Podcast appearances and mentions of wendy whiteley

Nascosto nella splendida baia di Lavender a Sydney, il Wendy's Secret Garden ha visto la luce grazie al lavoro instancabile di Wendy Whiteley, vedova di Brett Whiteley, uno degli artisti contemporanei più famosi d'Australia, scomparso prematuramente nel 1992.

Here's what you'll discover in this episode:  In this episode of Biographers in Conversation Ashleigh Wilson chats with Gabriella about his book: A Year with Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening. Here's what you'll discover in this episode:  Ashleigh Wilson shares his inspiration for writing A Year with Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening and why he refers to the book as a conversational portrait rather than as a biography.  Ashleigh explains why he opened the book with a detailed description of Wendy Whiteley's kitchen table.  He discloses why he framed each chapter around a particular topic and why he kept returning to the kitchen table as the central anchor.  Ashleigh reveals how knowing Wendy Whiteley influenced how he portrayed her and the complexities of writing about a living subject.  He also outlines the novelistic devices he employed to evoke an authentic portrayal of Australia's art world in the 1960s and 70s, and the extent to which he interpreted Wendy's character and behaviour versus providing facts and clues and leaving it to readers to form their own interpretations. https://biographersinconversation.com Facebook: Share Your Life Story Linkedin: Gabriella Kelly Davies Instagram: Biographersinconversation

Chair: Katrina Strickland Wendy Whiteley has long been responsible for Brett Whiteley's legacy, but she is also an artist in her own right and an important figure in the Australian art world. How does the role of 'keeper of the flame' impact on the inheritor of that task? Should we separate Brett Whiteley and his behavior from his art? Ashleigh Wilson talks about his year-long conversation with Wendy Whiteley and what he discovered about one of our most iconic 'brothers of the brush'. Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 3:45pm on the West Stage

A great interview has range and depth, humour and pathos, and who better to deliver that than Wendy Whiteley, former wife of the late artist Brett Whiteley and creator of Wendy's Secret Garden in Sydney's Lavender Bay, in discussion with her friend, journalist Ashleigh Wilson, who has just written a book – A year with Wendy: Conversations about Art – to be released next week by Text Publishing.In this episode, Whiteley opens up about everything from the way great women are hidden within our histories (including her own), to the “sex, drugs and rock'n'roll" of 1960s London and New York, to the rubbish dump out the front of her home in Lavender Bay that she turned into a heritage-listed garden.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Australian soprano Julie Lea Goodwin has been one of our busiest singers since she joined Opera Australia in 2015. Last year alone, she performed an extraordinary range of roles: Maria in West Side Story on Sydney Harbour, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Musetta in La Bohème, and Madame Cortese in Il Viaggio a Reims. She also impressively created the role of Wendy Whiteley in the world premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin's opera, Whiteley. In this interview with our Artistic Director, Lyndon Terracini, Julie Lea talks about handling such diverse repertoire, making her way to opera via musical theatre, and what attracts her to certain roles. She also offers a special preview of The Merry Widow, which she'll be starring in at the Sydney Opera House in January 2021.

Elena Kats-Chernin and Justin Fleming have written a new work for Opera Australia about the life of the brilliant, troubled Australian artist Brett Whiteley, in the second instalment of The Cost of Art, Hannah Reich speaks to theatre-maker Declan Greene, dancer and choreographer Anna Seymour and Urban Theatre Projects' Jessica Olivieri, theatre critic Tim Byrne reviews Bell Shakespeare's new production of Much Ado About Nothing, and an Australian production of Bring It On: The Musical with music and lyrics co-written by Lin-Manuel Miranda is now on tour.

Elena Kats-Chernin and Justin Fleming have written a new work for Opera Australia about the life of the brilliant, troubled Australian artist Brett Whiteley, in the second instalment of The Cost of Art, Hannah Reich speaks to theatre-maker Declan Greene, dancer and choreographer Anna Seymour and Urban Theatre Projects' Jessica Olivieri, theatre critic Tim Byrne reviews Bell Shakespeare's new production of Much Ado About Nothing, and an Australian production of Bring It On: The Musical with music and lyrics co-written by Lin-Manuel Miranda is now on tour.

Wendy Whiteley and director Kim Carpenter on Brett & Wendy... A Love Story Bound by Art at Sydney Festival, Gabriella Coslovich on Mona Foma in Launceston, a political debate over Sydney's Powerhouse Museum in arts news with Claire Nichols, and curator Barry Pearce on the national touring exhibition Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul.

Wendy Whiteley and director Kim Carpenter on Brett & Wendy... A Love Story Bound by Art at Sydney Festival, Gabriella Coslovich on Mona Foma in Launceston, a political debate over Sydney's Powerhouse Museum in arts news with Claire Nichols, and curator Barry Pearce on the national touring exhibition Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul.

Poet Kathryn Fry reads a number of poems from her latest poetry collection Green Point Bearings and talks about the book's inspiration, how many of the poems came about and how the collection came together, her interest in the natural world, on mindfulness and the power of paying attention, on Ekphrasis and the paintings of Margaret Olly, the notion of 'grace from loss' and Wendy Whiteley's secret garden, on her mentorship with Brook Emery, what she's currently reading and inspired by, and much more.  Here are links to a few of the things we spoke about: Green Point Bearings Wendy Whiteley's Garden Jean Kent's Paris in my pocket John Foulcher's A Casual Penance

The new documentary feature, WHITELEY is a visual journey into the private life and creative legacy of Australia’s most iconic artist, Brett Whiteley, told 'in his own words' using personal letters, notebooks and photographs, interwoven with reconstructions, animations, archival interviews and rare footage. NAVA's Penelope Benton met with Wendy Whiteley to chat about the challenges of being an artist in Australia and what it takes to make it internationally.

At only 32 years of age, Natasha Bieniek has been awarded the Wynne prize for landscape painting, the Portia Geach Memorial award for portrait painting and the Metro art award, has been a five time finalist in the Archibald prize, a three time finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait prize and has been shortlisted in many others. Impressive as that is, what's more amazing about Bieniek’s work is its size. Her winning Wynne prize painting 'Biophilia' was only 9cm square and her portrait of Wendy Whiteley, which was highly commended by the trustees in the 2016 Archibald prize, is only  13.5cm x 18.5cm. She is without doubt a master of the miniature. Bieniek has exhibited in six solo shows, across Australia and overseas, and in many group shows. The National Portrait Gallery held an exhibition in 2014, ‘In the Flesh’, where 14 of her miniature portraits were included, borrowed from private collections. In our conversation, Bieniek reveals how it was not all smooth sailing at the beginning and talks about how nature in the urban environment has inspired her work. She also provides details about her process which reveal the intensive labour involved in creating her exquisite paintings. To hear Maria Stoljar's conversation with Natasha Bieniek press 'play' above and scroll down to see the works they talk about on the podcast Video of Natasha Bieniek in her studio can be seen on YouTube here Upcoming events Sydney Contemporary, Sydney, as part of a group show curated by Dianne Tanzer and This Is No Fantasy  - September 2017 Links to things and people we talk about on the show Natasha Bieniek at This is No Fantasy + Dianne Tanzer Gallery Natasha Bieniek at Jan Murphy Gallery Natasha Bieniek on Instagram Victoria Reichelt Wynne Prize Portia Geach Memorial Award Archibald Prize Michael Brand Wendy Whiteley Wendy Whiteley and the Secret Garden by Janet Hawley Brett Whiteley Natasha Bieniek talks with Maria Stoljar in her studio on the Talking with Painters YouTube channel (below) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y17eJu-IKEk  

Presenters and guests are Pam Vardy, Millie Ross - researcher, ABC Gardening Australia, Simon Rickard - author, horticulturist and tour guide, AB Bishop, author and horticulturist, and special guest Wendy Whiteley - "The Secret Garden".