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(Natasha Poly // Photographed by Alasdair McLellan //Styling Kim Jones)

Malcolm Watt - doingbird // Interview

doingbird is a Sydney based fashion/culture magazine (edited by Max Doyle, Malcolm Watt) that maintains an international outlook and editorial opinion that seemingly often sidesteps local readership. Jeff Burch speaks with one-half Malcolm Watt about the drivers behind the periodical.

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If you want to see Jonathan Zawada’s work via his website you’re going to have to wait. Literally. Rotating upon a timetable system his folio slowly ticks over one hour at a time. That said, through The Presets, KIM, Tina Kalivas and as Co-editor and Art Director of the Modular’s magazine, M, most will already be familiar with his work.

Jeff Burch has also been busy. Working with Therese Rawsthorne of Youth World, contributing articles to doingbird magazine and continuing to establish his own project The Spring Press it is a phenomenon that he finds time to hang up his washing let alone supply us with the transcripts of conversations such as the one to follow. Distracting Jonathan from a new high-score on his Gameboy they laid their professional cards on the table, speaking openly about their experiences and thoughts on the balance between art and commerce.

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The Jacky Winter Group

With Australia being surrounded by millions of litres of shark-infested water and in close proximity to vast amounts of uninhabitable ice, it’s a sheer geographical challenge for our illustrators and artists to have their work properly seen by an international market and in turn make a full-time living off their creative endeavours.

Jeremy Wortsman’s latest ambition, The Jacky Winter Group, aims to bridge this distance by providing selected Australian artists with exposure to an international client base. Currently on worldwide roadshow through places like Hong Kong, London and New York the talented roster includes Fontaine Anderson, Cailan Burns, Lachlan Conn, Oslo Davis, Eamo, Andrea Innocent, Rik Lee, Kat Macleod, Biddy Maroney, Dylan Martorell, Lillian Piri and Tin&Ed. Please, Do Feed The Birds.

Photo: Jesper Ulvelius

Our apologies for the delay between updates but hey, we got there eventually. To kick off September we have work from Amber B, Luke Dyms, ERS, Thomas Jeppe, Johannes Kjartansson, Jesse Marlow, Louis Porter, Jesper Ulvelius and Elizabeth Weinberg. Here we go.