Sally Pryor

Pairing the works of Sidney Nolan and eX de Medici makes a crazy kind of sense.

How can we ever know how life could have turned out if we’d made different decisions? Or if those around us had stayed in the world for longer? Robyn Davidson is adamant this is a question not worth asking, as life is never quite as deterministic as we’d like to think. In her new memoir, Unfinished Woman, Davidson’s mother takes her own life in the opening pages. Davidson is just 11, and puts the episode firmly behind her. But the book is an attempt to determine how much this event contributed…

Imagine spending every day hanging out by the pool. Or a pool, at least. If you made pools your business, you could see several a day, in various parts of town, and, for Tessa Jayne at least, never get sick of them. The 26-year-old has her own business, Blue Lizard Pool & Garden Services, maintaining pools all around Canberra and parts of NSW, with more than 100 regular clients. She may be the one of the only women fronting such a business, making a mockery of the “pool boy” cliche, but she’…

A Canberra man who died having got within just 100 metres of the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro has been remembered for his integrity and dedication to the newspaper industry. Jon Clarke, the former head of printing for The Canberra Times and ACM, died suddenly on February 29, aged 60. Two years into retirement, he was on the trip of a lifetime in Tanzania when he was struck with altitude sickness. Son Lewis Clarke said his father had last been in touch on February 25, and by the end of the week, t…

Robots can be scary things, even - and especially - beyond the realm of science fiction. When provocative American artist Jordan Wolfson was preparing one of his works to travel all the way to Australia, it wasn’t a matter of just packing it into a crate. And, when Body Sculpture arrived at its new home at the National Gallery of Australia, which had acquired it for a cool $6.6 million, unpacking the work wasn’t quite the main event it usually is when new works arrive. While most major art gall…

What is it about long stretches of parkway in Canberra that makes people forget how to drive properly? Or does the prospect of driving 100kmh just bring out the worst in people? Some put pedal to the metal and take a power trip, while others seem to fold up and become scared of the world. Either way, every time there’s a crash on the Tuggeranong Parkway, too many people have to know about it. And every time it happens, I wonder whether - or when - I’ll be next. If we lived in a sitcom, there a…

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