Do you make, move, do, dream, create, paint, sculpt, write, rub, press, watch, listen, design, illustrate, photograph or sing? Do you express creativity inwards or outwards? Is your brain constantly in a battle between the world you see and the world that could be? If you answered, “yes” to any of the above – you may be a ‘Creative Beast’.

Gippslandia Issue 3 Rising Again

To turn your occupation into “art” is the highest compliment you can earn, but to have “art” as an occupation is one of the dirtiest things you can utter.

Gippslandia Issue 2

I’m new to this art thing. I’ve studied photography for 10 years, but that largely meant learning how to use Photoshop to digitally manipulate photos of women to fulfil unrealistic expectations.

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comforted,” quoted by someone important I’m sure, but I’m a dyslexic photographer, not a writer, so I really don’t care about the typical rules – ‘cause, I’m someone that finds art comforting.