SOME of Gippsland’s favourite artists have thrown their artistic might behind a campaign to save the Western Port woodlands by contributing works for an exhibition and charity art auction.

Two painters, a printmaker and a glass artist combine in a brief exhibition to celebrate the re-opening of ArtSpace

Bold new vision for a Wonthaggi creative arts and cultural precinct.

Lizz Meldrum is in her element working with clay and bones; just don’t call her morbid.

With time hanging heavy for many of us, it’s an opportunity to work on a film for the first Bass Coast Shorts film festival.

Gippsland writers have just over two weeks to complete their entries for the 2021 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction.

Sue Saliba has done it again with another magical novel of adolescence, set in a place near us. Review by Vilya Congreave

From her studio in The Gurdies, Trish Hart recalls great albatrosses of the past and dreams of painting life-sized whales.

A touring photographic exhibition opens doors into the world of people living with a disability.

Writing long non-fiction is a bit like conducting an orchestra, according to Phillip Island author Christine Grayden.

Bushfires, pandemics, and the costs of urban development ... read stories of us in the Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction anthology.

Maggie Millar reprises her legendary reading of the “Molly Bloom” monologue.

All is not as it seems in Ross Vaughan’s new surrealist exhibition, and your subconscious will have to make the connections.

Ian Robinson pays tribute to Ibis Writers, which for 30 years has provided a community for writers to share their work and discuss their craft.

Beauty and drama co-exist in exhibitions Mandy Gunn and Karen Chugg opening at ArtSpace next week.

Don’t ask Stephen Jansen to explain his prize-winning work. That would only ruin the magic, he tells Catherine Watson.

Volunteering at ArtSpace Gallery gives Ellen Hubble a chance to clear her mind and slip into a quiet place of art and space.

Two of Bass Coast’s most respected artists emerge from lockdown with a surprising new exhibition.

Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction spreads its wings with new collaborations and ventures in 2021.

It’s too easy to lose what you can’t identify, says Gill Heal. Her new play is a search for the character and values of a town that is at a crossroads.

In the midst of the lockdown, Karin Murphy Ellis got so many laughs out of preparing works for her new exhibition, she wondered if she’d gone mad.

As she prepares for the NAIDOC* week art celebration, Safina Stewart discusses her art and the bigger picture.

BASS Coast writer Linda Cuttriss has won the 2020 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction with At Screw Creek, part true detective story, part local history, part family history.

call out to Bass Coast composers and musicians for the Coastal Connections project, plus the Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction

It started with a call for plastic bottles; now a Rainbow Garden dazzles on the foreshore.

Bass Coast’s writers, photographers and artists have done their bit; now it’s time for the music makers.

Narratives of isolation performed by nine members of the (it’s no) drama ensemble make for an engaging, often humorous short film.

Challenges for writers, artists, photographers, Zoom events ... get going, urges Liane Arno

Will entrants in this year’s Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction try to make sense of our cataclysmic times – or will they avoid them completely?

Private viewings, DIY masks, challenges for writers, poets and photographers ... Liane Arno explains what’s happening in the arts in Bass Coast.