Aug 31, 2023
Material Culture
With the opening of a permanent bricks-and-mortar store in Hahndorf, Gathered Design Market fans no longer need to wait for the next market to discover their new favourite South Australian maker.
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Jan 23, 2023
Material Culture
Take a peek inside the Adelaide community that meets monthly to obliterate each other’s lovingly created robots.
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Sep 30, 2022
Material Culture
With movie nights, a reading corner, refreshments and the owners doubling as photographers, browsing and buying from vintage fashion store A Flat Shop is best done offline.
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Jul 26, 2022
Material Culture
The sex industry always interested Kiki Isobel, but it took a pandemic for her to start her own OnlyFans page.
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Jul 5, 2022
Material Culture
Award-nominated photographer Jack Fenby has a predilection for stretching his artistic limits. He has a habit of throwing himself into chaos – from Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing to Russian punk group Pussy Riot – and his new photobook 'Mistakes' is a billet-doux to shots gone wrong in the process.
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Jan 6, 2022
Material Culture
Hundreds of carefully crafted props line the shelves at State Theatre’s suburban warehouse and workshop. Carpenter, actor and maker Patrick Duggin, who has made 100 of these objects over 24 years with the theatre company, explains the magic and mania of creating imagined worlds.
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Aug 31, 2021
Material Culture
Inside the SA Seed Bank seed biologist Daniel Duval is storing embryonic forms of Australian flora to safeguard against a dystopian future that, in some cases, has already arrived.
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Apr 5, 2019
Material Culture
A mismatched trove of abandoned keepsakes, Scammells Auctions is the embodiment of the adage that one person's trash is another person's treasure.
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Jan 8, 2019
Material Culture
People of every age and gender have stood and sailed through this city on seven-or-so sheets of Canadian maple. Some have made money off them, most spend money on them, and all have spent time seeking a skateboard's reward.
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