Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 113 - May/Jun 2023 i frankie Magazine

Whenever it comes time to sit down and face the blank page, I find myself taking to a task I’ve ignored for the past month with gusto. I hoover up every dust ball from under my bed, wipe every surface clean, just to avoid staring at the blinking cursor, my nemesis. I tell myself to “just say something witty,” (possibly the most unhelpful bit of encouragement one could ever utter) and act surprised when my brain refuses to spit out an amusing story on command. My avoidance reached new heights recently – to the point where I devised an entire story to solve (or distract me from) my problems. In this issue, you’ll find advice for tackling creative block from people who write and make art for a living, including…

prints & paintings Kalindy Williams Tell us about the print that started it all. My obsession with vintage prints and paintings began with this one nude by Larry Vincent Garrison. I went to a garage sale where everything was $2 and I saw her stuck behind a Snow White poster. I couldn’t believe such a gorgeous image was only two bucks! I snapped her up and now she hangs on my wall, still with the fluoro pink $2 sticker. The Vincent nudes were a popular print in the late ’60s and ’70s. There really isn’t much information about Vincent Garrison out there – he was a painter of family portraits and switched to painting nudes in the ’60s. There are hundreds of Vincent paintings hanging in galleries around the world,…

REBECCA VARCOE, SKINCARE ENTHUSIAST In the ’90s my mum sold skincare door to door. She’d bring home giant bags of products and I’d spend hours slathering myself in various creams while the four family members with whom I shared a bathroom pounded on the door. In the 20 years since, I’m proud to announce I’ve graduated to a functional skincare routine I’m happy enough with, and that I can nonchalantly (yet smugly) recommend products to friends. Previously my skincare priorities had been treating acne with acid-heavy products, but now that I’m ancient (33), all of a sudden I feel the urge to ‘nourish’ and ‘magically reverse’ my ageing face suit. While I still am using what us in the biz (read: those who once got a goodie bag of lipsticks…

The story of the Hurricane (not the Bob Dylan song) is pretty well accepted. It was born at Pat O’Brien’s bar in New Orleans in the 1940s out of a surplus of rum. This cocktail is probably one of the most misunderstood – it is often served with at least two more ingredients than necessary but it’s really more of a Rum Sour. That said, it is pretty boozy, so if you would like to lengthen it out, stick in 30ml of either freshly squeezed orange juice or pineapple juice. INGREDIENTS – 40ml light rum– 40ml aged rum– 30ml passionfruit syrup– 30ml fresh lemon juice– crushed ice or ice cubes– to garnish: orange wedge, a cherry, cocktail umbrella (optional) EQUIPMENT Glassware: the hurricane glass is where the cocktail gets its…

LEAVING PERTH Sophie McComish: I didn’t really start making music until I got as far away from Perth as I could. I moved to New York in 2013, got a guitar from a thrift shop, then went through a dramatic heartbreak. That’s when I started writing music. Moving to the city that feels like the centre of the universe and feeling so alone and sad – but also excited and the happiest I’ve ever been – was a melting pot of emotions. Georgia Wilkinson-Derums: Growing up in the most isolated city in the world had a huge impact on the kind of music I listened to and the music I still choose to make. There wasn’t a lot going on in Perth. It has got a really great music scene,…

What stories do these painted blankets hold? I have a strong memory of one particular Afghan blanket I used to use when I visited my grandparents’ house. When they passed away, I took that blanket home and I've since been slowly collecting an arsenal of blankets mostly purchased from estate sales, online auctions or thrift stores. My blanket-stack paintings happened somewhat by accident. I had folded them on a chair one day to keep them out of the way; I was struck by the juxtaposition of colours, patterns and textures. They were visually exciting, but they also spoke to me as a ‘stockpile’ of comfort. Your love for vintage and kitsch is enduring. What draws you to old objects? I think of myself as a painter of human experiences and…

victoria hannan AUTHOR You’ve said that you don’t get to indulge in writer’s block. What’s your secret? I’ve worked as a copywriter as my day job for a long time, so five days a week I have no choice but to write. When you have to write to eat and pay rent, you soon learn that it’s possible to push through and get it done. When I’m working on a fiction project, I’ll set myself deadlines and word counts – I have spreadsheets! It’s how I’ve trained my brain to get the work done. Do you have any writing routines? I’ve convinced myself that I have to start early or I can’t work at all (which I don’t recommend). I’ll get up, have coffee, breakfast, open my laptop and go.…

There’s often a rebellious streak in artists, and one group of young English painters, writers and poets had a real axe to grind back in 1848. They thought the art of the time (grand religious-inspired and imagined scenes) was simply not ‘it’. They called themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and met in secret to create artworks inspired by nature and real people. Ahead of the Art Gallery of Ballarat’s Australian-exclusive exhibition, the gallery’s director Louise Tegart tells us why this group of artists (who weren’t all men, by the way), was so revolutionary. REBEL, REBEL The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood wanted to overthrow the accepted way of making art. The brotherhood included William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Thomas Woolner. They were really trying to overturn everything that artists…

MATERIALS – A3-size piece of felt– small wire cutter– chain-nose/flat pliers (for jewellery) Beads of your choice. Can be purchased from your local craft shop or specialist bead store. For our 44cm-long necklace, we used: – 120 x 2mm plastic beads– 12 x 8mm faux-pearl beads– 8 x 8mm glass or ceramic beads– 2 x 5mm glass beads– 1 x 20mm glass charm bead You might have to buy the below items in multi-packs. All in matching colour of your choice: – beading wire (around 0.38mm thickness is ideal)– 1 x closed jump ring (6 or 7mm is fine)– 1 x 11mm lobster clasp– 2 x crimp covers (around 4mm is fine)– 2 x 2mm crimps (sometimes labelled crimpers) HOW TO First, search ‘beaded necklace’ on Pinterest or an inspiration…

Nabiha Jamal’s distinctive, ultra-glamorous style is in her DNA. Her fashionable mum loved the glitz of golden-age Hollywood, especially Marilyn Monroe, and together, they’d watch classic films every Saturday. Nabiha, now a 35-year-old teacher living in Melbourne’s outer suburbs, grew up admiring the elegant, romantic and luxurious wardrobes of starlets like Gone With the Wind’s Vivien Leigh. Still, Nabiha didn’t get into wearing vintage clothing (“I thought it would be smelly,” she jokes) until 2015, when she met Tom McEvoy, the Melbourne photographer and vintage fashion collector who shot her wedding. He thought Nabiha’s bridal look – a gold, fitted gown and metre-long matching hijab, encrusted with pearls and crystals – spoke of someone who’d love the strong colours and feminine silhouettes of mid-century Western fashion. “Tom showed…

gently does it Silk Laundry’s latest collection looks (and probably feels) like clothes poured onto the body – soft, slippery and silky (duh) fabrics that pool about ankles and slide over skin. This is a wardrobe that might belong to a cultured person of leisure, someone who lounges in luxury but may need to be ready for a soirée at a moment’s notice. There are oversized chiffon shirts, bias-cut pants and airy slip dresses – threads that stay true to founder Katie Kolodinski’s vision for a brand that emphasises timeless silhouettes and feel-good fabrics. If that kind of opulence appeals, swing breezily by silklaundry.com.au for more. giddy up If we could summon the moon to Earth for a jig, we’re confident she’d love to bop around in shiny pink cowboy…

How did you know that product design was your thing? I built my first piece of furniture when I was 10 years old. At the time, it was a very simple shelf made of boxes that I screwed to the wall – my Disney comics fit perfectly. A former classmate also once told me that in year 8, I said I would become a designer and live in a loft. I think I couldn’t help it. I’m a carpenter by trade and also studied interior architecture. Now I’m self-employed with my furniture business of 12 years. Where did your brand name artcanbreakyourheart come from? I once saw the quote “Kitsch can make you rich, but art can break your heart” outside a museum – I think it was by Joseph…

There’s a certain amount of control you have to relinquish when you live in a big sharehouse. Schedules are all over the place, and not everyone is on the same page about cleaning, socialising or decorating – being flexible is part of the deal. It’s kind of a miracle, then, that Sophie Joyce’s Enmore sharehouse, home to seven people and a dog, works so well. The Sydney photographer found her room from an ad on Facebook and moved into the old, multi-storey townhouse around three years ago. “It’s so expensive to live in Sydney, so to have people you live with so compatibly and can share so much with on a financial level is incredibly helpful,” she says. The first thing visitors notice about the place is just how big…

Five years ago, Tom Zappala learnt he was neurodivergent. It all started to make sense. Sudden loud or repetitive noises and bright lights overwhelmed him, he felt drained by constant chatter, the smell of chemicals gave him headaches, and persistent stray hairs on his clothes and skin irritated him. As he’s a haircutter (the term he prefers over hairdresser), this made working at a salon pretty taxing. In 2008, he set up his own studio in Collingwood, Melbourne, creating a sensory-friendly space to hold one-on-one appointments. “What initially started as a supportive space for my personal and professional needs has evolved into something that supports a community of individuals who I had no idea also struggled with the same things I did,” Tom says. Only those who seek his services…

PIG (2021) For some reason, the first time I watched Pig I got it confused with Cage’s (also awesome) 2018 blood-soaked cult revenge thriller Mandy and expected to be watching some kind of psychedelic horror led by a pig. But it’s more like an extremely beautiful version of John Wick, if John Wick’s wife had given him a pig before she died instead of a dog. In Pig, we meet Cage as a solitary, filthy figure living in a shack, and witness his journey to claw back the things that give his life meaning. What follows is a phenomenal Nic Cage performance that is sometimes genuinely heartbreaking to watch. At times a character study and observation of grief and class, Pig is, in my humble opinion, one of his best…

Describe the Meadows look in three words. Romantic, folkloric, mystic. What made you decide to launch Meadows a decade into running your brand, L.F. Markey? In addition to my love of workwear, minimalism and utility, I have always had a love for folklore and history bubbling away in the background. Eventually it bubbled to the surface! We couldn’t feed it through into L.F. Markey as the look is so different, so we gave it its own space. What was on the mood board for this range? Lots of gothic, occultist woodcuts from 15th-century France, some punk imagery from the ’80s and historical North American handicrafts. Do you have a particular person or wearer in mind when you’re designing the Meadows collections? Not one particular person – I’ve realised there are…

This is an edited extract from Little Plum by Laura McPhee-Browne, author of the award-winning Cherry Beach. Little Plum is available now through Text Publishing. Scan the QR code for more frankie favourites. This story is about Coral. Coral is 29 years old, and she doesn’t know what she wants. She has been doing an online dream course in her spare time, curated by Jungian analysts in America. The dream course suggests that she keep a dream diary, and because she wants the course to show her something, she writes down her dreams every morning, in a notebook lined with blue. It has become apparent that she often dreams about her mother. When Coral was a toddler, her mother let her eat anything she wanted: sand, sticks, playdough, puffs of…