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The Colour Cycle Podcast by Diversity Arts AustraliaS1 Ep3 - Art and Identity: What is the Australian voice?First aired: 1 Feb 2018
As our next guest tells The Colour Cycle, the great Australian author David Malouf is never referred to as the Great-Lebanese-Gay-Australian author. So do non-Anglo artists always have to represent the cultural identity of their parents or their birthplace? Why aren't they simply referred to as Australian artists? How does the colour of your skin or the language you speak at home inform your creative work? Does it have to? In this episode, Author and TV and radio host Sunil Badami talks to Lena Nahlous about identity politics, and asks, what is the Australian...2022-08-1120 min
The ASE 2020 ProjectEp 7: Lena Malouf - My spectacular careerLena Malouf grew up in Canowindra in regional NSW and learned retail from her shopkeeper parents.Engaged at 18, married at 19, then starting a business with three young children Lena had to be resourceful.We follow her career from opening a floristry business in Wollongong in 1957 to teaching at Ultimo TAFE, then back into a floristry business that thrived in Sydney with contracts for the major hotels along with weddings – including that of Elton John to Renate Blauel in 1984.During this time Lena also turned to writing books on floristry.While in th...2020-05-2655 min