Quote from ‘The Tempest’. Image of the window at Močan & Green Grout at NewActon precinct, drawn by Al Stark.
Angélique Peretto is our pastry chef from Monster kitchen and bar. It’s kind of amazing when you hear someone talk about pastry with the poetry that Angélique does in her sweet French accent. Pastry chef from the French Alps, it really doesn’t get any more romantic.
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Boil one cup of water in a medium saucepan and mix it with the honey.
Add the spices and chamomile flowers. Pour the rest of the water over the top (add more if you need to – it should cover all the ingredients).
Bring to the boil and then reduce the heat to simmer until it’s a very fragrant syrup.
To store the syrup – let the syrup cool and put it in a super clean and airtight container in the fridge.
The sneakyMix some of the warm syrup up with your scotch to taste and add some lemon (if you want…). You can put a sprig of thyme in there or the woody stem of a stick of rosemary (without the leaves) if you’re feeling fancy.
When you’re delving into your syrup stash for the next batch of sneakies, just warm up the syrup on the stovetop before mixing it with your scotch.
Given that most of us find it hard to do anything for longer than three minutes, we tip our hat to Robyn Cosgrove who’s been doing what she does for more than 37 years.
Robyn is a rug designer and trader who helped us create the one-of-a-kind, vegetable dyed pieces you can walk all over at Hotel Hotel.
Read moreWangari Muta Maathai, Kenyan environmental and political activist. Image of Steven Siegel’s ‘Paper’ installation at NewActon precinct, Canberra.
There is almost nothing rarer in Australian industry than intergenerational success amongst artisanal product manufacturers. Founded in 1945, Rob Gordon Australia is just such a rare beast.
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American photographer Collier Schorr’s latest book ‘8 Women’ presents work spanning from the mid-90s to the present. Schorr’s earliest works used appropriated adverts from fashion magazines to address issues of authorship and desire; the works introduced a female gaze into the debate about female representation. Appropriation was Schorr’s first medium and in some sense she returns to it, taking her own commissioned fashion images and folding them into a dialogue with other works.
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‘Preganziol, 1983’ is a key piece of work in the oeuvre of legendary Italian photographer Guido Guidi. Taken in 1983, the sequence of images depict the same room in an attempt to measure space-time using light. Located in Preganziol, Italy, the small and dilapidated room has two windows from which sunlight enters; in each photograph the angle, intensity and volume of light changes. The work is an exploration of how to define and describe physical space and the idea of camera obscura more widely.
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Initiated by Walter Gropius in 1921, the Bauhaus Stage investigated the mechanical and organic body in the context of space, movement, form, colour, light and sound. ‘Human – Space – Machine’ explores the work of the Bauhaus Stage workshop, attempting to discover a new synthesis of man, space and machine in a new modern age.
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‘On One Side of the Same Water’ explores the state of art production in the south and southeast Mediterranean region, an area rife with conflict. Edited by the director of the Villa Romana Artists’ Centre in Florence, Angelika Stepken, it takes a look at how art has been influenced by and shaped the state of current events in this particular part of the world.
Buy HereHave you never felt a sort of fear in the face of the ageless, a fear that in that room you might lose all consciousness of the passage of time, that untold years might pass and upon emerging you should find you had grown old and gray?
Excerpt from Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s ‘In Praise of Shadows’.
Image of Original room number 241 by Ross Honeysett.
