Welcome to GR Online, a new series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.
In 2023, we’re delighted to be publishing three regular online contributors: Jumaana Abdu, Sam Elkin and Amber Gwynne. In addition to work by these three stellar writers, we’ll also be publishing occasional pieces by other contributors throughout the year. Stay tuned!
Tyranny of distance
Lost utopias
Exploding time past and time present
THE VERY IDEA of stepping back in time as a Badtjala woman is a utopian thought. Back in time...
Pandography
Graph, noun, a diagram representing a system or network of connections, values or interrelations among two or more things. -graph,...
Afterwards
The body of Raleigh May, sixty-seven, lies in an open casket in the chapel of the Craig-Hurtt Funeral Home...
The crimson line
Trent Parke’s latest series, The Crimson Line, continues his fascination with the transformative powers of light – particularly the...
Equinox
Christian Thompson’s digital photographic prints could be stills from a morality play in which he performs the sole protagonist....
In the garden of ideas
Emily Floyd, Owl of Minerva (2019) Owl: cast aluminium, two-part epoxy paint; lantern: cast and fabricated aluminium, lighting insert 150 x...
The creative life of Eileen Kramer
‘I feel like I could fly!’ Eileen Kramer was born in Sydney in 1914 and studied singing at the Sydney...
Ministry of Truth 20/20
All men choose the path they walk
THE WAILING THERE IS A deep wailing across this country. I heard it once when I was a child in...
Outback rules
