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Wednesday 21 November
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
We’ve partnered with one of Melbourne’s oldest institutions to create the Wheeler Centre Zoo Fellowships – a unique opportunity for Melbourne artists to soak up the zoo’s surrounds and create work inspired by the animals and their habitats. In tonight’s showcase, blogger Estelle Tang, fiction writer Cate Kennedy, children’s author Sally Rippin and cartoonist Judy Horacek will share their experiences – and a special taste of their works-in-progress.
Featuring
Estelle Tang
Estelle is Vogue.com's senior culture editor. Before this, she was senior editor of ELLE.com.
Previously, Estelle worked as a literary scout and a staff writer for Rookie, Tavi Gevinson's website for teenage girls. Her writing has been published in the Guardian, the Age, the Australian, Salon, Pitchfork, Monthly and several other publications. She has been online editor at Kill Your Darlings and a board member of the Small Press Network; a member of the programming advisory committee of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival and the editorial advisory committee of the Paper Radio podcast.
Cate Kennedy
Cate Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2010. She is an award-winning short-story writer whose work has been published widely ...
Judy Horacek
Judy Horacek is a freelance cartoonist, illustrator and writer. Her work has appeared in the Age, the Australian and the Canberra Times, and her pointy noised characters can be found on fridges and toilet doors all over the world.
Eight collections of her cartoons have been published. Random Life will be her ninth. Judy also creates children’s picture books – both on her own and in collaboration with Mem Fox. Together, Mem and Judy created the bestselling Where is the Green Sheep? an instant children’s classic. Last year, they released their fourth book together, Ducks Away.
Her cartoons often reflect her interests in feminism, the environment and social justice, and also quite often her interest in funny for funny’s sake.
She is currently published twice weekly in the Age, and has various other gigs and commissions as well. Major retrospective exhibitions of her cartoons have been held at the National Museum of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria. She has been twice nominated for Walkley Awards for Cartoonist of the Year.
She has a range of greeting cards featuring her cartoons and she also regularly exhibits her limited edition prints and watercolours.
Sally Rippin
Sally Rippin is the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2024 – 2025 and has written over 100 books for children and young adults, many of them award-winning, including Come Over to My House, the Billie B Brown, and the ...