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Cultural Influences

Get ready for a live Q&A with artist Elysha Rei!

Not So Koi vertical -Elysha Rei

Weaving intricate patterns, Asian design elements and symbolism into contemporary settings and public spaces, Elysha Rei’s work explores her own mixed heritage, and in doing so, invites others to contemplate their own cultural identities and attachments to familiar and unfamiliar places. While her exploration of her Japanese-Australian culture varies across […]

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Trick or Treat? More from the Logan Writers.

Trick or Treat...More from the Logan Writers

Happy Halloween! Here are two more samples of works from Logan Writers for your reading pleasure. Keep an eye out for the Special Halloween podcast with a spooky reading by Mitchell Tierney.   ***   Halloween and the Day of the Dead – By Dallas Berge   The third time. […]

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Logan City Writers Explore Spiritual Celebrations and Halloween

Logan Writer's Halloween Special

We are lucky to be privy to such a diverse group of different voices and as no exception, the Logan City Writers have agreed to submit a few words of their own in a group exploration into Spiritual Celebrations and Halloween. Keep your eyes peeled over the next few days […]

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Spiritual celebration, culture and mortality.

Halloween, Spiritual celebration, Culture, Skull

With the commercialism of cultural and religious traditions, it is easy to be dismissive of them. But October is the perfect month to stop and consider how lucky we are to have a melding pot of different spiritual, religious and cultural elements to enrich our perspectives of the world. Generations […]

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Muted Expression by Tsherin Sherpa – Artistic Analysis by Adam Buchanan

 Muted Expression 2015 by Tsherin Sherpa Click here to see Tsherin Sherpa’s piece Muted Expression at GOMA Brisbane In Muted Expression Tsherin Sherpa deconstructs and reinterprets traditional Tibetan Buddhist iconography in order to explore physical communication and engage with socio-cultural issues present in contemporary Nepal and Tibetan Buddhism. Many of […]

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