Tai Snaith is an artist, author, curator and fortnightly visual arts presenter on SmartArts. She was also recently short-listed in the World Illustration awards (in case you weren’t already sufficiently impressed). The…

The only arcade game Beci Orpin grew up playing was Street Fighter – ‘mostly because I thought Chun-Li was cool and it was fun seeing her beat the crap out of Ken,’ she…

Painter, musician, collector – Lucy Roleff's vocations are varied, but all of them link to form an appreciation of the spaces we inhabit, a feeling explored on her new album Left Open in…

For over twenty years Burnham Beeches, a glorious 1930s mansion nestled up in the Dandenong Ranges forest, has lain neglected and decaying, its glamour a thing of the past. Enter Melbourne street artist…

Quick! Close your eyes and think of Africa. What comes to mind? Starving children? Gun-toting warlords? Tin-pot dictators wearing aviator shades? Kholisile Dhliwayo, architect and head curator for the Afro Urban Collective, wants…

After Montero provided Woody with some incredible artwork for The Cave, we thought we’d check in with the Mayor of Athens himself to find out more about his take on life (and…

Ben Montero, beloved local popster and self-described ‘doodle bug’ (whose work features in the latest edition of The Trip), visits Monique after an appearance at the Supernatural to discuss his newest LP…