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When Roxy moves to Adelaide to go to university in 1981 she becomes caught up in the intense performance art scene. Her relationships play out against a backdrop of contrasts: the brilliant light of the Bay, shadowed by menace stalking the streets, and lonely long distance roads. This new edition has the addition of the poem 'Slugs' by the author, first published in 1980 in LiNQ (Literature in North Queensland). Includes one black and white illustration, a photographic artwork."A sensitive and convincing account of Australian youth culture"-Kirkus Reviews

'Know thyself' is a Greek aphorism. But how can she? Something is missing. She can't think what it is. A mysterious amnesiac art dealer, Ruby, is jailed in Australia for the traumatic murder she cannot recall. In her high society life in London, acting the part and role-playing replaced authenticity; she kept up appearances. Then she and her husband Sir Hugo visit Australia, to collect art, and nothing goes to plan. She collides with what she has been running from. Narrated through voices of the main characters, the distinctive, uproarious fragments reveal stories of a performance artist, a musician, and a writer in Australia; a triangular relationship; shattered family life; and the mysteries of amnesia; the gulf between how one appears to oneself and to others. What can't Ruby remember? Has she been wrongfully convicted? Interwoven through the fiction narrative is a series of photographic images by Ruth Skilbeck."Skilbeck's prose is as measured as poetry, and the way the narration shifts between different characters provides an almost cubist view of people and events...Skilbeck creates some memorable characters." -Kirkus Reviews

 The July-September 2019 'Facing the Future' issue of Arts Features International considers whether or not the future will be utopian or dystopian, and surveys the global climate strikes and the environmental movement led by young people.Ruth Skilbeck. Editorial: Will the Future be Utopian–or Dystopian? Essay and photographs of the Global Climate School Strike, Newcastle, 20 September 2019...7Michael Gormly. Critical thinking quickly sorts out denialist nonsense Essay and Photographs of the Global Climate School Strike, Newcastle, 20 September 2019...14Deborah Van Heekeren. Disconnectivity poem & artwork...22Ruth Skilbeck. Felena Springs utopian speculative fiction...25Simon Albert (The University of Queensland), Alistair Grinham (The University of Queensland), Badin Gibbes The University of Queens- land), Javier Leon (University of the Sunshine Coast), John Church (CSIRO) Sea-Level Rise has Claimed Five Whole Islands in the Pacific: first scientific evidence (from The Conversation 2016)...28Jeremy Gluck. On Digital Art & Culture essay & text based art...34 Anthony Sawrey. A Thousand Miles Beyond: The Equine Paintings of Hugh Sawrey Book extract with paintings by Hugh Sawrey...48Suellen Symons. White Cockatoos Facebook photographs...70Frontline Action on Coal. Facebook posts and photographs of a small community Global Climate Strike near Adani mine, Queensland...24; 72Contributors’ notes...77

Arts Features International, Summer 2019-2020, Firestorms & Protest issue features ethnographic eyewitness essays on climate change protest; Karen Kennedy on being arrested at Extinction Rebellion street theatre events; Jacqueline Baker on XR in Queensland, new paintings of firestorms in rural New South Wales by Magarita Georgiadis; an interview by Ruth Skilbeck  with Angus McDonald on his award winning film MANUS; Jeremey Gluck interviews with Mark James; and Alison Lochhead; and more.

Eyewitness accounts and images of Australian bushfire firestorms, environmental protests, and interviews with international artists feature in Arts Features International, October-December 2019, Firestorms & Protest.ContentsRuth Skilbeck Editorial 7Karen Kennedy Arresting Times essay 8 Jacqueline Baker Caramel Dust essay 15 Dylan McConville Extinction Rebellion photographs 8, 13, 14, 18 Margarita Georgiadis Frost and Fire-new landscape paintings 6, 20-29 Music News-Noisy Corner; Suz Dorahy 30 Ruth Skilbeck Interviews Angus McDonald 32 Jeremy Gluck On GS Artists 42 Jeremy Gluck Interviews Mark James 43  Jeremy Gluck Interviews Alison Lochhead 56Contributors'' Notes 59 

Photojournalist artists feature in the Destruction & Disruption 'artists protest issue' of Arts Features International published before the 2019 election in Australia, which documents that time of social activism by artists and local communities opposed to destruction of the natural and built environment and gentrification by acts of government and big business. And for increasing ways of community healing, engagement, and collaboration through art and generosity. Featured are pieces on local opposition to Destination NSW's approved Supercars motor race in Newcastle, by Dr Christine Everingham, Therese Doyle, and Newcastle East Residents Group. The Big Rev Up Benefit Auction of artworks for the Stop Adani coal mine Protest; Bob Brown's Stop Adani speech, and the residents' opposition to displacement and redevelopment of their homes in Sydney's inner-city Waterloo, Redfern and Alexandria, documented by Suellen Symons. The 'First Artists Announcement' of NIRIN the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, with a healing ceremony at Cell Block Theatre at the National Art School. The (successful) artists boycott of an earlier Sydney Biennale in protest at the contract award to the Board chairman's company (a Biennale sponsor) to profit from refugee detention camps. Works by Wang Zhiyuan. Exhibitions: Suellen Symons' Strange Paradise (Redfern Then and Now). Ella Dreyfus's Under Twenty-Seven and essay by Professor Catharine Lumby. Dr Deborah van Heekeren's Disruption. A review by Silvia Pease. Jeremy Gluck's manifesto and his collaborations with Don Tyler, and Rosemary Osbourne. Artworks by Natasha Williams, and Luciano Prisco. A play by Vee Malnar. Writings and photographs by Ruth Skilbeck.

Photojournalist artists feature in the Destruction & Disruption 'artists protest issue' of Arts Features International published before the 2019 election in Australia, which documents that time of social activism by artists and local communities opposed to destruction of the natural and built environment and gentrification by acts of government and big business. And for increasing ways of community healing, engagement, and collaboration through art and generosity. Featured are pieces on local opposition to Destination NSW's approved Supercars motor race in Newcastle, by Dr Christine Everingham, Therese Doyle, and Newcastle East Residents Group. The Big Rev Up Benefit Auction of artworks for the Stop Adani coal mine Protest; Bob Brown's Stop Adani speech, and the residents' opposition to displacement and redevelopment of their homes in Sydney's inner-city Waterloo, Redfern and Alexandria, documented by Suellen Symons. The 'First Artists Announcement' of NIRIN the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, with a healing ceremony at Cell Block Theatre at the National Art School. The (successful) artists boycott of an earlier Sydney Biennale in protest at the contract award to the Board chairman's company (a Biennale sponsor) to profit from refugee detention camps. Works by Wang Zhiyuan. Exhibitions: Suellen Symons' Strange Paradise (Redfern Then and Now). Ella Dreyfus's Under Twenty-Seven and essay by Professor Catharine Lumby. Dr Deborah van Heekeren's Disruption. A review by Silvia Pease. Jeremy Gluck's manifesto and his collaborations with Don Tyler, and Rosemary Osbourne. Artworks by Natasha Williams, and Luciano Prisco. A play by Vee Malnar. Writings and photographs by Ruth Skilbeck.

Arts Features International, July-September 2019, Facing the Future issue was first published in ebook after the Global Climate Strike, in September 2019.ContentsRuth Skilbeck Editorial Will the Future be Utopian–or Dystopian? Essay and photographs of the Global Climate School Strike, Newcastle, 20 September 2019…7Michael Gormly Critical thinking quickly sorts out denialist nonsense Essay and Photographs of the Global Climate School Strike, Newcastle, 20 September 2019…14Deborah Van Heekeren Disconnectivity poem & artwork…22Ruth Skilbeck Felena Springs utopian speculative fiction story…25Simon Albert (The University of Queensland), Alistair Grinham (The University of Queensland), Badin Gibbes The University of Queens- land), Javier Leon (University of the Sunshine Coast), John Church (CSIRO). Sea-Level Rise has Claimed Five Whole Islands in the Pacific: first scientific evidence (from The Conversation 2016)…28Jeremy Gluck On Digital Art and Culture essay & text based artworks…34Anthony Sawrey A Thousand Miles Beyond: The Equine Paintings of Hugh Sawrey. Book extract with   artworks by Hugh Sawrey…48Suellen Symons White Cockatoos. Facebook photograph & post…70Frontline Action on Coal Facebook posts and photographs of a small community Global Climate Strike near Adani mine, Queensland…24;72Contributors’ notes…77 

The January-March 2019 'Under the Radar' issue of Arts Features International reviews new literary, film and art works, works in progress and women filmmakers we'd like to know more about.CONTENTS:O, YEZ! Contributors' news...10 RUTH SKILBECK Editorial...11ANDREW DOYLE One of the earliest settler artists in Australia. His works, Rock Lily and Woody Pear are featured here...12MICHAEL GORMLY Messing About in Boats (environmental photojournalism) clearing up plastic whilst exploring Newcastle's Throsby Creek and industrial harbour by kayak...15RICHARD JAMES ALLEN New Poems ...20RUTH SKILBECK On Karen Pearlman's Documentary: Woman with an Editing Bench: Recovering the Creative Work of the Uncredited Women Editors and Filmmakers of Soviet Cultural History...32KAREN PEARLMAN Interviewed by RUTH SKILBECK...39GEORGIA WALLACE-CRABBE The Earth and the Elements (techno storytelling) pioneers new forms of art writing and visual storytelling with images of a new kind of environmental journalism in a video documentary installation in an art gallery...42GREGORY MILLER Cultivating Murder a documentary on the cold blooded murder of Environmental Officer Glen Turner and court trial of agribusiness killer Ian Turnbull...71CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE AM The Universe Looks Down epic poem extract...76ARTS FILM NEWS The Universe Looks Down arts documentary and VR film about Chris Wallace-Crabbe based on his epic poem; with artwork from Kristin Headlam's exhibition, and production stills by Film Projects...80KRISTIN HEADLAM Milena with Fox and Hedgehog etching from the book and exhibition inspired by Chris Wallace-Crabbe AM's poem The Universe Looks Down...83ARTHUR BOYD Landscape of the Soul. Lovers on fire in boat with kite (79). Man Setting out in boat, 1940, an early work by one of Australia's most prominent 20th Century modern painters, from a touring exhibition of his works...84RUTH SKILBECK Trying to Find Home, a short story (85); with Forest Floor Shadow, digi- tal photograph with drawing...98TOM BIERDZ The Accident an extract from the new psychological mystery suspense thriller by this popular US-based author...99RUTH SKILBECK on BEHROUZ BOOCHANI and ARASH KAMALI SARVESTANI's film Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time, extract from Fugue in Literature...102RUTH SKILBECK One Night in Hong Kong. A street life photo series...108 VEE MALNAR Android Upgrade, a short play; with artwork Umbilical Iron...124

Featuring the works of over thirty authors, artists, arts and cultural historians, from around the world and across urban and regional Australia, the inaugural issue of Arts Features International literary journal, addresses themes of artistic, social, cultural and technological change, in a time of major historical evolutionary transition. From the displacement and shock of transitioning from the ‘private’ timeless zone of writing to the public zone of ‘virtual reality’ and publishing via computer, to social media and digital arts production arises the need to gather together to defend our humanity, and environment, and speak in a polyphony individually together.With works by: Richard James Allen, Christopher Barnett, Behrouz Boochani, Christen Clifford, Paloma Concierta, Fan Dongwang, Elizabeth Farrelly, Elizabeth Gertsakis, Jeremy Gluck, Michael Gormly, Ghassan Hage, Ying Huang, Karen Kennedy, Ramon Loyola, Philip Mann, Rhyll McMaster, Luciano Prisco, John Queripel, Ruth Skilbeck, Maxim Skilbeck-Porter, Ella Skilbeck-Porter, Suellen Symons, Lâle Teoman, Anne Tsoulis,  Georgia Wallace-Crabbe, The Carbon Manual, Natasha Williams, Kenneth Wolman, Leisa Woodman, William Yang, Wang Zhyuan. And interviews by Ruth Skilbeck with: Mary Kelly and Kelly Barrie; Anne Tsoulis and Christopher Barnett.ISSN: 2209 - 8933 (print)www.borderstreambooks.com.au

Behrouz Boochani, author, filmmaker and journalist wrote his profound and powerful poetic political manifesto A Letter From Manus Island after four years incarceration as a stateless refugee on Manus in Australian-run camps. His letter, a humanitarian message, translated by Omid Tofighian, is published with a preface by Ruth Skilbeck in this pamphlet.