I prefer their early stuff

Enthusiastically and amateurishly assessed the Moran Prizes 2008 exhibition at the State Library (open until 8pm!) and concluded the portraits were inferior to last year's assortment.

Nevertheless, Jack Atley's mono photo "Weather Girl: Rose Kelly" repeatedly drew my gaze - the wind on Sydney Harbour was wild that day, but her eyes were wilder. And Louise Hearman's painting "Ned", of a child's disembodied head on a jet background, was freakily effective.


Watching: "30 Days Of Night" (2007). Office copy of the limited-edition blah blah DVD.