Sunday, 27 July
5.00pm

This week on Sunday Arts we feature the celebrated portrait photographer Polly Borland; Perth-based artist Stormie Mills; and the first theatre production to be put on by the new theatre company 1927.

Polly Borland

Australian-born Polly Borland has lived in the UK since 1989 and has established herself as a leading portrait photographer. Her work is regularly featured in publications like The New York Times, The New Yorker, Marie Claire and The Independent. She won the John Kobal Photography Portrait Prize in 1994, and in 2001 was chosen as one of eight photographers to photograph the Queen for her Golden Jubilee. Borland spent three months on the set of her husband, John Hilcoat's 'The Proposition', photographing the cast. Polly has been in Australia for her new exhibition entitled 'Bunny', which is a series of photographs which together form a portrait of a very tall girl named Gwen. A book accompanies the exhibition and includes a poem by Nick Cave and an adult fairytale by Will Self. You can see 'Bunny' at the Murray White Room in Melbourne until August 23.

Stormie Mills

Stormie Mills is a Perth- based artist whose origins as an artist lie in the graffiti and street art of his youth, illicit undertakings with spray cans and night painting escapades. Since then, this self-taught painter has carved a distinctive niche with his art, staging exhibitions in London, Los Angeles, Berlin, Birmingham, Perth and Melbourne. Mills' work is characterised by forlorn figures with large faces and sad eyes. He captures a gait or a trait or a moment of struggle. It is no surprise that he cites the children's illustrator, Maurice Sendak as one his influences. On July 30, 'Secrets and Objects', his first solo exhibition will open in Sydney.

1927's 'The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea'

'The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea' snapped up five of the big awards at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This low-budget production was a surprise success story from the festival as it was the very first play to be put on by the new theatre company 1927. And 1927 is not only winning awards, but it also has got the press talking - The Guardian described them as "deliciously nasty" and the Times is saying that they are a "frighteningly gifted new British theatre company". The play, which incorporates animation, in many ways pays homage to silent film, mime and music hall. It's a kooky dark comedy and many are drawing comparisons to the work of Tim Burton, David Lynch and The Grimm Brothers.

Sunday Arts will be repeated on ABC2 - Sunday, July 27 at 7:30pm