Varnish Online
A collection of written art, assembled piece by piece. This curated gallery holds a mix of mature and emerging talent, where the breadth of voices creates a harmonious exhibition.
Patrons are invited to engage not with a single work but the complete collection – one that exposes varying techniques, styles, and accounts.
54. The man who ate too much
The thing everyone in town knew about Jorvik, the one big thing, was how much he ate. Which was too much…
53. North of the Bridge
I’m sixteen years old. It’s past midnight and I’m waiting for a bus home from Narrabeen alone after a house party…
50. Giselle
The night I left home and moved to the city, a cluster of mould began to sprout in the corner of my suitcase…
47. Disordering
Summer is a perpetual echo of things lost and found, stagnant heat that amalgamates beginnings and endings into a sea of molasses, disorienting and volatile…
44. Complaints
This morning, the flowers in this city are bitten hard by this city’s hunger…
43. Relationship Contract
Once upon a time there was a man called John and a woman called Jane, or a woman called Jane and a man called John…
42. Robert & Christina
It’s one of those happy hours that bleeds into a dinner and then a night out. Time is slippery, imperceptible, and suddenly it’s eleven o’clock…
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37. Two Small Lives by the Window
She dreams of the apartment in New York more often now that she’s in Melbourne…
