Climate Change: outline, update and opinion

Artist files: Noah and Hendigga.................p1-2 Sleep: a how to................................p3-4 Climate Change: outline, update and opinion....p5-6 Up and coming musos: ‘Hijackk’ and ‘Coy Fox’...p7-8 A couple of creatives: Bella and Angus........p9-10

WHO / WHAT ARE YOUR INFLUENCES? I am heavily influenced by my dad, as he was the one to introduce me to street art as a young kid, taking me to Hosier lane and to a Banksy gallery, which was one of my early experiences of how varied art can be. This experience contrasts heavily with another influence of mine which is my grandmother. She began taking me to the National Gallery of Victoria since I was around 6 years old, this is where I began taking interest in photography and beautiful classical art pieces. These two influences of mine showed me that art can be anything you want it to be, it just has to be authentic. Other influences come from France, as it’s somewhere I’ve visited many time, as I’m half French. France has taught me to be authentic in my way of living, and to never hold back your creativity for anyone. There is a sense of freedom I see in France that I’ve never seen anywhere else. This is evident as some of the best art has come from France. From Henri CartierBresson, a French photographer, to Mattieu Kassovitz, a French director most notably known for his film ‘La Haine’, a favourite movie of mine and a major inspiration for a short film I’m working on at the moment.

WHAT DOES YOUR ART-MAKING MEAN TO YOU? I’m not a very open or talkative person, so for me I think that creating art is my way of communicating how I’m feeling at the given time. For example, I have experienced some family trauma, and found that I could express how I was feeling about the situation, through creating a short film explaining how I’m feeling.

DO YOU THINK THE INCREASING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ART AND SOCIAL MEDIA IS A GOOD THING? I think there is a fine line between involving social media as a way of exhibiting your art and establishing a name for yourself, and just becoming another money hungry, fame seeking sell-out. I believe that to beneficially use social media with your art, you need to find something that you can do, that differentiates you to any other artist trying to make it big and take that as far as you can.