Published in Overland Issue 243 Winter 2021 · Art Cover art: Anne Barnetson Anne Barnetson Cover Back Read the rest of Overland 243 If you enjoyed this piece, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four brilliant issues for a year Anne Barnetson Anne Barnetson is an illustrator working on unceded Noongar Boodja in Boorloo, Western Australia. She works by hand and is an optimist deep down. More by Anne Barnetson › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 14 December 202319 February 2024 · Art Artist conquers nation’s largest arts institution without leaving home. Or putting on pants. Casey Jenkins (Sh) After experiencing firsthand what it means to create work deemed by Creative Australia to have ‘incalculable risk’, I hope that questions will be asked of the organisation about how exactly individual projects will be identified and labelled as coming with ‘risk’, and what the ramifications for those artworks will be. Blacklisting artists based on the risk that their work will upset homophobic internet trolls or ultra conservative media would do nothing but entrench discrimination. First published in Overland Issue 228 11 September 202312 September 2023 · Art A subversive Disneyland—for some: my visit to MONA Az Cosgrove The elevator doors opened like the top being peeled away on a can of sardines, and at least half a dozen squirming pink bodies blinked out at us, crammed shoulder to shoulder in the absurdly small elevator. They shuffled their feet and pretended not to see me, not to see my wheelchair or the flight of stairs visible through the glass walls. No one got out, but the doors remained open, ignorantly optimistic. After a few awkward seconds, a hand darted out from somewhere in the middle of the group and jabbed the Close button.