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Runway Journal Runway Journal is critical, bold and always in conversation. Runway Journal cultivates and preserves experimental practice on our digital platform.

We commission and publish critical and artistic works that respond to thematic callouts and engage with current threads of Australian and international contemporary art. The journal is a resource for the exchange of knowledge and ideas. Through knowledge-sharing and collaboration, Runway carves out an independent space for its contributors, which, reflective of the experimental realm in which it exists, cannot be defined by medium and is constantly evolving.

'2-22, 2-22, 2-22, 2-22’ is a digital artwork recontextualising lines from an ornate TV2 design by Joseph Churchward—and...
09/10/2026

'2-22, 2-22, 2-22, 2-22’ is a digital artwork recontextualising lines from an ornate TV2 design by Joseph Churchward—and an accompanying text—speaking to the artwork’s construction and wider Indigenous Oceanian context.

Leitu Bonnici is an artist, graphic designer and researcher currently based between Naarm and the Netherlands. Their practice critically examines ‘the archive’ and ‘the publication’, utilising various interdisciplinary and anti-disciplinary methodologies that challenge pālagi myths. As a tagata Sāmoa, they are proud to belong to the Great Ocean, which covers over a third of the world’s surface and is home to diverse continuous histories spanning hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands of years.

View this work and the full issue here https://runway.org.au/issues/translation

Editor: Kathryne Honey
Digital Producer: Amy Yu

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

Thank you everyone who came along to our Issue 51: Translation launch 💌Thank you to our wonderful contributors Helen Ngo...
20/09/2026

Thank you everyone who came along to our Issue 51: Translation launch 💌

Thank you to our wonderful contributors Helen Ngo, Ellen van Neerven & Jessica Kejun Zu, Wen Pei Low, Jacqui Shelton, and Agus Wijaya, guest editor James Nguyen, and our Runway team for bringing the launch to life.

Thank you for the .hardingst team for generously hosting us in your beautiful space, and thank you to all who came along to support.

Issue 51: Translation is online now. Explore the issue at the link in bio.

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13/09/2026

Issue 51: Translation is live!

Guest edited by James Nguyen, this issue considers the many aspects and outcomes of good, bad and mediocre translations, with seven new commissions by Leitu Bonnici, Helen Ngo, Wen Pei Low, Jacqui Shelton, Sri Vamsi Matta, Ellen van Neerven & Jessica Kejun Xu, and Agus Wijaya.

'As the eldest of the one and a half generation in my family, I am regularly tasked with the role of the primary language broker; negotiating and deciding how members of my family are to be rendered intelligible and made socially acceptable...The complexities and playful complicities of what it means to be a translator in-between-worlds are core to the inquiries and contributions that form in this issue on translation.'

Read the full guest editor's letter, and explore the issue, at https://runway.org.au/issues/translation.

Cover Design: Amy Yu

30/08/2026

Join us in celebrating the launch of Issue 51: Translation ꩜

Issue 51 considers the many aspects and outcomes of good, bad and mediocre translations; the power of translators to colour how ideas are expressed and exploited.

🗓 Sunday 13 September, 4–6pm
Dukkana, 99-101 Harding St Coburg
Featuring readings and conversation with Issue 51 contributors Helen Ngo, Ellen van Neerven & Jessica Kejun Zu, Wen Pei Low, Jacqui Shelton, and Agus Wijaya.

All are welcome. RSVP at the link in bio.

Light refreshments will be provided.
Access: step-free, wide entrance.

This event will take place on the land of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation; we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

29/08/2026

Announcing our eight contributors for Issue 51: Translation, guest edited by artist James Nguyen.

Leitu Bonnici
Helen Ngo
Wen Pei Low
Jacqui Shelton
Sri Vamsi Matta
Ellen van Neerven & Jessica Kejun Xu
Agus Wijaya

Issue 51 considers the many aspects and outcomes of good, bad and mediocre translations; the power of translators to colour how ideas are expressed and exploited.

Coming soon. Subscribe to Runway Journal via our website to be the first to receive a copy.

In this essay, Isabella Hone-Saunders traces a dreamlike passage through devotion, companionship, and the fragile intima...
12/08/2026

In this essay, Isabella Hone-Saunders traces a dreamlike passage through devotion, companionship, and the fragile intimacies of living alongside other beings. Hone-Saunders explores the quiet architectures of care: the rituals, responsibilities, and gestures that bind us together.

Isabella Hone-Saunders is a curator, arts worker, and artist born on Kaurna Country, now living in Naarm/Melbourne.

You can access our full the digital journal, Issue 50: Correspondence, via the link in our bio.

Digital Producer: Debris Facility .facility

Issue 50: Correspondence was created in collaboration with Worms Magazine, UK. .w0rld

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. .australia

In her auto-critical text, Anna Carlsson uncoils the umbilical cord she romanticises, linking her Korean adoption to Pla...
05/08/2026

In her auto-critical text, Anna Carlsson uncoils the umbilical cord she romanticises, linking her Korean adoption to Plato's severed humans and the transatlantic cable, an un/natural bond as biopolitical technology. Her message, sent 10,808 kilometres with no guaranteed reply, echoes the be-longing of belief, prayer and refracted dialogue.

Anna Carlsson is a writer born in South Korea, raised in Warrnambool but now resides on Wurundjeri land. She has a background in publishing with an arts and cultural focus and co-writes the Substack, Pleasure Principle. She is the associate editor at Art Guide Australia.

The full work is printed in 'Worms 11: Faith & Worship', which you can purchase via link in .w0rld bio. Also currently in stock at West Space!

Created in collaboration between Runway Journal, AU, and Worms Magazine, UK. .w0rld

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. .australia

'The Icon Corner' is a collection of tender poems by Alexander Cigana. Moving between lyrical fragmentation and philosop...
01/08/2026

'The Icon Corner' is a collection of tender poems by Alexander Cigana. Moving between lyrical fragmentation and philosophical meditation, the project considers the icon as both object and method: a surface through which memory, intimacy, and perception become newly legible. Rather than resolving the sacred and the secular, these poems inhabit the space between them, where language lingers with what cannot be fully seen or said.

Alexander Cigana is a sculptor and poet. He holds a PhD (2021) in Art History from the University of Sydney, and a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture (2024) from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. His work has affinities with Arte Povera and explores how space registers thresholds between the symbolic and the physical. He lives in Sydney, where he works as a technician at a bronze foundry.

The full work is printed in 'Worms 11: Faith & Worship', which you can purchase via link in .w0rld bio. Also currently in stock at West Space!

Created in collaboration between Runway Journal, AU, and Worms Magazine, UK. .w0rld

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. .australia

For Issue 50: Correspondence, writer Jonno Revanche video chats with Brian Fuata on the transcendence of performance, th...
22/07/2026

For Issue 50: Correspondence, writer Jonno Revanche video chats with Brian Fuata on the transcendence of performance, the 2026 Adelaide Biennale, and their role as manager of Umoona Community Art Centre in so-called Coober Pedy - "because digital correspondence is very in this season."

A Samoan artist who works across the fields of improvisational visual and performance art, "Fuata has spent the last two decades making work that behaves more like a summoning than an event." This generous conversation explores the embodied, transgressive and "unhinged" nature of Fuata's practice, against the backdrop of Coober Pedy's "Southern Gothic".

You can access the full digital journal, Issue 50: Correspondence, via the link in our bio.

Editorial Producer: Anneka Scholtz
Digital Producer: Amy Yu

Issue 50: Correspondence was created in collaboration with Worms Magazine, UK. .w0rld

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. .australia

RJ stickers IRL 👀Thank you to all those who generously donated to Keep Runway Running! Your RJ stickers are in the post ...
19/07/2026

RJ stickers IRL 👀

Thank you to all those who generously donated to Keep Runway Running! Your RJ stickers are in the post and on their way to your door.

Every donation (however big or small) helps us to continue the important work of Runway Journal.

If you would like to get your hands on a limited edition RJ sticker you still can! We accept donations all year round and still have a handful of these delicious stickers left (for donations over $20).

Donate today via the link in our bio.

Runway Sticker Design: Giana Festa

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