An occasional look at Art, Artists, Collectors and Museums in Australia and around the world.
Episodes
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has received a generous gift of more than 600 Fred Williams' drawings, cementing the collection's international significance as the most comprehensive research collection of the artist in the world.
The drawings are from the artist's London years, and this new exhibition and for the first time ever, explores the short though incredibly active period between 1952-56 when Fred Williams was living in the UK capital.
NGV curator Cathy Leahy talks about the drawings, gouaches, and etchings that are on display, a revelation to many who know only of the artist's celebrated abstract landscape paintings.
A transcript of this interview is available for download HERE. The transcriptions are made possible by the support from the Australian Arts Channel.
Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
The promised Female Future has arrived, radically reshaping practices in industrial, creative and social robotics across architecture, art, design and technology. But where do art, design and technology intersect?
SHErobots at Tin Sheds Gallery features iconic and emerging examples of robotic tools, toys and companions from across the globe, and asks fundamental questions about the nature and processes of contemporary robotics through the lens of female perspectives.
Curators Lian Loke and Deborah Turnbull Tillman discuss the blurred demarcation that the exhibition presents between art and technology, and about the practical aspects of one exhibition with three curators.
A transcript of this interview is available for download HERE. The transcriptions are made possible by the support from the Australian Arts Channel.
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
Drawing upon an awkward chapter of Florence Broadhurst’s life, After the Gap Year by Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, showing at N.Smith Gallery, explores the period she worked in her father's Queensland pub after arriving back from Shanghai, but before starting her world-famous textile and wallpaper business.
In conversation with Professor Pedram Khosronejad, Claire and Sean reference Florence's subsequent Asian ‘inspired’ wallpaper designs, and have painted tributes upon beer and wine cardboard packaging. This combination of the exotic and the mundane brings together her experiences of different aesthetic cultures with the realities of working back in a rural pub in Australia.
A transcript of this interview is available for download HERE. The transcriptions are made possible by the support from the Australian Arts Channel.
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Weavers, Merchants and Kings, the exhibition at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum that celebrates the 70th anniversary of Cadrys Rugs and recognises the Cadry family’s decades of generosity as Powerhouse donors.
The exhibition features many historic woven objects, including a world-first display of a rare and enormous Royal Persian Dorokhsh carpet.
While examining the various items on display, Tim Stackpool discusses the history of Persian textiles and their introduction of the designs and patterns to Australia with curator and anthropologist Professor Pedram Khosronejad.
A transcript of this interview is available for download HERE. The transcriptions are made possible by the support from the Australian Arts Channel.
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Astronomy, Astrology and the Islamic Arts and Sciences.
Shireen Taweel has undertaken an arts residency at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, researching designing and creating works that cross the boundaries of space, time, culture and belief.
Shireen discusses with curator Professor Pedram Khosronejad the challenges and satisfaction derived from investigating the power not only underlying the construction and discoveries of science, but also of the power of connecting science, art and culture.
A transcript of this interview is available for download HERE. The transcriptions are made possible by the support from the Australian Arts Channel.
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Best known for his bold modernist work, Sidney Nolan elevated the mythology of the Australian bush to global prominence and earned himself a place among the most significant artists of the 20th century.
Yet his deeply expressive response to the Holocaust of the 2nd World War, where around 6 and a half million Jews were systematically murdered by the Nazis, has until now remained pretty much unseen and unknown.
An exhibition of the works at the Sydney Jewish Museum uncovers an important chapter in his life and work: a series of images painted with great intensity during 1961, as the Adolf Eichmann trial came to a close and as Nolan prepared to visit Auschwitz.
Museum curator Roslyn Sugarman discusses the exhibition, the preparation, and the chance meeting that uncovered this otherwise unseen body of Sidney Nolan's work.
A transcript of this interview is available for download HERE. The transcriptions are made possible by the support from the Australian Arts Channel.