Books by Ruth Skilbeck

Arts Features International, July-September 2019, Facing the Future issue was first published in ebook after the Global Climate Strike, in September 2019.ContentsRuth Skilbeck Editorial Will the Future be Utopian–or Dystopian? Essay and photographs of the Global Climate School Strike, Newcastle, 20 September 2019…7Michael Gormly Critical thinking quickly sorts out denialist nonsense Essay and Photographs of the Global Climate School Strike, Newcastle, 20 September 2019…14Deborah Van Heekeren Disconnectivity poem & artwork…22Ruth Skilbeck Felena Springs utopian speculative fiction story…25Simon Albert (The University of Queensland), Alistair Grinham (The University of Queensland), Badin Gibbes The University of Queens- land), Javier Leon (University of the Sunshine Coast), John Church (CSIRO). Sea-Level Rise has Claimed Five Whole Islands in the Pacific: first scientific evidence (from The Conversation 2016)…28Jeremy Gluck On Digital Art and Culture essay & text based artworks…34Anthony Sawrey A Thousand Miles Beyond: The Equine Paintings of Hugh Sawrey. Book extract with   artworks by Hugh Sawrey…48Suellen Symons White Cockatoos. Facebook photograph & post…70Frontline Action on Coal Facebook posts and photographs of a small community Global Climate Strike near Adani mine, Queensland…24;72Contributors’ notes…77 

The January-March 2019 'Under the Radar' issue of Arts Features International reviews new literary, film and art works, works in progress and women filmmakers we'd like to know more about.CONTENTS:O, YEZ! Contributors' news...10 RUTH SKILBECK Editorial...11ANDREW DOYLE One of the earliest settler artists in Australia. His works, Rock Lily and Woody Pear are featured here...12MICHAEL GORMLY Messing About in Boats (environmental photojournalism) clearing up plastic whilst exploring Newcastle's Throsby Creek and industrial harbour by kayak...15RICHARD JAMES ALLEN New Poems ...20RUTH SKILBECK On Karen Pearlman's Documentary: Woman with an Editing Bench: Recovering the Creative Work of the Uncredited Women Editors and Filmmakers of Soviet Cultural History...32KAREN PEARLMAN Interviewed by RUTH SKILBECK...39GEORGIA WALLACE-CRABBE The Earth and the Elements (techno storytelling) pioneers new forms of art writing and visual storytelling with images of a new kind of environmental journalism in a video documentary installation in an art gallery...42GREGORY MILLER Cultivating Murder a documentary on the cold blooded murder of Environmental Officer Glen Turner and court trial of agribusiness killer Ian Turnbull...71CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE AM The Universe Looks Down epic poem extract...76ARTS FILM NEWS The Universe Looks Down arts documentary and VR film about Chris Wallace-Crabbe based on his epic poem; with artwork from Kristin Headlam's exhibition, and production stills by Film Projects...80KRISTIN HEADLAM Milena with Fox and Hedgehog etching from the book and exhibition inspired by Chris Wallace-Crabbe AM's poem The Universe Looks Down...83ARTHUR BOYD Landscape of the Soul. Lovers on fire in boat with kite (79). Man Setting out in boat, 1940, an early work by one of Australia's most prominent 20th Century modern painters, from a touring exhibition of his works...84RUTH SKILBECK Trying to Find Home, a short story (85); with Forest Floor Shadow, digi- tal photograph with drawing...98TOM BIERDZ The Accident an extract from the new psychological mystery suspense thriller by this popular US-based author...99RUTH SKILBECK on BEHROUZ BOOCHANI and ARASH KAMALI SARVESTANI's film Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time, extract from Fugue in Literature...102RUTH SKILBECK One Night in Hong Kong. A street life photo series...108 VEE MALNAR Android Upgrade, a short play; with artwork Umbilical Iron...124