‘How do you go from trying to find a home for your content, to being the home for it?’ Dustin Clare. Photo by Jim Lounsbury.
A confession: I used to be obsessed with Spartacus, the gore and glam of that ultra-violent super-stylish Starz series about gladiators. Shot in New Zealand, it featured a host of buffed and beautiful local actors including Lucy Lawless, the late Andy Whitfield, Jai Courtney and Dustin Clare.
So when a press release came through about ‘Shelter’, a new streaming platform of curated content about Design, Architecture and Lifestyle, created by Dustin Clare. I had to wonder, was it that Dustin Clare?
Rochelle Siemienowicz is the ArtsHub Group's Education and Career Editor. She is a journalist for Screenhub and is a writer, film critic and cultural commentator with a PhD in Australian cinema. She was the co-host of Australia's longest-running film podcast 'Hell is for Hyphenates' and has written a memoir, Fallen, published by Affirm Press. Her second book, Double Happiness, a novel, will be published by Midnight Sun in 2024. Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle Twitter: @Milan2Pinsk
