marcus westbury

Straight from the “it seemed a good idea at the time” file…
In the interests of trying to get in the spirit of the forthcoming Olympics, I’ve been spending some of my down time when not filming the new series of Not Quite Art trying my hand at various Olympic sports. With the support of Lindy […]

We start shooting of the second series of Not Quite Art in Melbourne this afternoon!
A clue to this is the fact that i spent a small fortune on clothes, actually paid for a haircut (for the first time since the day NQA series one finished filming) on the weekend, and have been getting up to […]

I am indulging in an experimental change of career this weekend.
I’m making my radio debut (well, my debut as a radio presenter/broadcaster type) on ABC 1233 in Newcastle from 10-12am this coming Saturday morning. I’ll be doing two hours of actual, live, i-totally-have-no-idea-what-i-am-doing type radio broadcasting. If it works out i’ll be doing some fill […]

A new series, Culture Shock, is in the early stages for ABC TV (Australia). All going to plan (which these things rarely do in my limited experience) we should begin filming around around July and the series should air in about October 2008. Yes, I already know that the title is a bad cliché […]

Not Quite Art was my first attempt at writing and presenting a TV series. It was named as one of the best shows on Australian TV in 2007 according to the Sydney Morning Herald and described by The Age as “the freshest, most illuminating, thoughtful and funny locally made arts program in years.”
From the ABC […]

My contribution to the 2007 Australian Federal Election was to develop and project manage a web site called howshouldivote.com.au. The site allowed each user to enter their postcode and take the same quiz about topical issues as the candidates in their local electorate. The site then compared the users with participating candidates and ranked them […]

Free Play is Australia’s largest independent computer game developer’s event. It took place for the first time in 2004 in a low fi converted former Karate dojo in inner city Melbourne before growing up and moving into the Australian Centre for the Moving Image where it took place again in 2005 and 2007. Free Play […]

This Is Not Art (or TINA as it affectionately known) was the ultimate evolution of the event that began life as the National Young Writers’ Festival. Between 1998 and 2002 TINA evolved from a small, underfunded regional cultural festival into one of Australia’s most distinctive and most significant cultural events.
This Is Not Art has variously […]

LOUD was Australia’s first national “Media Festival of Youth Culture and the Arts.” It took place across print, television, radio and online way back in January 1998. I was the person responsible for all the Internet projects including a collaborative online magazine and an online short film festival that brought the big wigs out from […]