Talking with Painters

Sophie Cape has just taken out the $100,000 Hadley’s Art Prize for landscape with her powerful painting Thunder Shifts the Shivering Sands.

It’s a raw and visceral work on canvas made using rust, cha…

Australia has lost one of its great painters. William Robinson has passed away at the age of 89.

I was lucky enough to meet Bill in 2020 when I interviewed his close friend, artist Davida Allen. At D…

Watch an  edited video version of this conversation on the YouTube channel here

It’s one of the most thrilling days on the Australian art calendar—and this year, Julie Fragar has taken out the Archib…

Podcast listeners – see the art work we talk about in this episode here

Step into the gripping world of Richard Lewer — where drawing, painting, and video meet the raw edges of human experience.

Rich…

Catch up on the latest YouTube videos and Instagram reels, and don’t miss the chance to be part of my next Loading Dock interview at the Art Gallery of NSW!

• Justin Williams (video)
• Justin Williams –…

My conversation with two remarkable Australian artists, Robert Malherbe and Keith Burt was in front of a fabulous audience at the Tweed Regiona…

Ingrid Hedgcock, director of the Tweed Regional Gallery, shows me around the amazing Margaret Olley Art Centre which is the relocation of Margaret Olley’s home studio from Paddington in Sydney.

Famo…

See an edited version of this episode (5 mins) on the talking with Painters YouTube channel

Podcast listeners click here to view the works

Through layers of paint in varying translucency, Karen Black explores not only the physical nature of the female form but through her use of abstraction…

Watch the video version of my interview with Laura Jones here on the Talking with Painters YouTube channel

Congratulations to previous podcast guest Laura Jones on winning the Archibald Prize – Austr…

See the video version of this episode on the TWP YouTube channel here. 

This is my 5th collection of Loading Dock Interviews of entrants to the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes.

Six brave painters …

See highlights of this interview on the YouTube Channel

Caroline Zilinsky’s paintings freeze pivotal moments in our culture’s history, encouraging us to reflect upon our times, whether it’s the absur…

Podcast listeners click here to see images of the work

Over the years, podcast guests have shared some fascinating back stories to paintings they have made, stories which you could never have guesse…

Podcast listeners click here to see images of the works

Over the years, podcast guests have shared some fascinating back stories to paintings they have made, stories which you could never have guesse…

Podcast guests talk with me about the flow state!

See below for timestamps and links to each guest’s full podcast interview and video

3:39 Julie Nicholson and Fiona Verity – Podcast | Instagram video

See a video version of the interview with curator Jackie Dunn here

See a video version of the interview with artist Desmond Lazaro here

The largest exhibition of Kandinsky’s work ever to be seen in A…

This episode is a conversation between James Powditch and Maria Stoljar in front of an audience at the Art Gallery of NSW, recorded by the Art Gallery Society

James Powditch has always loved the movi…

Risk. Some painters want it in their toolbox while others are terrified by it. But nearly every painter will tell you that you need it in order to move forward in your practice. 

It might be using a …

More inspiration from the archives!

Here are another 12 past podcast guests talking with me about colour.

Links to full podcast conversations and YouTube videos on each of the artists in this episode…