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The Art Show
Visual artists tell you why and how they create! From studio visits, intimate interviews, and live issues, we take art out of the gallery and into your ears.
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The Art Show
Great conversations with visual artists, gallery and museum directors and curators.
The Art Show
Great conversations with visual artists, gallery and museum directors and curators.
CJ Hendry and Ricky Swallow: two of Australia's biggest arts exports on ambition and success, plus Latai Taumoepeau's live art as protest
Three artists in their prime talk to The Art Show...
CJ Hendry specialises in hyper-real paintings, but she’s just as comfortable with the art o...
Public hands and climate change: Nell, Mike Hewson, and Olafur Eliasson
Nell, who has a major retrospective at Heide Museum, speaks to Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran about ghost motifs, smiling poop, and how collaborative proje...
Dangerously Modern Ep 3: Dorrit Black
In episode 3 of the series Dangerously Modern, we're following the journey of the magnificent Dorrit Black. Dorrit arrived in London in 1927 and embra...
Dangerously Modern Ep 2: Stella Bowen
In episode 2 of the series Dangerously Modern we follow the painter Stella Bowen, who left Adelaide for Europe and was part of a storied avant-garde a...
Dangerously Modern Ep 1: Margaret Preston
In the early 20th century, an unprecedented wave of women artists left a conservative Australia to pursue modern art in Europe.
Margaret Presto...
Primavera: Showcasing the next generation
Every spring, the Museum of Contemporary Art hands its galleries to the next generation. Primavera becomes a testing ground: a place where young artis...
Sisters Anney and Mechelle Bounpraseuth are making the ordinary shimmer
Sisters Anney and Mechelle Bounpraseuth grew up in a world that promised paradise later. But they chose otherwise, leaving their religion to begin mak...
Leigh Bowery: how a Melbourne boy became a myth
Leigh Bowery was not a man you could overlook. Born in Sunshine, Melbourne, he left Suburbia for Soho, London, remaking himself into someone impossibl...
How Artbank's subscription model works for collectors and for artists
What would it mean to eat breakfast with a Brett Whiteley or to pass a Sally Gabori in the corridor? Art, not as something you visit, but something th...
Tschabalala Self merges myth and the everyday
To look at the art of Tschabala Self is to feel fabric think. Stitched velvet, printed cotton, painted skin: bodies collaged from memory and from life...
Sarah Rhodes explores the relationship between people and place
Some landscapes don't just surround us, they get inside us. A windswept farm, a rugged coastline, a cave heavy with shadow: they're places that don't...
Quentin Sprague on the art of looking
To write about art is really to write about looking. About how artists meet the world: what they notice; what slips through; what remains.
In Wh...
Lisa Reihana brings truth to history
Two hundred years ago, a French wallpaper pictured the Pacific: the islands and empire in perfect harmony against windless calm seas. But it was decor...
Nusra Latif Qureshi's House of Irredeemable Objects
Nusra Latif Qureshi has built a career extending South Asian painting traditions while pressing on empire, displacement, and desire — revealing how po...
Sophie Cape's wild landscapes take out top prize
Some paintings are sealed off from the world: neat, polished, contained.
But Sophie Cape's canvases feel porous, weathered by the elements thems...
Thomas Demand recreates the world
Throughout his practice, the German artist Thomas Demand rebuilds the world in paper, meticulously constructing life-sized models of everyday spaces o...
Nicolas Rothwell returns to the Western Desert
Nicolas Rothwell writes at the edges of things. He's twice won the Prime Minister's Literary Award — for both fiction and non-fiction — and his work s...
Ben Law on William Yang
William Yang's photographs are part memoir, part invitation. Queer lives, Asian faces, vanished places — all lit with the soft glow of attention.
Garth Greenwell & Mark Armijo McKnight's creative friendship
In 2020, Aperture magazine invited Garth Greenwell to write about Mark Armijo McKnight's photographs. The images immediately captivated him, offering...
Being forgotten and being remembered
Scott Burton made art that touched the body before the mind. But like so many artists and men of his generation, he died of AIDS in 1989.
Before...
Making space for a child's perspective
Children live in a world not quite built for them and, for a long time, galleries were no exception. No touching. No talking. Just stand and receive.<...
The art of children's books
With just a few lines and strokes, picture books hold whole worlds: joy and sorrow, memory and wonder. They can be stark, fun and beautiful, all at on...
Five Acts of Love
Five Acts of Love, now on at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, isn't a show about romance.
It's about love when it's fierce, when it's...
Darrell Sibosado and Frances Rings light up the stage
When artists step into the theatre, the stillness of the studio meets the breath of the stage. And audiences, perhaps without even knowing, lean in.
Yolŋu Power puts Yirrkala art front and centre
Yolŋu Power: The Art of Yirrkala, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is not just an art exhibition, but a field of ancestral presence.
It's...
Shanysa McConville looks back over 65000 years of art
For much of the last century, in museums, the works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists were treated as something outside the main story...
Grace Herbert tees off on the unnecessary lines between art and sport
From feminist beginnings to kitsch commercialism, minigolf has a rich history. But what happens when you let artists loose to design their own holes?<...
Arcangelo Sassolino embraces the possibility of change
Arcangelo Sassolino's work captures a suspended instant: just before collapse, just after ignition.
At the 2022 Venice Biennale, Sassolino paid...
Del Kathryn Barton’s creative world-building project imagines empowered, spirited women
Del Kathryn Barton exorcised her rage in her critically acclaimed feature film Blaze, but its aftermath is grief.
You wouldn't know it if you c...
Drawing with sound underground: Jason Maling’s magnum opus Diagrammatica
Jason Maling works in the expanded field where — through the interface of technology, screens and a sound system — the sonic and the visual are conduc...
Thai-Australian artist Nathan Beard’s ironic take on museum artefacts
Recently on the show we met Filipino artist Pio Abad to hear about his Turner Prize nominated exhibition 'To Those Sitting in Darkness' which re-prese...
Frank by name: Dale Frank on taxidermy and his greatest living artwork
Although he's one of Australia's most established, commercially successful and prolific artists, Dale Frank is a reluctant interview subject.
Ec...
Olfactory artist Nadia Vitlin infuses her artwork with scent
Sydney-based artist Nadia Vitlin works with olfaction — our sense of smell — infusing her artwork, whether it be clay or paint, to create bespoke piec...
Pio Abad on his 2024 Turner Prize nominated body of work
Just as historical objects in museum collections embody certain histories — of British imperialism and modernity — they also map loss and disappearanc...
One of Australia's most successful art partnerships
They used to lay-buy contemporary art together when they were low-paid gallery workers, forging a business relationship early on.
Now, Ursula Su...
How a child’s boomerang returns in the latest TarraWarra Biennial
It was while researching the provenance of a child’s boomerang, found in topsoil near the site of Melbourne Zoo, that Kimberley Moulton found the key...
Khaled Sabsabi speaks
The Lebanese-born Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi joins The Art Show exclusively to talk about the profound impact of the decision to unceremoniously...
Warraba Weatherall’s first institutional solo
For Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall, art that isn't a catalyst for something—that isn't driven by critique of gatekeeping museums, the criminal ju...