While many of us consider ‘where are you from?’ to be a question appropriate for small talk, for a lot of us it is a microaggression Pelican15 November 2024 By Shantisha Schaufler This piece first appeared as a featured article in volume 95, issue six of Pelican. You can view our print archive here. The ... Voice0 Comments175 views
From Bauhaus to bullshit: Does real art make money anymore? Pelican3 November 2024 An informal discussion by two artists By Dorian Winter and Holly Carter-Turner This piece first appeared as a featured article in volume 95, issue five of... Visual ArtVoice0 Comments101 views
Liquid Margins Pelican1 November 2024 By Lucy Lönnqvist This piece first appeared as a featured article in volume 95, issue four of Pelican. You can view our print archive here. Tasked ... Voice0 Comments124 views
The fantasy of love Pelican18 July 2024 By Rachele Preto This piece first appeared as a featured article in volume 95, issue three of Pelican. You can view our print archive here. Love is Bl... Film and ProductionVoice0 Comments54 views
Taylor Swift, we need to talk Pelican11 July 2024 Every so often, I find myself in conversations with acquaintances, friends, and family over the unavoidable topic of Taylor Swift. Unavoidable because, in 2023 and 2024, it seemed as if Swift was everywhere and everything. Pop CultureVoice0 Comments354 views
Modern sculpture: Seventy-five years since the Leps hoax Pelican28 June 2024 Seventy-five years ago today, the staff and students of UWA were treated to a lecture by the esteemed Monsieur Jean Leps. Leps was an up-and-coming Alsatian-American avant-garde modernist sculptor who had only recently burst onto the fine art scene with the release of his book In My Little Finger by Sprunz and Scribner, a New York publishing house. In a stroke of good fortune, the St George’s College Fine Arts Society had managed to procure his services for a brief lecture in Winthrop Hall. Campus AffairsVisual ArtVoice0 Comments177 views
A Scottish traverse Pelican27 June 2024 Winding south through the glens and past the burns, I’d always had rose-tinted glasses for Scotland. This single taxi trip in November fog both encapsulated and resolved the inexplicable sense of want that had been welling up in the back of my mind for years. My personal connection to Skye itself was non-existent. I’d strained for a legitimate claim among my friends to justify my obsession with the music, literature, and history of a place I had the most passing of passing connections to. It strikes me now that there are some emotions and connections that have no basis in reason but are somehow stronger than even the most forensic. In my case, studying south of the border allowed a good pretext for escape, and the final vindication of a long-held desire. This week was a revelation for me, leaving an impression of the warmth and humour of Scotland’s people and the stark beauty and strange dignity offered by its nature and architecture. Voice0 Comments24 views
East Perth Cemeteries Open Day Encourages Public to Discover Local History Pelican16 August 2023 Rachel Ng visited East Perth Cemeteries in April, she shares her experience and what she learned about the culturally rich site. Voice0 Comments103 views
Cars pass by the bus stop Pelican27 November 2022 Friendship is a turbulent thing, but I’ll gladly ride every wave for the opportunities out there. Voice0 Comments127 views
A review of Under the Paving Stones, the Beach Pelican15 November 2022 If there’s one thing that the Centre for Stories does exceedingly well, it’s assembling some of Perth’s finest literary talent into a cohesive yet myriad whole. This is exactly what the organisation has done in its latest publication, Under the Paving Stones, the Beach, a collection of poetry, non-fiction, and narrative prose. Literature and Creative WritingVoice0 Comments120 views
