Join Margaret as she shares the thoughts, works and lives from Oliver Sacks to Michael Leunig, Paul Keating to Gerry Adams and John le Carr to Jonathan Franzen to name but a few.

In Notes from the Shed, Hunter Valley based artist Hanna Kay provides us with an insight into the inner life of an artist, through extracts from her journal.

Dine with photographer Sarah Rhodes and writer Alice McCormick as they journey into the homes of Australia's most pre-eminent artists and unearth captivating stories of their lives and work. Over lunch, and in their own words, artists from John Olsen to Dorothy Napangardi, Nell to Tim Storrier, begin by discussing how food influences their work and then go on to reveal their unique personalities, beliefs, histories and habitats, as well as the processes and philosophies behind their art-making. Wine & Nibbles with the artists costs just $10.00 including a $5.00 discount on The Artist's Lunch.

On Thursday 22 May 2008, Bill Henson, one of Australia's most significant artists, was preparing his new Sydney exhibition. It featured photographs of naked adolescent models. That afternoon, triggered by a newspaper column and the outrage of talkback radio hosts, a controversy exploded in response to these images. The exhibition opening was cancelled. Police raided the gallery, seized photographs and indicated that charges were imminent. On national television the Prime Minister described censored versions of the works as 'revolting'. Within twenty-four hours public galleries began to remove Henson photographs from their walls. Were these pictures art or pornograph