Sydney Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, officially launched Sirius to a record crowd of supporters.  The event was generously supported by Kinokuniya, with Managing Director Kawai-san welcoming guest to the store.    Guest included: Jack & Judy Mundey, to whom the book is dedicated.  Myra Demetriou, Sirius resident  Tao Gofers, Architect of Sirius  Alex Greenwich, Member for Sydney Penny Sharpe, Shadow Minister for Heritage Jess Scully, City of Sydney Councillor  Phillip Thalis, Architect, City of Sydney Councillor  Save Our Sirius members including chairperson Shaun Carter.  See more photos of the launch here. Save Our Sirius would like to thank everyone who made the...

Fiona Capp writes: "This rousing book, which documents the story of Sirius, its inhabitants and the struggle to save it, is a raised fist in the face of the almighty dollar. The last tenant to resist relocation is 90-year-old blind resident Myra Demetriou from whose apartment on the 10th floor lights flashing SOS – Save Our Sirius – continue to send out a distress signal to the city below."

I wish I could say that my origins as a non-fiction writer lay in a childhood devoted to telling only the truth. However, my earlier self is remembered more for making things up, doodling, for an imaginative excess. I fell into non-fiction, headlong and unintentionally—and this, briefly, is how it happened. I began as a poet and book-illustrator. Among my first published illustrations, mid-1980s, was a suite of charcoal drawings to accompany an excerpt from a soon-to-published book called BEING PAKEHA, written by Michael King, with whom I discussed the assignment in the offices of New Outlook magazine, Auckland. 

Half the Sky is the first major book on contemporary art in China by women. Author Luise Guest (Director of Education and Research at White Rabbit Gallery, home of one of the world’s great collections of contemporary Chinese art) believes ‘contemporary art in China is unlike anything in the rest of the world.’ 

Last night Judith Neilson, Founder of the White Rabbit Gallery, introduced Luise Guest’s HALF THE SKY to many of Luise’s family, friends and colleagues.HALF THE SKY is being launched to the public at Kinokuniya Sydney. See here for details.

The exhibition Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time was seen by 250,000 people in Venice. It returns to Australia to open at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra in April 2016, and in Sydney in August.