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2019
Countries visited: one States visited: two Plane flights: six Night spent away from home: 67 Most-liked photo on social media: this one, of my new tattoo. People who made me cry: one People I made cry: none, to the best of my knowledge. Favourite moment that I photographed: a self-portrait of me accidentally falling out […]
2018
Countries visited: 1 States visited: 3 Plane flights: 6 Most-liked photo on Facebook: this one, of Eve and I accidentally wearing the exact same outfit in Tasmania. People who made me cry: none, as far as I can recall. People I made cry: two, to the best of my knowledge. Men who I held in […]
MOFO 2018
The Huffington Post recently did a review of festival lineups from the past five years, and found that only 12% of bands featured all-female performers. In a time when music festival bookers are being called out for overwhelmingly programming all-male, all-white bands, MOFO felt like a stride into the future. The stages brimmed with women, […]
2017
Countries visited: one. States visited: two. Plane flights: five. Photos taken: seventy-one thousand, six hundred and nine (on my two main bodies. Not counting the analogue and miscellaneous side-cameras). Most-liked photo on Facebook: this one, announcing that I’d been accepted into an MFA at RMIT. People photographed while they were sleeping: three. People kissed: one. Times I cried: forty-two. […]
ART OF LISTENING, ART OF JOY
I’ve been thinking a lot about listening. About being heard and being seen and being acknowledged. About the ways that the world trains us to be dismissive and solipsistic and blasé. It’s been a hard year. It’s been a hard year for nearly everyone I know – illnesses and breakups and deaths and accidents, but […]
VIDEO HITS
In the middle of the madness of Melbourne Festival, I was commissioned by the good people at the Digital Writer’s Festival to take part in their ‘Video Hits‘ project. Six artists were paired up anonymously, each creating one video to send off, and producing the sound design for the video they received. I was paired […]
RODDY
Roddy makes the most stunning music. He came around last week to get some promo photos taken before he lopped a few inches off his majestic mane of hair. Those curls. Phwoar. S x
EDITING: THE SECOND HALF
Every now and then, usually when a client is time- or cash-poor, they ask to be given unedited files, straight off-camera. And I always say no. I tend to write back a long and apologetic email explaining the reasons behind this blanket policy, but I felt that a before-during-after comparison about what editing actually is […]
2016
Countries visited: eight. States visited: three. Plane flights: twenty-five. Photos taken: sixty-two thousand, eight hundred and ninety-eight (on my two main bodies. Not including my 5D, RX100, Kiev 88, OM-2, Graflex Speedgraphic or Fuji Instax). Most-liked photo on Facebook: This self-portrait, shot on the back porch: People photographed while they were sleeping: seven. People kissed: […]
GOT TO / GET TO
You know that saying ‘Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life?’ That’s bullshit. (In my experience, it’s usually said by office workers who wish they were creatives). When you’re an artist, you work. Hard. A lot. Often for other people, making stuff to fulfil a brief that you didn’t […]
SCRAWL: notes from travels
Between June and August 2016, I travelled across Europe, and in doing so, filled a notebook with scribblings, thoughts, fragments of poems and quotes. Below is a selection. * Bangkok airport, plane on tarmac, sky calling with stars like Braille. * ‘The moment or hour of leave-taking is one of the pleasantest times in human […]
A LETTER TO THE THORN IN MY SIDE
I shoot regularly for Women of Letters, a brilliant monthly event run by the powerhouse dream team of Michaela McGuire and Marieke Hardy, where five women of note get up and read a letter they’ve written in response to a given theme. It’s always a gorgeous event, full of laughter and tears and all the […]
2015
Countries visited: four. States visited: four. Photos taken: seventy-two thousand, six hundred and eleven (on my two main bodies. Not including my 5D, RX100, Kiev 88 or OM-2). Major art projects: (Click for links). The Art Olympics Yours the Face These Were the Sounds Words transcribed for the Art Olympics: one hundred and thirty thousand, […]
ARTVEMBER
A collaboration between photographer Sarah Walker and writer Penelope Bartlau. One month, one photo as provocation, one piece of flash fiction in response. Day One. Day Two. Day Three. Day Four. Day Five. Day Six. Day Seven. Day Eight. Day Nine. Day Ten. Day Eleven. Day Twelve. Day Thirteen. Day Fourteen. Day Fifteen. Day Sixteen. […]
THESE WERE THE SOUNDS: MIXTAPES FROM OVERSEAS
When I headed overseas this year, in addition to my ubiquitous camera, I brought along a sound recorder. I very much enjoyed the challenge of creating little audio pieces about places – travel photography for the ears. Here are the results – spoken word, drunken ramblings, buskers, Uber drivers, religious epiphanies and homesick revelations.
MOUNTJOY
We lived here, for a year. Come January 2015, we were scrubbing walls so hard the paint was flaking, tearing out forests of weeds, finding the thousand nooks and crannies that gather dust in a house full of crumbling memories as we tried to drag ourselves back out of it, back into the real world. […]
DRACULA
The team from Little Ones Theatre came by the studio today for a promotional shoot for their all-female production of ‘Dracula’ at Theatre Works in October-November. High camp, hot babes, and big screen drama: get involved! You can book for the show here. Styling: Eugyeene Teh and Stephen Nicolazzo. Actors: Brigid Gallacher and Cat Davies. […]
ON GROWING UP AND MAKING ART
Sarah Walker and Giuliano Ferla on getting more mature, learning to talk and making the decision to get shit done. An out-take from an interview for The Art Olympics. GF: Playing in Twin Beasts has really made me aware of it (communicating and not trying to do everything yourself). I think I’ve dropped that whole […]
FRINGE: CONCEPT TO EXECUTION
I love Fringe time. I love seeing the people in my industry all come together in a huge mishmash of colour and art and sweat and tears. I love standing outside in the lane by the Fringe Club with all the people drinking and smoking and shivering, breathing in the cold night air before they […]
SHOOT WITH JORDAN PROSSER
Every now and then, you meet a person who’s just doing a really great job of being a human. Jordan is one of those people. We were both at the You Are Here festival in Canberra last year, where I saw him perform with Sam Burns-Warr in their deeply silly show ‘A Stitch in Time […]
MANILA ROAD MOVIE
There’s a sort of responsibility involved with being an artist, to know the history of your form. Painters, poets, dancers – they all study the past in order to build the future. For many art forms, there is the possibility of very direct contact with the ancients – a ballerina can dance the choreography from […]