Three interesting shows featuring emerging artists open tomorrow around Darlinghurst in Sydney. At Monster Children Gallery (20 Burton St ), a two-man show by Kill Pixie and Cleon Peterson called The Mirror Stage. A former Sydney graffiti artist, Kill Pixie (aka Mark Whalen) now works... »

A couple of mates, Rob Moffett and Benjamin Baker, were passing the time of day at work while making shipping pallets by kicking around ideas for a cartoon. Their first idea was called Helpy the Helpful Turtle. “It was a faux-educational show about a man-sized... »

Newcastle is home to two amazing resources for zine makers and readers. A zine is — well, I’ll let this typewriter explain. The community arts and media organisation Octapod houses a library of zines that the National Library of Australia assessed in 2004 as a “collection... »

These delightful creatures are in the foyer of the Newcastle Art School. The work, by Belle Brooks, is called 'Typing “Giraffe Sex” Into Google Yields Ungodly Results', a pixel-perfect rendering of a tiny jpeg in plasticine. »

The Sydney Design 09 festival starts this Saturday, 1 August. Kollektor has already given you a heads-up about five great ticketed events, the talk on the Bruno Benini archive and the tour of treasures from the Caroline Simpson Library. Here are three more events to... »

New work by Michael Parekowhai being exhibited at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery shows that he has dived into the childhood toybox once again and come out to play. »

“Seeing this collection is a challenge to your ideas about colour and pattern in the past,” says Megan Martin, Head of the Historic Houses Trust’s Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection. Indeed, flipping open a copy of Ackerman’s Repository of Art, a journal published in... »

I’ve been seeing Status Anxiety wallets around for a while but only recently found out that it’s an Australian brand started by a couple of guys in Cronulla. Props to them! »

Magda Sayeg, the founder of KnittaPlease, was in Sydney on Monday 13 July. Kollektor was invited to join her guerilla knitting posse for the day. Here’s a gallery of images from the event, taken in the centre of Sydney’s business district, around the Opera House... »

Bruno Benini was a pioneering Australian fashion photographer, bringing a European elegance to the field from the post-war period right through until his death in 2001. Together with his wife, Hazel, who played an important role in styling the photos, the Beninis were central,... »

Calling this series “landscapes” is too gentle to encompass what they depict. Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of Western Australian mines are woundscapes, evidence of the lasting and often devastating impact our demand for raw materials has on the land. »

This three-panel screen by young Brisbane designer Surya Graf is a great way to divide up a space without it being a folding wall. Its open form is based on plant forms and the structure of DNA. The panels are CNC machined from marine-grade plywood... »