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Eat, clay, love

December 2012 by Rob McHaffie

Yoko Ozawa rides her bike to Northcote Pottery, and rides home with a 5-kilogram bag of clay. Placing the clay on the table next to her throwing wheel, Yoko sketches small shapes in a notebook alongside recipes for glazes. Yoko prepares a ball of clay, kneading it to release pockets of air. This is the […]

Categories: December 2012, Rob McHaffie, Stamm 2012 Tags: Yoko Ozawa

Mann in Japan

November 2012 by Rob McHaffie

I’m not sure where that itch of devotion comes from, the one that gets a person up early in the morning to fold their bed sheets carefully before having a cold shower in preparation for a job as personal as that of a singer-songwriter. Melbourne’s blessed, in a world where popular music has turned bland […]

Categories: November 2012, Rob McHaffie, Stamm 2012 Tags: Oliver Mann

Fine family living

October 2012 by Rob McHaffie

‘Australia’s is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.’ Robin Boyd Just to the side of the city Matlok Griffiths rides back and forth from Richmond to his studio at […]

Categories: October 2012, Rob McHaffie, Stamm 2012 Tags: Hank Josefsson, Julia McFarlane, Matlok Griffiths, Rick Milovanovic

Organic happenings

September 2012 by Rob McHaffie

Drawing has been a great friend of Rhys Lee’s for as long as I’ve known him. Rhys went through a graphics course in Brisbane with fellow artist Matt Hinkley, but Rhys was always keen to get a little looser and wilder than graphic design would allow. Spending time throwing lines around with spray cans as […]

Categories: Rob McHaffie, September 2012, Stamm 2012 Tags: Rhys Lee

Do ya thang Wang!

August 2012 by Rob McHaffie

I’m staying in Bang Pu Mai at the moment, just outside Bangkok, visiting a loved one. There’s not a lot of art out here as it’s a big industrial area. We drive along Sukhumvit Road each day and pass billboards with big photos of the King’s daughter taking photos of seagulls. We pass a few […]

Categories: August 2012, Rob McHaffie, Stamm 2012 Tags: Wang

Digesting Michael

July 2012 by Rob McHaffie

In 2010, I visited Fergus Binns quite regularly for lunch at Friends of the Earth. We’d nibble on our organic lunch plate and then head upstairs to his Smith Street studio to have a look at what he was up to. The painting taking shape for the bulk of that year was Toy painting (Alice […]

Categories: July 2012, Rob McHaffie, Stamm 2012 Tags: Fergus Binns

A quiet one

June 2012 by Rob McHaffie

Friday night, aged seventeen, sitting, waiting. I’ve had a Mars bar from the freezer, Dad’s reading The Age, Mum’s watching a documentary on the Queen, I’m waiting for them to go to bed so I can watch the SBS Friday night movie. No friend has called me. I don’t want to call around, it could […]

Categories: June 2012, Rob McHaffie, Stamm 2012 Tags: Amanda Marburg, Patrick Hartigan, Suji Park

Siri Hayes: The world is our lounge room

May 2012 by Rob McHaffie

Siri Hayes’s recent show of photographs and embroidery, All you knit is love is tricky to write about as I was left quite satisfied feeling the love of family, nature, and life in general. CCP is open on Sundays now so I popped in not knowing what was on. Siri’s exhibition fills the main gallery […]

Categories: May 2012, Rob McHaffie, Stamm 2012 Tags: Siri Hayes

Make vibes not things: Caroline Anderson A.K.A. Crystal Diamond

April 2012 by Rob McHaffie

Why are people making so much art? What’s on this month? The more I think about it, the more I think about it … Oh jeez, I’m a bit strung out, I couldn’t make it to the NEW13 opening at ACCA. Wanna come with me? Have you seen this? What did you think of that? I […]

Categories: April 2012, Rob McHaffie, Stamm 2012 Tags: Caroline Anderson

A morning with Julian Martin

March 2012 by Rob McHaffie

I haven’t seen a solo show of Julian Martin’s work but at the many group shows of Arts Project artists, I find myself gravitating toward his drawings. They offer clarity among the talking and wine sipping. The thick pastel colour on paper creates a velvety surface that absorbs and softens my intense art gaze the […]

Categories: March 2012, Rob McHaffie, Stamm 2012 Tags: Julian Martin

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This is the archive for Stamm, an online publishing project initiated by artist Jonathan Nichols in 2012.  [Read More] about About

Years

  • Stamm 2015
  • Stamm 2013
  • Stamm 2012

Writers 2015

  • Eliza Dyball
  • Amita Kirpalani
  • Michelle Mantsio
  • Kyla McFarlane
  • Anca Verona Mihulet
  • Jonathan Nichols
  • Tom Polo
  • Caterina Riva
  • Quentin Sprague
  • Sacha Waldron
  • Suzette Wearne

Writers 2013

  • Trevelyan Clay
  • Amita Kirpalani
  • Michelle Mantsio
  • Jonathan Nichols
  • Lisa Radford
  • Quentin Sprague
  • Pip Wallis

Writers 2012

  • Mila Faranov
  • Amita Kirpalani
  • Hannah Mathews
  • Rob McHaffie
  • Jonathan Nichols
  • Quentin Sprague
  • Eve Sullivan
  • Pip Wallis