Category: Portfolio

  • The wild life of Toby Zoates: Sydney’s squatting movement, acid, protests and art

    The wild life of Toby Zoates: Sydney’s squatting movement, acid, protests and art

    If there was trouble brewing in Sydney in the late 70s and 80s, chances are Toby Zoates was the one at the stove.

  • Better to squat than let homes rot: inside Sydney’s underground squatting movement

    Better to squat than let homes rot: inside Sydney’s underground squatting movement

    FEATURE ARTICLE FOR VICE AUSTRALIA. “Once upon a time there was a haven for artists, freaks, punks, pagans, renegades and junkies,” legendary Sydney artist and seasoned squatter Toby Zoates writes on his blog.  “It looked like a forbidding fortress: a dark cubist castle clinging to some old disused wharves and, as…

  • Fast food with Chloe Wise

    Fast food with Chloe Wise

    FEATURE ARTICLE AND INTERVIEW FOR OYSTER MAGAZINE ISSUE #110. If there’s one thing in life guaranteed to make you forget your troubles, it’s a Friday night trip to Pizza Hut for the all‐you‐can‐eat buffet. I can still hear the bowls of neon‐coloured jelly, half‐melted ice cream, and too‐hard mini marshmallows…

  • Oyster magazine issue #110

    Oyster magazine issue #110

    DEPUTY EDITOR OF OYSTER #110: THE ‘CLUB’ ISSUE. I wrote, produced and edited content for this edition of Oyster magazine, with assistance from an amazing team. Read my interviews with Chloe Wise and Deanna Fanning from the issue. The club is a place where you really can lose yourself in the…

  • First Paddy’s, now Glebe Markets… Sydney is losing its soul, and for what?

    First Paddy’s, now Glebe Markets… Sydney is losing its soul, and for what?

    Opinion ARTICLE FOR the Sydney Morning Herald. There used to be a karaoke bar at the gateway to Dixon Street in Chinatown: opposite the hula-hooping clown and the queue for cream puffs. You could stop in on a Friday night for free entertainment or a turn on the stage. It…