By Fionna Madigan, Lisa McPherson, Jenny Divers You are warmly invited to enter a portal of remembrance and presence. 7th-22nd February, Thursday-Sunday Painter Fionna Madigan, and ceramicists Lisa McPherson and Jenny Divers, invite you through a portal into a soulful and celebratory realm in which to explore space, psyche, touch and medicine. Fionna is an […]

Saturday 14 March 2026 Castlemaine’s Premier talent contest, lot19 fundraiser and a ridiculous amount of joy and community fund. Contestants, hot band, celebrity judges, volunteers, dancing, singing, broadcasting and more…​ This year's theme: movie soundtracks! This is one of those Castlemaine things that works because we do it together Familiar movie songs. Local voices. A […]

The Castlemaine Fringe Festival brings its signature creativity to the State Festival with It's a Kind of Wonder - a wearable art exhibition that transforms fashion into fantasy.

I place myself within the work as a semi-fictional, autobiographical character — performing the role of the artist somewhere between sincerity and parody. The work leans into self- portraiture, self-consciousness and the pressure to produce meaning in unfamiliar surroundings.