Poison.

Sarah Goffman on finding art among other people’s rubbish.

Frances Devlin-Glass stages Joyce’s Dublin, smell by smell.

Looking back on the long life of the oldest Queenslander.

We meet at his apartment block in Manly, from where he can hear the sea. It’s early evening, and the light is softened by a dense, salty haze. Restaurants and cafes on the street front are beginning to fill, the surf slowly emptying of people. Norfolk Island pines tower over the winding pathway, framing the beach and ocean beyond.

Hollie Fifer on documenting the David and Goliath struggles of locals versus industry in Papua New Guinea.

Artist Claire Lambe prepares an exhibition.

Liz Foster on ballet, dance therapy and healing through movement.

Comedian Anne Edmonds serves up a slice of middle Australia.