My space

IN A pocket of Southbank surrounded by construction sites, the Boyd School stands in defiance of the developers, a modest, two-storey structure offering low-cost artist studios. Part of Melbourne City Council's Creative Spaces program, run in partnership with Arts Victoria, the building is a creative refuge at a time when rising rents have forced many artists out of the city. In what she calls "the best room" in the building, fashion illustrator Louise Baker is surrounded by remnants of a career spanning 60 years, from the advertising department of the Myer Emporium during the 1950s, to illustrations for leading New York department stores in the 1960s and '70s, and a series of teaching positions following her return to Melbourne in 1971. Paintings line one wall, while shelves and tables are strewn with drawings and clippings celebrating the fashion illustrator's art, an art she hopes to reinvigorate by running classes in the studio.

Little Lord Fondle-roy

THE performance by morals-crusading radio star Chris Smith at his station 2GB's Christmas party involving not one but three glamorous young women has delivered him a particularly amoral dilemma.