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Inside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - MICHELLE CHANIQUE: THE ARTS UNFILTEREDHow does a freelance curator undertake their work in Australia, and what opportunities are really presented? Does it take a special entrepreneurial spirit? In this episode, we hear an open and frank perspective from independent curator Michelle Chanique about the challenges and benefits of working in the arts, without being tied to any particular institution.
Michelle's art precinct tours (Curated Contemporary): https://www.curatedcontemporary.com/
Plausible Playground (Macquarie University) exhibition video: https://youtu.be/BJpTxEq6zdA
A transcript of this conversation is available for download here, courtesy of the Australian Arts Channel
2025-05-0231 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - UNSWORTH'S SWEETEST LOVEFrom the early performances of the 1970s, to the hugely popular suspended stone circles, to the installations that incorporate a sense of theatre, Ken Unsworth continues to offer a disturbing and uncompromising view of our shared humanity.
In this episode of the podcast, we speak with Macquarie University senior gallery curator Rhonda Davis, and exhibition curator Brad Buckley about the installation at Macquarie University which features many new works by the artist.
More details: https://www.mq.edu.au/about/facilities/museums-collections/macquarie-university-art-gallery/whats-on/art-gallery-events/love-is-the-sweetest-thing
Video: https://youtu.be/DYqOJ6MXSgU
2025-04-1631 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - NELSON'S LOSSES DISGUISED AS WINSNelson Nghe is a Western Sydney-based artist engaging with a diverse range of media including painting, photo media and assemblage. His practice is characterised by the passionate use of mixed media and playful abstractions to push boundaries and highlight the living experience of gambling harm as an affected other.
His exhibition LOSSES DISGUISED AS WINS at Firstdraft in Sydney, illuminates the often "invisible" nature of gambling harm, especially its impact on loved ones. Through evocative found objects and images, Nelson reimagines hidden domestic moments, exploring the emotional toll that gambling harm inflicts on those indirectly affected. While s...2025-03-1830 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia): ANNE BAMFORD'S CREATIVE VISIONMeasuring Australia’s creative world ranking.
An educational futurist and passionate arts educator, Professor Dr Anne Bamford OBE is Director of the International Research Agency, and President of the Education Inspiring Peace Laboratory, and was the former Strategic Education, Skills and Culture Director for the City of London.
In this episode: After 2 decades abroad Dr Bamford has returned to Australia, armed with case studies and data measuring the value of creativity in business, culture, emerging technology and communication.
A transcript of this conversations is available for download here, thanks to the Australian Arts Cha...2025-02-2537 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - COMA'S BIG MOVESydney commercial gallery COMA makes a big move, relocating to a bigger single venue, featuring an enormous exhibition space, viewing rooms across two levels, and onsite storage.
This episode features COMA founder Sotiris Sotiriou speaking about the motivation behind the move, the gallery’s vision for the future, and about choosing Justin Williams for the new space’s inaugural show , titled WAITING FOR LAVENDER, influenced by the birth of the artist’s first child.
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A transcript of the conversation can be downloaded here, thanks to the Australian Arts Channel...2025-02-0630 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - THE GALLERIST AND THE ARTISTLON Gallery in Melbourne began as a project space in 2016 based on a non-profit model that primarily supported emerging artists. The gallery established it's formal program in 2019, which provided the opportunity to work with a select number of artists in depth and to foster the critical development of their practices.
At Sydney Contemporary in 2024, LON gallerist Adam Stone devoted their stand entirely to the work of Devi Seetharam, paintings that reflect a world where men wield the authority to occupy public space, while women are reduced to symbolic figures of beauty and desire.
In this e...2024-11-1030 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - ATONG ATEM: I CAN'T BE INVISIBLE"I'm a black woman in the world. Every day when I step outside of my door, I can't be invisible."
From Tate Modern to the National Gallery of Victoria, Atong Atem has captured the eye of curators, critics and collectors alike as an artist who creates beautifully crafted images that explore family, migration and her South Sudanese heritage.
Her work explores the inherent intimacy of portraiture and photography as well as the role photographers take as story tellers, interrogating photography as a framework for looking at the world and positioning people in it, inviting the v...2024-10-2621 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - EMIL CANITA: Art, Sexuality and Consent"I didn't know being a slut could be a form of art"
Sexuality and gender diversity are not unusual to find within the nature of any artist's work, but perhaps being a result of direct sexual practice is somewhat surprising. Emil Canita was exhibited by MARS Gallery in Melbourne earlier this year, and then later reached a broader audience at Sydney Contemporary.
As a trans Filipino sex worker and artist, Emil navigates the intersection of art, identity, and personal expression. Known for evocative videos, captivating storytelling as you'll hear, and intimate Polaroid captures, Emil's raw...2024-10-1830 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - GRACE CROWLEY & RALPH BALSONPainting exclusively together for many decades, Grace Crowley & Ralph Balson’s dynamic exchange extended and challenged both artists. They respectively produced some of the earliest and most important works of abstract art in the country. Their collaborative approach to painting – the sharing of ideas, techniques and materials – resulted in two significant bodies of work that broke new ground in Australian art.
By presenting the work of Crowley and Balson together, this exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia invites audiences to trace the shared influences and harmonies between their works, as well as to appreciate the centra...2024-07-1131 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - MULTIFUTURES AT BANKSTOWN ARTS CENTREMultiFutures imagines potential worlds of tomorrow through the lens of cultural and linguistically diverse International and Australian artists. The exhibition addresses the importance of diversity in the creation of imaginary and real-world futures based on lived experiences of First Nations and CaLD communities.
Featuring multimedia artistic practices informed by AfroFuturism, Indigenous Futurism, Asian Futurism and Yemini Futurism, curator Rachael Kiang speaks with Tim Stackpool about how this exhibition speaks to the diverse cultural make-up of contemporary Australia and is a compelling speculative visual narrative of the place of migrant communities in the future.
Artists: Alia...2024-05-2725 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - FRED GENIS: INVISIBLE ALCHEMISTDuring his forty-year career, master lithographer Fred Genis (1934 – 2022) worked in the United States, Europe, and Australia, collaborating with leading artists from around the world. His working life spanned monumental eras in the 20th Century art including the American Abstract Expressionist movement of 1960s and 70s New York.
The Grafton Regional Gallery presents a major retrospective exhibition titled "Fred Genis: A Printer's Proof," curated by Professor Pedram Khosronejad, demonstrating the measure of Genis’s success through the presentation of original lithographs by forty-four artists from across three continents
In this episode, along with comments from Tim Stor...2024-04-2643 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - ARCHIE MOORE IN VENICEEXPRESS EDITION.
Archie Moore’s kith and kin has opened at the Venice Biennale. Curated by Ellie Buttrose, the work reflects on the nature and strength of First Nations Australian kinship that spans more than 65,000 years, and incorporates the land, water and all living things.
Drawing on Archie's Kamilaroi, Bigambul, British and Scottish heritage, the installation embodies his enduring exploration of history and identity, which are central themes in his artistic practice spanning over 30 years.
This episode features comments from the launch, as well as insights from the artist and the curator, along wit...2024-04-1815 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - DONNA MARCUSDonna Marcus, a multidisciplinary artist, discusses her artistic background and her use of kitchenware and cooking pots in her work. In conversation with curator Professor Pedram Khosronejad, she explains how she became fascinated with aluminum objects, particularly lightweight aluminum objects, and the stories and narratives they hold.
Covering her public artworks and how they inform her studio practice. Donna explores the significance of aluminum as a material of modernism and its connection to post-war period and domesticity.
Her work is currently on exhibition at HOTA Gallery, which showcases her installations and explores themes of feminism...2024-03-1240 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - DARREN BURROWS' CREATIVE PIVOTWhen the drive to create takes a turn and propels the artistic compulsion into another direction. This episode features US based actor and now designer Darren Burrows revealing his inspiration, his history, and the balance between performance, life, and the art of design.
Discussing the phenomenon of an artist known for one talent, but now channelling that creative ability into a different but equally artistic practice, Tim Stackpool explores Darren's further craft: ornate and detailed metal engraving, and hand-crafted jewellery set with gems that are truly exquisite works of art. Some of the detail is so fine...2024-02-2930 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - BAROQUE AT HAMILTON GALLERYDrawn from a partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and loans from the National Gallery of Australia and private lenders across the country, Emerging from Darkness: Faith, Emotion and The Body in the Baroque brings together some of the most important European works in Australia for the first time.
Also exploring the few women artists of the period, NGV curator Laurie Benson discusses this rare opportunity to see these Baroque works, only at Hamilton Gallery, along with the significance of such a collection in Australia, and the incredible influence the Baroque era had on the...2024-02-1237 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - THE DANCE OF THE REMEDIATORS"It began as a vague sense of unease, unconnected to anything in particular. Ordinary objects of the built environment began to take on a threatening demeanour, looming over the bright and baking streets."
Created by artists Heidi Axelsen and Hugo Moline, The Dance of the Remediators at The Lock Up in Newcastle is an archive of a possible future; a materialised dream sequence of people being called into action by coal’s humble living relatives.
The artists discuss any cognitive dissonance of honouring the history of coal while also evoking a visual reminder that it is n...2024-01-2230 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - 150 YEARS OF IMPRESSIONISM2024 marks 150 years since the birth of Impressionism, the movement that revolutionised art.
During the 1860s, a group of artists, nicknamed “the Batignolles group”, regularly met at the Café Guerbois in Paris. Deviating from the academic style, these artists, which were all refused at the Salon de Paris, decided to create their own exhibition in the spring of 1874 at the studio of their photographer friend, Nadar, on the boulevard des Capucines. The inauguration took place on April 15, 1874.
Critically panned at the time, today Impressionism is one of the great phases of pictorial art, having now conquered the w...2023-12-1832 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - RURAL UTOPIAS AT AGWAThe Art Gallery of Western Australia and SPACED present Rural Utopias at The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) from 25 November 2023.
Rural Utopias features new works by 10 artists from across Australia, developed over a series of residencies in rural and remote Western Australia, in dialogue with selected objects from AGWA’s $361 million State Art Collection.
In collaboration with their host communities, artists lived and worked within their residency locations responding to the overarching curatorial theme of “Rural Utopias” to deliver context-responsive and socially engaged art.
SPACED Rural Utopias Curator, Miranda Johnson, speaks with Inside The G...2023-11-2331 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - RAMSES and THE GOLD OF THE PHARAOHSWe’re invited, by the Australian Museum to transport ourselves back 3,300 years, across the sands of the Sahara Desert to reach the heartbeat of ancient Egypt ruled by the most celebrated pharaoh in the country's storied history. This is the opportunity to experience one of the greatest collections of its kind, in an Australian-first exhibition, Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs.
This all-new multisensory museum experience provides visitors with a window into the life and accomplishments of Ramses II, more commonly known as Ramses the Great, who ruled Egypt for 67 years – the second longest reign for any phar...2023-11-1726 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - SANGEETA SANDRASEGAR: CROSSING CULTURESSangeeta Sandrasegar’s art practice is centred on hybridity theories, and explores her life in Australia as an artist of Malaysian, Indian and Australian heritage, and the relationship between migrant communities and homelands.
Her practice, including her highly regarded work with paper cutouts, has engaged with shadows as an ephemeral motif symbolising the movement of cultures and people. Recently too, Sangeeta’s work has involved the dying of large flowing fabric panels, with a particular focus on the nature and message of colours, particularly INDIGO
Good friend of this podcast Pedram Khosronejad (Adjunct Professor at the Sc...2023-07-3047 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - MAJID RABET: ENGINEER/ARTIST/REFUGEEArtist and engineer Majid Rabet came to Australia via Indonesia, and was detained by Australian Immigration, firstly at Christmas Island, and then at Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney.
While there - for two years - to help ease the anxiety of his situation, he put his skills and inspiration to work. Majid noticed discarded material in the refuse area of the Centre which he knew he could re-purpose into usable things.
Majid Rabet made many other things to make his life, and the lives of his fellow detainees easier and more comfortable. Good friend of...2023-07-1041 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - TWO ARTISTS, ONE SUBJECTArtists John Klein and Sally Ryan both separately chose Sydney designer and media presenter Claudia Chan Shaw as their subject for entry into this year's Archibald Art Prize. Hear how the artists differed in their approach to representing Claudia, how they prepared and undertook the sittings, and their impressions of each other's work.
This year, 949 Archibald entries were received, with 57 selected for final judging, currently on display at the Art Gallery of NSW. A further 34 works not selected for the official exhibition are on curated display at S.H Ervin Gallery's Salon des Refusés.
A...2023-06-0535 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - DR LÉULI ESHRĀGHI @ TARRAWARRAVictoria’s TarraWarra Biennial is underway until mid-July, featuring works curated by Dr Léuli Eshrāghi, focusing on the interconnectedness of the peoples of Australia, Asia, and the Great Ocean. The exhibition is titled 'ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili', a Sāmoan proverb which means ‘the canoe obeys the wind’. The proverb is demonstrative of Great Ocean celestial navigation practices, following centuries of European and Asian colonial occupations.
This episode features Dr Eshrāghi discussing the exhibition, their background, and identifying new trends in contemporary Australian art.
A transcript of this interview is available for download H...2023-05-2823 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - CURATORIAL+CO MAKES A MOVESydney gallery and art consultancy Curatorial+Co. is moving their physical gallery space to a new home in Woolloomooloo. Founder and gallery owner Sophie Vander speaks with Tim Stackpool about discovering the fortuitous new space, the change in image this might mean for the gallery, and about the evolution and challenges of managing a commercial gallery in 2023.
The gallery features an expansive 150 square-metre exhibition space, measuring five metres in height, alongside an additional 150 square-metre storage and office space. It is fronted by 17 metres of glass, inviting passers-by to view Curatorial+Co.’s eclectic and ever-changing range of wor...2023-04-2431 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - ANTHONY RICCIARDI AT AUDREY FINE ARTCanadian contemporary artist Anthony Ricciardi has made a big impact these past few years, with collections being showcased globally in major cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Manchester, Montreal, Sao Paolo, and now in Sydney thanks to gallerist Louise Reilly at Audrey Fine Art.
He has curated large-scale artwork and clothing for notable celebrities such as Demi Lovato, Bad Bunny, Post Malone, Shaquille O’Neill and many more. He's also collaborated with major brands such as Disney, Adidas, Coors Light and L’Oreal.
But as Anthony tells Tim Stackpool, his story isn't typical. From C...2023-04-1334 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - BERRY’S OPENFIELD ARTS FESTIVALA new and immersive contemporary arts festival is scheduled for the picturesque South Coast town of Berry from June 22 to 25, 2023. OpenField Arts Festival will showcase contemporary art in and around the town in unique non-museum venues, including halls, community spaces and natural reserves.
Festival Co-Director and acclaimed Australian musician Lenka Kripac, a local Shoalhaven resident, speaks with Tim Stackpool about the increasing numbers of artists and professionals moving to the region due to its unique beauty and lifestyle, and the increasing desire for cultural engagement.
Fostered by a local group of creatives, the largely-free festival has...2023-03-2428 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - ARCHIE MOORE AT VENICE BIENNALEArtist Archie Moore and curator Ellie Buttrose team up to present at the 2024 Venice Biennale.
Announced by the soon to be re-named Australia Council, the artist becomes only the second solo First Nations artist to represent Australia at the world’s oldest international contemporary art event. In this edition of the podcast, we hear from the artist and the curator about working together, and about the inspiration behind working together.
Drawing upon 25 years of practice, Archie Moore (Kamilaroi/Bigambul) is uniquely placed to confront Australia’s past and evocatively assert Indigenous sovereignty on a worldwide scal...2023-03-1320 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - SHIPWRECK ODYSSEY AT AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUMThe Lighthouse Gallery at the Australian National Maritime Museum is transformed into a wonderland of projection and light showcasing the beauty of our oceans for the presentation called Shipwreck Odyssey.
Two large-scale walls are illuminated with spectacular interactive projections to create a large immersive play space. The venue is fitted out with state-of-the-art projection and tracking technology that allows for individual interaction with the uniquely developed aquatic imagery.
The presentation is the work of Box of Birds, a collective of artists, technologists and organisations who work together to create digital play spaces. This episode of...2023-01-0324 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - CHARKHA AND KARGHACommemorating the 75th anniversary of India’s independence, Charkha and Kargha at the Powerhouse Museum explores the role that textiles played in India’s movement towards independence from colonial rule.
In addition to their beauty, many of the textiles included in the exhibition incorporate spinning, weaving, dyeing and embroidery techniques, featuring rare items that date back to the foundational collections of the Powerhouse acquired since the 1880s, some of which are on display to the public for the very first time.
Curator Professor Pedram Khosronejad guides Tim Stackpool through the exhibition and discusses the anthropologic and c...2022-11-2333 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (AUSTRALIA) - FRED WILLIAMS: THE LONDON YEARSThe 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...2022-11-0127 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - SHErobots AT TIN SHEDS GALLERYThe 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...2022-10-1924 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - REIMAGINING FLORENCE BROADHURSTDrawing 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 r...2022-10-0234 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - CADRY’S ENORMOUS LEGACYWeavers, 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 tra...2022-09-2036 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - SHIREEN TAWEEL: BETWEEN CULTURESAstronomy, 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 Chann...2022-09-1330 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - SIDNEY NOLAN’S UNSEEN AUSCHWITZBest 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...2022-09-0730 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY 2022Sydney Contemporary returns this year from the 8th until the 11th of September with the country’s largest and most diverse gathering of leading galleries.
The fair welcomes over 90 galleries showcasing the work of over 450 leading and emerging artists. Sydney Contemporary provides collectors, industry professionals and the art-loving public access to cutting-edge art from some of the world’s most respected artists and galleries as well as the opportunity to discover new, emerging talent.
Fair director Barry Keldoulis talks about the physical return of one of the most celebrated events on Australia’s cultural calendar.
...2022-08-1527 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - TATE’S LIGHT AT ACMICurated by Tate UK and drawn from their prestigious collection, the LIGHT exhibition at ACMI explores the influence of light, shade and darkness across the world of art, imagery and cinema with works by Joseph Mallord, William Turner (including his epic painting The Deluge exhibited for the first time in Australia), Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Joseph Albers, Tacita Dean, Liliane Lijn, James Turrell, Yayoi Kusama and Olafur Eliasso.
Kerryn Greenberg, former Head of International Collection Exhibitions, Tate, discusses the process of gathering some of the world’s most valuable artworks into this touring exhibition, the significance of th...2022-06-1528 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - FUSINATO’S DESASTRES AT THE VENICE BIENNALEMarco Fusinato’s DESASTRES, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor is an experimental noise project that synchronises sound with images on a large screen and takes the form of a durational solo performance as installation.
Fusinato performs live in the Australian pavilion for the duration of the Venice Biennale using an electric guitar as a signal generator into mass amplification, to improvise slabs of noise, saturated feedback and discordant intensities that trigger a deluge of images.
The resulting all-consuming experience is open for the audience to interpret and make sense of. There is a link to vision fr...2022-06-0733 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - RACHEL KENT AT BUNDANONRachel Kent, CEO of Bundanon, talks about the upcoming official launch of the new Art Museum and Bridge for Creative Learning, located within one of the greatest philanthropic contributions to Australian arts, established by Arthur and Yvonne Boyd.
Embedded within the landscape, the new 500m2 Bundanon Art Museum will present a year-round program of exhibitions of modern, contemporary, and First Nations art, as well as new commissions. It includes a state-of-the-art storage facility that will house and protect Bundanon's extensive $46.5 million collection of some 4,000 items.
The build has been supported by a $22.5 million investment from th...2022-02-2225 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - BILLICH LAUNCHES NFT SERIESOne of Australia’s most celebrated traditional artists, Charles Billich, is shifting into digital art and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) with his own NFT project. His first work in the series is called Journey of Flat Earth and explores the recent upheaval of COVID-19 and the unknown of NFTs and blockchain.
Described as one of the world’s most important living artists, Charles Billich is also one of the most credentialed artists of all time. The modern-day surrealist has enjoyed a colourful, unconventional career and personal life.
He was famously commissioned to develop the Bing Ma Yong...2022-02-1429 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - LUST LOVE LOSS at THE SHRINEThe complex issues surrounding matters of love and sex profoundly affect people everywhere, every day. Wartime is no exception. The disruptive nature of war and the extraordinary situations it brings about magnifies human experience in these areas.
‘Wartime morality’ - the fear that death may come at any time - undermines societal norms and lowers inhibitions, tempting people to pursue encounters or engage in behaviours they may not have considered in peacetime.
Curator at The Shrine Melbourne, Neil Sharkey talks about the exhibition LUST LOVE LOSS, indicating how sex itself can be weaponised, how sexualised image...2021-12-2229 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia) - WW2 INTERNMENT CAMP ARTThe recent discovery of more than 200 artworks created by German expats living in Persia during World War 2, then sent to internment camps in Australia, paints a picture of separation, isolation and resilience.
Project curator Professor Pedram Khosronejad teams with Inside The Gallery podcast to present these works for the first time at www.australianinternment.art
This edition tells the story of how the work was uncovered, what life was like at the camps, and the important message expressed by the internees, read and interpreted in a 21st century world.
A transcript of this e...2021-11-2934 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia): SHEPPARTON ART MUSEUMThe Artistic director and CEO of Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), Dr Rebecca Coates talks about the history of the SAM collection, the impact on the local area, the upcoming exhibition schedule and the story behind the design and construction of the gallery itself.
SAM's new home is an outstanding example of exciting, best-practice contemporary museum architecture - a five-storey building housing the Museum, Visitor Centre, and the Kaiela Art Gallery and Studio, perhaps the only example of a local Aboriginal arts centre sharing the same building and new arts and cultural space with an art museum.
2021-10-1837 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia): FROM BASKET CASE TO SCULPTORNew York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has restored and preserved the 1982 horror 'cult' film Basket Case, and it's now part of the museum's permanent collection.
Take a listen as sculptor Kevin VanHentenryck (who played the film's lead) describes inspiration and crossroads within the arts, continuing with his love of stone carving while drawn into the world of underground film making, and subsequent bigger budget sequels.
From humble beginnings carving discarded stones and rock found in derelict New York streets, to now creating works as heavy as 8 tons, the artistic journey of a lifetime comes w...2021-09-1435 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia): NGUNUNGGULA REGIONAL GALLERYInaugural gallery director Megan Monte describes the soon to be opened Ngununggula, the NSW Southern Highlands’ first regional art gallery, 30 years in the making.
Under the leadership of Megan, this new gallery captures the cultural vibrancy of the region through a dynamic curatorial program and community-minded approach.
With a focus on visual arts and education, the gallery includes artist-led projects, live events, workshops, artist talks and public programs. Creating engaging ways for the local community to connect with artists and their ideas is at the core of Ngununggula’s philosophy.
A transcript of this...2021-08-3026 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia): CHAU CHAK WING MUSEUMDeputy Director Dr Paul Donnelly describes the foundation of the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney.
The university's collections began with the Nicholson Collection of antiquities in 1860 and continued to grow to include the Macleay Collections of natural history, ethnography, science and historic photography, and the University Art Collection.
While the collections themselves aren’t new, being able to see them is. The Chau Chak Wing Museum triples the exhibition space previously available. 70 per cent of the items on display have not been seen publicly for over 20 years.
From ancient Rome...2021-07-2833 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia): HOTAThe $60.5 million HOTA Gallery is the largest public gallery outside a capital city in Australia, spanning six levels and presenting a dynamic program of world premiere international exhibitions, Australian exclusives and new commissions.
Gallery and Visual Arts Director Tracy Cooper-Lavery shares her vision for the future of the Home of The Arts on the Gold Coast, as well as discussing regional gallery curation and commissioning, and the background behind the gallery's opening exhibitions.
Designed by award-winning Melbourne-based architects ARM, the gallery includes over 2,000m2 of AAA rated, international standard exhibition space and a dedicated Children’s...2021-06-0831 minInside The GalleryINSIDE THE GALLERY (Australia): IRANZAMINIranzamin, the land of the Persians, showcases more than 100 rarely seen objects at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum, exploring the diverse social and cultural history of Persia − today’s Iran. The exhibition examines how objects inspired by traditional arts and crafts were used in Persian society and by its people.
Iranzamin includes objects acquired from the 1880s to 2021, with a focus on the Qajar era (1789-1925) and encompasses material culture and techniques, from hand-woven crafts, carpets and rugs, textiles, embroidery and foundry to arms and armour, glass, ceramics and tiles.
INDEX OF INTERVIEWS:
01.10: Prof. Pedram Khosronejad - Curator.
21.25: Lisa Havilah - Chief Executive...2021-04-0629 minInside The GalleryInside the Gallery (Australia): AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR THE MOVING IMAGEACMI TO RE-OPEN FEBRUARY 11
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image is set to re-open after a $40 million refurbishment. Director/CEO of the museum Katrina Sedgewick OAM talks about the new permanent exhibition and the swing towards tandem online engagement.
The museum is driven via a multiplatform model powered by a new experience operating system (XOS). It sees physical and digital content connected in ways not before seen in Australia – setting the museum apart and establishing ACMI as one of the most innovative and digitally transformed museums in the world.
A transcript of this...2021-02-0818 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): SHEMZA SEEKS COLLABORATORS WORLDWIDEAPHRA SHEMZA SEEKS ONLINE COLLABORATORS
SHEMZA.DIGITAL is a new interactive artwork project by Aphra Shemza and Stuart Batchelor, who invite members of the public from around the world to collaborate with the work online.
Inspired by One to Nine and One to Seven, a painting by Aphra's late grandfather (world-renowned British Pakistani artist Anwar Jalal Shemza), the hope is to create art that is free and accessible to all, both in its making and its perception. Designs are uploaded and stored in an online archive to be cumulatively transformed into a generative light art in...2021-01-0530 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): OZFLIX ARTS TO LAUNCHOZFLIX ARTS STREAMING SERVICE LAUNCHING SOON.
This episode featuring OZFLIX founder and CEO Ron Brown previews the upcoming streaming service OZFLIX ARTS. Like its counterpart, OZFLIX ARTS will feature the best of independent Australian arts programming, covering galleries, theatres, documentaries and music.
Ron himself is a filmmaker and producer, having created award-winning screen content for many of Australia's greatest musicians and performers, along with more than 1600 pieces of visual material, across all genres including drama, documentary, promotional, educational, music and many others. He is also the co-founder and CEO of the Australian Film Future Foundation....2020-12-1420 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): PUB ROCK AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERYEXHIBITION: "PUB ROCK" - National Portrait Gallery
Celebrating the people, places and sounds of Australian pub rock and its enduring impact on our nation’s identity, the story of staging this exhibition is a tale itself.
Amongst the portraits, publicity shots and grungy energy of live performance, Joanna Gilmour's achievement of curating the exhibition from 860kms away, isolated behind a closed COVID border, is staggering.
This vibrant (sometimes sweaty) exhibition of homegrown rock ‘n’ roll, punk and pop features works from the gallery's collection alongside images by leading Australian music photographers.
A tran...2020-11-3022 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): DA VINCI AT THE LOUVREFILM: A Night at The Louvre - Leonardo da Vinci
This edition features an exclusive interview with Louvre curator Vincent Delieuvin, talking about the experiential movie A Night at the Louvre: Leonardo da Vinci. Filmed at night especially for the big screen, this private guided tour of the LEONARDO DA VINCI exhibition, designed and curated by the Louvre Museum, is a unique opportunity to contemplate the painter's most beautiful works up close.
Also featured in this special podcast edition, Natalie Miller AO, proprietor of Sharmill Films, who has brought this incredible film experience to Australia.
2020-10-1326 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): Season 2 - Episode 9Van Gogh Alive arrives in Sydney, the Powerhouse looks to 2030, and Sydney Contemporary switches to online. This episode looks at COVID-safe exhibitions and alternative online experiences.
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1.22: Van Gogh Alive launches in Sydney. Significant COVID-safe measure are in place for this large-scale, multi-sensory experience that has inspired over 6 million people across 50 cities around the world including Rome, Milan, Berlin, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Moscow and many more. We hear from the creator Bruce Peterson (Grande Exhibitions), promoter Emma Triggs (The M Agency), and event manager Gracie Valdez.
10.30: Hybrid: Objects for Future Homes is open at T...2020-10-0432 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): Season 2 - Episode 8The Things That Inspire Us.
UK artist Susanne Bayly-Yukawa had the world at her feet at the age of 21 when she met 49-year-old Japanese banker Akihisa Yukawa. 'Aki' established his 2nd family with Susanne, until their relationship was suddenly brought to an end.
In this podcast, Susanne tells the story of inspiration behind her art through tragic events that left her fighting for identity over the past 35 years.
Note: This episode is concerned with the artist’s inspiration, and in doing so, does not intend to judge the actions of individuals or corporations as...2020-09-1555 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): Season 2 - Episode 7The tearing down of monuments. A correction of history, or the destruction of art? Public memorials to past colonial, imperial or revolutionary figures are under scrutiny by communities dislocated or oppressed through the course of history.
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2.05: Jane Cavanough, a public spaces sculptor (ARTLANDISH), has received two NSW Landscape Architecture Awards for her artistry work, and previously won the Register of Military Monuments of National Significance Award.
17.30: Travis De Vries is a conceptual artist, performer, writer, composer and genre commentator spanning (and boundary-crossing) creative work, with a background in visual arts and I...2020-07-2831 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): Season 2 - Episode 6Emerging out of COVID-19? The National Art School is busy showcasing students' work during lockdown, as well as preparing for the institution's upcoming centenary. Also, Collingwood Yard's art precinct in Melbourne takes shape, and KOVET.ART launches in London, representing emerging artists, and utilising blockchain security to ensure authenticity.
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1.55: Jacqui Taffel describes the work undertaken by National Art School students inspired during lockdown, their successful online teaching, and the upcoming centenary.
11.25: Marcus Westbury OAM talks about the establishment of Collingwood Yards arts precinct in Melbourne and the enthusiasm of the current tena...2020-06-3034 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): Season 2 - Episode 5Necessity is the mother of invention. This episode looks at innovation in the face of adversity. A new virtual art museum is under construction, based upon online gaming platforms and design. Locally, art schools are discovering opportunities with online classes, and in Sweden a new board game studies the challenges faced by curators.
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2.10: Stuart Semple describes his vision for VOMA, a Virtual Online Museum of Art which is built upon technology used by gaming platforms and motion picture CGI. The project, designed from the ground-up, stands alone and will operate similar to a...2020-05-2636 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): Season 2 - Episode 4In this episode we discuss the challenges of recreating art experiences for an audience in isolation. Also, an extensive catalogue of Brett Whiteley's work hits the shelves, while other exhibitions pivot to recognise the impact of COVID-19.
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1.45: Giselle Stanborough's Cinopticon at Carriageworks is re-imagined for an online audience. But how does an artist rethink the work when their installation is physically inaccessible to the public? Giselle shares her method of coping and remaining inspired.
24.15: Kathie Sutherland's catalogue of Brett Whiteley's work is a seven volume raisonné eight years in the making. Aft...2020-04-2951 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): Season 2 - Episode 3How are local galleries coping with COVID-19? This edition features 3 gallery owners doing what they can to support their artists, as they discuss strategies for operating exclusively on the internet. Also, the Faculty of Arts at Monash University moves quickly to modify their teaching 100% online.
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3.30: Theo Mantalvanos at the Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop in Victoria has chosen to continue to hang their scheduled exhibitions, and then present them online.
13.30: Owner Louise Reilly and art consultant Robert Lording at Audrey Fine Art in Sydney hope to engage art lovers by remotely superimposing ar...2020-03-3041 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): Season 2 - Episode 2Matthew Sleeth has reimagined A Drone Opera into a cinematic experience. The installation at the Lyon Housemuseum Galleries is open from the 14-29 March 2020. Matt talks to Inside The Gallery about the history of the work, and where to from here.
The Australian Government has vanished the Arts portfolio within the new Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications. No mention of 'The Arts' at all. Associate Professor Lizzie Muller (UNSW) expresses the effect this will have on the sector, and how this affects upcoming students of the arts.
When is the right time to...2020-02-2537 minInside The GalleryInside the Gallery (Australia): Season 2 - Episode 1Australian artists featured in Milan. Judith Blackall delivers an update on AUSTRALIA - ANTIPODEAN STORIES at Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, the biggest exhibition of Australian contemporary art ever to be staged outside of Australia.
Bushfire affected regional galleries across the country are struggling with diminished visitors, as the holiday tourist trade is shattered. We hear from Jan Goodwin and Margaret White from The Point Gallery and Craft (Greenwell Point) and Robert Creed at The Gallery in Mogo about the stress and aftermath of the bushfires in their area.
Transcripts of interviews are available for download HERE. The t...2020-01-2830 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): Season 1 - Episode 12The Australian Government has vanished the Arts portfolio within the new Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications. No mention of 'The Arts' at all.
The lack of any reference to the arts in the new department’s title, and the loss of a dedicated department overseeing the arts and cultural sector, is of significant concern within the arts.
In this edition of the podcast, Esther Anatolitis of the National Association for the Visual Arts expresses NAVA's perspective on the change.
Also, the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance is delivering a campaign to e...2019-12-2930 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): Season 1 - Episode 11Art + Virtual Reality: Terminus has arrived at the Heide. Sue Cramer talks about Jess Johnson and Simon Ward's immersive installation in which Jess' drawings have been transformed from analogue to digital. Alien architecture, humanoid clones and cryptic symbols are revealed via a cyber network of moving footways and gateways.
Providing artwork for human rights lawyer Stewart Levitt's "Too Soon To Be Late" collection of poetry, Geoff Todd AM and Alan Duffy discuss marrying their imagery to the verses.
A snowman at QAGOMA: Geraldine Barlow describes WATER, with some impressive installations drawing attention to our most preciou...2019-11-2738 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): Season 1 - Episode 10The incredible Kathrin Longhurst has an exhibition underway at Gallery One in Queensland. Kathrin talks about her inspiration and her teenage years in East Berlin behind the Iron Curtain.
The Other Art Fair returns this month featuring around 130 independent artists, taking place at The Cutaway at Barangaroo on 24-27 October. Ryan Stanier shares the history of this alternative art fair, and lets us know what to expect.
Steve Lazarides responds to critics over his unauthorised Art of Banksy exhibition, while praising the brilliance of the most famous street artist of a generation.
Transcripts of intervi...2019-10-0736 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): Season 1 - Episode 9Sydney Contemporary returns this month featuring more than 400 artists from 20 countries, with over 80 galleries converging on Carriageworks from September 12. Barry Keldoulis shares the history of this huge art fair, and lets us know what to expect.
Lisa Fehily has launched Finkelstein Gallery in Melbourne with an exhibition exclusively featuring female artists. Lisa hopes to lift the visibility and inclusion of women artists in galleries around Australia and around the world.
Transcripts of interviews are available for download HERE. The transcriptions are made possible by the support from Pixel Perfect Prolab - The photolab for professionals.
2019-09-0125 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia) - BANNED: Season 1 - Episode 8In this special edition highlighting the banning of recent Australian artworks, Paul Yore discusses the removal of his Taste The Feeling from a gallery in the UK.
Allan Goedecke is confounded by the rejection of his sculpture from an awards exhibition in Melbourne.
Gillian Govan reflects on walking the line between corporate support of the arts - and acquiescing to corporate censorship.
Transcripts of interviews are available for download HERE. Transcriptions are made possible by the support from Pixel Perfect Prolab - The photolab for professionals.
2019-08-1937 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): Season 1 - Episode 7Should art galleries be subject to censorship? With the current ''Culture of Outrage,'' when a work of art is considered socially unacceptable, do galleries have a responsibility to remain 'decent'? Gill Nicol, Director of Audience Engagement at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art shares her thoughts.
Combining art disciplines, the Fremantle Arts Centre in Western Australia presents Other Suns: Cult Sci-Fi Cinema & Art alongside the Revelation Perth International Film Festival. Curator Erin Coates talks about the collaboration with Jack Sargeant, as well as the challenge of being an artist who also curates.
Transcripts of interviews avail...2019-07-2627 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): Season 1 - Episode 650 years since the manned moon landing, and the Gippsland Art Gallery in Sale has curator Erin Mathews busy with their look into space.
Connecting the dots between industrial design and art, Campbell Bickerstaff has The Ideal Home at Sydney's Powerhouse identifying historical issues via furniture and appliances.
More on Spaces in Unusual Places, the Maverick Gallery in Coolangatta finds its home in a hair styling salon. Gallery owner Byron Coathup talks about the synergy and the challenges.
Transcripts of interviews available for download HERE.
This podcast is supported by Pixel Perfect...2019-06-1836 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): Season 1 - Episode 5Spinning our Podcast Prizewheel didn't predict the Australian election result (did anyone?), but it has selected an interview with Esther Anatolitis, Exec Director with the National Association for the Visual Arts, describing the electoral impact on Australian arts and culture.
Alexie Glass-Kantor gives us insight into the massive growth of Artspace's 52 Artists 52 Actions from an Instagram project and publication, to a bricks and mortar exhibition.
David Williams talks about the task of staging the White Rabbit Gallery exhibition A Fairy Tale in Red Times at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Transcripts of the inter...2019-05-2241 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia): Season 1 - Episode 4Inside The Gallery takes at look at the Notre Dame fire with Prof Mark Ledbury, discussing the priceless artworks lost (and saved).
Vanessa Gillen previews this year's Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF), now celebrating its 10th year.
Artist John Klein talks about the rise of Artist Entrepreneurs.
And we celebrate the Podcast Prize Wheel finally scoring a sponsor!
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A transcript of the...2019-04-2034 minInside The GalleryInside the Gallery (Australia): Season 1 - Episode 3Spinning the Podcast Prizewheel sends us to Adelaide as Tim Stackpool speaks with curator Dr Lisa Slade about the Ben Quilty survey exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Upasana Papadopoulos explains the work behind The Waiting Room Project where art is featured at the Sydney Sexual Health Centre.
Moshe Rosenzveig OAM takes us on a journey through the challenges faced by the Head On Photo Festival, now in its 10th year. Head On is Australia's largest (and the world's second largest) photo festival.
It's another diverse episode for you to enjoy wi...2019-03-1537 minInside The GalleryInside The Gallery (Australia) - Angela CartwrightKnown for playing Brigitta Von Trapp in the 1965 film version of The Sound Of Music, and Penny Robinson in the original Lost in Space TV series, Angela Cartwright is a prolific artist, having created works of art for about as long as she has been acting.
In this special edition of Inside The Gallery, Tim Stackpool speaks with Angela about her love of art, her inspiration, the turning point in her art, and how she approaches new expressions using various media.
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2019-02-2724 minInside The GalleryInside the Gallery (Australia): Season 1 - Episode 2The Podcast Prizewheel takes us around the world this month as Tim Stackpool chats with New York designer Ada Tolla about the threat of having her Gold Coast sculptures torn down.
Hayleigh Sanderson and Bexie Neeley speak about the success of Art Battle's debut in Australia, while Griffin Pickard describes the thrill of being the first Sydney winner.
Allison Bellinger shares the secret of running a country town art gallery in Inverell with a big city attitude.
Get comfy, it's a big bumper episode for you to enjoy with INSIDE THE GALLERY.
2019-02-1542 minInside The GalleryInside the Gallery (Australia): Season 1 - Episode 1
We spin the studio prizewheel to take a tour across Australia as Tim Stackpool chats with Robert Cook about the Andrew Nicholls' HyperKulturemia exhibition at AGWA in Perth.
Judith Blackall talks us through Arthur Boyd's Landscape of the Soul currently on tour.
Gary Wall introduces us to ART POST UKI, where the gallery is in the local Post Office, and it's pulling a great crowd every opening night.
A big first episode to launch the year on INSIDE THE GALLERY.
2019-01-2235 minInside The GalleryAustralian Arts News REVIEW 2018A brief yet light-hearted look at 2018 in Review, featuring the year's biggest ARTS stories from Australia and abroad. Presented by Tim Stackpool.
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