marcus westbury

I’m working up an idea for a new TV series at the moment about censorship. Still early days but i’m keen to connect up the current debates about censorshop — particularly the proposal for a national internet filter and sedition laws — with the history of cultural censorship in Australia. I’m not planning on doing [...]

I’d resisted posting this for a while because i wasn’t exactly sure how to introduce it. Part of me was tempted to launch into an elaboration of my theory of why and how Adelaide is the least interesting cultural place in all of Australia. It is. Honest. Part of me was tempted to elaborate on [...]

The second episode of Not Quite Art Series Two goes to air on TV on ABC1 across Australia at 10pm local time tonight. If you’re in Australia, it is possible to download all episodes of the series in full and for free from the ABC web site. However as a lot of people have observed [...]

The new series of Not Quite Art begins on ABC1 tonight at 10pm. You should also be able to download it from 10pm tonight from the ABC web site. Here’s also a little piece i wrote the relates to the content of tonight’s episode. Anyhow, I thought i’d open up a thread here for anyone [...]

Free VODcast download of NQA series 1 to anyone who can guess how i am going to work these guys into the next series.

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 [...]

I’ve been quiet on the posting front because i have been deep in writing for a new series of Not Quite Art (yes this is the same series that was briefly known on this site by the working title of Culture Shock). Director Emma Crimmings and I will begin filming next month and the series [...]

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 [...]