Carl Plate News Today

The spotlight is being put on local authors and illustrators as part of BookFest Nowra.

Some of the media response to the death of John Olsen has been to proclaim the late artist as a ‘genius’. He was more complex than that.

The artists may not all like each other but they all liked Lucio’s Normal text size Very large text size Lucio’s art collection begins before you set foot in the restaurant. A tangle of pipes by Dave Teer sits high on a wall. Francesco Petrolo’s metal eggs nest in a paperbark tree. Salvatore Zofrea’s once-controversial ceramic naked woman gazes from a window. By the front door, Garry Shead’s mosaic has the writer D.H. Lawrence, his wife and kangaroo picnicking in Italy....