Articles – Gretchen Shirm

Review of Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond

I reviewed Claire-Louise Bennett’s unusual and excellent novella Pond for the Fairfax Papers. The review can be read here.

Piece on Arashiyama in The Saturday Paper

I’d been to beautiful Kyoto before, but it really was a treat to revisit the same locations in Autumn – the colour palette is utterly stunning. You can read my travel piece published in The Saturday Paper, here.

Profile of Trent Parke in The Saturday Paper

I travelled to Adelaide for the opening of Trent Parke’s extraordinary exhibition opening ‘The Black Rose’ at the Art Gallery of South Australia. I’ve long admired Parke’s photographs – I’ve often seen his work at Stills Gallery in Sydney near where I live. When I read about the exhibition, I couldn’t resist writing aboutContinue reading “Profile of Trent Parke in The Saturday Paper”

Article on Rosemary Laing’s exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art

I have a piece in April 2015’s Art Monthly on Rosemary Laing’s exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art “Weathering”, which you can read more about here.

Portrait of Jemma Birrel in The Saturday Paper

You can read my portrait of Jemma Birrell, artistic director of the Sydney Writer’s Festival in The Saturday Paper here.

Travel article on Bergen in The Saturday Paper

Read my travel piece on Bergen in The Saturday Paper here.