Category: Podcasts, Audio & Radio
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Art Guide Australia | Podcast: Anna Davis on collaboration and experimentation
When Anna Davis discusses being a curator, she talks about collaboration, conversation and experimentation. At one point, Davis sums up her curatorial practice like this: “It’s about working with artists and working with ideas.” Having held the position of Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) for the past decade, Davis has curated a…
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Art Guide Australia | Podcast: Gemma Smith on the persuasion of colour
Colour is simultaneously the most apparent and most complex part of Gemma Smith’s practice. The artist, who has a penchant for abstraction, creates paintings that capture dialogues and interactions between colours. Smith doesn’t paint withcolour; she persuades colour. In Art Guide’s latest podcast she discusses her explorations into colour and form, and how these forays are captured in her…
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Art Guide Australia | Podcast: Fiona Abicare on the adventures of mediums
The contexts that Fiona Abicare has worked within are plentiful: the Golden Age of Hollywood, the shabby chic aesthetic and objects of mass culture, just to name a few. Working with locations such as window shop fronts and gallery settings, the Melbourne-based artist’s work explores the cultural and personal associations and histories we have with…
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Art Guide Australia | Podcast: Nici Cumpston on relationships and conversations
“Each curator is unique like every artist is unique, I believe,” says Nici Cumpston, a leader in the Australian arts who holds the dual positions of Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia and Artistic Director of the annual TARNANTHI festival. Not to mention that Cumpston, a Barkindji woman of…
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Art Guide Australia | Podcast: Gunybi Ganambarr on creating, building and etching
Since embarking on a creative path only a mere 15 years ago, Yolŋu artist Gunybi Ganambarr has been continuously praised for his weaving of Indigenous forms and traditional stories with a contemporary sensibility. He has been called a “revolutionary”, “genius” and “an innovator”, and has accumulated many accolades, including the 2018 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art…
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Art Guide Australia | Podcast: Luke Scholes on curating, caring and collaborating
When Luke Scholes talks about being a curator, he turns toward the origins of his role: he discusses how curating means to be ‘a carer of things’. For Scholes, this largely involves caring for art collections, through his role as Curator of Aboriginal Art at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT). In this podcast…
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Art Guide Australia | Podcast: Glenn Iseger-Pilkington on being a conduit
Glenn Iseger-Pilkington likes to joke that he’s an “arts handyman”. Yet the phrase does have merit: he’s an artist and writer and has held various curatorial roles at the South Australian Museum, Western Australian Museum and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Nowadays, he’s the lead consultant at Gee Consultancy, where he works with Aboriginal…
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Art Guide Australia | Podcast: Georgina Cue on reality, fantasy and imagery
“I think the challenge with all of the disparate references is not that it’s difficult for all of them to come together. I think that the challenge is not to make the photograph too derivative of one reference, because then I’m just recreating something that already exists.” Georgina Cue’s large-scale, staged photographs bring…
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Art Guide Australia | Podcast: Five on Five – Painter Series
Five on Five is a podcast series from Art Guide Australia, which asks five painters to speak about a painting that has influenced, inspired or resonated with them. Head to Art Guide online, or subscribe to the iTunes podcast, to listen. Otherwise have a listen to the episodes below, hosted and produced by Tiarney Miekus.…
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Art Guide Australia Podcast: Patricia Piccinini’s curious affection
Well-known for her hybrid creatures that shift between the beautiful and the grotesque, in this conversation Patricia Piccinini discusses questions of empathy, genetics and realism, and how we understand the concept of nature. The artist also discusses her exhibition at QAGOMA, ‘Curious Affection’. Listen above, or listen via Art Guide Australia and read the full article.…
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