Podcasts by The Art Show

Marco Fusinato, Lala Deen Dayal and an art gallery mines its collection for queer stories from 2022-04-20T10:05

Marco Fusinato is representing Australia at the 2022 Venice Biennale with work for 'monstrous times'. Plus, artworks that tell queer stories selected from the collection of the National Gallery of ...

Victor Ehikhamenor + Benin bronzes, pottery in a midnight garden and Nathan Beard's tropical fruit from 2022-04-13T10:05

Victor Ehikhamenor is one of Nigeria’s most prominent artists and calls for the Benin bronzes, the looted cultural treasures of Edo State, to be repatriated. So what did he do when he was asked to ...

David Noonan's mystery collage and Hoda Afshar on the people possessed by the wind from 2022-04-06T10:05

David Noonan makes intriguing black-and-white collage of people in often liminal states. But despite their evocative drama, his pictures don't tell a story. Plus, Hoda Afshar's photographic project...

Home truths: Ian Strange, Sera Waters and spotlight on feminist artist Frances Phoenix from 2022-03-30T10:05

Ian Strange uses entire houses -slated for demolition- as his canvas, exploring the symbolism of 'home' through eras of unaffordability and urban development. Plus, meet Irish artist Sean Lynch ons...

The artist defending rivers, a Russian art museum forced to react and Dennis Golding's Redfern from 2022-03-23T10:05

Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo gives voice to rivers dammed for huge hydroelectric projects. What happens when the art world turns its back on Russia's major contemporary art museum? And Dennis ...

Know My Name S2 ep 7: Elaine Russell from 2022-03-22T01:30:47

Aunty Elaine Russell has legendary status in her home town of Sydney. She was an artist and storyteller who inspired many, and whose work has been acquired by a number of Australia's major gallerie...

Isaac Julien, Leda and the Swan retold and why you should know Thanakupi from 2022-03-16T10:05

British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien on his latest works: a spellbinding interpretation of Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi and a portrait of 19th C. abolitionist Fredrick Dougla...

Know My Name S2 ep 6: Jennifer Herd from 2022-03-15T01:39:39

Jennifer Herd is a Mbarbarrum artist and founding member of Brisbane's proppaNOW art collective.

Flooded art galleries, Stanislava Pinchuk on Ukraine and celebrating Ethel Spowers from 2022-03-09T10:05

Floods have ravaged art galleries and studios in northern New South Wales. We hear from a gallery director and artist Megan Cope. Plus Ukrainian-Australian artist Stanislava Pinchuk. And a spotligh...

Know My Name S2 ep 5: Dianne Jones from 2022-03-08T01:39:22

Dianne Jones is a provocative photo-media artist who manipulates images from colonial art to give prominence to Indigenous people.

A history of Venus in Art, the artist who lives on a boat and Yul Scarf from 2022-03-02T10:05

The goddess of love has reigned supreme through Western art, but her roots are darker, more ancient and shape-shifting than you'd expect. Historian and TV presenter Prof Bettany Hughes joins Daniel...

Know My Name S2 ep 4: Laurel Nannup from 2022-03-01T01:39:05

Laurel Nannup is a Noongar artist and elder who grew up near Pinjara in Western Australia. As part of the Stolen Generation she was taken from her mother at the age of 8 and sent to the Wanderling ...

The new'canon', Renaissance woman Lavinia Fontana and Atong Atem's collage vision from 2022-02-23T10:05

Who makes up “the canon” in Art today? A new book picks 50 artists from around the world, and across centuries, to take a meaningful snapshot of art masters. Plus, a curator on 16th C. artist Lavin...

Know My Name S2 ep 3: Julie Gough from 2022-02-22T01:38:25

Julie Gough is a Trawlwoolway artist whose practice often refers to her family's experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people and is held in many private collections and major galleries in Australia.

Patricia Piccinini's mutants light up a ballroom, My Art Crush and Thea Anamara Perkins from 2022-02-16T10:05

Patricia Piccinini is Australia’s foremost artist exploring the relationship between humanity and technology, and the ethical tensions it inspires in the viewer. Plus, introducing our new segment M...

Know My Name S2 ep 2: Julie Dowling from 2022-02-15T01:38:08

Julie Dowling is considered one of Australia's greatest exponents of the family portrait, but always with an Indigenous focus.

The radical work of Vivienne Binns from 2022-02-09T10:05:48

Vivienne Binns shocked critics in the 1960s with her joyful paintings of giant genitalia and Dada-inspired assemblages. Now aged 81, she looks back at a vast arts practice that has never stopped qu...

Know My Name S2 ep 1: Fiona Foley from 2022-02-08T02:10:48

Know My Name Series Two: interviews with Indigenous women artists from the ABC archives. In this episode meet Fiona Foley, a Badtjala artist from K'gari in Queensland

The art of mindfulness and women street photographers from 2022-02-02T10:05

How does mindfulness stimulate artists? Meet the artists and curators of a new exhibition exploring mindfulness and meditation, called Presence of Mind. Plus, meet Gulnara Samoilova, founder of the...

Karla Dickens'fearless found objects, the Aboriginal flag as an artwork and clay gone wild from 2022-01-26T10:05

Enter the eclectic studio and thought-provoking work of the Wiradjuri installation artist Karla Dickens. Plus, is the Aboriginal flag, now freed from copyright restrictions, a work of art? And the ...

Anne Wallace and the Beijing Silvermine from 2022-01-12T10:05

Anne Wallace paints film-like scenes of intimacy and psychological tension that speak to iso life and the female gaze. Plus, the found photo archive that documents China's embrace of capitalism.

Hilma af Klint, the art of the book cover and Mary Tonkin's immersive landscapes from 2022-01-05T10:05

The rediscovery of Hilma af Klint's abstract paintings has taken the art world by storm, but what meaning can we find in her powerful, mysterious work?  Plus, artist and designer W.H. Chong on the ...

Video art in the wake of Black Lives Matter, surreal fake food and plein air in the Build Up from 2021-12-15T10:05

Franklin Sirmans is the curator of Family: Visions of a Shared Humanity, an exhibition of video works by renowned Black American, British and Canadian artists, including Arthur Jafa and Garrett Bra...

Life with Jeffrey Smart and Natalya Hughes takes on the shrink's couch from 2021-12-08T10:05

The enduring power of Jeffrey Smart's urban wastelands, and his comparatively beautiful life in Tuscany, as told by the late artist's partner Ermes De Zan. Plus, visit the studio of Natalya Hughes ...

Doug Aitken, Robert Andrew's machines with ochre residue and the lost Leonardo da Vinci from 2021-12-01T10:05

US artist Doug Aitken looks to the future through the hyperconnected present, in New Era.| Plus, enter the studio of Robert Andrew, whose programmable machines imprint ochre residue and missing his...

NFTs: next gen, reclaiming Bougainville and being an'unwilling inspiration' from 2021-11-24T10:05

We take stock of NFTs and hear from three people invested in the future of tokens, including Jonathan Zawada, collaborator to musician Flume. Plus, Bruno Booth on being an 'unwilling inspiration'. ...

Christopher Pease layers Nyoongar iconography over colonial vistas from 2021-11-17T10:05

Christopher Pease wanted to create his own visual language, one that spoke to European art tradition and the hidden iconography of his Nyoongar ancestors.  Plus, the horses that inspire Michael Zav...

Doing Feminism, painting riverscapes and polar ice art at COP26 from 2021-11-10T10:05

A history of feminist art in Australia, painting western Tasmania and ice from a warming planet, at COP26.

A history of Venus in art with Bettany Hughes from 2021-11-03T10:05

The goddess of love has reigned supreme through Western art, but her roots are darker, more ancient and shape-shifting than you'd expect. Historian and TV presenter Prof Bettany Hughes joins Daniel...

Cocktails with a curator, art on the news and Matisse in the Pacific from 2021-10-27T10:05:21

Meet the man behind the hit YouTube series Cocktails with a Curator, from The Frick in New York. Plus, what if the arts were on the nightly TV news, like sport? And artists respond to Matisse's Ta...

Know My Name episode 6: Rosalie Gascoigne from 2021-10-26T02:05

With a bower bird's habit of collecting found objects, Rosalie Gascoigne's sculptures were inspired by her surrounding natural environment. The final episode in this series of radio interviews wit...

Know My Name episode 5: Mari Funaki from 2021-10-25T02:05

An interview with sculptor and metal smith Mari Funaki, who was instrumental in getting Australian contemporary jewellery on the global map. The fifth episode in a pod-only series featuring interv...

Know My Name episode 4: Margaret Olley from 2021-10-24T02:05

A 2009 interview with the artist Margaret Olley, two years before her death. Part of our series featuring interviews with women artists from the ABC archives.

Know My Name episode 3: Ivy Shore from 2021-10-23T02:05

Interviews with women artists from the ABC archives. In 1979 Ivy Shore won Australia's richest art competition for women painters, for a portrait of trail blazing trade unionist Della Elliot.

Know My Name episode 2: Gwyn Hanssen Pigott from 2021-10-22T02:05

Know My Name: interviews with women artists from the ABC archives. Hear Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, one of Australia's most renowned ceramicists, speaking to the ABC’s Julie Copeland in 1994.

Know My Name episode 1: Grace Cossington Smith from 2021-10-21T02:05:25

Introducing Know My Name: interviews with women artists from the ABC archives. In this episode, hear from Grace Cossington Smith. A pioneer of modernism in Australia and one of the country’s most i...

Public art, toppled monuments and the statue in the crate from 2021-10-20T10:05

What do artists think about when making huge public art? Lindy Lee is making the most expensive work commissioned by the NGA, and Judy Watson's bara will grace Sydney's harbour with a giant Gadigal...

'We perpetuate this myth of not having a history': taking art beyond black-white terms from 2021-10-13T10:05

Globally and at home, artists are engaging with the reckoning happening around race and colonisation. But where do recent migrants and refugees to Australia fit into the dialogue?

Fifty years of the Western Desert art movement, Leigh Bowery, Mari Katayama and Darwin street art from 2021-10-06T10:05

It's 50 years since artists from Papunya began painting on board, heralding the Western Desert art movement, 'the last great art movement of the 20th Century' according to one famous critic. Plus, ...

Renaissance amnesia, Vernon Ah Kee, and a mysterious Sydney painting from 2021-09-22T10:05

Do we turn a blind eye to the aggression and militarism — and colonialism — that defined the Italian Renaissance? Plus, hear why artist Vernon Ah Kee can't ignore a distinct Australian brand of rac...

How Instagram has changed how we see and experience art from 2021-09-15T10:05

How has social media giant Instagram changed how we experience art? Experts, artists and critics weigh in on the photo sharing platform, an evolution that's allowed artists to build careers outside...

Maree Clarke, collages of protest and Craig Ruddy's studio from 2021-09-08T10:05

Maree Clarke is a key figure in the reclamation of southeast Australian Aboriginal art. Her three-decade career has centred on the revival and sharing of culture. Plus, Jemima Wyman's collages usin...

What two Hazara artists feel about Afghanistan, and a new art movement is forged in metal from 2021-09-01T10:05

Artists in Afghanistan are facing a frightening future. Australian Hazara artists Khadim Ali and Elyas Alavi speak to Daniel about what’s happening in their homeland. There’s a lot of buzz about 'M...

Cooking Sections art collective, Kathy Temin's fake fur and Ian Fairweather in China from 2021-08-25T10:05

Meet the Turner Prize-nominated UK art collective Cooking Sections, making art about the food we eat, ecology and geopolitics. Plus, how Kathy Temin came to use fake fur for her large-scale monumen...

Anne Wallace, a mystery tomb fresco and art from Western Arnhem Land from 2021-08-18T10:05

Anne Wallace paints film-like scenes of intimacy and psychological tension that speak to iso life and the female gaze. Plus, the ancient tomb art in Southern Italy that told an unexpected story of...

Hilda Rix Nicholas, the art of the book cover and the NATSIAAs from 2021-08-11T10:05

A new biography of the post-Impressionist artist Hilda Rix Nicholas looks at the unusual life and sometimes overlooked career of a great Australian painter. Artist and designer W.H. Chong on the se...

Mapping a lost Beirut and the return of stolen'living gods' from 2021-08-04T10:05

Two artists reflect on what has happened to Beirut since the devastating port explosion one year ago. And an antiquities sleuth and an art academic on the National Gallery of Australia's decision t...

Endurance act: performance art in Australia from 2021-07-28T10:05

Performance art tests the limits of the body and the gallery space. Fiona Kelly McGregor's latest book relives its bracing ascendancy in Sydney's queer and underground scene, and the well-known and...

Breaking the myths of whiteness in classical sculpture from 2021-07-21T10:05

What if the use of white in classical sculpture was just a construct? For the ancient Greeks and Romans, sculptures were brightly-coloured affairs, clad in vivid red gowns with red lips, and pink o...

Artist Dale Harding joins forces with mother Kate, and a war photographer snaps the climate crisis from 2021-07-14T10:05

The mother-and-son collaboration of artists Dale and Kate Harding works across generations, artforms —and worlds. Textile artist Kate makes quilts, while Dale’s work is most commonly seen in the ra...

Betty Muffler: the phenomenal artist healing country from 2021-07-07T10:05

The Art Show’s new presenter Daniel Browning finds Indigenous artists who enact healing and cultural rejuvenation through their artwork – from senior Pitjantjatjara elder and Betty Muffler, whose p...

Surrealists at sea, fake food, and the Beijing Silvermine from 2021-06-30T10:05

Czech brothers Dušan and Voitre Marek escaped communist political repression for Australia, but their Surrealist art was met with incomprehension in 1950s Australia. Now decades of their vibrant ar...

The wondrous Hilma af Klint, Tania Ferrier's angry underwear and the question of portraiture from 2021-06-23T10:05

The rediscovery of Hilma af Klint's abstract paintings has taken the art world by storm, but what meaning can we find in her powerful, mysterious work? The curator of the largest exhibition to reac...

Goya, Tik Tok art history and wine that draws from 2021-06-16T10:05

How does Francisco Goya help us make sense of the chaos of our contemporary world, and its depths of suffering? Then, discover art history through TikTok… and a contemporary sculpture powered by wi...

Portrait of a nation: the Archibald at 100 from 2021-06-09T10:05

Australia's Archibald portrait prize has been running for 100 years and remains wildly popular with punters, with its spats and controversies often more memorable than its artworks. What lies behin...

'Frankenstein was a really bad parent': Patricia Piccinini's mutants light up a ballroom from 2021-06-02T10:05

Patricia Piccinini returns to press our ethical buttons with new hyper-real silicon sculptures, staged in a hidden ballroom above Melbourne's busiest train station. Pus, what's the state of drawin...

Behind the portraits of the cult'Aussie'poster series from 2021-05-26T10:05

For years now, Peter Drew's been challenging notions of Australian identity in his 'Aussie' poster series — join him as he pastes up his next series around Melbourne's laneways. Then hear about how...

Finding Australia's lost impressionist, and the beauty in gumnuts from 2021-05-19T10:05

Who exactly was Iso Rae, the Melbourne-born impressionist painter who honed her craft in northern France? Plus, a different take on a distinctly Australian 'ready-made' — the gumnut — with Colombia...

'It lit a fire in me': How Atong Atem flips the ethnographic gaze from 2021-05-12T10:05

Australian-South Sudanese artist Atong Atem brilliantly flips the Ethnographic gaze to create gorgeous studio portraits with a powerful statement. Plus, how does the medium of video art exist in t...

Hostile topographies, the iPhone miniature and museums in the age of COVID-19 from 2021-05-05T10:05

How do you turn the stark geographical facts of war and conflict into art? And how do you do it authentically and sensitively, from the far-off shores of Australia? Stanislava Pinchuk started makin...

'It's a sculpture'— understanding and protecting Australia's oldest art from 2021-04-28T10:05

The partial destruction of the 1,500-year-old stone sculptural arrangement in Victoria’s western district added to the devastating tally of damaged First Nations art and cultural sites. Museums Vic...

'This is Aotearoa's First of everything'— Yuki Kihara goes to the Venice Biennale from 2021-04-21T10:05

Yuki Kihara's reaction to being chosen to represent Aotearoa/New Zealand in the 2021 Venice Biennale was to scream at the top of her lungs. But with it came a huge sense of responsibility: "If I f*...

Khadim Ali's Invisible Border from 2021-04-14T10:05

Khadim Ali began his art career painting propaganda murals in Iran before training in Persian miniatures and eventually finding his way to Australia. Now the acclaimed Hazara artist is launching hi...

Candid camera: William Yang on his life in photography from 2021-04-07T10:05

Photographer William Yang has been turning the camera on himself and his community with equal candour for four decades. Now he dusts off the film for the largest survey of his work yet. Plus, when...

Vernon Ah Kee and Liz Ann Macgregor from 2021-03-31T10:05

Brisbane-based artist Vernon Ah Kee has been making art that asks hard questions for nearly two decades, critiquing systems and racial inequality in contemporary Australia. Plus an interview with ...

Yhonnie Scarce, Dirty Three's Mick Turner, and the joy of zines from 2021-03-24T10:05

Yhonnie Scarce creates hand-blown glass installations that express the trauma of atomic testing at Maralinga in the 1950s and 60s, and the impact of colonisation. Enter the studio of painter and ...

Robert Owen, shoemaker Claire Best and the crazy world of NFTs from 2021-03-17T10:05

Namila meets the abstract artist Robert Owen at a new retrospective. Plus, enter the studio of a bespoke shoemaker mixing art and high fashion. And an artist and journalist explain the phenomenon o...

Four women artists tackling the environmental and body issues of the everyday from 2021-03-10T10:05

Is there a fear of the older female nude? Flesh After Fifty is an exhibition about women’s bodies over the age of 50. Plus, Gabby O’Connor is tackling how to communicate the risk of climate chang...

Kay Rufai's smiling boys, lush landscapes and the secret history of tattoos from 2021-03-03T10:05

Kay Rufai's Smile-ing Boys Project flips negative stereotypes and perceptions associated with young black boys to create healing and social change. Plus, head into the bush with immersive landscap...

Hoda Afshar and Clarice Beckett from 2021-02-24T10:05

Photographer Hoda Afshar turns 110 camera lenses on well-known Australian whistle-blowers for her work 'Agonistes'. And walk in the footsteps of modernist Clarice Beckett, the subject of a new ret...

Rescue dogs and the good life: the art of Lucy Culliton from 2021-02-17T10:05

Artist Lucy Culliton paints almost exclusively her own homelife on the farm. She takes us through her inspiration and philosophy, including the importance of rescue animals in her life – all eight ...

Love stories of 20th century art from 2021-02-10T10:05

Art historian Kate Bryan on her favourite Art love stories of the 20th Century. Filmmaker-turned-photographer Amos Gebhardt guides us through ‘Small acts of resistance’, a glittering triptych of q...

The long journey to Slow Art from 2021-02-03T10:05

Savanhdary Vongpoothorn on the family stories and mythical sagas at play in her meditative Slow Art. Plus, step into the outback landscapes of painter Zhou Xiaoping. And two artists discuss a ne...

Refik Anadol: the artist bringing AI dreams to life from 2021-01-27T10:05

The visionary Turkish artist and his studio collaborate with computers to make hallucinatory public art. We go into the studio of Kate Just, who's knitting a feminist project bound for the Museum ...

Lindy Lee and Areej Nur from 2020-12-23T10:05

Influential artist Lindy Lee reflects on her long career; plus the art collective Still Nomads claiming new space for young African Australian artists.

Confronting our fraught family histories from 2020-12-16T10:05

Megan Evans is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator whose art examines Australia's colonial history, looking at the impact that history has had on her own life and the lives of Aboriginal and To...

What does access look like in the arts? from 2020-12-02T10:05

Carly Findlay OAM joins The Art Show to celebrate International Day of People with Disability. Carly and Namila discuss access and creativity with installation artist Eugenie Lee, painter Digby Web...

Judy Watson on using beauty to confront Australia's colonial history from 2020-11-18T10:05

In her latest work, artist Judy Watson investigates our relationship to ancient sites, drawing viewers in with beguiling works of art that ask us to confront Australia's brutal colonial history

Polly Borland:'The difficult things have to be looked at' from 2020-11-11T10:05

Australian artist Polly Borland reflects on politics, grown up men dressing as babies and why her art sometimes makes people feel uncomfortable.  

Griselda Pollock:'It's a delusion to think you make any progress' from 2020-11-04T10:05

Griselda Pollock, Holberg Prize winner and professor of art history at the University of Leeds, discusses the absence of women in Western art history and how she believes it's delusional to think s...

Kay Rufai on creating change with black boy joy from 2020-10-28T10:05

Kay Rufai's Smile-ing Boys Project is a visual and audio project that flips negative stereotypes and perceptions associated with young black boys on their head to create healing and social change.

Michael Zavros on Money, Migration and Mannequins from 2020-10-21T10:05

Art and life tend to merge in the work of Australian artist Michael Zavros, but the man at the centre of his new collection of images - the handsome middle-aged guy who looks exactly like Michael! ...

Hetti Perkins and Australia's 40,000 year history of artists as cultural activists from 2020-10-14T10:05

Curator Hetti Perkins discusses how artists and activists have always put their lives and livelihoods on the line for their communities.

Brook Andrew is leading artists in urgent times from 2020-10-07T10:05

Brook Andrew's passions have never been contained to the artist's studio, from his interest in the anonymous sitters of early ethnographic photographs and memorials to the lives lost in Australia's...

Lindy Lee on finding belonging as an artist from 2020-09-30T10:05

Lindy Lee reflects on what it means to belong as a Chinese Australian artist living and working in Australia today.

Olivia Laing on loneliness and repair from 2020-09-23T10:05

British writer and critic Olivia Laing reflects on loneliness and the ways art can repair broken societies.

Art and creativity in Papua New Guinea from 2020-09-16T10:05

To mark 45 years of Independence for Papua New Guinea, we explore the role that art has played in the country's development and engagement with Australia since 1975.

Abdul-Rahman Abdullah on family, religion and animals from 2020-09-02T10:05

Artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah discusses family, winning the Australian Muslim Artists Art Prize and why his art features so many animals.

Aretha Brown on confidence in activism and art from 2020-08-26T10:05

What role does confidence play in becoming a visual artist? We find out with First Nations Aboriginal activist and artist, Aretha Brown.

John Kaldor on what's next and who he's excited by now from 2020-08-19T10:05

Since successfully bringing Christo's Wrapped Coast to Australia, John Kaldor has become one of the country’s most significant collectors and private patrons. Where to next, and who is he excited b...

Jasmine Togo-Brisby on creating South Sea spaces from 2020-08-12T10:05

Jasmine Togo-Brisby is a fourth-generation Australian South Sea Islander whose work examines her family's stories, including those of her great-grandmother who was just eight years old when she was...

Body talk: Julie Rrap's creative journey around the female form from 2020-08-05T10:05

Artist Julie Rrap has been preoccupied with the female body since the 1980s, so what is her take on the changing politics of the body happening in visual art right now? Painter Ash Keating tells u...

An African Australian art collective making space where there was none from 2020-07-29T10:05

Areej Nur co-founded Still Nomads to create room for the wealth of artistic talent in the African diasporic community. She tells us why it's been such a success and what it exposes in Australia's a...

Sebastian Smee on criticism during COVID from 2020-07-22T10:05

Pulitzer prize-winning Australian art critic Sebastian Smee on finding new ways to work as a critic during the pandemic, being an ally and how he came to art.

Maree Clarke on maintaining cultural practices from 2020-07-08T10:05

After three decades in the visual arts world, Maree Clarke's practice continues to evolve, inspired by places and objects, and even roadkill!

Liz Ann Macgregor on running the most popular contemporary art museum in the world from 2020-07-01T10:05

We meet Liz Ann Macgregor, the museum director who began her career driving a truck around Scotland, and wound up running Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art - the most visited contemporary art mus...

Djon Mundine on creating Aboriginal memorials from 2020-06-24T10:05

Djon Mundine OAM is a writer, curator, activist and self-described 'occasional artist'. He reflects on the importance of creating memorials to Aboriginal people across Australia, including the regi...

Callum Morton on monuments, art and activism from 2020-06-17T10:05

Artist Callum Morton turns his attention to the Sirius Building in The Rocks in Sydney, and reflects on the nature of monuments and activism, in light of the Black Lives Matter protests taking plac...

Lisa Hilli on how her black experience shapes her creativity from 2020-06-10T10:05

Pacific Melanesian artist Lisa Hilli shares how her black experience shapes her creativity, from the texture of her afro hair to capturing the joy of black sisterhood, it's all embedded in her art.

Marking skin with Julia Mage'au Gray from 2020-06-03T10:05

Across Oceania, tattoos or markings are a cultural statement of who you are. Julia Mage'au Gray is an Auckland-based dancer, photographer and filmmaker from Papua New Guinea who is reviving Melanes...

Sandra Hill on art and reconciliation from 2020-05-27T10:05

Sandra Hill was 6 years old when she was taken from her family in 1958. As part of the stolen generation, it wasn't until years later that Sandra found herself able to reconnect with her culture an...

Del Kathryn Barton on the dangers of losing touch with our child selves from 2020-05-20T10:05

Del Kathryn Barton discusses her debut feature film Puff, and the dangers of losing touch with our child selves.

Helen Grace on art and friendship from 2020-05-13T10:05

Has being in isolation changed the way you engage with friends? We speak with artist Helen Grace, whose photography explores ideas of friendship and connection.

Recovery and resilience with Latai Taumoepeau from 2020-05-06T10:05

What happens when your creative tool - your body - shuts down? Tongan Australian performance artist Latai Taumoepeau discusses reconnecting with her body after illness in order to reconnect with he...

Critiquing the'colonial propaganda'in our museums from 2020-04-22T10:05

When you go to a museum, do you ever wonder how the objects were acquired? Alice Procter is an Australian art historian who wants us to critique what she terms the 'colonial propaganda' within our ...

Jerry Saltz on How to Be an Artist from 2020-04-15T10:05

We speak with Pulitzer prize-winning American art critic, Jerry Saltz about his new book How to Be an Artist, and find out how Quandamooka country on North Stradbroke Island inspires the art of Meg...

The art and life of Joy Hester from 2020-04-08T10:05

This year marks 100 years since the birth of Australian artist, Joy Hester. We celebrate the milestone by reflecting on Hester's art and probe the question: when everything is now 'curated,' what d...

Reflecting on touch in an era of isolation from 2020-04-01T10:05

Touch is a huge part of the way we experience the world, so how are our lives being reshaped in this era of physical distancing without touch? We explore these ideas with American photographer Robe...

What does it mean to be idle? from 2020-03-25T10:05

Turner prize winning artist Helen Cammock reflects on the art of being idle, for Creation in Isolation we check in with members of the Australian arts community adapting their work as a result of C...

COVID-19 and visual art from 2020-03-18T10:05

The Australian artist Sally Smart talks about her planned exhibition and the impact of COVID-19 on artists worldwide. For Home is Where the Art Is, we journey to Polynesia to learn about a garment ...

Collecting art on a budget from 2020-03-11T10:05

We speak to a couple of art experts who insist you don't need to be a big spender to get started collecting art, drop by the studio of Australian artist Patricia Piccinini, and hear about a very sp...

Kirsten Lyttle on connecting to culture through photography from 2020-03-04T10:05

Mixed media artist, Kirsten Lyttle, reflects on the ways her arts practice continues to bring her closer to cultural identity. We meet the Serpentine Galleries Curator of General Ecology, Lucia Pie...

The surreal homes of Ian Strange from 2020-02-26T10:05

For a decade, Australian artist Ian Strange has been making art that investigates our complex relationship to the notion of 'home'.

What does masculinity look like in Australia today? from 2020-02-19T10:05

Greg Semu and Alun Rhys Jones explore what the ideal of masculinity looks like in contemporary Australia. A clock from the 19th century is counting down to doomsday. And Brian Tucker checks the boo...

Art history greats reimagined on social media from 2020-02-12T10:05

From Kahlo to Klimt, Monet to Matisse... If famous artists from history were alive today, what would they post to their social media?

Creativity and the gig economy from 2020-02-05T10:05

Have you ever rented out a room in your house to a stranger? If you have, you've been part of the gig economy - that growing sector that promises ease and flexibility to consumers. But what are the...

Olafur Eliasson's disappearing glaciers from 2020-01-29T10:05

Two decades ago, artist Olafur Eliasson hired a plane to fly across Iceland so he could document the epic glaciers of his homeland. When he returned years later, many of the glaciers were completel...

Hisham Matar on art, grief and healing from 2020-01-22T10:05

In A Month in Siena, Hisham Matar travels to Tuscany to look at the city's ancient paintings. In the process, he finds himself grieving for his father who disappeared 30 years prior.

100 years of Bauhaus from 2020-01-15T10:05

Last year marked the centenary of the Bauhaus school, which revolutionised art and design. We revisit the legacy of the school in Australia, and meet a costume designer making bodysuits for Beyonce.

Life as a contemporary artist in Australia from 2020-01-08T10:05

Ed speaks to three guests about issues affecting contemporary artists working today, including pay and funding, gallery representation, and attitudes within and towards the art industry.

The tricks and turns of Marcel Duchamp from 2019-12-25T10:05

When Marcel Duchamp brought a bicycle wheel on a stool into the gallery, he turned ideas of sculpture and authorship on their head. We reflect on the legacy of this great 20th century figure and me...

Hans and Nora Heysen, shearing sheds and finger painting from 2019-12-18T10:05

Hans and Nora Heysen are renowned for their almost spiritual love of nature, and the way they meticulously observed and painted Australian light, trees, and flowers. Ed speaks to Chris Heysen - gra...

Matisse and Picasso: rivals, friends, frenemies from 2019-12-11T10:05

Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso are thought of separately as two of the 20th Century's greatest artists, but did you know they had an enduring friendship and rivalry?

Mother courage: Sirli Raitma's unusual photography from 2019-12-04T10:05

The irresistible theme of Water is explored in a new exhibition at GOMA in Queensland. And we meet Estonian photographer Sirli Raitma, and reflect on the life of Australian sculptor Robert Klippel.

Shaun Tan and the human animal connection from 2019-11-27T10:05

Author, illustrator and film-maker Shaun Tan explores our beautiful and complex relationship to animals. And we speak to the provocative Darwin-based artist Therese Ritchie, whose work confronts ra...

Keith Haring&Jean-Michel Basquiat side by side from 2019-11-20T10:05

Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat are towering figures in American art. A new exhibition examines the work of the men side by side for the first time.

Finding power and beauty in the individual from 2019-11-13T10:05

Atong Atem is a Melbourne-based South Sudanese artist, whose work features young African Australians looking bold, powerful and regal - a welcome change to the tradition of ethnographic photography...

British artist Cornelia Parker blows up Sydney from 2019-11-06T10:05

British artist Cornelia Parker never does things by halves. Over the course of her career she's taken on big themes, big moments in history, and exploded them - sometimes quite literally. We also s...

Wendy Sharpe in Ethiopia for a residency with a difference from 2019-10-30T10:05

Artist Wendy Sharpe is about to travel to Ethiopia to undertake a residency with a difference and British artist Bruce Monro lights up Darwin.

Tarnanthi: Festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art 2019 from 2019-10-23T10:05

Plus critic Tai Snaith reviews the Melbourne exhibition Hope Dies Last and we revisit the work of Australian modernist photographer Olive Cotton.

The women who forged Brisbane's enduring art scene from 2019-10-16T10:05

The curator of Brisbane Museum's New Woman exhibition, Miranda Hine, gives Ed Ayres a walk-through of the show covering 100 years of women artists in Brisbane.

Bird nerd: the art of Leila Jeffreys from 2019-10-09T10:05

Sydney artist Leila Jeffreys specialises in bird portraiture, capturing avian creatures in intimate moments of pride and amusement.

Ian Fairweather's letters show the struggling artist behind the wild adventurer from 2019-10-02T10:05

A new book of Ian Fairweather's correspondence shows the man behind the myth.

Polixeni Papapetrou celebrated in posthumous exhibition from 2019-09-25T10:05

Plus gallerist Lisa Fihelly opens a new commercial gallery representing women artists only.

KAWS blockbuster shows fragility and darkness in cartoon icons from 2019-09-18T10:05

Plus photographer Richard Wiesel on the moving images he took at the closed archives of concentration camp memorials and Darwin Street Art Festival curator David Collins and Portuguese graffiti art...

Nell summons ritual and rock music in Ghost Songs for Rock Gate from 2019-09-11T10:05

Plus artist Leon Pericles speaks about his wife Moira's experience of Alzheimer's in a new documentary film, light and sound installation artist Haroon Mirza on his electric new work at ACCA and we...

50 Years of Kaldor Public Art from 2019-09-04T10:05

Plus, the legendary artist Christo reflects on his first Kaldor Public Art Project, data journalist Mona Chalabi translates spreadsheets into powerful artworks, and jeweller Susan Cohn on making je...

Sci Fi artist Lucy McRae from 2019-08-28T10:05

Plus, Hong Kong painter Chow Chun Fai tells Ed about the 'Lennon Walls' popping up around the city, art critic Sebastian Smee explains Renoir-loathing, and Chinese-Australian artist Badiucao is acc...

Liu Bolin the invisible man from 2019-08-21T10:00

Plus, Tate Modern's Yasufumi Nakamori, Aysha Huq on winning a Young Archie, and ceramicist Vipoo Srivilasa on making playful sculptures on serious themes.

The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Special from 2019-08-14T10:00

with curator Franchesca Cubillio, ANKAA chair Christina Davidson, artists Candy Nelson-Nakmarra, Colin Puruntatameri, and Lisa Waup, and arts workers Elwin Ward, Dora Griffiths, and Lynley Nargooda...

Art, money, and ethics from 2019-08-07T10:05

Plus, Danie Mellor is up for another NATSIAA, Justine Bonenfant on embroidering for Beyonce, and Anthony Yung from Asia Art Archive.

SALA artists Hossein Valamanesh and Gavin Wanganeen from 2019-07-31T10:05

Plus, V& A curator Victoria Broackes on pop culture exhibitions, and what is a bookwork?

Shaun Gladwell the prankster from 2019-07-24T10:05

Plus, Ashley Perry and Samuel Kreusler reimagine Michelangelo's David in First Commissions, and Hannah Reich looks into The Cost of Art.

Artists offer new perspectives for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing from 2019-07-17T10:05

Plus art meets science for the 150th birthday of the periodic table, Veronica Kent's squid ink on Bruny Island, and Tarn McLean paints the 12 flowers of the zodiac.

Art when you need it most: a children's hospital special from 2019-07-10T10:05

In this special highlights episode, Ed visits Queensland Children's Hospital to speak to children, emergency doctors, and artists to find out how art is not only on the walls, but literally built i...

Michael Armitage transforms Lubugo cloth into canvas from 2019-07-03T10:05

Plus Kenny Pittock makes art in the studio with clay and witty wordplay, Tai Snaith reviews a show on self-doubt at ACCA, and 2019 Dreaming Award winner Jenna Lee's sojourn to the UK.

How the Reformasi reformed Indonesian art from 2019-06-26T10:05

Margaret Olley's generous life from 2019-06-19T10:05

Plus, Sidney Nolan works about to go under the hammer, Justine Youssef, and FEM-aFFINITY.

Live from Dark Mofo from 2019-06-12T10:05

with artists Julie Gough, Lonnie Holley, Selena de Carvalho, and Costume, plus creative director Leigh Carmichael and associate creative director Hannah Fox.

Monet's Impression: Sunrise at the NGA from 2019-06-05T10:05

Plus, arts patron Judith Neilson on White Rabbit gallery's 10th birthday, the Partnershipping Project, and a visit to painter Robert Malherbe's Darlinghurst studio.

Art good enough to eat... or not from 2019-05-29T10:05

LA-based MacArthur fellowship award-winning artist Wu Tsang on docufantasy, shelling stringing artist Aunty Lola Greeno has won a Red Ochre Award for lifetime achievement, Ed visits Elizabeth Willi...

The fireworks of Cai Guo-Qiang x Terracotta Warriors, fingerpainting artist Iris Scott, ceramicist Shannon Garson from 2019-05-22T10:05

Gunpowder and firework artist Cai Guo-Qiang and NGV curator Wayne Crothers on the Terracotta Warriors, New York-based fingerpainting artist Iris Scott, and ceramicist Shannon Garson brings her whee...

Tony Costa wins the Archibald, Venice Biennale, Nicolette Johnson at Brisbane Art Design Festival from 2019-05-15T10:05

Tony Costa on his Archibald-winning portrait of Lindy Lee, Labor's arts policy, Vincent O'Donnell checks out the Venice Biennale, and ceramicist Nicolette Johnson at BAD.

Sculptural street artist Leonie Rhodes, ZOFO, Jeffrey Smart: Constructed world from 2019-05-08T10:05

Sculptor featured at Brisbane Street Art Festival Leonie Rhodes joins Ed as this week's studio artist, piano duo ZOFO on their latest show of pieces inspired by artworks, and AGNSW curator Hannah H...

Podcast special: You've heard of the Archibald - but what even is the Sulman Prize? from 2019-05-06T16:20

Ed sits down with 2019 Sulman Prize finalist and 2015 winner Jason Phu, 2018 Sulman Prize judge Angela Tiatia, and critic Gabriella Coslovich.

The essential Duchamp, Rosslynd Piggott, Asad Raza from 2019-05-01T10:05

Philadelphia Museum of Art curator Matthew Affron on the readymades of Marcel Duchamp at AGNSW, Rosslynd Piggott on her exhibition I sense you but I cannot see you at the NGV, and Asad Raza on his ...

Notre Dame"miracles", Anh Do, Lisa Walker from 2019-04-24T10:05

Director of the Institut national du patrimoine Charles Personnaz joins Ed from Paris to share the latest on the Notre Dame fire, Anh Do on painting portraits and the fourth series of Anh's Brush w...

The Art of Life — a Children's Hospital Special from 2019-04-17T10:05

Come and visit an extraordinary world where world-class medicine intersects with world-class art; you will meet children, emergency doctors, and artists to find out how art is not only on the walls...

Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor, MECA collection, NAVA on the next decade of cultural policy, vale Kunmanara Williams, paint-by-numbers from 2019-04-10T10:05

Alexander Calder's grandson Alexander S. C. Rower and curator Elizabeth Hutton Turner on the artist's radical inventions on show at the NGV, Milingimbi art collection on show for first time in deca...

Bauhaus turns 100, The Tale of Genji, Federal budget, Kestin Indigenous Illustrator Award from 2019-04-03T10:05

We celebrate Bauhaus' centenary with director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Dr Claudia Perren, Professor Andrew McNamara from QUT - who is recreating works by Bauhaus immigrant to Australia Ludw...

The National 2019: New Australian Art from 2019-03-27T10:05

In this special episode broadcast from Sydney, Ed visits the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Carriageworks to meet some of the artists and curators behind The Nat...

Hans and Nora Heysen, Lyon Housemuseum, Tudors to Windsors, vale Edmund Capon from 2019-03-20T10:05

Chris Heysen and NGV curator Angela Hesson on important 20th-century Australian painters, father and daughter artists Hans and Nora Heysen, vale Edmund Capon in Arts News, Fiona Gruber visits Melbo...

Art Month's 10th anniversary, The Tom Malone Prize, Eyes as Big as Plates, Rone's Empire from 2019-03-13T10:05

Established Sydney gallerists Michael Reid and Roslyn Oxley, and manager of the 12-month old APY Art Centre Collective Skye O'Meara, sit down with Ed to discuss the state of play for commercial gal...

Art x Fashion special from 2019-03-06T10:05

Jewellery designer Rene Skelton works in studio, has fashion found its place in the art world? RMIT head of fashion and design Professor Robyn Healy, Sass & Bide co-founder Heidi Middleton, and wri...

Step into Quilty's world, National Photographic Portrait Prize winner Alana Holmberg, Janet Laurence: After Nature from 2019-02-27T10:05

Ben Quilty on the defining moments of his career and the first major survey of his work - Quilty, Alana Holmberg on her National Photographic Portrait Prize-winning shot of her pregnant sister, the...

Watermarks uses beauty to show ugly truths, how to look at a painting, Lisa Reihana's In Pursuit of Venus (Infected), Wandjina misappropriation from 2019-02-20T10:05

Photographer Paul Harmon showcases degradation of the Murray-Darling Basin in Watermarks at Casula Powerhouse, how to look at a painting and not get overwhelmed in galleries according to AGNSW's Ju...

Shearing shed art, Desert River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley, textile studio artist Martina Latimer from 2019-02-13T10:05

Textile designer Martina Latimer brings her sewing machine into the studio, Ed visits a shearing shed with watercolourist Christine Porter, Claire Nichols takes us to Desert River Sea: Portraits of...

Treasures from Taipei's National Palace Museum, Cassils, Just Not Australian review from 2019-02-06T10:05

Chinese art curator from the Art Gallery of New South Wales Yin Cao describes some of the treasures from Taipei's National Palace Museum on display in the exhibition Heaven and Earth in Chinese Art...

Patricia Piccinini&Joy Hester at TarraWarra, fake Indigenous art, Badu Gili from 2019-01-30T10:05

Patricia Piccinini and TarraWarra Museum of Art director Victoria Lynn on the double-header exhibition featuring Piccinini and Joy Hester, US galleries re-open as the federal shutdown ends in arts ...

Brett&Wendy, Mona Foma, and Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul from 2019-01-23T10:05

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 Powerhou...

Highlights: Helen Seiver's healing through art, Imants Tillers in Latvia, Art Gang, Ben Quilty from 2019-01-16T10:45

In this final edition of summer highlights, we hear from West Australian artist Helen Seiver who has come to terms with her parents' deaths through art, Imants Tillers on his Latvian roots, the Art...

Highlights: Children's art special from 2019-01-09T10:05

Dr Barbara Piscitelli on why children's art matters, our youngest studio artists ever, Dr Gai Lindsay on why art teachers need to be confident, an audio postcard from a kindergarten art show, and o...

Highlights: Museum of the Moon, Waterborne, 21, Clare Belfrage from 2019-01-02T10:05

British artist Luke Jerrams' Museum of the Moon installation is back in Australia, we take a trip down the River Derwent to contemplate our body's decay in French & Mottershead's Waterborne, Mats S...

Highlights: Ceramic architecture, pie art, Clever Kids, the history of colours from 2018-12-26T10:05

Kenji Uranishi builds with clay in the Hub on Art studio, Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin's pie art, Clever Kids on the Drover's Wife, and paint-maker David Coles on the history of colours in his book Ch...

Highlights: Tony Albert's Aboriginalia collection, Murals of Tibet, Cathy&Catherine, Davida Allen from 2018-12-19T10:05

In our first edition of summer highlights, we revisit Tony Albert's Aboriginalia collection and political works, Thomas Laird on the emotional experience of photographing the murals of Tibet, legal...

What made the Pre-Raphaelites edgy, Frida Kahlo's photographs, tinsel art, and your 2019 art guide from 2018-12-12T10:05

Tate curator Carol Jacobi on the rebellious, colourful and fastidious Pre-Raphaelites ahead of the NGA exhibition Love & Desire, Frida Kahlo's love of photography on show at the Bendigo Art Gallery...

Where are all the women, Escher x nendo, Karla Dickens, Phuong Ngo's Top Shelf from 2018-12-05T10:05

Art historian Joanna Mendelssohn and CoUNTess report founder Elvis Richardson on the gender imbalance in both the art history canon and contemporary art scene in Australia, producer Hannah Reich ta...

Kwementyaye Petyarre, Eleanor and James Avery, Sebastian Smee on Hilma af Klint, Nick Cave's UNTIL from 2018-11-28T10:05

Kwementyaye Petyarre has died at around the age of 80, Eleanor and James Avery bring some of their pop culture-inspired public art process to the studio, arts news with Claire Nichols, critic Sebas...

APT9, Tungaru: The Kiribati Project, a dementia-friendly gallery tour, the psychology of art from 2018-11-21T10:05

Eddie visits the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane and Tungaru: The Kiribati Project drops into the studio, producer Wendy Love takes us on a gallery tour for people with d...

Adventurous art: Peter Anderson's expeditions, David Roberts, Van Gogh's Starry Night, the Overwintering Project from 2018-11-14T10:05

Peter Anderson shares his experiences sailing - and painting - the world as this week's studio artist, David Roberts on lugging 50kg of camera gear to the Arctic circle, Martin Bailey on Vincent va...

The impact of WW1 on Australian art, Armistice paintings, Steven Rhall, Sebastian Smee on fog sculptures from 2018-11-07T10:05

Historian Margaret Hutchison and art critic/historian Sasha Grishin discuss the impact the "war to end all wars" had on Australian art, Eddie speaks to curator from the Australian War Memorial Anth...

Kellie O'Dempsey's live performance drawing, Nolan, Nick Earls on William Robinson, OzAsia Festival from 2018-10-31T10:05

Kellie O'Dempsey demonstrates her live performance drawing in studio, creating images to project on the wall, producer Julia Peters and Sidney Nolan's daughter Amelda Langslow on ABC TV documentary...

Bryan Dawe's love of Tangier, Art Gang, Jennifer Turpin, A Painted Landscape from 2018-10-24T10:05

Artist and photographer Bryan Dawe - formerly of Clarke & Dawe - on his latest exhibition Chimera based on his recent trips to the Moroccan port town of Tangier, Ed visits the Art Gang at West End ...

Salient takes artists to the Western Front, David Goldblatt, Masters of modern art at the Hermitage, Eva Rothschild from 2018-10-17T10:05

Artists Harrie Fasher and Paul Ferman on Salient at Sydney's ANZAC Memorial, curator Rachel Kent on David Goldblatt: Photographs 1948-2018 at MCA, Morag Fraser on Masters of modern art at the Hermi...

James Guppy's lesson on the Dutch Masters, Jun Chen paints Li Cunxin for the NPG's 20:20, Rome: City and Empire from 2018-10-10T10:05

James Guppy on how he emulates Dutch baroque still lifes and why he combines them with businessmen, Jun Chen and Li Cunxin on the portrait Jun painted of the dancer for the National Portrait Galler...

Josh Muir, Polly Borland, Gothic Beauty, Chris Ellis from 2018-10-03T10:05

Yorta Yorta/Gunditjmara multimedia artist Josh Muir creates a work in studio, Polly Borland on her strange figures morphed by stockings and padding in Polyverse at the NGV, artist Sally Smart and c...

Children's art extravaganza from 2018-09-26T10:05

Leading children's art expert Dr Barbara Piscitelli, young studio artists Monty (5), Felix (7), Maisy (12) and Liv (12), art teach Jess McVeigh, teacher's teacher Dr Gai Lindsay and teaching studen...

Floral artists, Ken Unsworth, and how a Fairfax photography archive ended up in America from 2018-09-19T10:05

Florists Anja and Alicia Van Goor bring SPRING right into the studio, Tony Bond and Ken Unsworth on his 60 year career, and American gallery owner Daniel Miller on his mission to get the Sydney Mor...

Ben Quilty, American Masters, Julia deVille, Burrup Peninsula rock art, Bloodlines from 2018-09-12T10:05

Ben Quilty on Santa's dark side, American Masters at the NGA and Julia deVille at Linden New Art, the World Heritage listing application for rock art on the Burrup Peninsula, Sancintya Mohini Simps...

Kenji Uranishi, Arthur Murch, Biomess, the Pastor and the Painter from 2018-09-05T10:05

Kenji Uranishi's architecturally-inspired ceramics, Arthur Murch's portrait of Rubina Namatjira returns to Hermannsburg, Biomess and biological arts, Myuran Sukumaran's redemption through art in th...

Vale Mirka Mora, Philip Tinari on Chinese contemporary art, Elizabeth Gower, Mavis Ngallametta from 2018-08-29T10:05

Artist Mirka Mora is remembered for her enormous contribution to the Melbourne arts scene, Beijing's UCCA director Philip Tinari on Chinese contemporary art, Elizabeth Gower's bower bird collage pr...

Vale Charles Blackman, Sebastian Smee on John Mawurndjul, Sancintya Mohini Simpson from 2018-08-22T10:05

Sancintya Mohini Simpson works on an Indian miniature painting in studio, Bertie Blackman and curator Kendrah Morgan remember painter Charles Blackman and his works, Sebastian Smee reviews John Maw...

James Hornsby, Chromatopia, Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair from 2018-08-15T10:05

James Hornsby combines the digital and the physical as our studio artist, Claire Nichols with the arts news, David Coles explains the wild history of paint colours in Chromatopia, and we visit the ...

NAVA's Future/Forward, Clare Belfrage's glass art, TarraWarra Biennial, Tom of Holland talks textile repairing from 2018-08-08T10:05

The National Association of Visual Arts upcoming Future/Forward conference on issues affecting artists, SALA Festival's featured artist Clare Belfrage on glass-blowing, arts news with Claire Nichol...

Imants Tillers, Young Archies, Neil Haddon, Melbourne Art Fair from 2018-08-01T10:05

Internationally renowned Cooma-based artist Imants Tillers honours his Latvian roots in an exhibition in Riga, Claire Nichols with news from the arts world, we meet two young gun Young Archie winne...

Robert Henderson, John Russell at AGNSW, Arts News, MANIFESTA, Edward Bawden, State of the Union from 2018-07-25T10:05

Wiradjuri man Robert Henderson is our studio artist, Australian John Russell's work at the heart of French impressionism at AGNSW, Fiona Gruber on MANIFESTA in Palermo and Edward Bawden in London, ...

Humanae, Barka: The Forgotten River, Arts News, Daniel Buren, Mandela from 2018-07-18T10:05

Brazilian artist Angelica Dass matches skin colour to the Pantone colour chart in Humanae, Justine Muller and Badger Bates on the fight to save the Darling, Claire Nichols with the latest arts news...

Ramesh Nithiyendran, Judy Watson on Myall Creek and Beyond, So Fine, CIAF from 2018-07-11T10:05

Judy Watson and Bianca Beetson on Myall Creek and Beyond, Carol McGregor's possum skin cloaks and Linde Ivimey's Antarctic creatures in So Fine, Janina Harding on the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, an...

Highlights: Craftivist Rayna Fahey, Life models, Ed's drawing lesson, Patricia Piccinini from 2018-07-04T10:05

It's Christmas in July! Eddie Ayres brings you some of the Hub on Art highlights from this year so far.

Drawing, Cathy&Catherine, Everyone's a Critic from 2018-06-27T10:05

Eddie talks drawing with in-studio artist Susan Gourley and judge of the Paul Guest Prize for drawing/ NGA senior curator Roger Butler, legally blind artist Cathy Staughton and her muse Catherine B...

Spencer Tunick, Waterborne, Sebastian Smee, Helen Seiver from 2018-06-20T10:05

New York photographer Spencer Tunick on his upcoming nude crowd shoot in Melbourne, Waterborne at Dark Mofo confronts you with your own body's decay, art critic Sebastian Smee on the beauty of the ...

The art of the court sketch, Davida Allen, MoMA at the NGV, Emily Parsons-Lord's weather installations from 2018-06-13T10:05

Court artist Sharon Gordon is our in-studio artist, Davida Allen's exhibition explores the negative side to motherhood, MoMA director Glenn Lowry on the 200 works brought to the NGV, and Emily Pars...

Tony Albert, New Histories, The Makers: David Frazer, and the colours of the State of Origin from 2018-06-06T10:05

Tony Albert unpacks his new solo exhibition "Visible" featuring much of his Aboriginalia collection, Christian Thompson and Phuong Ngo reimagine 19th century artworks from the Bendigo Art Gallery i...

Murals of Tibet, Stewart Scambler, Seeing Voices, Arts&Minds from 2018-05-30T10:05

Enough Khalas, Blake Prize winner Tina Havelock Stevens, Diane Arbus exhibition, and The Makers: Sarah Tomasetti from 2018-05-23T10:05

Pie art, The Sleeper Awakes and What the Sea Never Told, Leonardo Uribe, and Clever Kids on Mona Lisa from 2018-05-16T10:05

We speak to two artists who use two very unusual materials: sculptor Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin who has traded clay for shortcrust pastry, and Leonardo Uribe who makes intricate sculptures from huma...

Arts in the federal budget, 2018 Archibald Prize, Woodworkers Helen and Shane Walsh, David Hockney's art on screen from 2018-05-09T10:05

We find out what the 2018 federal budget holds for the arts, take the pulse on this year's Archibald prize with Brett Cuthbertson, head packer at the Art Gallery of NSW, critic Joanna Mendelssohn a...

Art after #MeToo, creative couple David Chesworth&Sonia Leber, arts news and studio artist Wendy Sharpe from 2018-05-02T10:05

Wendy Sharpe has won The Sulman Prize, The Archibald, Two Travelling Scholarships and she's this week's studio artist, in light of the #MeToo movement, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian S...

Anzac Day; the Australian War Memorial curators, M L Casteel's American interiors&the flowers of war from 2018-04-25T10:00:05

Eddie speaks with three curators from the Australian War Memorial, American photographer Matthew Casteel talks us through his latest project documenting the lives of US veterans through photos of t...

Studio artist Maryann Talia Pau, The Field's 50th anniversary, a creative couple and arts news from 2018-04-18T10:05

This week's studio artist is weaver and creator of the One Million Stars to End Violence project, Maryann Talia Pau, on the 50th anniversary of one of the most influential exhibitions in Australian...

Luke Jerram's Museum of the Moon, The March of Time exhibition, Craftivist Rayna Fahey from 2018-04-11T10:05

We hear from British artist Luke Jerram whose installation for the Commonwealth Games is connecting people through the wonder of the cosmos, meet activist and crafter Rayna Fahey and three men who ...

Studio graffiti artist, Brisbane Street Art Festival, Linda Jaivin's situation critical and arts news from 2018-04-04T10:05

This week graffiti artist Cooper Crothers is creating in studio, Brisbane Street Art Festival is in full swing, Linda Jaivin's Situation Critical takes a look at how the size of Australia's art sce...

Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, Patricia Piccinini's Curious Affection, the opening of Darlinghurst's APY Lands Art Collective gallery&arts news. from 2018-03-28T10:00:05

Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay opens at the Art Gallery of South Australia this week, Eddie speaks to Australian artist Patricia Piccinini about her new exhibition Cu...

The Museum Next Conference, the Sydney Kabuki Project, arts news with Edwina Stott and Nina Sanadze's Bollard City from 2018-03-21T10:05

The Museum Next Conference takes a look at the future of our museums, as part of Sydney Biennale artist Akira Takayama has asked the public to sing songs to their ancestors, Edwina Stott brings us ...

Brook Andrew at Sydney Biennale, Angelica Mesiti at Venice Biennale, art critic Sebastian Smee and Lorne Sculpture Biennale from 2018-03-14T10:05

It's biennale central here at The Hub on Art this week as we cover the Lorne Sculpture Biennale, the Sydney Biennale and the announcement that Sydney artist Angelica Mesiti will be Australia's next...

Mats Staub's 21, Tinky's tiny dioramas, The Aftermath Project&arts news with Edwina Stott from 2018-03-07T10:05

For his latest exhibition, Swiss artist Mats Staub has asked over 70 people for their memories of being 21, Tinky (also known as Liz Sonntag) is a Melbourne street artist who works on a miniature s...

Creativity within constraints; Pamela Denise from the Flying Arts Alliance, Gatton Prison's Indigenous art&The Torch Project from 2018-02-28T10:05

This week, the Hub on Art looks at creativity within constraints. Our in studio artist is Pamela Denise from the Flying Arts Alliance, Robert Henderson and Wayne Weaver are the founders of the Indi...

Medical illustrator Madeleine Kersting Flynn is our in studio artist, arts news with Edwina Stott, Isaac Julien's Looking for Langston and Walter Isaacson shares the secrets of Mona Lisa's smile from 2018-02-14T10:05

We catch up with the latest arts news with producer Edwina Stott, Isaac Julien's film Looking for Langston will be exhibited as part of the official program of Sydney’s 40th Mardi Gras Festival and...

Australian artists respond to the 2016 Nauru Files, Latai Taumoepeau's Repatriate and Eddie takes a drawing lesson from 2018-02-07T10:05

Latai Taumoepeau explains her latest work, Edwina Stott brings us the latest news from the world of the visual arts, Eddie Ayres heads back to both school and the drawing board as he takes his firs...

In-studio artist Zoe Porter, NGV's Triennial, the gender pay gap in art and Andrew Frost reviews Lisa Reihana and Pipilotti Rist from 2018-01-31T10:05

Working with water colour, this week's live studio artist is Brisbane based Zoe Porter, we travel to the National Gallery of Victoria's Triennial exhibition, we discuss a new study has found that w...

In studio artist'Michael Zavros, forensic artist Joe Mullins and what kids see in artwork from 2018-01-24T10:00

Australian artist Michael Zavros is The Art Hub's first 'in studio artist', forensic artist Joe Mullins and student Antonia Barolini share their extraordinary work recreating the faces of eight men...