Arts

After a decade down south studying and establishing her career as a prosthetist-orthotist, Camille Wiseman, 28, returned home to Bangalow earlier this year – via a 12-month sabbatical in Italy honing her formidable skills as a painter. Georgia Fox found out more.

Bangalow-based artist Hilary Herrmann explores the beauty and complexities of life through her enchanting paintings, which first mesmerise viewers and then draw them into deeper exploration, writes Adele Scaysbrook.

This month’s Bangalow Film Festival will be something of a family affair, with a father and daughter filling two key, but very different, roles, reports Digby Hildreth.

Former Bangalow Post Mistress Joan Leeds swaps cheeky customer service banter for cranky comedy gold, writes Sally Schofield.

For those of us who have watched Bangalow Theatre Company (BTC) grow over the years – from COVID-inspired roving pop-up events to risk-taking contemporary works – there has always been a sense that something special is happening here. But their latest foray hits different. When Australian composer, performer and writer Eddie Perfect – the Tony-nominated creator of Broadway’s Beetlejuice the…

Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Pearces Creek: every few weeks, international and Australian musicians depart from their big city touring schedule to play a gig at a humble country hall nestled in the hills a short drive from Bangalow, Digby Hildreth reports.

Robbie Arnott is a Tasmanian author, and I can recommend this book, and his previously published work Limberlost to you. Dusk is set in the late 18th century, in the very early days of first settlement in Tasmania. The main protagonists are twins Iris and Floyd, and they are the offspring of a couple of love-struck convicts who have chosen…

It seems likely that Anouska Gammon was predestined to a career in the spotlight, even if her childhood was spent on a Northern Rivers farm in a small, close-knit community, running barefoot, climbing trees, riding to school on horseback, and volunteering at the Surf Lifesaving club at the weekend. Those country inclinations, including a robust sense of community, are still…

A little over four years ago, Bangalow teen Malik couldn’t play a note of music. This year he was selected to appear in an episode of the ABC’s reality television series The Piano, and last month performed in front of hundreds of people at the Terrace Park Soundshell in Brunswick Heads, in a concert to mark the arrival of a…

The renowned Byron Writers Festival takes place in August, with more than 120 authors, journalists and literary figures from Australia and around the world gathering in the Bangalow Showground to provide a weekend of dazzling ideas and inspiration to the book-loving multitudes. Taking note of the Festival’s theme for 2025 – Passion & Purpose – Digby Hildreth asked some Australian…

Few towns are lucky enough to have a local shopfront displaying works by artists represented in major public collections across the world, but that’s exactly the enviable position we Bangalowians have been in for nearly eight years now, thanks to Grant Rasheed and his gallery, Ninbella.

For as long as she can remember, Heidi Keller’s life has been filled with music. Growing up in a family where music filled the home, it seems inevitable that she would find her own voice. “We always listened to a wide variety of music, but I especially remember Skinny Genes by Eliza Doolittle. It used to wake me up in…