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David Roach

David Roach is visual artist and award-winning screenwriter and director. His films have been released internationally. They include the documentary “Red Obsession” narrated by Russel Crowe. WW1 feature, “Beneath Hill 60” starring Brendan Cowell and “The Surgeon and the Soldier” about surgeon, Munjed al Muderis for SBS. When he is not off making movies David lives on the Illawarra coast with his wife, author and broadcaster, Caroline Baum. David is part of a team caring for and revitalising the lovely Clifton School of Arts. You can hire the venue or better yet, join the team! Just go to www.artsclifton.org

Arts & culture

Ivor Fabok to hold classes at Clifton School of Arts

Well-known artist and art educator Ivor Fabok will be running a new program of art classes at Clifton School of Arts throughout 2024. The first series of two full-day classes will be held from 10am to 4pm on Wednesday, 3 April and Thursday, 18...

David Roach

April 2024

Opinion

‘Like a red waterfall’

If you’re driving north along Lawrence Hargrave Drive, just past Coledale hospital you’ll see on the left a haphazard-looking development site on steeply sloping land overlooking the ocean. Orange and black plastic sheets are scattered over much of...

David Roach

April 2022

What's On

Better call Saul

Climate change is an emergency. We have to do something – but what? Austinmer’s Saul Griffith has an electrifying plan and he’s about to share it, David Roach reports Currently touring the country to rock star attention, Dr Saul Griffith is an...

David Roach

February 2022

Arts & culture

‘Comradeship is a small miracle of a work’

Across the road from Coledale hospital on a grassy patch above the sea not far from a busy coastal walk, is Comradeship

David Roach

December 2021

Arts & culture

The stories beneath our feet

By David Roach, Clifton School of Arts vice president A real estate agent constructing a narrative about the Northern Illawarra for a couple of prospective buyers may begin with our rich Indigenous history. They may point to the sweeping wilderness...

David Roach

October 2021

Arts & culture

Q&A with artist Paul Ryan

David Roach, co-curator of the Clifton Contemporary Art Fair, talked to one of the high-profile participating artists. Paul Ryan’s striking, often provocative paintings are sort by collectors both in Australia and internationally. Many feature the...

David Roach

July 2021

News

Miners’ vision for Clifton revived

Our design brief called for an energy-efficient pavilion utilising ecological sustainable materials that would be set back from, and complement, our existing heritage building.

David Roach

May 2021

Arts & culture

Ashley Frost and Hal Pratt: Two friends, two places

Caroline Baum reports on an exhibition of landscapes near and far by local artists Ashley Frost and Hal Pratt.

David Roach

November 2020