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HOW THEY MET: “We first met 12 years ago when we worked together in part-time jobs we had through high school,” Kristen recalls. She and Tim then went separate ways for about six years before meeting up again in a Geelong bar. “Then Tim asked me to go on a date a few weeks later.” […]

Newtown botanical artist Amanda Blake-Sutterby explains the intricacies of her work to JOHN VAN KLAVEREN   Art versus science, quietude versus busyness and messy creativity versus tidiness. At first thought, these areas seem to be at war with each other. But in Amanda Blake-Sutterby’s life they offer balance and symmetry. And it’s actually her chosen […]

JOHN VAN KLAVEREN tours Point Lonsdale’s Aripla, former holiday home of Australia’s second Prime Minister and the namesake of Deakin University.   A hidden national treasure at Point Lonsdale links Geelong to Australia’s emergence from colonialism into federation. The link runs through Geelong’s university and includes many notables of the time as well as events […]

The lush, overflowing suburban oasis is almost becoming an endangered species in these days of low maintenance “outdoor spaces”. Words: John Van Klaveren Pictures: Reg Ryan Lawns have been replaced by coloured gravel and pebbles – or the artificial variety – while small circles of mulch allow the odd shrub to poke through. Not so […]

Home Bodies Glenn and Lindy Capellie take JOHN VAN KLAVEREN on a tour of their award-winning home spliced neatly into the countryside of Inverleigh. Pictures: Reg Ryan It was the landscape that captured Glenn and Lindy Capelli. “We fell in love with the land,” Lindy says simply. “The land chose us, really.” A chance encounter […]

Geelong’s Elodie Russell is one of Australia’s hottest new faces on the international modelling scene. She speaks with GC’s NOEL MURPHY about her burgeoning career.   GC: Where did you first start modelling? ER: I was discovered two years ago when I got signed with my first agency, Chadwick Models, and I’ve been modelling ever […]