Galleries

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE   NOEL MURPHY meets Darren Clark, a photographer from Grovedale putting the real Australia in the national picture.   NAKED bodies, colours, faces and landscapes jump almost shockingly in your face – sometimes right in your face. They’re vibrant, different and a warm; a sharply wakening assault on the senses. Strippers and […]

LOCAL LOVE Words: Cherie Donnellan Photos: Lauren Alyce (www.laurenalyce.com.au)   Bride: Laura McGrath Groom: James Gannon   ALMOST four years after Laura and James spent their first date at Wye River, the Pennyroyal-based couple returned for a romantic evening. James, a joker, had always played tricks on Laura about popping the question. But this time […]

GC’s MICHELLE HERBISON chats with Stefanie de Castro about her rise from schoolgirl at Geelong’s Sacred Heart College to performing with the stars on Australia’s biggest stages.     GC: As an ensemble member in the national tour of Grease the musical, with Melbourne shows coming up in January, what’s it like sharing the stage […]

Few people really know what their bodies are capable of until put to the test. JOHN VAN KLAVEREN meets some Geelong men and women who push theirs to the limit.   BODY building elicits immediate perceptions of muscles upon muscles, living in the gym, performance enhancing substances and Arnold Schwarzenegger. And while these perceptions are […]

NOEL MURPHY reveals the Great Ocean Road’s links to the world’s prehistoric past.   DINOSAUR central on the Surf Coast, Jurassic Park in the Otways – however you like to couch it, the Great Ocean Road is a palaeontologist’s playground par excellence. It’s a world-renowned prehistory site loaded with fossils and bones encrusted in rocks […]

Judy Fitzgerald overcame the tragic death of her husband to complete their miracle treatment for injured horses. Now, she tells JOHN VAN KLAVEREN, comes the harder part.   LARA’S Judy Fitzgerald’s life has revolved around horses. But the death of husband Tim after a heart attack last year tested her passion. Losing Tim, a former jockey, was a massive setback, […]