Anna Harrison, Author at RUSSH

Photographer Hans Feurer on freedom and pleasure

He captures all that makes our pupils widen. Skin, colour, impulse, heat – up close, and photographed from afar. In the world of Hans Feurer, the best fantasies are so very tangible.

Remembering Roxanne Lowit, the photographer who caught it all

Model behavior, good and otherwise, she caught it all – Roxanne Lowit is a pioneer of
behind-the-scenes fashion photography as we know it today.

The midnight candle: what are the benefits of being bad?

From the RUSSH holiday reads series: Contributing Editor Anna Harrison reveals we like to think we know what’s good for us. But are there benefits to being bad?

If time is the enemy, how can we learn to live in this moment?

Construct or otherwise – Anna Harrison asks, is it possible to free yourself from the pressures of time?

Learning from the healing practices of First Nations people

A glimpse of the sacred wisdom of Australia’s earliest medicine.

Thursday longread: remember the summer

Nostalgia has the power to take us someplace warmer. But can reality ever compete with the past?

How to handle your Saturn Return

It takes Saturn approximately 29.5 years to loop the sun and return to the position it occupied on the day you were born. It arrives with a juggernaut of baggage – yours.

Friend or enemy? The line may be finer than we think

Hello darkness. Contributing Editor Anna Harrison explores that ill-defined and oft misunderstood species of relationship: friendship.

Can motherhood provide the opportunity for a creative rebirth?

Feels like starting over. Beyond the feat of forging life, Anna Harrison explores motherhood and creative epiphanies, and searches for the women who have scaled new heights.

Life after life: on death and our fear of the unknown

See the light. Could contemplating death make us feel more alive?

The healer: artist Jedda-Daisy Culley is mapping a void

Through transient colour and gathered thread, Jedda-Daisy Culley is sharing her journey.

Behind closed doors

Contributing Editor Anna Harrison asks: Are we wasting that creativity we keep all to ourselves?

The holiday reads series: On erotica

From the RUSSH holiday reads series: Contributing Editor Anna Harrison on finding sensuality in “emotion, hunger, desire, lust, whims, caprices, personal ties … flavour, rhythms, intensities”.

The Parker Palm Springs

Dreams die fast and hard in the desert, they say. But in Palm Springs, I’d say they’re made.

Look what you’re doing to me: in conversation with Banks

With a potent marriage of strength and vulnerability, she’s got us mesmerised.

The Stone Roses, Sydney Opera House

Big jeans, bomber jackets, mussed-up hair and messed-up Manchester attitudes. The 80s psych-rock band who could care less; the original Oasis, who rode the success of only two albums to iconic heights and stuck their flag there, are back. The Stone Roses will return to Australia for the first time since their reunion tour five years ago with, unbelievably, new material. The gold road’s sure a long road, they sang – and they meant it.

People

Cass Bird

Somewhere on a spectrum of softness and strength, of vulnerability and brazen truth, photographer Cass Bird’s images capture more than just a moment.

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PET Series at National Sawdust, NY

PET is a salute to the ladies, “the kind of badass women able to speak their mind and show their perspective equally” say Cara Stricker and Madeline O’Moore, co-founders of the project that aims to “redefine femininity”.

Fashion / Style

Anna-Wili Highfield: The Owl Scarf

The owl: searing eyes, dappled feathers, haunting nocturnal presence, and artist Anna-Wili Highfield’s latest obsession. Her 3D animal sculptures are all about capturing the energy, movement and essence of the enchanting creatures they represent, and now they’re wearable.

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Bartolomeo Celestino at Olsen Irwin, Sydney

The ocean, without orientation by shore or horizon, is a perennial shape shifter – a thing of constant of flux – living, morphing, never repeating. Without context or bearing, the surface landscape of the sea becomes whatever the moment tells us it is – an abstraction of nature disjunct from its typical frame of reference. Art photographer Bartolomeo Celestino has been revisiting a particular spot on Sydney’s coast with his large-format camera and pointing its lens at the vastness below, day in, day out, for years.