School of the Arts & Media

Esme Timbery

The celebrated artist inspired the naming of UNSW’s Esme Timbery Creative Practice Lab.

jessica zhan mei yu

Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s witty, ‘effervescent’ debut novel follows a Sylvia-Plath-loving young Malaysian-Australian writer’s journey to ‘the heart of empire’ in the UK.

rufus sewell and juliet aubrey in a bbc production of middlemarch

In George Eliot’s masterpiece of 19th century realism, characters are confronted with the limits of their individual capacities and visions.

main characters from the netflix show beef

Beef gives permission to its feuding central characters and minority audience members to feel complex and nuanced emotions.

illustration of music coming out of head

A new study explains the kind of tunes we can’t seem to shake off.

jean rhys looks intently at camera

A new biography of Jean Rhys, the Dominican-born author of Wide Sargasso Sea, pays close attention to her origins – but stops short of examining the colonial relations central to her story.

Portrait of Elizabeth Macarthur by unknown artist

Kate Grenville suggests we read Elizabeth Macarthur’s letters as ‘a wonderful piece of fiction, sustained over sixty years’. They were exercises in doubleness, concealment, and delicious irony.

Aerial view of Calgoa River

With culture at its heart, First Peoples’ creative collaboration can transform communities.

Grace Tame

Grace Tame joins UNSW academics Kyllie Cripps, Michael Salter and Emma A. Jane for a UNSW Centre for Ideas panel discussion.

dance artist performing in a gallery space

An artist-focused research collaboration aims to develop protocols for engaging with choreographic works in art institutions.

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