Brisbane News Magazine May 1 - 7, 2019 ISSUE 1224

MAY 1-7, 2019 ISSUE 1224

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Queen of the night A new mood in evening wear from fashion’s rising star

HAVE WHISK WILL TRAVEL Gillian Bell is the Mary Poppins of cakes

STRESSED?

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This week...

I have one of the mums at my children’s school to thank for this week’s Feature (P8).

The lovely Cathie recommended I tune in to the Dispatch to a Friend podcast, and I was hooked from episode one. The premise is simple. Brisbane baker Gillian Bell (right), who makes wedding cakes for couples all over the world, and her friend Annabelle Hickson, an author who lives on a pecan farm near Tenterfield in NSW, read their heartfelt letters to each other.

Their voices lift above the background noises of daily life – children’s chatter, birds tweeting. They cover gardening, cooking, travel and books, particularly favourite authors such as Virginia Woolf.

Their beautiful exchanges bring to mind a simpler time, and leave me with an overpowering urge to bake bread or grow roses. It was a discovery I had to share with you. Writer Tonya Turner sat down with Gillian at her home in Brisbane’s north and, over cake and cups of tea, learned about her life as a podcaster and roving baker. Lucky Tonya. Enjoy the issue.

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WHAT’S INSIDE THE CHAT Meditation teacher Elise Catchlove FEATURE Gillian Bell on cooking up amazing cakes and a lifelong friendship LIFE Columnist Alicia Pyke RESTAURANT Glamorous Wok, Sunnybank RECIPE Daniel Jarrett’s yellow chicken curry FILM Top End Wedding director Wayne Blair FASHION Knockout looks for after dark AT HOME Boonah church reimagined

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THE CHAT

Take a breath Former fashion designer Elise Catchlove shares peace of mind teaching meditation Emma Schafer

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editation teacher Elise Catchlove wants you to forget everything you think you know about the ancient mindfulness practice.

Forget sitting in a dark room and ditch the idea that you need to twist yourself into a pretzel pose to find inner peace.

“Vedic meditation is the antithesis of this – no chanting, no humming and no switching off the mind,” says the 32-yearold, who last year launched By Catchlove, a Vedic meditation school in Spring Hill.

Vedic meditation is a modern technique that can be done anywhere, anytime and former fashion designer Elise and husband Pete, a town planner and director of a development consulting company, credit it with transforming their lives.

“Like many people, I’d experienced anxiety off and on my entire adult life and Pete had just been through a year of really poor health which was eventually attributed entirely to stress,” Elise, of Nundah, says of the moment in 2015 she knew something had to change.

They began searching for a tool to reduce their stress and anxiety and discovered Vedic meditation: 20 minutes of meditation, twice a day, using a personalised mantra to induce a restful state up to five times deeper than sleep.

It re-energises and refocuses the mind and body.

Their immediate relief after adopting the technique spurred Elise to become a Vedic instructor herself. She undertook 18 months of intensive training – commuting between

Brisbane and Sydney to learn from Jacqui Lewis at The Broad Place – to become the only Vedic instructor in Brisbane.

Three months before completing the training, she gave birth to the couple’s son, Harley, now 16 months.

“I launched By Catchlove last August and the business has been growing beyond my expectations,” says Elise who offers scheduled and private courses for anyone aged over five.

“I’ve taught people from all walks of life, from creatives in fashion and design, to mothers struggling with sleep deprivation, to business executives. I’ve also gone into companies and taught their teams.

“The beauty of Vedic, as opposed to many other styles of meditation, is that you learn the technique once and then that’s it, you’re self-sufficient for the rest of your life.

“I’ve had clients with sleep challenges noticing a significant improvement (with meditation). Another client shared that his constant stream of anxiety at work has completely dissipated. A designer client noticed a big surge in her creativity and another client shared that … opportunities have started to ‘fall in her lap’.”

And you can do it anywhere – at the hairdresser, watching Peppa Pig with the kids, during halftime at the footy …

“You don’t need to be a Buddhist monk to be able to meditate,” Elise says.

“Meditation shouldn’t be stressful or a chore and this style of meditation just fits seamlessly into anyone’s lifestyle.”

PERSONAL MANTRA … Elise Catchlove teaches meditation to anyone over the age of five.

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Spoonfuls of sugar Like Mary Poppins, Gillian Bell whisks around the world – baking amazing cakes Tonya Turner

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FEATURE

When I mix the cake I’ve got to be in a certain frame of mind. I stir in good wishes for a long and happy life for them

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risbane cake artisan Gillian Bell has a special ritual when she makes a wedding cake. Not a minute before the clock strikes midnight on the day of the ceremony, when all is quiet and everyone is asleep, does Gillian begin.

By now she has spoken to the couple at length about their lives together, their food memories, their family backgrounds and the different smells and flavours they remember from their childhoods. The combination of ingredients she needs to tell their story has been carefully planned and she has already gone to great lengths to source said ingredients from the best possible suppliers in whichever country she has travelled to for the occasion. In one case, she drove six hours to collect the finest raspberries in Scotland from a not-so-nearby farm.

Using a handful of kitchen utensils she packs in her luggage and items borrowed by knocking on doors, Gillian makes her wedding cakes full of fresh, natural, unadulterated ingredients completely by hand.

It’s a slow and mindful process, and she wouldn’t have it any other way.

“When I mix the cake I’ve got to be in a certain frame of mind. I stir in good wishes for a long and happy life for them.

It’s not a mindset of, ‘I’ll whip it up three days ahead and I’ll be able to do two this weekend’. There’s something that calls inside me to do it this way,” she says.

Gillian stops to slice the vanilla buttercream cake she has made for morning tea. It has been decorated with flowers from the small garden at her home on Brisbane’s northside.

“A nice little standby cake,” she says.

Her Instagram grid is full of her elegantly rustic creations adorned with fresh blooms and poetic thank you notes to the couples. One of the greatest joys of her work is meeting new people, and not just the betrothed.

On her trips she introduces herself to the neighbours of whichever B&B she’s staying in and asks to loan basic kitchen items.

“When I was in New York (in 2017) I knocked on doors and said, ‘Excuse me, my name’s Gillian Bell and I’m from Australia and I’m making this wedding cake. You wouldn’t have a juicer I could borrow would you?’

“That in itself is priceless! People’s reactions, the stories, the conversations I have with people I meet and the friends I’ve made all over the world … One of the beautiful things about doing this thing I do is that I see the good in people,” she says.

“People want to help. And they rise to

HEAVEN SCENT… Gillian created this dark chocolate wedding cake, with Toulouse violets and garden flowers, for a couple in France, 2017.

Main picture: Annabelle Hickson

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SCOTCH DROP … Gillian applies the finishing touches to a wedding cake in Perthshire, Scotland, 2018; with friend and podcasting partner Annabelle Hickson.

Annie and I would take a bullet for each other – friendships like that are special and you have to make room for them

FROM PREVIOUS PAGE an opportunity to help others. We all need grace in our lives. I’m never disappointed.”

On that particular US trip, it was early summer in New York and the smell of lilacs was on the breeze, so naturally they featured as an ingredient in the cake.

“When it’s their anniversary every year the lilacs will be in bloom,” she says.

Gillian is used to people being perplexed at her unconventional approach to her work. She happily admits she is not interested in convention or perfectionism.

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them off, Marie Kondo and out of season produce.

The world can be a lonely place for deep thinkers unless they have others to share their thoughts, sorrows, hopes and dreams with. Luckily for Gillian, her friendship with writer and photographer Annabelle Hickson, who lives on a pecan farm on the Queensland-NSW border, allows her to do just that.

They met about six years ago at a photography workshop Annabelle was hosting and haven’t looked back. On their podcast, Dispatch to a Friend, they read their heartfelt letters aloud to each other, sharing their insights on gardening, baking, poetry and books they love. It’s like being wrapped in a blanket on a cool

autumn night – their warmth and fondness for one another is undeniable.

The podcast has attracted legions of listeners and in 2018 iTunes named it one of the best in Australia for the year.

Gillian’s poetic and philosophical tendencies are a perfect match for Annie’s wit and self-deprecating humour.

Many listeners have been compelled to pen their own letters to these firm friends who cry together over the sentiments shared when the microphone isn’t on.

“Annie and I would take a bullet for each other – friendships like that are special and you have to make room for them,” Gillian says. “Through our letters, I think people feel the strength of our friendship. They tell us they hear how kind

and loving we are to each other and that is something we all want. There are listeners who’ve subsequently rekindled friendships and written to old friends, pen pals they had or friends they had at school.

“It has had this beautiful little ripple.”

Born in London and raised in Sussex, Gillian came to Australia in 1969 with her family as a £10 Pom. She was one of 12 children. Her dad worked three jobs to make ends meet while her mother ran the household. By the age of four, Gillian was baking cakes and tarts, working out recipes from the single cookbook in their kitchen.

Food in storybooks captivated her and she learnt by watching her mother.

“I grew up in a household where everything was homemade – we didn’t have any money. My mother would make pastry, she’d make Christmas cake … and I followed her. I grew up with a love of food and stories and adventures, and I still have that. It was a very powerful thing.”

Gillian went on to study social work at university, baking and cooking in private homes for income. Eventually she found herself travelling the world as a private cook, sometimes for Hollywood stars.

“I’d get to go into these houses and kitchens you could only dream of and create dishes using produce from the garden. Restaurants are too divorced from the gleaning and the gathering and the organic nature of preparing a meal which is why I was drawn to cook,” she says.

Reading and writing were her other first loves, along with her husband Stephen, her school sweetheart. Gillian is now writing her own book with the working title Travels with a Whisk about her baking adventures across the globe.

“I want people to see what I see – that humans are kind and helpful. We’ve just got to believe in and trust each other and give each other opportunities to behave in kind and helpful ways.

“If we just stay inside our houses, and everything is bought and we don’t actually ever ask for help or share what we have, well, then we have to turn to Marie Kondo,” she grumbles. But that’s probably a podcast for another time. dispatchtoafriend.com

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LIFE

Alicia Pyke Americans on holiday in Mexico are some of my favourite resort pool pals.

They dress up to take a dip You can tell a lot about people by the way they embrace public swimming.

Me? I’ll swim just about anywhere, with anyone at anytime.

Floating along with the lazy waves at Kirra in summer is my idea of the perfect dip. Slightly cooler than a just drawn bath, with that distinctly Australian ozone-layer-free sunshine to dry me off within seconds of hitting the sand, it’s nothing less than bliss.

Not that I entirely avoid a chilly swim.

The outdoor pool alongside the Helsinki harbour in Finland last January was worth the epic goosebumps.

While the water is heated to 27C, the air temperature is -2C so the contrast is dramatic. Throw in a stint in the sauna first and that range goes through the roof – cook yourself, refrigerate yourself, then throw yourself into a tepid pool just to escape the extremes.

Crazy? Of course, but so much fun.

Gotta love the Finns!

Another time while riding waterslides in Dubai I couldn’t understand why everyone was wearing their phone in a plastic sleeve on a lanyard around their neck. They couldn’t all be emergency doctors on call that weekend. I’m still trying to figure out

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Europeans are renowned for being more accepting of older and flabbier bodies at the beach and so it is in Italy.

A gentleman of advancing years can stroll into a restaurant to order a Campari in his micro Speedos and man-sandals and will be offered a seat at the bar without anyone blinking. Complimentary nuts, sir?

Americans on holiday in Mexico are some of my favourite resort pool pals. They dress up to take a dip. Tiny bikinis, giant earrings, belly chains, plasticky lip gloss

and giant hair – they make a real occasion of it.

I could watch them all day as they preen and pose and carry their phones into the middle of the pool for the best selfie angle.

I’ve also learnt a thing or two from my fellow swimmers. In Arizona the local women tie a bandana around their necks to prevent a weather beaten decolletage, a practice we’d do well to adopt here as well.

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FOOD + DRINK

Quite the wok star This Sunnybank gem may have you forsaking meat – at least until the pork arrives RESTAURANT Tony Harper My love for Asian food will undoubtedly skew this review, but even so, even if I weren’t such a fan, Glamorous Wok is the most interesting, exciting restaurant I’ve been to this year.

And perhaps last year too.

It’s Taiwanese – a new genre for me – which means heavily influenced by southern Chinese, and tempered by Japanese cuisines. It’s in Sunnybank, and unlike a lot of its geographic siblings, it has detail in its trappings and service.

It lives in a strip of shops across the road from the main shopping area, in a modern, airy space. The chairs are highbacked and comfy, there is a bar to one side, and everything feels quite luxe.

As is so often the case with Chinatown and Sunnybank restaurants, the drinks list is an afterthought. But the restaurant doesn’t exist for the table of hipster craft beer nerds and wine fanatics that dined with me; it’s there for the local audience.

And boy oh boy, it gets the rest of the package absolutely bang-on.

Our food begins with a couple of complimentary dishes, both gorgeously sweet and sour. There’s a bowl of slowcooked peanuts (in their skins) with

BEST BAR NONE … Glamorous Wok excels in both food and service; and (inset) one of the top dishes, fried baby shrimp. Main picture: Hannah Ford

Taiwanese kimchi. Ridiculously good. And another of lotus root (pickled), cucumber and a mound of seaweed strips. All sour, all sweet.

Then it’s stuff from the menu, with plenty of vegetarian for the hipster crew.

Jack beans ($16.50) come stir-fried with chilli, garlic and an abundance of sesame oil – really simple, really fresh and far more delicious than a plate of beans should be.

Eggplant hotpot ($18) is better, more decadent, more thought provoking – spicy, but gently so; rich, silky. It’s the sort of thing that could convince me to abandon meat.

Then there’s pork hock ($30), a specialty of the restaurant, served with a handful of pickled vegetables, mustard and sweet-soy. It’s the dish that makes me realise eggplant hotpot will only satisfy me for a short while. The pork is just right: not fatty, subtle, simple, beautifully done.

Fried baby shrimps ($18.50) is a flavour blast – loads of minced garlic; the prawns

coated in what I’m guessing is cornflour.

It’s crunchy, light and a bit spicy. Breathdestroying but addictive.

And there’s much more. We eat like kings for a day, washing the lot down with Taiwan Beer and coming out the other side for less than $40 each.

Mapo tofu ($16) is, for me, a benchmarking dish, and the only disappointment of the lunch: I’ve had better. It’s just a little ho-hum, when it should be as brash as a teenage billionaire.

There’s another hotpot of eggplant and pork intestine ($19.50) that I’m itching for, but is unavailable. I’m still grieving.

There’s little doubt Glamorous Wok serves some of the best Asian food in Brisbane, but what separates it from the pack is its service.

Not since the original Suncrop in Sunnybank have I encountered such detail; you walk into Glamorous Wok and you are instantly fluffed and coddled. It’s a polished experience and, for me, a stellar introduction to Taiwanese cuisine.

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Spice it up Fragrant herbs conjure exotic locales in this chicken curry by chef Daniel Jarrett GAENG LEUNG GAI INGREDIENTS Yellow curry paste 3tbs garlic cloves, chopped 2tbs red shallots 1tbs ginger, chopped Pinch of sea salt 1tbs lemongrass, finely chopped ½tbs ground coriander seeds 1tsp ground cumin seeds ½tbs turmeric powder 1tbs chilli powder 1tsp shrimp paste ½tsp fennel seeds Chicken 50ml vegetable oil 2tbs yellow curry paste 1tsp palm sugar

2tbs fish sauce 400ml coconut milk 2 Thai eggplants, cut into wedges 5 kaffir lime leaves 1 whole red chilli, sliced 2 snake beans, sliced 250g chicken thighs, cut into 3cm dice 2tbs fresh bamboo, sliced 4 cherry tomatoes, halved ½ cup Thai basil leaves, loosely packed Optional garnish 1tsp fresh ginger, peeled, julienned 1 red chilli, julienned 1 kaffir lime leaf, julienned

METHOD For the paste, using mortar and pestle, pound the garlic, shallots, ginger, salt, lemongrass to a paste. Dry roast whole spices in a pan over a medium heat for 5-8 mins. Move in pan to avoid burning.

Grind to a fine powder. Stir spices into paste and mix well.

Reserve in a sealed container.

For the chicken component, warm vegetable oil in a pan over low heat. Add curry paste and fry until fragrant. Add palm sugar and fish sauce and stir continuously until sugar is dissolved. Add coconut milk, bring to slow simmer. Add eggplant, kaffir lime leaves, chilli, snake beans and chicken. Simmer for 5 mins. Add bamboo, cherry tomatoes and basil. Taste.

If required, adjust seasoning with fish sauce. It should taste sweet, salty and aromatic. Simmer for further 2 mins to finish cooking chicken.

To serve, place in the centre of a bowl. Garnish with ginger, chilli and kaffir lime julienne.

Serves 2 as an entree or 4 in a shared banquet Daniel Jarrett is executive chef at The Tamarind restaurant at Spicers Tamarind Retreat, 88 Obi Lane South, Maleny. spicersretreats.com Photography and styling: Miranda Porter

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the dunkel and the kristall.

Both were quite enjoyable.

This time though, we lined up for the hefe weissbier and the pils, the weather of late being a bit too much on the warm side to be looking for darker beers like the dunkel.

Oddly enough, the reason I selected these particular beers

from the variety at our local Chapel of St Daniel’s was because HTN has a set of 500ml beer glasses designed for drinking the output of the Weihenstephan brewery. We could hardly let a good set of glasses go untested, so we lined up for a tasting.

First the pils. This is a very traditional pilsner, with a nice balance of hops and malts that delivers a slightly floral undertone without being challenging. An underlying sweetness is typical of the style.

It pours a clear golden colour

in the glass and develops a frothy white head, which is maintained as you drink.

The hefe weissbier is cut from a very different cloth.

Cloudy and yeasty with the tartness you would expect from a weissbier, it has a spicy clove aroma and taste. It is pleasantly different, although if cloves are not your thing, stick to the pils. Both are eminently drinkable if you want something a bit different. myshout@ newsregionalmedia.com.au BRISBANE NEWS May 1-7, 2019 13

ARTS

Sacred ground From a Straddie midden to an underground marble mine and sci-fi housing, two IMA shows cover new territory Phil Brown Artist Megan Cope’s midden says volumes about the idea of home. Her ancestral place is Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), a place home to the Quandamooka peoples for millennia.

Cope’s work RE FORMATION consists of hand-cast concrete Sydney rock oysters and copper slag and it sits in Gallery 1 at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) as part of the exhibition Haunt. This show was curated by Aileen Burns & Johan Lundh, co-directors of the IMA for the past few years. They have now moved on, to fresh pastures in New Zealand (new director Liz Nowell starts in June). The exhibitions now showing make up their swan song.

Haunt explores ideas of location and displacement and presents works focusing on the conceptions, creations, developments and experiences of home as they are affected by colonialism, urban development and gentrification.

Cope’s work does this cleverly and it’s impressive that she cast all the separate pieces and put them together herself.

Middens have an interesting place in our history. The vast heaps of discarded oyster shells that remain on Minjerribah are a testament to the deep roots of the Aboriginal community there.

They also form an evolving architecture that refutes the founding lie of Australia …

Terra Nullius.

HOMING IN … (top) Megan Cope’s RE FORMATION; former IMA directors Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, who’ve moved to NZ; Megan Cope.

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For that reason a midden is a symbol and middens should be preserved. Many were destroyed in colonial times however, burned to create lime for construction, which is awfully ironic.

Cope’s midden is a powerful statement.

Next door in gallery 2 you’ll watch a rather intriguing single channel video by American artist Amie Siegel called Quarry, which takes viewers into the world’s largest underground marble mine in Vermont, USA. Quarry tracks the stone’s journey into the world of sleek

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Haunt has several other strands and in gallery 4 is another exhibition, New Eelam: Brisbane by Christopher Kulendran Thomas. (The Eelam bit refers to Tamil Eelam, the Tamil people’s proposed independent state in Sri Lanka.)

The theme of this exhibition is collective housing worldwide. It’s a sci-fi vision of an alternate reality, a future that involves us living as truly global citizens.

The artist has partnered with landscape designer Pete Shields, furniture designer Reuben Schafer and ceramic artist Tim Wilson to create a work that may take some effort to get your head around.

extravagance in swish New York apartments. All this to a great soundtrack by composer Gisburg Smialek.

Another work in Haunt I liked was Zanny Begg’s video The Beehive, which explores the life and death of journalist and heiress Juanita Nielsen who disappeared in 1975, thought murdered to stop her writing about the destruction of Sydney’s heritage around King’s Cross in particular. The film brings together documentary interviews, fictional script and other material on a continuous loop.

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hhhhj Director Anthony and Joe Russo Starring Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson Eleven years, 21 films … that’s some commitment. Even though the title – Avengers: Endgame – is pretty unequivocal, the pumped-up premiere audience sat through the interminable end credits anyway.

There was an audible sigh of disappointment when the Marvel logo appeared in place of the usual teaser.

Endgame is hardly the finish of the Marvel Cinematic Universe – studio chiefs are working on a new five-year plan – but it does mark the end of an era. And although it doesn’t match Infinity War’s brooding intensity, there’s an emotional depth and cosmological breadth to this sprawling, three-hour epic that serves its characters – and their fan base – exceedingly well.

Working from a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, directors Anthony and Joe Russo navigate their way through a fiendishly complicated series of interconnected plot lines and

backstories with extraordinary skill and dexterity.

Their task is made all the more difficult by the introduction of a chronologically discombobulating new element: time travel.

However, the filmmakers turn this potential shark jumper to their advantage, with a series of emotionally charged connections between fathers and sons, mothers and sons, siblings and even lovers.

While the altered time-space continuum also provides the opportunity for a healthy smattering of in-jokes, wisecracks and pop culture references, Marvel’s trademark humour is tempered, here, by the weightiness of the subject matter.

Even Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man is occasionally lost for words (a franchise-best performance).

What sets Endgame apart from your average superhero movie – other than the sheer scale – is the degree to which the main protagonists have been ravaged by grief, time, and above all, failure.

Thor (Hemsworth) is no longer the God he was. (We’ll leave it at that, in the interests of keeping this a spoiler-free zone.) The Hulk’s (Mark Ruffalo) physical transformation is almost as surprising.

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While the changes to the other surviving Avengers – including Captain America (Evans) and Black Widow (Johansson) – are more psychological, they are no less dramatic. Make no mistake about it, Endgame is a tragedy.

A number of beloved superheroes do rematerialise in the sequel, as has been widely speculated, but the MCU has undergone an irrevocable shift. Things are never going to be the same again.

Although the film ends with a flicker of hope, the overall impression left by Endgame is one of loss and sadness.

According to the rules of engagement, which are clear within the confines of this fictional world, not everybody can be brought back.

Endgame doesn’t neatly tie up all the loose ends – that would have been a disappointingly reductive exercise. Nor can it be described as a flawless finale.

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Aladdin had his magic carpet. The hero of this “extraordinary journey” improvises with Ikea wardrobes, oversized Louis Vuitton trunks and a hot-air balloon.

Having honed his magic on the streets of Mumbai, Aja (Dhanush) knows how to extricate himself from a tight spot.

Following the death of his hardworking single mother (Sant), he travels to Paris in search of the father he never knew.

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Seducing the American-on-the-rebound (Erin Moriarty), he arranges to meet her under the Eiffel Tower the next evening, then beds down in a wardrobe for a good night’s sleep. But furniture removers collect said item during the night, and when Aja emerges, sleepily, a few hours later, he finds he has crossed the Chunnel in a truck that is also transporting illegal immigrants.

Aja becomes stuck in a kind of stateless limbo, along with other displaced persons.

And that’s just the beginning of this continent-hopping adventure. It’s fabulist, feel-good entertainment with a lightly handled message about migration.

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STAR TURN … Top End Wedding stars Miranda Tapsell and Gwilym Lee (below); filmmaker Wayne Blair on set with Miranda

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enowned director Wayne Blair often daydreamed about his name featuring on a movie jacket when, as a teenager, he was working in a DVD shop in Rockhampton.

Now he can celebrate achieving his childhood goal, twice over. Having made his debut with box-office hit The Sapphires in 2012, his second film, Top End Wedding, will be released this month.

Wayne, who lived in Brisbane for several years including while studying acting at QUT, is thrilled to have reunited with one of the stars of The Sapphires, Miranda Tapsell, for his new feature film. The two already share a strong friendship.

“Miranda drives me crazy but in a good way; we are like family,” he laughs. “She is beautiful and brilliant. Even before The Sapphires, I directed her at Belvoir St Theatre (in Sydney). It’s good to see her career take off. I was at her wedding to James (Colley) last year. I’m proud of her.”

Miranda is co-writer of Top End Wedding and makes her debut lead as Lauren, a hot shot lawyer who comes to Darwin to marry fiance Ned (Gwilym Lee, Bohemian Rhapsody), only to find that her mum has left the family home.

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with supportive Ned, follows her mother’s path through beautiful Northern Territory locations including Kakadu and Katherine (Nitmiluk) until their beautiful wedding on the Tiwi Islands.

“This film is a real rom-com but it’s also a snapshot of this country. It’s the first time the Tiwi Islands has been in a feature film,” says Wayne, 47. “When I read the script I knew I wanted to be involved, because of Miranda and also seeing this different country on screen. We were so thrilled to be there, that the cinematographer Eric Murray Lui and I captured a sunrise over Kakadu on our day off, at 5.30am.”

Miranda says Wayne, who won the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts best directing award for The Sapphires, was her top choice.

“Working with Wayne on The Sapphires, I saw how much he understood heart and joy. He loved the story about a young woman reconnecting with her mob. I was so touched by that.”

Wayne was a champion athlete as a child and made the Queensland under-15 cricket team. His creative pathway began when he and his cousin Scott developed an Aboriginal rap act called Didgeridon’t. The show debuted at Rockhampton’s Dreamtime Cultural Centre, which his

Miranda drives me crazy but in a good way; we are like family. She is beautiful and brilliant

father Bob helped set up. He and his cousin then toured the world with the show.

“People were telling me that I should go to a place called NIDA, this is way before the internet. I hadn’t really heard about NIDA except in passing when Mel Gibson and Judy Davis were mentioned,’’ he says.

Wayne made the short-list at the NIDA auditions but when he missed out, NIDA artistic director John Clark suggested he try out for QUT. “I got in, in 1995, and I got caught up in that world,” Wayne says.

“I loved QUT; I realised how much I loved acting and I found my voice. I loved Brisbane and stayed for a year after graduating. I moved to Sydney when Wesley Enoch cast me as Benvolio in Bell Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.”

Wayne soon started directing awardwinning short films, and acting, including in the stage musical of The Sapphires. When friend Tony Briggs started writing a film adaptation, he asked Wayne to direct.

Wayne continues to balance acting and directing including with his latest project, directing the first couple of episodes of the rebooted Seachange. “I’ve never taken one day for granted,” he says.

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A former church at Boonah is reimagined as a home filled with a treasure trove of eclectic finds Oliver Maclennan

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Many treasures in Cheryl Carr’s home at Boonah, an hour southwest of Brisbane, have been found or foraged from nature.

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n a bright kitchen in Boonah, there is a large and varied collection of jars, bowls and plates, not to mention knives, pestles and mortars and chopping boards. In addition to the sheer profusion of crockery and utensils, there is the fact that many, if not all, are secondhand.

“I use all of it,” insists Cheryl Carr.

“I don’t like mass-produced things. Older things have more staying power, I find.”

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we didn’t do a great deal apart from painting and gardening.”

The garden is bordered by a large paddock, beyond is rolling green countryside and farmland. “My husband and I fell in love with the space, the rural scenery, the quiet pace of living,” she says.

“I happened to drive through the area 20 years ago and it reminded me of home in New South Wales.

“I pulled over on the roadside and took a photo of this old hut with a palm tree.

Years later, I would purchase a property next door to that very tree.”

Along with beautiful scenery and extraordinary starlit skies, the area provides some excellent opportunities

for foraging – some more precarious than others.

“Saltbush is a weed that grows in the paddocks and is eaten by cattle,” Cheryl explains. “The saltbush in my bedroom was from next door. I had to roll underneath a barbed-wire fence to retrieve it, avoiding the bull. I got lots of prickles, but it was worth it.

“When you find these bits and pieces, they can just blend into the environment.

But as soon as you bring them indoors, especially against the white, they really stand out. They become sculptural.”

In a sense, these ‘bits and pieces’ are nature’s hand-me-downs, which, while admittedly mass-produced, at least have

the virtue of being millions of years old.

The asparagus vine draped over an 18thcentury bed and the saltbush suspended at the end of a rope are both great examples of Cheryl’s approach.

“This saltbush was found in NSW,” she says. “There was much eye-rolling from my husband when I put it in the back of the car, next to his new bike. And asparagus vine is a noxious pest. He had cut it down from the trees and left it on the ground. I saw it a few weeks later and thought it was great stuff.”

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AN ARTIST’S EYE ... ‘I don’t use a lot of colour, and tend to stick to a neutral palette. Foraged finds go better with neutral colours,’ Cheryl says.

FROM PREVIOUS PAGE been found at fairs, junk shops and flea markets, such as the small stool in the hallway and the linen offcuts she uses to make curtains and cushions.

Where once there was a nave, altar and pulpit, there is now a high-ceilinged living area and corner kitchen, flooded with daylight. Despite the church’s radical transformation, a trace of its erstwhile spirit remains.

When the sun drops and the room turns pink, it becomes once again a calm and meditative space. Only in this regard, however, does it reflect its previous occupation: there is nothing spare or chilly about Cheryl’s home. On the contrary, there is an abundance of warmth and generosity – and objects, including the old brushes, found at a flea market, which fill the shaving cabinet.

“I love brushes and bristles,” she laughs.

“Sometimes I think I was born in another era – these things are very nostalgic for me.”

The same goes for her collections of string and bottles.

“I’m a bit addicted,” she adds, referring to the spools of string used by carpenters and builders. “I just can’t throw them away.

“In Australia, they would dump bottles into waterways and creeks, before rubbish collection existed. It became a hobby for people to dig them up. Some were worth a lot of money, but the market has died off a little. There are still a lot of cheaper ones around, but nicely preserved.”

Among the many brushes, spools and jars is a beautifully preserved bird’s nest, possibly once the home of a myna bird, and subsequently blown out of a tree. Of course, birds are foragers too, picking up plant matter and myriad other materials, since neglected, and creating something unique from them.

And while Cheryl certainly raids the past for countless forgotten objects, there’s nothing secondhand or retrograde about her strikingly original home.

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LAST WORD

Phil Brown The dogs howled all night as I tossed and turned and at dawn I had to get up and hose out all their cages. Several tried to bite me I was thinking the other day about the worst jobs I ever had. Because I’ve had a few. Like the weekend I spent as nightwatchman at a dog pound in Toowoomba.

I was studying at the University of Southern Queensland, which was actually, at that time, known as the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education. It was called DDIAE for short, which sounds like a pesticide.

I had a few dud jobs as a student there, including a lawn mowing business (maybe describing it as a business is going too far) which got so busy I started subcontracting to my mates. I also had a job stacking the

shelves at Coles at night. I had applied unsuccessfully at first, knocked back by a bloke who made it clear long-haired hippie students were not the sort of people he wanted to employ.

But I ended up working at the supermarket after a chance meeting with the manager who gave me a lift a few days later. I was hitchhiking at the time. I used to do that back in the days when I thought I was Jack Kerouac. I told the manager I had been knocked back by his subordinate whereupon he told me to come and see him the following day and he would give me some shifts.

I was pleased about that until I started

doing the work. Talk about soul destroying.

It was made worse by the fact that none of my co-workers would talk to me. Then I got into trouble for chewing gum because it might be masking the fact that I was eating some of the stock. So I quit.

A few weeks later my mate, who had a job as weekend nightwatchman at the pound, asked me if I could fill in for him because he was going away. So I rocked up in driving wind and rain with the dogs all howling their heads off. It was like being a character in The Hound of The Baskervilles.

Some friends visited early in the evening and one played a trick on me by putting one of those fake rubber dog turds on the

camp bed I was sleeping on. I thought it was real and started carrying on about it.

When my friend picked it up, I was horrified until I realised it wasn’t real.

The dogs howled all night as I tossed and turned and at dawn I had to get up and hose out all their cages.

Several of my charges tried to bite me in the process. I was very happy when my mate arrived back.

“How did you go?” he asked and I let him have it with a stream of invective that would have made a sailor blush.

“This is the worst f*&$ing job I’ve ever had,” I said. And thereby hangs a tale, if you’ll pardon the pun.

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A Brisbane resident designed his own Skyhome & saved $125,000 It was a fantastic experience! We clicked straight away and in only a few days they were able to deliver a fully customised home design with no fuss and no extra cost from architects and interior designers.

Mr Nelson Duan recently bought a 254sqm two-level skyhome at Dwell Newstead by combining two apartments on levels 9 and 10.

His new, fully customised design was created

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“It was a fantastic experience! We clicked straight away and in only a few days they were able to deliver a fully customised home design with no fuss and no extra cost from architects and interior designers”, explained Mr Nelson Duan, future resident of Dwell Newstead.

From the initial meeting last November, it took less than one month to complete Mr Duan’s dream home design, incorporating every element on his wish list.

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On the first floor, Mr Duan’s home is an entertainer’s dream, with a modern open plan design that incorporates a chef’s kitchen and separate dining and living areas, while a 6-metre void with floor-to-ceiling glazing welcomes stunning views and natural light. A massive media room, which can also work as guest quarters with its own bathroom and built-in robe, and a working sized laundryroom complete the first floor.

MR NELSON DUAN Future resident of Dwell Newstead

The second floor works as a private retreat with its own entrance and secluded from the social areas.

The master bedroom with ensuite and walk-in-robe, plus two more bedrooms with a shared bathroom and a study/work station with mesmerising views of the city complete the second floor. With construction completion expected November 2019, this is an exclusive opportunity valid until May 31st!

We got a custom designed skyhome for 34.27% less than the average penthouse price per sqm in Newstead*

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Tuscan inspiration An outdoor sanctuary complete with a covered pavilion, terraces and an inground pool is just one of the highlights of this Tuscan-style property.

Set over two levels on a 621sq m block with a wide 23.5m frontage, the fivebedroom house is modern and elegant, with quality finishes such as parquetry flooring and sleek granite all part of its appeal.

The facade features a dark and neutral colour palette, and a porch and timber double doors.

Inside the residence, a foyer showcases a sweeping staircase and parquetry flooring, and to the right is a sunken living room.

This space has a double-sized fireplace, and glass doors opening to the front terrace, pool and entertaining pavilion.

Highlights of the kitchen include stainless steel appliances and black granite benchtops, including an island breakfast bar.

The kitchen blends stylishly with its surroundings, while the nearby dining room has a glass atrium with views of a water feature.

A family area and a bedroom with a built-in wardrobe and an ensuite complete the lower level floorplan.

The upper level of the property comprises the rest of the sleeping accommodation; the main bedroom has a parents’ retreat space, a Juliet balcony, walk-in wardrobe, and a resort-style ensuite boasting dual vanities and a spa bathtub.

The three other bedrooms have varying features, and a bathroom services the floor.

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CLAYFIELD 32 Enderley Ave Land: 621sq m Inspect: By appointment Agent: Patrick McKinnon, Place Ascot; ph: 3107 6888 or 0431 430 760 Auction: On site, June 8, 10am

314 Collins Creek Rd, Beaudesert - Only 1 hour from Brisbane Here is an exceptional example of productive grazing country & luxury living coming together to create a property that is more than just a farm - it is a place to entertain, to relax & experience rural living at its finest. Thoughtful restoration has transformed the original homestead & its surrounds to one of immense beauty & style with 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, ducted air conditioning, marble benchtops, blackbutt timber floors & a huge covered deck • 4 car garage; 3 bedroom cottage; self - contained granny flat; circular driveway with electric front gates • 164 acres; steel cattle yards with crush & drafting pound; 3 bay machinery shed with full - height roller doors • Easily carries 50 breeders + progeny even in dry times; 2 bores; 6 dams & stock access to Collins Creek

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Modern style Set high on a hill with views to the city skyline, this new, contemporary-style house offers luxury living with plenty of space for families.

The modern facade sets the tone for the interiors, and features clean lines, extensive glass and a cool, grey colour palette.

The living hub sits on the upper level of the house and has polished Blackbutt timber floors.

From the lounge area of the residence, sliding glass doors open to a covered balcony that overlooks a saltwater plunge pool.

Back inside, highlights of the striking black and white kitchen includes a 40mm Caesarstone island breakfast bar and integrated Smeg appliances.

From the kitchen, a hallway leads past a powder room to the main bedroom, which boasts a walk-in wardrobe, and a stylish ensuite with dual vanities.

The rest of the bedrooms sit on the lower level of the house, each with a builtin wardrobe and serviced by a large bathroom.

The main entry to the house is also on

this floor and leads into a foyer featuring a custom-built glass wine rack.

Beyond the entry foyer sits a family room with glass doors to a terrace and the pool.

Residing about 5km from the Brisbane CBD, this spacious property has an array of other features, including an integrated video intercom system, integrated Novo speaker system, premium carpets and window blinds, and artificial turf in the rear yard.

CAMP HILL 30 Ernest St Land: 607sq m Inspect: Today (Wed, May 1), 5-6pm; Saturday (May 4), 9-9.30am Agent: Damon Lewis, Ray White New Farm; ph: 3254 1022 or 0407 112 442 Auction: On site, Saturday (May 4), 9.30am

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Rural Brisbane 07 5518 8010 View By appointment Auction 11am, Friday, 31st May Raine and Horne Rural 17 William St, Beaudesert

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189 Snake Gully Rd, Palen Ck (via Beaudesert) This 307 acre property is an ideal weekender, starter block, tree - change or semi - retirement prospect. Enjoy glorious mountain views from almost every point. The work is done with well maintained infrastructure (incl. 2 sets of cattle yards) & established water set up in place.

Vendors are retiring and are ready to move.

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Scenic escape This modern day, contemporary homestead overlooks 232ha of open grazing country, on three titles with panoramic views of the Scenic Rim and is only one hour’s drive from Brisbane CBD. A change in circumstances means that the current owners will be moving on, according to listing agent Andrew Goodall, allowing the buyer to purchase the six bedroom, five bathroom homestead that has been meticulously finished to the owner’s specifications.

The exceptional, quality finishes and attention to detail complement the low maintenance, industrial feel of the interior.

The architecture, lines and symmetry of the home are visually pleasing as are the magnificent, almost 360 degree views from the homestead.

Features of the residence include polished concrete and hardwood floors, square set finishes with no architrave or skirting, soaring 3.6m ceilings, a designer kitchen with red gum island bench, separate butler’s pantry and nearby openplan living and dining area, along with an in-ground saltwater swimming pool outside.

A separate shed has been converted into a four bedroom studio, perfect for when guests visit, Andrew says.

Another six-bay Colorbond shed, two sets of cattle yards and good fencing throughout the 37 paddocks complements the laneway system in place.

Two creeks, a dam with solar pump and 162,000L of concrete and poly tanks feeds the various troughs over the property.

The country is predominantly cleared and is capable of running 100+ head.

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ROSEVALE 303 Zahnows Rd Land: 232ha Inspect: Sunday (May 5), 9-10.30am Agent: Andrew Goodall, Ray White Rural Queensland; ph: 3221 2222 or 0412 093 551 Auction: Level 26, 111 Eagle St, Brisbane; May 10, 10.30am

0423 426 942 3202 4999 www.walkersrealestate.com.au

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TAURUS Across (April 21 – May 20) 1 Sympathetic Taurean moods fluctuate relationship this week.

As much as you’re 5 Defer (7)trying to keep everything steady, most should prepare 9 US legislator (7) for more disruption.

Communications become tangled, travel 10 Shellfish (7)is tricky and payments are missed. Is someone 11 Bring up (5) deliberately sabotaging you? Deeper 12 Consider (9) investigation will shed light.

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running higher than what’s considered healthy. Ask yourself why you’re doing so much. Are you really needed everywhere, or are you just trying to please too many people? This week calls for less stress and more play. Just for (7)now, make fun your priority.

SCORPIO (October 24 – November 22) There’s an old saying that you should never cut what you can untie. Whether this is good advice or old rope is up to you. A new chapter is dawning, one where you’re more independent.

Some Scorpios cut ties, others don’t.

Just don’t stay for the wrong reasons.

If someone keeps interfering, you have the planetary nod to shut them out.

GEMINI 15 21Devoutness (5) (May – June 21) 13 14 15 Watch out, Gemini – there’s 16 Unanimous (5) a bad temper about. Someone may be 18 Gloominess of outlook (9) scratching an old emotional wound or 21 Inherited through family reinforcing a longstanding grudge.

This (9)SAGITTARIUS (November 23 – December 21) 16 17 18 19 20 may directed at you, or(5) a loved one.

24 be Accumulate Recent difficulties are now behind you, Either way, don’t tiptoe around the 25 Archbishop (7) or will be soon. You’re one of the most problem.

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Mini.The 1 Sympathetic relationship latter certainly (7) 5 Defer (7) 27 Fruit given a place of 9 US legislator (7) ARIES honour in old Turkey (7) 10 Shellfish (7) (March 21 – April 20) 28 She is given two articles 11 Bring up (5) Remember this, Aries: you’re the one set in a case (7) 12 Consider (9) who’s thinking straight this week. It’s 13 Powerful attraction (9) you who’s quietly planning a sensible Down 15 Devoutness (5) course, while everyone else is fad 1 Hide article in play (7) 16 Unanimous (5) surfing. Don’t let others underrate your 2 Rushing madly from 18 Gloominess of outlook (9) efforts or deliberately try to reveal your Tangier (7) 21 Inherited through shortcomings. Stay in control, and 3 Thought new item dated (9) family (9) success should soon roll in with the tide.

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Solutions to last week’s puzzles

CROSSWORD ANSWERS. CRYPTIC: Across: 1 Latimer, 5 Forging, 9 Aladdin, 10 Eclipse, 11 Hoist, 12 Samaritan, 13 Righteous, 15 Riser, 16 Posed, 18 Constrict, 21 Amendment, 24 Oasis, 25 Skillet, 26 Pianola, 27 Sultana, 28 Sheathe. Down: 1 Leather, 2 Tearing, 3 Meditated, 4 Rings, 5 Freemason, 6 Ruler, 7 Impetus, 8 Gleaner, 14 Orchestra, 15 Rationale, 16 Praises, 17 Special, 19 In short, 20 Testate, 22 Delia, 23 Tapes. QUICK: Across: 1 Rapport, 5 Suspend, 9 Senator, 10 Mollusc, 11 Raise, 12 Entertain, 13 Magnetism, 15 Piety, 16 Solid, 18 Pessimism, 21 Ancestral, 24 Amass, 25 Primate, 26 Cuisine, 27 Neglect, 28 Dynasty. Down: 1 Rostrum, 2 Pending, 3 On the mend, 4 Terse, 5 Sometimes, 6 Solar, 7 Emulate, 8 Decency, 14 Imperfect, 15 Privation, 16 Sharpen, 17 Lacking, 19 Italics, 20 Mastery, 22 Scare, 23 Lucid.

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