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Saturday, July 10th, 2004

Polyester Boy: Paul Elliott

Interview by Andrew Garton

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Melbourne’s Polyester Books, on Brunswick St, is a phenomenon, not least for its hardy resilience in the face of narrow-minded attacks from authorities and certain sectors of the community alike. Now it faces a new threat – the extinction of the artistic culture it grew up in. Andrew Garton spoke with the […]

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Friday, December 12th, 2003

Street(e)scape: Melbourne’s Bohemian Streets

by Andrew Garton

This image is taken from a Herald newspaper ad from the early 1970s. The artist was uncredited.
Andrew Garton is the founder of Secession Records and co-founder of Toy Satellite, a non-profit artist-run organisation producing works for the web, radio, print, theatre, installation and film. Recently he participated in ‘GATEways’, a 24-hour netcast commissioned […]

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