The Art Show
Visual artists tell you why and how they create! From studio visits, intimate interviews, and live issues, we take art out of the gallery and into your ears.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 255
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Sophie Cape's wild landscapes take out top prize
Some paintings are sealed off from the world: neat, polished, contained.
But Sophie Cape's canvases feel porous, weathered by the elements themselves. Not so much painted, as unearthed.
Once an eli…
00:25:09 |
Wed 10 Sep 2025
Thomas Demand recreates the world
Throughout his practice, the German artist Thomas Demand rebuilds the world in paper, meticulously constructing life-sized models of everyday spaces or scenes. Te scene is photographed, and the model…
00:25:16 |
Wed 03 Sep 2025
Nicolas Rothwell returns to the Western Desert
Nicolas Rothwell writes at the edges of things. He's twice won the Prime Minister's Literary Award — for both fiction and non-fiction — and his work slides between both registers: fiction brushes aga…
00:37:26 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
Ben Law on William Yang
William Yang's photographs are part memoir, part invitation. Queer lives, Asian faces, vanished places — all lit with the soft glow of attention.
For writer and broadcaster Benjamin Law discovering …
00:25:15 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
Garth Greenwell & Mark Armijo McKnight's creative friendship
In 2020, Aperture magazine invited Garth Greenwell to write about Mark Armijo McKnight's photographs. The images immediately captivated him, offering new possibilities for thinking and feeling.
Thei…
00:25:17 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Being forgotten and being remembered
Scott Burton made art that touched the body before the mind. But like so many artists and men of his generation, he died of AIDS in 1989.
Before he passed, he willed everything to the Museum of Mode…
00:25:15 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Making space for a child's perspective
Children live in a world not quite built for them and, for a long time, galleries were no exception. No touching. No talking. Just stand and receive.
But, something is changing. Across Australia, ga…
00:25:16 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
The art of children's books
With just a few lines and strokes, picture books hold whole worlds: joy and sorrow, memory and wonder. They can be stark, fun and beautiful, all at once.
This week on The Art Show, we're celebrating…
00:25:15 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
Five Acts of Love
Five Acts of Love, now on at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, isn't a show about romance.
It's about love when it's fierce, when it's fragile; when it lives inside grief, memory, resistan…
00:25:15 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
Darrell Sibosado and Frances Rings light up the stage
When artists step into the theatre, the stillness of the studio meets the breath of the stage. And audiences, perhaps without even knowing, lean in.
Illume is one of those collaborations, where Gool…
00:25:13 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
Yolŋu Power puts Yirrkala art front and centre
Yolŋu Power: The Art of Yirrkala, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is not just an art exhibition, but a field of ancestral presence.
It's a space of authority and deep listening that shows wha…
00:25:15 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
Shanysa McConville looks back over 65000 years of art
For much of the last century, in museums, the works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists were treated as something outside the main story — consigned to a footnote of history or a side ro…
00:25:15 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
Grace Herbert tees off on the unnecessary lines between art and sport
From feminist beginnings to kitsch commercialism, minigolf has a rich history. But what happens when you let artists loose to design their own holes?
Forget white walls and hushed tones—today we're …
00:25:16 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Arcangelo Sassolino embraces the possibility of change
Arcangelo Sassolino's work captures a suspended instant: just before collapse, just after ignition.
At the 2022 Venice Biennale, Sassolino paid homage to Caravaggio's Beheading of Saint John the Ba…
00:25:15 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
Del Kathryn Barton’s creative world-building project imagines empowered, spirited women
Del Kathryn Barton exorcised her rage in her critically acclaimed feature film Blaze, but its aftermath is grief.
You wouldn't know it if you cast your eye around her Paddington studio: wide-eyed s…
00:25:15 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
Drawing with sound underground: Jason Maling’s magnum opus Diagrammatica
Jason Maling works in the expanded field where — through the interface of technology, screens and a sound system — the sonic and the visual are conducted before a live audience.
Diagrammatica was i…
00:25:15 |
Wed 28 May 2025
Thai-Australian artist Nathan Beard’s ironic take on museum artefacts
Recently on the show we met Filipino artist Pio Abad to hear about his Turner Prize nominated exhibition 'To Those Sitting in Darkness' which re-presented museum objects to reveal hidden histories an…
00:25:15 |
Wed 21 May 2025
Frank by name: Dale Frank on taxidermy and his greatest living artwork
Although he's one of Australia's most established, commercially successful and prolific artists, Dale Frank is a reluctant interview subject.
Eccentric, reclusive, visionary, trailblazer — a sublime…
00:25:14 |
Wed 14 May 2025
Olfactory artist Nadia Vitlin infuses her artwork with scent
Sydney-based artist Nadia Vitlin works with olfaction — our sense of smell — infusing her artwork, whether it be clay or paint, to create bespoke pieces that mimic the transportive power of scent: on…
00:25:14 |
Wed 07 May 2025
Pio Abad on his 2024 Turner Prize nominated body of work
Just as historical objects in museum collections embody certain histories — of British imperialism and modernity — they also map loss and disappearance for those in former colonial states.
Pio Abad,…
00:25:11 |
Wed 30 Apr 2025
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