Ris Fatah
Queer-led creative arts organization HOME LIVE ART is bringing its arts festival KNOTTY back to Hastings UK
Queer-led creative arts organisation Home Live Art is bringing its arts festival Knotty back to Hastings over the first two weekends of June. Bigger and bolder than ever, this year’s Knotty festival features work from 20 adventurous artists in eight events across four venues: Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, White Rock Theatre, Mini Playhouse and Stables Theatre, plus outdoor locations in…
Beryl Cook and Tom Of Finland : new London show celebrates their fabulous commonality of these iconic artists
Every now and then an art show pairing comes along that makes you think “Of course, why haven’t they been shown together before?” 2015’s joint Andy Warhol / Ai Weiwei show in Melbourne triggered that thought for me. It happened again today with Studio Voltaire’s latest exhibition, Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland.…
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews HEART OF THE MAN ” life-affirming to see good quality First Nation queer stories being told”
Back to Australia with another coming-of-age queer drama. Heart of the Man explores the life of Queensland-based 18-year-old amateur boxer Chris Wundurra (Parker Little). Under the very watchful eye of the previously successful ex-boxer, ‘The Wonder Man’ now turned coach, father Sammy (David Cook), Chris is religiously training for his first proper fight. The…
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews SUNFLOWER a tough coming-of-age, coming-out drama from Australia
Australia’s rough, macho culture is examined from a queer perspective in Sunflower, a tough coming-of-age, coming-out drama set in the suburbs of Melbourne. Director/writer Gabriel Carrubba’s debut introduces us to Leo (Liam Mollica), a handsome, strapping seventeen-year-old high school student. His home is a working-class Greek-Italian household with his truck driver dad (Sal Galofaro), mum…
