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Two picture book characters hold aloft the Aboriginal flag

Australian picture book covers translated into Noongar Language by Cassie Lynch and illustrated by Anne Barnetson

Kaya Bandang! (Hello everyone!) Illustrator Anne Barnetson and writer Cassie Lynch have brought best-loved picture books and Aboriginal languages together for this special series in honour of Children’s Book council of Australia’s Book Week 2019. Cassie is a descendent of the Noongar people and translated the titles of these famous picture books into the Noongar […]

An ink and watercolour image of a bird box bookshop with a swallow and a pink robin.

Portrait of a Bookshop

I’ve been instagram friends with Anna and the other booksellers at independent bookshop The Bookbird for a little while. Recently they held their first illustration competition to celebrate The Bookbird’s fourth birthday, and I drew the shop as a colourful little bird house complete with a couple of customers.  

A watercolour illustration of author Bri Lee in a lilac dress, seated before a bookcase with a vase of tulips.

A conversation with Bri Lee – Author, Survivor, General Powerhouse

Back when I first read the proof of Bri Lee’s memoir, Eggshell Skull, in early 2018, I was impressed with how much the force of her personality and determination came through the writing. It’s a gruelling, heartbreaking and ultimately triumphant account which, when you finally close the book and set it down, makes you feel as […]

A painting of the head and shoulders of a white tiger with facial deformity.

FAIL paintings: Kenny

The FAIL paintings are a sporadic series of works on canvas documenting the purest fragments of tragicomedy on the internet in the form of reproduced film stills and images. A portrait of a white tiger who died in 2008. Kenny had with severe health problems due to inbreeding. Painted from a photograph, 2014.