Each month the Portal team will create and post a video interview with one exceptional Portal contributor to be featured on our website and YouTube channel, giving them more exposure, and more recognition. This month we present Evan O’Dwyer, poet extraordinaire.

Sam is a 21 year-old from Perth. After completing his arts degree at Curtin University, Sam has begun to explore in critical theory and philosophy and hope to illustrate these ideas and concepts through writing. This is his story.

After graduating with an Arts Degree from the University of Canberra, George has been building up an impressive portfolio large enough to rival his HECS debt. This includes exhibiting a range of photographs in the Huw Davies Gallery and M16 Artspace, and writing for a range of publications such as twenty600, RHUM and Capital Magazine. Most of all, George just likes to make up stories and take pretty pictures.

From The Beginning questions the way we understand time. By examining the relationship between two people (Bill and Emma) this story suggests that time is not linear but circular. It demonstrates that language is the only thing that denotes a difference between time frames: I am in the current, I was in the past and I will be in the future – when really we all exist at all points in time.

Diane Steenkamp, eager consumer of web comics and digital art, explores the power of the written word in this poem of transcending a harsh reality.

After graduating with an Arts Degree from the University of Canberra, George has been building up an impressive portfolio large enough to rival his HECS debt. This includes exhibiting a range of photographs in the Huw Davies Gallery and M16 Artspace, and writing for a range of publications such as twenty600, RHUM and Capital Magazine.Most of all, George just likes to make up stories and take pretty pictures.