Is the cultivation of an artist a subjective experience? Should emerging artists be separated from society, or immersed in it? These questions are explored in Soupdoll, an intriguing and dramatic work of fiction that features a child who was born to be a one-of-a-kind artist. However, such an idiosyncratic way of thinking was not welcomed at the time. Although metaphoric, the story details a period in Australian aesthetic history when, fashioned by...