Naarm/Melbourne based painter, teacher, home cook, romantic, Brooke Holiday lives where food meets feeling, and story meets still life. Her paintings, inspired by objects and domestic rituals, carry emotional weight: a bruised pear, a flicker of candlelight, a beloved market trip.

Food is her other creative language: barfi from her grandmother, a fridge frequently stocked with Salsa Verde, drop-in dinners and butter on everything. “Cooking is storytelling. It softens people.”

Brooke Holiday's recipe is Salsa Verde, which we made right after the interview and served on our oven baked snapper!

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Annie-Rose Maloney has a simple ethos when it comes to writing a song: it must have a pulse, it must feel nice to sing, and it must bear a truthfulness about our human experiences.

We talked about the mixed bag of emotions that come with releasing music, the decisions she’s had to make to be uncompromising with her art and the nourishment that comes from growing her own food and sharing meals with her bandmates during rehearsals.

The seven songs on Circle Walking are all tethered by being grounded in deep truth, and came out “a bit like an exhale - I almost always cried when I wrote them.” It was written over many years without any set intention, songs often blooming subconsciously from a seed of a lyric, or melody line - “I tended to let things reveal themselves to me. Like an archaeologist uncovering a hidden and delicate treasure.”

Annie-Rose's recipe is a garden pie, which is packed full of any veggies you have around, in crispy filo pastry.

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Emily Wurramara (she/her) has had a huge past 12 months. After her historic win at the ARIA awards, and in celebration of her multi award winning album ‘NARA’, she has announced an encore tour. Emily is a Lutruwita/Tasmania-based artist, activist, author and proud Warnindhilyagwa woman hailing from Groote Eylandt & Milyakburra/Bickerton Island.

Emily reflects on her formative experiences with music, such as learning the violin as a child, and the sensory memories of the foods she grew up with. The conversation also explores the financial challenges and realities that artists face, with Emily emphasising the importance of financial education and sustainability in the music industry. Throughout the discussion, Emily emphasises the power of art, music, and food to connect, express, and nourish the soul.

Emily shares her Pork Adobo recipe with us, which reminds her of her childhood, family gatherings and her Lola's perfectly balanced flavours.

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