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Australian Women ArtistsYvette CoppersmithAustralian Women ArtistsThe podcastEp. 23 Yvette CoppersmithYvette Coppersmith stands as one of Australia's most distinctive contemporary artists. Her career has been marked by a profound exploration of portraiture, identity, and the human condition. She has challenged traditional boundaries between painting and photography while examining themes of gender, representation, and psychological depth. She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts and won the inaugural Metro Prize in 2003 and has previously been selected as a finalist in the Darling Portrait Prize, Arthur Guy Memorial Award...
2025-07-0837 min
The Art ShowOne of Australia's most successful art partnershipsThey used to lay-buy contemporary art together when they were low-paid gallery workers, forging a business relationship early on.Now, Ursula Sullivan and Joanna Strumpf are one of Australia's most successful art partnerships in terms of the cultural impact of the artists they represent — Tony Albert, Lindy Lee, Polly Borland, ex de Medici, Sam Leach, and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, to name a few. This year, they're celebrating two decades together at the head of Sullivan + Strumpf.What's even more remarkable is that after 20 years in the commercial gallery business they're still friends.
2025-04-2325 min
The Installation Art PodcastCarving Success: Alex Seton on Marble, Art Logistics, and Career AdviceTry Descript: https://get.descript.com/s8kjemvu79fzIn Episode 24, we delve into the artistic journey and career insights of acclaimed Australian artist Alex Seton. This fascinating conversation covers:• The logistics and insider info about creating large-scale marble sculptures and installations.• Alex's unique creative process, from childhood influences to professional milestones.• Insightful anecdotes about public art commissions and navigating institutional complexities.• Tips for emerging artists on studio space, residencies, and entering the commercial gallery scene.Tune in for an engaging blend of career advice, fun anecdotes, and prac...
2024-12-241h 44
bubblewrap泡泡纸028. 伦敦弗里兹 Frieze 艺术周：有人一天看15个展览，都能看到些什么？这期Bubblewrap我们主要聊了聊最近刚结束的伦敦弗里兹艺术周 Frieze Week：Smoke curated by Pablo José RamírezFrieze Tate Fund 获得者：Bani Abidi (Experimenter), Mohammed Z. Rahman (Phillida Reid), Naminapu Maymuru-White (Sullivan+Strumpf), Eva Švankmajerová (The Gallery of Everything).2023年Camden艺术中心新兴艺术家奖：Jack O’Brien2024年Camden艺术中心新兴艺术家奖：Nat FaulknerHauser & Wirth, Frieze London, Charles Gaines哥本哈根的画廊Palace Enterprise展出艺术家Benedikte Bjerre的125只氢气球企鹅Tate Modern: Mire LeeHayward Gallery: Haegue Yang在酒店里的画廊展 Minor Attractions
2024-10-2247 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastPolly BorlandPolly Borland is one of Australia’s most internationally recognisable contemporary artists. Famed for her early editorial work and portraiture, the artist today has shifted her focus decidedly to sculpture.Claire Summers spoke with Polly about her new exhibition with Sullivan+Strumpf, about the distinctive and disruptive visual language that has defined her practice throughout her 4 decades as an artist and about her transition from photography to working in three-dimensional space.Encountering Borland’s work is to be met first with a kind of obscurity. It is not her intention or desire that the work can...
2024-07-0133 min
EMPIRE LINESStory, Place, Tony Albert (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Sullivan+Strumph, Frieze London)Artist and curator Tony Albert collects Aboriginalia, colonial kitsch still found in Australia’s second-hand and souvenir shops, to reconstruct historic racial stereotypes and reclaim contemporary Indigenous experiences.
From ‘Picanniny Floor Polish’ to ‘Bally Boomerang Pinball Machines’, Sydney-based artist and collector Tony Albert has long been fascinated by Australiana, tourist objects which attempt to define, and commodify, Aboriginal and Torres Strati Islander peoples. Transforming them into grand sculptural installations, his works are political interventions with these vintage objects, and reappropriations of their use and meaning - which refuse to shy away from the shameful status they now hold.
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2023-10-1214 min
AGSA PodcastsTuesday Talks - Navigating the new with Dr Lisa Slade and artist Angela TiatiaThank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Join us as Dr Lisa Slade and artist Angela Tiatia discuss selected works in the 2023 Ramsay Art Prize.
For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au
Image still: Angela Tiatia, The Pearl, 2021-23, digital video. Image courtesy the artist and Sullivan + Strumpf. ©️The artist.
2023-07-1132 min
Art WankEpisode 153 - Glenn Barkley, artist, writer, curator...Send us a textGlenn Barkley is a busy man! He has written a brilliant book on Ceramics, 'Ceramics: An Atlas of Forms', (published by Thames and Hudson), a global cultural study of the history of ceramics, sharing the stories of over 100 objects, honouring the artists who have left their mark on this timeless practice. This coincides with the curation of an upcoming show at the AGNSW, brick vase clay cup jug, a look at the Gallery’s collection - July 1 2023 - Jan 2024. 'Barkley was previously senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (2008–14) and c...
2023-06-2055 min
SmartArtsThe commercial art world, Loaded and Lé NørDirector Ursula Sullivan on her gallery Sullivan and Strumpf and the changing commercial art landscape; Christos Tsiolkas & Dan Giovannoni on adapting the novel 'Loaded', as a play - exploring queer, migrant Melbourne; co-director Adriane Daff on her theatrical depiction of the behind-the-scenes of an arthouse foreign film, 'Lé Nør'.
2023-05-0449 min
Real STUFF with Hunter JohnsonContemporary Artist | Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran | Identity & Cultural ValueRamesh Mario Nithiyendran: Australian contemporary artist - but don’t put him in a boxIn this week’s episode of "Real STUFF” our host Hunter Johnson sits down with the contemporary artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran at the Sydney Opera House. During the podcast, Hunter and Ramesh explore various themes related to art, identity, and cultural values.Ramesh is a Sri Lankan-Australian artist best known for his figurative ceramic practice. He came to Australia as a refugee when he was just a baby, and settled in suburban Sydney at a time...
2023-05-031h 06Real STUFF with Hunter JohnsonContemporary Artist | Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran | Identity & Cultural ValueRamesh Mario Nithiyendran: Australian contemporary artist - but don’t put him in a boxIn this week’s episode of "Real STUFF” our host Hunter Johnson sits down with the contemporary artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran at the Sydney Opera House. During the podcast, Hunter and Ramesh explore various themes related to art, identity, and cultural values.Ramesh is a Sri Lankan-Australian artist best known for his figurative ceramic practice. He came to Australia as a refugee when he was just a baby, and settled in suburban Sydney at a time...
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Talking with PaintersYvette CoppersmithSee video highlights of this interview on the YouTube channel here
For those of you interested in portraiture in Australia, Yvette Coppersmith needs no introduction.
She has painted dozens of portraits, including a collection of fascinating self-portraits, and is regularly shortlisted in the country’s most competitive portrait awards. In 2018 she was awarded the one that would place her in Australian art history – the Archibald Prize.
What has captured my attention more recently, though, are Yvette’s abstract works, particularly a body of work I saw in her exhibition ‘Presage’ at Sullivan + Strumpf in Sydney l...
2023-02-2757 minTalking with PaintersSam LeachScroll down to watch two videos of Sam on the TWP YouTube channel.
In 2010 Sam Leach won the Archibald and Wynne Prizes, two of Australia’s most famous awards for portraiture and landscape painting, becoming only the third person in the prizes’ history to win both in the same year.
The two artists to achieve this rare distinction before him were 20th century greats Sir William Dobell and Brett Whiteley.
I remember seeing those two small paintings hanging in the Art Gallery of NSW and being struck by their beauty and exquisite detail. The...
2022-06-131h 08
Talk ArtRamesh Mario NithiyendranNew Talk Art!!! We meet artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran on the eve of his new solo show in Mumbai, India titled The Mud and The Rainbow.Encountering the sculptures of Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran is, at first, bewildering and unsettling, so multifarious and polymorphous are his references. Yet there is a logic to these works, a reasoning which draws the artist to his conclusions, such that we might use the term Syllogisms to understand his plastic experiments. Ramesh is quick to site the synthesis of Hindu, Buddhist and Christian iconographies, which are the inheritance of his Sri...
2022-02-111h 20
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastModernism, Motherhood and Modular Art: Sanné MestromSanné Mestrom’s art practice has always worked to complicate understandings of sculpture, but has recently focused more intently on exploring the agency of sculpture and its accountability to public and private space and the people that inhabit it. In the fascinating discussion recorded during the installation of her latest exhibition, Body as Verb, Sanné and Gallery Director Ursula Sullivan discuss how Hannah Höch, motherhood and moving to the Blue Mountains has changed her and her practice. Sullivan + Strumpf website www.sullivanstrumpf.comInstagram www.instagram.com/sullivanstrumpf/Facebook www.fac...
2021-04-3016 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastChangemakers: Angela Tiatia and Genevieve SmartIn this delightful, meandering conversation, multimedia artist Angela Tiatia chats with Genevieve Smart, co-founder of the iconic Australian fashion label, Ginger & Smart about the climate crisis, art and fashion. It’s a fascinating discussion between two creative kindred spirits who met in 2017 at a climate crisis workshop on Heron Island organised by renowned Australian environmentalist, Tim Flannery.Angela was also featured in Ginger & Smart’s recent Changemakers Series with six other influential women. She chats with Genievieve about creativity and their shared passion for the environment.www.sullivanstrumpf.comwww...
2021-02-2215 min
Recorded Time#8 - Richard LewerRichard Lewer is a Melbourne based artist originally from New Zealand. He exhibits with Hugo Michell Gallery in South Australia and with Sullivan and Strumpf in Sydney. He has won a variety of significant art awards, including the Basil Sellers Art Award, the Blake Prize and the National Works on Paper Drawing Award. On the podcast we discuss his work, the art world in general and Richard's passion for boxing.
2021-02-081h 05
Art & MarketPivot Day 2 | How will Galleries Market and Sell ArtNon-essential businesses across the world have had to deal with significant decline in business ever since the global economic fallout of Covid-19 became clear. In the art market, the dominant response has been to migrate to the digital realm. Our panel of gallerists will offer their views on soldiering through these trying times, how the push online may transform their businesses in the long haul, and what else they are doing to future-proof their galleries.
Panellists:
Isa Lorenzo, Founder & Director, Silverlens
Richard Koh, Founder & Director, Richard Koh Fine Arts
Ursula Sullivan, Co-Director, Sullivan+Strumpf
Moderated by Jefferson Jong, Director, Art...
2020-12-1853 min
AI AgentsEp 1: Agent Sam Leach - Automatic Learning Augmenting the Creative ProcessSam Leach joins the podcast to discuss his artistic work in his latest collection titled Fully Automatic, which featured at Sullivan & Strumpf in Sydney in 2020. Sam excels as an artist by his own merit, but what if we pair him up with some machine learning? Dr Matthew McAuley from Belfast helped Sam implement algorithms from a DCGAN, (Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network) to automate the process of studying aesthetics through time. Sam's previous award-winning work also went into the mix allowing the AI to produce images which Sam painted resulting in a truly surreal outcome. This episode discusses the...
2020-12-1819 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastAlex Seton — The Ghost of WombeyanThere is an intrinsic link between place and identity - who we are, is to a large extent determined by our environment. Alex Seton’s unusual upbringing around a marble quarry not far from the Wombeyan Caves in New South Wales, Australia has shaped him at least as much as he has shaped the limestone that comes from it.Seton’s award winning sculptural works, hewn from solid marble are a love letter to this upbringing and the material he has worked with his whole life. His sculptures are a paradox, rendering an inherently hard mate...
2020-11-1122 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastLindy Lee on Zen, the cosmos, the universe and everythingArtist Lindy Lee draws on her Australian and Chinese heritage to develop Contemporary works that engage with the history of art, Daoism, Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism and the cosmos including the connections between humanity and nature.Join Lindy and Sullivan+Strumpf gallery Director Joanna Strumpf for this delightful conversation recorded in the lead-up to her forthcoming survey show Moon in a Dew Drop opening in October at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (MCA).Several new works have been commissioned especially for this major exhibition, including her largest ever installation, Moonlight Deities which will be a...
2020-09-0214 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastSam Leach with Andrew Frost — Fully AutomaticThroughout history, artists have always quoted and appropriated, synthesising the past and (hopefully) creating something new all their own. It is the modus operandi of award winning painter Sam Leach and is exemplified in his controversial Wynne Prize winning work based on a 17th century Dutch painting of an Italianette landscape.No stranger to controversy, Sam Leach is now using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate new imagery based on his own catalogue of work, which he then painstakingly paints. It’s a kind of feedback loop, blending the mystical qualities of paint with digital technology.Th...
2020-08-1223 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastKirsten Coelho — the OdysseyA road trip through the Australian outback listening to an audio book of Homer’s The Odyssey was the beginning of a transformative journey for contemporary ceramicist Kirsten Coelho — a journey which would eventually take her to Europe and inspire her upcoming exhibition, Ithaca at the Samstag Museum of Art.Join Kirsten and Samstag Museum of Art Associate Curator Joanna Kitto for an enlightening odyssey through the work of one of Australia’s leading ceramicists.Sullivan + Strumpf website www.sullivanstrumpf.comInstagram www.instagram.com/sullivanstrumpf/Facebook www.facebook.com/sullivanstrumpf/Twitte...
2020-07-1509 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastA Walk Through The Forest with Grant Stevens and Natalya HughesNatalya Hughes and Grant Stevens have been close friends and colleagues for 20 years. Both use digital technology in the creation of their art work, but in very different ways. Join Natalya and Grant for a walk through The Forest, Grant’s latest work which brings digital technology and the natural environment together in an endless series of speculative moments, uneasy contemplation, instant gratification and perpetual fatigue.On now at Sullivan + Strumpf Gallery, Sydney and online.Sullivan + Strumpf website www.sullivanstrumpf.comInstagram www.instagram.com/sullivanstrumpf/Facebook www.facebook.com/sullivanstrumpf/Tw...
2020-06-1710 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastDuty of Care — Tony Albert in conversation with Sally BrandTony Albert is one of the most important indigenous artists working in Australia today. In light of recent world events, he reflects with long-time friend and National Gallery of Australia Program Manager Sally Brand on his latest exhibition, Duty of Care.Albert’s work has always been in protest, seeking positivity in the face of adversity — but in late 2019, during his six week residency at Canberra Glassworks there is no way he could have known how the death of George Floyd would set America ablaze and ignite a call for change around the world. Albert doesn’t believe...
2020-06-1714 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastLouis Ho riffs with Jeremy SharmaCurator Louis Ho chats with Jeremy Sharma about his art and his music in the lead-up to Flat — a virtual exhibition supported by the National Arts Council featuring works by Alfonse Chiu, Daniel Chong, Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen, Fazleen Karlan, Genevieve Leong, Justin Lin, Nicholas Ong, Fiona Seow, Mangkhut (Jeremy Sharma), Moses Tan and Terry Wee.Sullivan + Strumpf website www.sullivanstrumpf.comInstagram www.instagram.com/sullivanstrumpf/Facebook www.facebook.com/sullivanstrumpf/Twitter www.twitter.com/sullivanstrumpf
2020-06-1509 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastDarren Sylvester — Mark of the VampireWhat does vampire folklore and aggravated burglary have in common? Join photographer, sculptor, video artist and musician Darren Sylvester and Sullivan + Strumpf Gallery Director Ursula Sullivan in this revealing conversation about vampiric mythology, pop culture, desirability, mortality and a recent home invasion. Fresh off an NGV career retrospective, Darren’s new exhibition Balustrade Stake opens June 4, 2020 at Sullivan + Strumpf Gallery, Sydney.Sullivan + Strumpf website www.sullivanstrumpf.comInstagram www.instagram.com/sullivanstrumpf/Facebook www.facebook.com/sullivanstrumpf/Twitter www.twitter.com/sullivanstrumpf
2020-06-0309 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastNatalya Hughes, Hamish Sawyer and de Kooning’s womenIndependent Curator and Writer Hamish Sawyer chats with Natalya Hughes about her latest body of work — a new series of paintings examining de Kooning’s representation of women. In this thought provoking conversation, Hughes’ calls into question the idea of the male genius artist and explains how she used de Kooning as her assistant in the creation of these new works.Sullivan + Strumpf website www.sullivanstrumpf.comInstagram www.instagram.com/sullivanstrumpf/Facebook www.facebook.com/sullivanstrumpf/Twitter www.twitter.com/sullivanstrumpf
2020-05-2812 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastThe Boy from Oz - Todd McKenney chats with Joanna StrumpfSullivan + Strumpf gallery Director Joanna Strumpf chats with the legendary entertainer and Helpmann award winner, Todd McKenney about Covid-19, his two greyhounds and his passion for collecting contemporary art – a decades long affair which began in Melbourne with a season of Cats. Thank you Andrew Lloyd Webber!Tune in to this not to be missed “Toddcast” to hear about how Darren Sylvester’s epic work “Broken Model” would be the first thing Todd would save in a fire, and why Todd believes we need the arts, now more than ever.Sullivan + Strumpf website www.sullivanstrumpf.comInst...
2020-05-1318 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastEvery Day in Paris - David Flack with Greg HodgeGreg Hodge’s art work has always had a way of unsettling assumptions. Still in lockdown in Paris after a three-month residency, he chats with interior designer David Flack about art, architecture and his upcoming exhibition at Sullivan + Strumpf gallery.Sullivan + Strumpf website www.sullivanstrumpf.comInstagram www.instagram.com/sullivanstrumpf/Facebook www.facebook.com/sullivanstrumpf/Twitter www.twitter.com/sullivanstrumpfFlack Studio Insta https://www.instagram.com/flackstudio_Flack and Friends Insta https://www.instagram.com/flackandfriends
2020-05-1312 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastJulie Ewington and Mikala Tai on Eko NugrohoEko Nugroho is part of a new wave of artists forging a unique Indonesian visual language deeply rooted in everyday life. In this episode, renowned writer, curator and broadcaster Julie Ewington talks to 4A Centre for Contemporary Art Director Mikala Tai about this exciting visual artist, his work and the latest Sullivan + Strumpf (Singapore) group show 'Nothing Lasts Nothing's Finished', featuring Nugroho’s work alongside Southeast Asian visual artists Juka Araikawan, Dawn Ng and Enggar Rhomadioni.Sullivan + Strumpf website www.sullivanstrumpf.comInstagram www.instagram.com/sullivanstrumpf/Facebook www.facebook.com/sullivanstrumpf/Twitter ww...
2020-05-0617 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastRamesh Mario Nithiyendran in conversation with Diana Campbell BetancourtContemporary Visual Artist and ceramicist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran speaks with Diana Campbell Betancourt, Artistic Director of the Samdani Art Foundation. As friends and collaborators, this fascinating discussion traverses language, the significance of regionally specific dialogues, ceramic histories and sex. It's a revealing insight into the artist and his art work as well as his new exhibition at Sullivan + Strumpf gallery, Polymorphous Figures.Sullivan + Strumpf website www.sullivanstrumpf.comInstagram www.instagram.com/sullivanstrumpf/Facebook www.facebook.com/sullivanstrumpf/...
2020-04-2331 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastImpacts of COVID-19 on five artists - and the artsSullivan + Strumpf gallery directors Ursula Sullivan and Joanna Strumpf talk with five of their visual artists from around the world. It’s a fascinating and worrying insight into the impacts of COVID-19 on these artists, their families and the visual arts in general.Join Ry David Bradley in lock down in London, Jemima Wyman from home in LA, Kanchana Gupta in Singapore, Polly Borland marooned in Byron Bay and Gregory Hodge stuck in Paris.Ry David Bradleywww.sullivanstrumpf.com/artists/ry-david-bradley/Je...
2020-04-1645 min
Visions: A Sullivan+Strumpf PodcastGlenn Barkley in conversation with Ramesh Mario NithiyendranGlenn Barkley and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran are contemporary Australian artists represented by Sullivan + Strumpf gallery in Sydney. Both work with ceramics and are also good friends. This conversation between the two artists provides a unique insight into Glenn's practice and how Australia's recent bushfire disaster inspired his latest exhibition, 'What did the Birds Say?' (until April 30 at Sullivan + Strumpf Gallery, Sydney). Website www.sullivanstrumpf.comInstagram www.instagram.com/sullivanstrumpf/Facebook www.facebook.com/sullivanstrumpf/Twitter www.twitter.com/sullivanstrumpf
2020-04-0737 min