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“My wife describes me as a gloomy catastrophist,” says Mombassa.

‘It’s pointless to think about hiding from the aliens’: Reg Mombassa

The artist and Mental as Anything hitmaker has drawn our landscape in paint and song for five decades. Is it getting darker?

  • Michael Dwyer

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Slashing fares on trains, trams rewards all of us

Readers discuss opposition proposals to drastically cut public transport fares; Labor’s decision to retain the stage 3 tax cuts; and retaliation against Putin.

Not master and student: Reg Mombassa and Glen Smith with linocuts and digital reproductions that will be part of their exhibition Creatures: Losing The War On Nature in Redfern.

‘It’s a war that we should be losing’: Reg Mombassa teams up with Glenno Smith for a dark ecological exhibition

One of the country’s most popular surrealist abstract painters and designers is having his first lino cut exhibition.

  • Phil Brandel
‘In her element’: portrait of Helen Pitt, by Alex Snellgrove, a finalist in the 2021 Portia Geach Memorial Award.

A life in lockdown: Love for painting the ocean recognised

A record number of entries were received in this year’s $30,000 Portia Geach Memorial Award for female artists.

  • Helen Pitt
Penola Catholic College HSC exams.

HSC a brutal and irrelevant way to define ‘intelligence’ in a world opening its eyes to other values

On Thursday night, the ATAR was the be-all and end-all for the Class of 2020; by Friday lunch, it was on its way to being forgotten.

  • Malcolm Knox
Composite image of Reg Mombassa and his new artwork for the class of 2020. 

'Onwards and upwards': Iconic Australian artist's gift for HSC graduating class

Some 68,673 students will be mailed their formal HSC credentials and a piece of artwork by iconic Australian artist Reg Mombassa in the signature style of his Mambo designs.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
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Artist Ben Quilty has been painting household objects in his studio during the coronavirus lockdown.

Portraits of the artists in isolation

Ten Australian artists, including Bill Henson, Ben Quilty and Wendy Sharpe, share what they have been working on during the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Nick Galvin, Kerrie O'Brien and Chloe Wolifson
Andrew "Greedy" Smith, date unknown.

An oversized teddy bear with the heart of a passionate artist

By never taking themselves too seriously Mental As Anything stumbled upon a tonic for timelessness.

  • Glenn A Baker
Jason Daley with Andrew 'Greedy' Smith from Mental As Anything.

Lucky I met Greedy, the antithesis of the jaded rock star

Two weeks before his sudden death, Andrew Smith was telling Jason Dasey how excited he was about the Mental As Anything's packed tour schedule.

  • Jason Dasey
Mental As Anything's 'Greedy' Smith has died.

Mental As Anything's 'Greedy' Smith dies aged 63

Band manager Grant Bartlett said Greedy Smith's death was unexpected: 'One of the healthiest guys I've seen.'

  • Martin Boulton

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