Talking with Painters

Blak Douglas is well known for his brightly coloured landscapes with their trademark seven-tiered sky but he’s also an accomplished portraitist.

At the time of writing, his work hangs in the Art Gal…

Del Kathryn Barton is undoubtedly one of the biggest names in Australian art today.

Her work is hotly sought after internationally and, in Australia, she is probably best known for the rare achieveme…

Through her art, Kiata Mason takes us into her world and her way of seeing. Her still lifes are filled with the objects from her home, collected over generations, and portraits contain reminders of t…

Nicholas Harding is one of Australia’s most celebrated artists. He has been awarded the Archibald prize, the Archibald People’s Choice award, the Kilgour prize and the Dobell drawing prize amongst ot…

If you’ve ever met Luke Sciberras you’ll know he’s larger than life. Full of joie de vivre and good humour, he attacks life with gusto from his fabulous garden to his renowned cooking skills so it’s …

In episode 62 I spoke with senior curator Denise Mimmocchi about the late abstract expressionist artist Tony Tuckson and the exhibition ‘ Tuckson:the abstract sublime ‘ which is currently showing at …

Denise Mimmocchi, senior curator of Australian art at the Art Gallery of NSW, has brought together a magnificent exhibition of the abstract works of the late Tony Tuckson: ‘Tuckson: the abstract subl…

From the age of 2, when she sailed with her parents from Australia to Canada, Michaye Boulter’s life has never been far from the sea.

Spending weeks at a time in her childhood sailing  on the ocean s…

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Over the last six years Justin Williams has not only been exhibiting all over Australia but in Europe a…

Melinda Harper is one of Australia’s leading abstract artists. Her works, filled with geometric forms and often with an explosion of colour, have been fascinating art lovers for over 30 years.

Whethe…

Natasha Walsh is one of Australia’s most exciting emerging artists. A few months ago, over a period of about 12 weeks, she won three prestigious art awards; the Kilgour Prize, the Brett Whiteley Trav…

Joe Furlonger is one of  Australia’s most respected painters, with his work crossing landscape, figures and portraiture.

He’s probably best known for a particular kind of landscape which he returns t…

Jacqui Stockdale paints, sculpts, collages, creates animations, has staged live performances and produces exquisite portrait photography.

When I visited her Melbourne studio I was bowled over by a hu…

In Alexander McKenzie’s paintings the sun hides below the horizon and a low light illuminates the mysterious landscape. It might be a manicured garden or a hill covered in trees and there will probab…

Ann Thomson is one of Australia’s most significant artists. She’s been painting for over 60 years, has exhibited in over 40 solo shows and there’s no sign of her slowing down. Her works are filled wi…

What do you imagine when you think of a painting of flowers by a woman artist? It might be a Margaret Olley still life set in her crowded Paddington terrace or a Margaret Preston with a striped table…

Gina Kalabishis’s work is about relationships and connection; connecting with nature and connecting with each other.

Her recent show at Flinders Lane Gallery, ‘Bundanon Floor to Sky’, drew on her tim…

There’s the Archibald portraits but there’s also the other stuff; a painting of a home aquarium where a scuba diver is caught in the tentacles of an octopus, the cast of Seinfeld are looking for thei…

If you are an Archibald tragic like me, you might have first noticed Andrew Lloyd Greensmith’s work when it was hanging in the Art Gallery of NSW last year in that arresting portrait of 102 year old …

Bernard Ollis’s art takes you on a journey. It might be down a windy road down a back lane in Sydney, across a bridge in Paris or you might find yourself in a park or a swimming pool or a fishing boa…