Podcasts about Australian art

As the annual controversy swirls around the finalists for the Archibald Prize, we look at an artwork that didn’t make the cut: a moving portrait of a remarkable Australian: Jewish leader Alex Ryvchin, who came here as a penniless Soviet refugee. Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app. This episode of The Front is written and presented by Claire Harvey and produced and edited by Jasper Leak who also composed our theme.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's the portrait of Gina Rinehart that launched 1,000 memes, went viral globally and became Australia's Mona Lisa. But it's also a symbol of how wealth intersects with other areas of life, including art and sport. How does Rinehart use her money to control her image – and what would she rather you don't see? This episode of Gina is about power and control, and the colonial history of Australia. It contains references to outdated offensive language and events that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people may find distressing. It also contains the names of Indigenous Australians who have died. Listen with care

Conversation with Jodie Kras, Director Galleries at the Melbourne Art Fair, exploring more than a decade of her rich experience working in the bustling art scenes of Melbourne and Sydney from commercial galleries to prestigious biennales and auction houses.

Just last month, artist Khaled Sabsabi told Full Story he never imagined he'd be picked as Australia's representative for the 2026 Venice Biennale. Days later, he was unceremoniously dropped by Creative Australia. The abrupt move set off a series of recriminations and left the art world reeling. Nour Haydar tells Reged Ahmad how it all unfolded and why the move has left many outraged about the precedent it sets

Western Sydney artist Khaled Sabsabi's work spans more than 30 years, exploring themes of multiculturalism, racism, Arab identity and spirituality. After applying four times to the world's most prestigious contemporary art exhibition, he thought he had missed his chance. Until this week when Creative Australia announced Sabsabi as Australia's representative for the 2026 Venice Biennale, alongside curator Michael Dagostino. Sabsabi tells Nour Haydar about his journey to becoming an artist, where he finds his inspiration, and navigating the current political climate You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport

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Kent Wilson is an artist, curator, writer, teacher and musician. He has worked all angles of the art world aiding, assisting and creating opportunities for artists. He has been instrumental in building and nurturing a thriving contemporary art scene in central Victoria, being one of the founders of the Kyneton Contemporary Art Triennial and being the Senior curator at La Trobe Arts Institute, Bendigo. Kent has also just recently released his first album under the name Fletching which is currently available on Spotify and Bandcamp. https://fletchingmusic.bandcamp.com/ Instagram: @_kentwilson_

Prof. Michelle Arrow explores the dramatic history behind the 1956 classic Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

“ I like to make paintings to give people pleasure.”Just as the late Bill Granger exported Australian food culture to the world, Ken Done's bold and colourful brush strokes spread the essence of Australia and Australians; creative, optimistic and bold.There's a bit of Ken Done iconography in every Australian home, if not our psyche.In this episode of Three Food Memories, Savva sits with Ken at his gallery in The Rocks, at a paint-spattered and well-worn wooden table, Ken's hands reflecting the same aesthetic.   Lobster, treacle sandwiches, and a surprisingly chewy green jelly are on the menu - as are his reflections on childhood by the Clarence River and six-year-old hysterics at a floating latrine during a flood.UNICEF is Ken's social cause. He spent over 35 years as the Australian National Ambassador, campaigning for the rights of children around the world. This in-person episode of Three Food Memories with Ken Done is with great thanks to the team at the Ken Done Gallery.To find out more about the project and Savva - head to threefoodmemories.comInsta - @savvasavasEmail us at threefoodmemories@plated.com.au, we'd love to hear from you!

n this episode, Shae has an open discussion with Kim Percy, where they talk about life and parenthood as a late-diagnosed dyslexic. After her youngest son was diagnosed in year 2, Kim found herself relating to many of his experiences with dyslexia and felt she too may be dyslexic. Over the last 24 years, she has co-directed and been a senior designer for Designscope, an agency dedicated to branding, strategy, web and print design. Her first passion was visual art, and she has had prominent exhibitions in some of Australia's leading awards and festivals including BOAA Biennale of Australian Art, Ballarat Foto Biennale and HeadOn Photo Festival. Over the last 20 years, she has been a sessional tutor at Federation University and RMIT University alongside a business mentor for Melbourne Innovation Centre. She is interested in developing an accessible curriculum for neurodiverse students. Kim is a music and art lover, finding joy in creative escapes. Throughout this episode, she shares insightful wisdom from her life as an artist, student, businesswoman and mother. I'm Dr Shae Wissell and you have been listening to the Dear Dyslexic Podcast, brought to you by re:think dyslexia. To keep up-to-date with all our news, sign up to our mailing list and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. If you haven't done so yet, subscribe to your favourite podcast platform, rate, and review this podcast. Join me next time for another conversation on the Dear Dyslexic Podcast series. If you would like to sponsor a podcast contact hello@rethinkdyslexia.com.au and help us continue to share stories of young people and adults with dyslexia and other neurodivergences!

Cressida Campbell and Margaret Preston (1875-1963): two beloved printmakers inspired by Ukiyo-e, the Japanese woodcut genre whose influence swept through western art. Rosa speaks to Cressida and Geelong Gallery senior curator Lisa Sullivan about Ukiyo-e and Preston, for a new exhibition connecting all three printmaking styles.Art History professor Roger Benjamin joins us to talk about the Gina Rinehart portrait drama. Khaled Sabsabi moves fluidly between the genres of music and visual art, but his art always has the same goal: to make meaningful work, to make society better. After many years of community development  work and thought-provoking installation artwork made from his studio in Western Sydney, Khaled was honoured with a 2023 Creative Australia award, and a residency at the prestigious American Academy in Rome.

Saudi-Palestinian artist Dana Awartani studied at a famously conceptual art school, before learning traditional Islamic crafts and principles, like sacred geometry. Now Dana is exploring the destruction of build heritage in the Arab world, most recently the devastated city of Gaza. Her work is being shown at Adelaide's Samstag Museum of Art and at the Venice Biennale.Rosa visits the Melbourne studio of ceramic artist Georgia Harvey. Taking influences from Mesopotamian art and our cross-cultural obsession with lions, Georgia tells us about her 'cauldron' of inspiration.Artist Anna Park was first exposed to American culture through Disney. By the time her family migrated from Korea to Utah, USA, she was a keen observer and prodigiously talented drawer. Anna's satirical and masterful charcoal drawings capturing online life, are the focus of Look, Look. Anna Park, at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Archie Moore has won the top honour at one of the world's most prestigious and oldest art festivals – the Venice Biennale--  for a monumental work showing thousands of years of family lineage, and invoking lives lost under the colonial state.Monsignor Alberto Rocca is an Italian priest and art curator who has a singular job: accompanying pages from Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus, to the other side of the world. This Codex is the largest collection of Leonardo's drawings and notes, made up of thousand pages.  After spending so much time with Leonardo's works  as curator of the Ambrosiana Library in Milan, Rocca has some theories about the Renaissance polymath.'Unshakable destiny' was how democracy and self-rule was supposed to manifest for the people of Hong Kong, according to the last British Governor. Nikki Lam has been working on a trilogy of art films about that promise, as personal tragedy and the impact of the city's new laws alter her relationship to her homeland. The unshakable destiny is on at the Centre for Contemporary Photography.

Visnja Brdar's art motto is “The more nothing, the better”. She is one of this country's most internationally successful graphic designers, the child of Croatian migrants who took her solo agency from Melbourne to New York,  head-first into the competitive world of international branding -- and she's the subject of the first significant art survey of a female graphic designer in Australia, Visnja Brdar: Design Exalted at MUMA.Inner sanctum is the title of the 2024 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Rosa Ellen speaks with three of the artists taking part: Lawrence English, George Cooley, Ruha Fifita and curator Jose Da Silva.  The chamber music is ‘All Flesh is Fire', sung by the Adelaide Chamber Singers, composed by Anne Cawrse, conducted by Christie Anderson, recorded by Jakub Gaudasinski.

Image Caption: Marikit Santiago, born 1985, Thy Kingdom Come, 2021–22, interior paint, acrylic, oil, pyrography, pen, gold leaf on found cardboard (pen and paint markings by Santi Mateo Santiago and Sarita Santiago), collaboration with Maella Santiago, 167 x 307cm; Courtesy of the artists and The Something Machine, Bellport, New York; photo: Garry Trinh.

Image Caption: Marikit Santiago, born 1985, Thy Kingdom Come, 2021–22, interior paint, acrylic, oil, pyrography, pen, gold leaf on found cardboard (pen and paint markings by Santi Mateo Santiago and Sarita Santiago), collaboration with Maella Santiago, 167 x 307cm; Courtesy of the artists and The Something Machine, Bellport, New York; photo: Garry Trinh.

Evelyn Araluen, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Jazz Money and Ellen van Neerven | In conjunction with the 18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, poets Evelyn Araluen, Jazz Money and Ellen van Neerven share their work and speak with Ali Cobby Eckermann about imagination, community and creating sanctuaries. Event details: Sun 03 Mar, 2:30pm

We meet the Maori artist who's single-handedly reviving the lost cultural tradition of barkcloth making. As a right-wing conservative government winds back the prevalence of Maori culture and the teaching of Te Reo Maori, Nikau Hindin is collaborating with artists from across the Great Ocean for the Biennale of Sydney. She explains the complexities and risks in trying to breathe new life into a cultural practice after more than a century.My Art Crush …is Lavinia Fontana. National Gallery of Victoria curator Laurie Benson has long been fascinated by Europe's first professional female artist, 16th C. Baroque master Lavinia Fontana. First broadcast February 2022.Nik Pantazopoulos has been revisiting all the significant doors in his life. The artist started the exercise alongside  therapy, digging through his memories to capture the flyscreen door of his childhood home, to the intriguing stall door of a train station toilet and the blue door of a cottage on Mykonos. They all represent thresholds in his life. The body of work, Elevation, is on at the 2024 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. 

Be among the first to experience Inner Sanctum. This introductory talk will cover the key themes and artists in the 18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Image caption: Tina Stefanou, born 1984, Hym(e)nals, 2022, four-channel video projection from performance documentation, quadraphonic sound; Courtesy of the artist; photo: Wil Normyl

Jessica Loughlin's work is characterized by a strict reductive sensibility and restricted use of color. Fusing kiln formed sheets of opaque and translucent glass together in flat panels or in thin, geometric compositions and vessels, she alludes to shadow, reflection and refraction. Loughlin's work is influenced by the flat landscapes and salt lakes of South Australia, and the recurring motif of the mirage appears in much of her work. Each piece makes its own poetic statement.  “My work investigates space, seeing distance and understanding how wide-open spaces, particularly of the Australian landscape, affect us. I am fascinated by the unreachable space. The view we look upon, but can never reach. In this minimal landscape, all elements are stripped back, light becomes the landscape, and I am left looking at space, the space between here.…and there. This viewed distance is a place we can never reach, never get to, for as we move towards it, it moves away from you. Is this a real place or is it a projected space of the imagination. My work does not aim to represent this landscape directly but rather induce a state of looking inward and outward simultaneously.”   Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Loughlin is a graduate of the Canberra School of Art under the tutelage of late Stephen Procter. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, the National Gallery of Australia, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh GB, and the Musee de Design et d'Arts Appliques Contemporains in Lausanne, Switzerland. A studio artist for over 20 years, Loughlin has exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 2020, she was only the second Australian to have work selected as a finalist in the Loewe Craft Prize. In 2018, she was awarded the Fuse Glass Prize, and in 2004 and 2007, the Tom Malone Art Prize. She is represented by Sabbia Gallery, Sydney, Australia, and Caterina Tognon, Venice, Italy. A committed and passionate artist who is highly regarded both in Australia and internationally, Loughlin combines her thoughtful and instinctual approach with extraordinary technical skills. With a gentle color palette of soft muted hues, her work often explores ideas of evaporation, space and distance, all inherent in the Australian landscape. Loughlin's work was on view in late 2023 in a solo exhibition near | far at Sabbia Gallery, Sydney, and her piece of light is on national tour as part of the Jamfactory Icon series, accompanied by a monograph of her art Jessica Loughlin: from here published by Wakefield Press. In 2024, Loughlin was selected for and will participate in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia, March 29 through June 2.  

Opening on 29 February, the 18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum, curated by José Da Silva, assembles 24 leading artists and poets for an exhibition that can be seen, heard, and felt at the Art Gallery of South Australia until 2 June. As part of the 2024 Adelaide Festival, Inner Sanctum on Kaurna Yerta unfolds across free exhibitions of new and recent works, live performances, music and public programs, all highlighting our engagement with the world and each other. Curator José Da Silva says, ‘The idea of an ‘inner sanctum' evokes the private, protected, or sacred spaces we create in our homes and communities as a refuge and sanctuary, as well as the faculty of imagination, which allows us to see culture and society differently. Within the exhibition, this takes place in homes and gardens and on walking tracks, and in memories and stories of family and ancestors. It is also seen in locations of special knowledge, sacred activities, cultural environments, and, importantly, in the working spaces of artists and the art museum itself.'In this segment, we hear from Adelaide Biennial Curator, Jose Da Silva who has over twenty years of curatorial experience in Australian art museums, George Cooley, a First Nations Artist and old time Opal miner and community leader from Coober Pedy and  Jess Loughlin, one of Australia's most internationally acclaimed glass artists.

For the past two decades Owen Leong has developed a highly personal art practice that spans sculpture, photography, video, and installation.  Through the lens of his own identity as a queer person of colour, Owen examines the social, political, and cultural forces that impact our lives. Often centring his own body within the frame, Owen has used his practice as a way to locate himself within the world.   In this conversation, Owen talks about the steely determination he has needed to pursue his career and why his decision to undertake a Master of Fine Art at the University of NSW was viewed as 'somewhat controversial' by his family.   To view Owen's works of art in Newcastle Art Gallery's collection, visit www.nag.org.au/podcast Conversations from the Collection is a Newcastle Art Gallery podcast. Find new episodes weekly until Wednesday 14 February 2024.  Developed by Newcastle Art Gallery Hosted & Produced by Zana Kobayashi Produced, Edited and Music by Duke's CreationsResearch by Tulleah Pearce & Pippa Budge Mixed by Sawtooth Studio See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we speak with one of Australia's foremost contemporary artists, Lindy Lee. Throughout her life and practice, Lindy has sought the answer to one of the most fundamental questions - where do I belong? This investigation began in her childhood as a first-generation Chinese-Australian growing up in Brisbane during the 1950s and 60s. During the early years of her art practice, Lindy explored themes of family, personal identity, and history. Later, as Lindy began to engage with Taoism and Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism, this question expanded to examine her place within what she calls 'the cosmos'. Lindy's monumental public sculptures feature prominently outside many of our national institutions. With a career spanning over four decades, Lindy has also achieved widespread international acclaim, showcasing her work in counties such as Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Singapore. To view Lindy's works of art in Newcastle Art Gallery's collection, visit www.nag.org.au/podcast Conversations from the Collection is a Newcastle Art Gallery podcast. Find new episodes weekly until Wednesday 14 February 2024.  Developed by Newcastle Art Gallery Hosted & Produced by Zana Kobayashi Produced, Edited and Music by Duke's CreationsResearch by Tulleah Pearce Mixed by Sawtooth Studio See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In our second episode, we speak with palawa artist Jemima Wyman, who lives and works between Brisbane and Los Angeles.  For the past 15 years, Jemima has collected images of protests from around the globe to use in her intricate collages. Jemima is interested in camouflage and how it is strategically used by resistance movements. Patterns and masking are repeating motifs in her artmaking and through this work she makes visible the shared visual language of public demonstration. Jemima's layered hand-cut collages contain thousands of images from her ever-expanding archive. She extensively documents the source, date, and location of each image. This data then forms the titles of her works of art. Reading like a history of protest, her longest title to date reaches over 13,000 words. To view Jemima's works of art in Newcastle Art Gallery's collection, visit www.nag.org.au/podcast Conversations from the Collection is a Newcastle Art Gallery podcast. Find new episodes weekly until Wednesday 14 February 2024.  Developed by Newcastle Art Gallery Hosted & Produced by Zana Kobayashi Produced, Edited and Music by Duke's CreationsResearch by Tulleah Pearce Mixed by Sawtooth Studio See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What happens when we see real events and meet well-known people on stage? How can the theatre shape our sense of our own history? Those questions are raised by a new Australian play called Sunday. It features a knockout performance from Nikki Shiels as the famous Australian arts patron Sunday Reed.Also, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage is renowned for her incisive, moving and witty plays about the intersections of race and class in America. The playwright joins us to reflect on her storied career and how her work taps into larger political conversations. This year, the Sydney Theatre Company will stage her play Sweat.

In our first episode, we visit the home and studio of Newcastle-based artist Lottie Consalvo. Lottie's practice explores our invisible worlds - the unknown and the intangible, often drawing on feelings such as desire, longing, and loss. Through her diverse practice, Lottie has continued to examine these ideas using painting, performance, video, and sculpture. While elements of Lottie's work touch on difficult subject matter, she is also a romantic and joyful artist whose intentional and philosophical engagement with the world flows between her personal and professional life. To view Lottie's works of art in Newcastle Art Gallery's collection, visit www.nag.org.au/podcast Conversations from the Collection is a Newcastle Art Gallery podcast. Find new episodes weekly until Wednesday 14 February 2024.  Developed by Newcastle Art Gallery Hosted & Produced by Zana Kobayashi Produced, Edited and Music by Duke's CreationsResearch by Tulleah Pearce Mixed by Sawtooth Studio See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this interview episode for Bad Diaries Podcast, Jenny talks with curator, writer and art historian Emily McCulloch Childs. Emily loves diaries, life writing, and writers' journals; her own earliest diary (velveteen-covered, horse-emblazoned) dates to when she was ten years old.Jenny and Emily talk about how they first met as anonymous bloggers in the 2010s, the freedom of not having to be ‘writery' on their blogs, the sense of liberation that anonymity gave, and how blogging could become a kind of online diary.They discuss diaries as a cultural snapshot, and as revealing not only the inner life of the diarist, but of the other people around us while we are writing. They ask: do we write diaries to record, or to process, or both? And they consider the act of going back to the past and reading old diaries; how does it make us feel?Emily McCulloch Childs is a curator, writer, art historian, researcher, gallerist, publisher, fundraiser and maker, co-author & publisher of McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art and McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art: the complete guide, and author of New Beginnings: Classic Paintings from the Corrigan Collection of 21st century Aboriginal Art.Since 2003 she has been co-director of art company McCulloch & McCulloch with her mother, Susan McCulloch. They began exhibiting art in 2009, and established a home gallery at their family house ‘Whistlewood' on the Mornington Peninsula, with a focus on Aboriginal art. In 2019 they opened Everywhen Artspace in Flinders, and now work with over 40 communities, 300 artists and 25 Aboriginal owned NFP art centres.Since 2013 Emily has been the founding curator of The Indigenous Jewellery Project, Australia's first national contemporary jewellery project working with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander jewellers.Find full show notes for this episode on the Bad Diaries Salon website baddiariessalon.com, or get in touch via Twitter, Instagram or Facebook – we're @baddiariessalon everywhere.Thanks for joining us for Bad Diaries Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review us, wherever you get your podcasts.Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.

Tomorrow, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki will be opening Ever Present: First Peoples Art Of Australia.  This exhibition has travelled from National Gallery of Australia and The Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art to bring art of Australia's first peoples from 1890 till today, showcasing over 160 artists.  This will be open from Saturday 29 July – Sunday 29 October 2023. I had a yarn with Toi o Tāmaki's senior curator of Māori Art, Nathan Pōhio, about the exhibition. 

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight, Vice President of Actor's Equity for the MEAA breaks down the US writers and actors strike, uncovering how streaming and AI technologies have threatened livelihoods in film and the potential impacts of this on Australian art; Leading actors Jacob Warner and Rose Riley on how their ages and close friendship have informed a deeper exploration of love in their portrayals of Romeo and Juliet in the latest production by Bell Shakespeare; Curator Catlin Langford and artist Buzz Gardiner on their photography exhibition ‘Walking Through The Darkness',  at the Centre of Contemporary Photography, celebrating photography's ability to capture the darkness of stories with light.

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Set against the backdrop of the Elder Wing of Australian Art, see the FIFA Women's World Cup™ Trophy up close and join AGSA's Assistant Director, Artistic Programs, Dr Lisa Slade, Natasha Stott Depoja and Japan Football sensation Aya Miyama for a conversation around the contemporary heroes. Discover insights about how girls and women are defying expectations, both in and out of football.

Join Emma Fey, Assistant Director, Operations as she speaks on the Elder Wing of Australian Art. Photo: Morgan Sette.

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Tracey Lock, Curator of Australian Art, discusses Milton Moon: Crafting Modernism. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Saul Steed

Anne Ryan is the Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney. She sees her role as both custodian of a significant public collection and that of interpreter, sharing the histories and stories of the artworks and the artists who made them. She speaks with a warmth and enthusiasm that is engaging and enjoyable. Anne is also the curator in charge of the wildly popular Archibald, Wynn and Sulman annual prize exhibitions at the Gallery and the Dobell Drawing Biennial which is shifting our understanding of what is traditionally understood as drawing. Her approach is refreshingly egalitarian, with an inherent respect for the depth and breadth of artistic practice and a genuine curiosity to keep looking and thinking about it. You'll enjoy listening to Anne so much you'll want to follow her journey and commentary on Australian art through her Instagram @timpetill Image credits: Anne Ryan Exterior of the South Building, Art Gallery of NSW, 2018 Find more conversations about art on our Instagram @FineArtFiona. Thank you to Producer: Simon Grant Verb Syndicate; Editor: Mitchell Jones; Graphic Designer: Max Pasalic.

It's  a bit like the art world State of Origin: two rival cities go head to head with big exhibitions showcasing the best of Australian contemporary art and design. The prize? Your attention, column inches, buzz and kudos. Daniel takes a tour of Melbourne Now and The National, held across Sydney's major galleries..

It's  a bit like the art world State of Origin: two rival cities go head to head with big exhibitions showcasing the best of Australian contemporary art and design. The prize? Your attention, column inches, buzz and kudos. Daniel takes a tour of Melbourne Now and The National, held across Sydney's major galleries..

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. AGSA's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Australian Art curators will introduce the new display Cosmos in Gallery 1 of the Elder Wing. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au

What happens when we see real events and meet well-known people on stage? Can the theatre shape our sense of our own history? Those questions are raised by a new Australian play called Sunday, featuring a knockout performance from Nikki Shiels as arts patron Sunday Reed. Also, we're joined by the writer of Sunday, Anthony Weigh, to discuss what responsibilities artists have to truth and accuracy in stories based on actual events, and we continue our discussion of Australian history and theatre with the writer of a new play inspired by the shocking true events that rendered an Australian town uninhabitable.

What happens when we see real events and meet well-known people on stage? Can the theatre shape our sense of our own history? Those questions are raised by a new Australian play called Sunday, featuring a knockout performance from Nikki Shiels as arts patron Sunday Reed.Also, we're joined by the writer of Sunday, Anthony Weigh, to discuss what responsibilities artists have to truth and accuracy in stories based on actual events, and we continue our discussion of Australian history and theatre with the writer of a new play inspired by the shocking true events that rendered an Australian town uninhabitable.

In our first episode, we speak with one of Australia's foremost abstract painters Virginia Cuppaidge. This conversation traverses Virginia's time in New York, her relationship to Feminism, and her changing identity as an Australian artist who spent much of her career overseas. To view Virginia's works of art in Newcastle Art Gallery's collection, visit www.nag.org.au/podcast Conversations from the Collection is a Newcastle Art Gallery podcast. Find new episodes weekly until Wednesday 8 February 2023.  Developed by Newcastle Art Gallery Hosted & Produced by Zana Kobayashi Produced, Edited and Music by Duke's Creations Mixed by Sawtooth Studio See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“The ideas that we attribute to bodies are arbitrary and often accepted but don't really exist,” says Zoë Bastin in our latest podcast series, Conflated. “Bodies are very malleable substances that can become whatever they want.”Conflated is a short series centred on the ideas of inflation and conflation, linking with a touring exhibition aptly titled, Conflated. Whether metaphorical or material, ideas of inflation and deflation can be taken in creative, environmental, and political ways. The 11 contemporary artists in Conflated show this in myriad forms—which Bastin speaks to.Bastin is one of the co-curators and exhibiting artists in Conflated. While known for her dance and choreography practice, Bastin also works across sculpture, video, radio and printmaking.Bastin talks about the ideas behind Conflated—both as an exhibition and a concept—as well as how she began dancing at an incredibly young age, how dance can be a gendered form, and what transformative possibilities Bastin looks to beyond this. We also talk about queer politics, shame, how bodies are objectified in art and life, and Bastin's advice to younger artists.With a current showing at ANU School of Art and Design Gallery, NETS Victoria are touring Conflated nationally throughout 2022 and 2023:ANU School of Art and Design Gallery(Canberra ACT)29 September—4 NovemberLogan Art Gallery(Logan QLD)29 July 2023—3 September 2023Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery(Swan Hill VIC)1 October 2023—3 December 2023This series is kindly sponsored by NETS Victoria who are nationally touring Conflated, assisted by assisted by the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. Produced and presented by Tiarney Miekus, engineering by Patrick Telfer, and music by Mino Peric.

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Tracey Lock, Curator of Australian Art, speaks on new acquisition by Fred Williams in Gallery 6. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Saul Steed

Curator of Decorative Arts & Design, Rebecca Evans will introduce you to the work of nineteenth century British artist and designer, William Morris and his company Morris & Co. Dr. Lisa Slade will take you on a journey through the Australian Art collection and will include works of art by South Australian-born artists who travelled to Europe, such as Dorrit Black, Margaret Preston and Jeffrey Smart.

I had Krystii Melaine on the podcast today. She was born and raised in a very small town in southeastern Australia called Bairnsdale and followed her love of art up and down, trying to find her path. Eventually, she found her way into America and started painting Western art, which was a thing she didn't even know existed. Fast forward to today and she's one of the top artists in America painting wildlife and western figurative realism. She's done Native American subjects as well as cowboy subjects and is in more than 25 museum collections.It's just really fun to just hear how somebody from a little town in Australia can have a dream that a lot of us in the art world have/ had and pursue it so successfully. That's a big deal, right? To leave your country,  leave your family and friends,  follow your dream, and find success and security from your passion.Krystii will tell you her motto is: "How hard could it be?" Well, let me tell you, achieving what Krystii has achieved is incredibly difficult. It's something to be applauded. So if you're anything like me you'll find this podcast very interesting. I had a great time listening to her, she's just so upbeat, fun, and authentic. Krystii Melaine on Art Dealer Diaries Podcast Number 193.

Evi O is one of the world's most sought after book designers. If you love cooking, interiors and design books, chances are Evi O has designed that book you are reading. Evi grew up in Indonesia and moved to Australia on her own at aged 17. She was destined for big things. After studying visual communications at uni, she landed the dream role as a book designer for Penguin books, staying there for over eight years before starting her own design studio.A big believer in the power of manifesting your dreams, Evi explains how she imagines what she wants and how it all seems to fall into place.. with a lot of hard work and creativity too.On the side of being Australia's most popular book designer, Evi O is also an accomplished artist and has exhibited at Sydney Contemporary.She shares her wisdom on creativity, running a small design business and making time to enjoy life.Thank you to KING for supporting this series of House of Style. You can follow KING on Instagram at @kingliving and shop online at www.kingliving.com For more info and inspiration, head to our Instagram @houseofstylepodcast Check out the KING Life Through Design Journal for more ideas and check out how we've styled some KING pieces in our own homes.Thanks to @these.walls for the beautiful wallpaper in our cover art.

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Elle Freak, Associate Curator of Australian Paintings and Sculpture, introduces a major new acquisition on display in the Elder Wing of Australian Art. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Hear about Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free State from Sebastian Goldspink, curator of the exhibition in preparation for your visit to the Gallery with your students. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au photo: Nat Rogers

Our guest for this episode is one of our favourite Australian artists - Antonia Perrcone.Growing up in a tight-knit multi-cultural community in Sydney's western suburbs, Antonia was raised in a traditional Italian household where everything was made by hand, including her clothes. This interest in clothes landed her first job - assistant fashion stylist for David Jones's advertising department, at 16. She then became lead stylist for the brand and freelanced for other brands and a tv station.After having children, her passion for art and desire to have an education grew strong, so she enrolled into art school at age 46. Since graduating, she has taken many leaps up the art world ranks to now one of Australia's leading artists. Her accolades all stem from just a simple longing to feel creatively fulfilled.As friends of Antonia, we couldn't be prouder. Not only is she incredibly talented, she is also one of the kindest, most thoughtful and friendliest women in the art world. We are so excited to share her story with you.Thank you to KING for supporting this series of House of Style. You can follow KING on Instagram at @kingliving and shop online at www.kingliving.com For more info and inspiration, head to our Instagram @houseofstylepodcast Check out the KING Life Through Design Journal for more ideas and check out how we've style some KING pieces in our own homes. Thanks to @these.walls for the beautiful wallpaper in our cover art.

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