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
How Instagram has changed how we see and experience art
How has social media giant Instagram changed how we experience art? Experts, artists and critics weigh in on the photo sharing platform, an evolution that's allowed artists to build careers outside o…
00:54:05 |
Wed 15 Sep 2021
Maree Clarke, collages of protest and Craig Ruddy's studio
Maree Clarke is a key figure in the reclamation of southeast Australian Aboriginal art. Her three-decade career has centred on the revival and sharing of culture.
Plus, Jemima Wyman's collages using …
00:54:02 |
Wed 08 Sep 2021
What two Hazara artists feel about Afghanistan, and a new art movement is forged in metal
Artists in Afghanistan are facing a frightening future. Australian Hazara artists Khadim Ali and Elyas Alavi speak to Daniel about what’s happening in their homeland.
There’s a lot of buzz about 'Mur…
00:54:05 |
Wed 01 Sep 2021
Cooking Sections art collective, Kathy Temin's fake fur and Ian Fairweather in China
Meet the Turner Prize-nominated UK art collective Cooking Sections, making art about the food we eat, ecology and geopolitics.
Plus, how Kathy Temin came to use fake fur for her large-scale monuments…
00:52:48 |
Wed 25 Aug 2021
Anne Wallace, a mystery tomb fresco and art from Western Arnhem Land
Anne Wallace paints film-like scenes of intimacy and psychological tension that speak to iso life and the female gaze.
Plus, the ancient tomb art in Southern Italy that told an unexpected story of b…
00:54:05 |
Wed 18 Aug 2021
Hilda Rix Nicholas, the art of the book cover and the NATSIAAs
A new biography of the post-Impressionist artist Hilda Rix Nicholas looks at the unusual life and sometimes overlooked career of a great Australian painter.
Artist and designer W.H. Chong on the secr…
00:53:21 |
Wed 11 Aug 2021
Mapping a lost Beirut and the return of stolen 'living gods'
Two artists reflect on what has happened to Beirut since the devastating port explosion one year ago.
And an antiquities sleuth and an art academic on the National Gallery of Australia's decision to …
00:54:02 |
Wed 04 Aug 2021
Endurance act: performance art in Australia
Performance art tests the limits of the body and the gallery space. Fiona Kelly McGregor's latest book relives its bracing ascendancy in Sydney's queer and underground scene, and the well-known and l…
00:54:04 |
Wed 28 Jul 2021
Breaking the myths of whiteness in classical sculpture
What if the use of white in classical sculpture was just a construct? For the ancient Greeks and Romans, sculptures were brightly-coloured affairs, clad in vivid red gowns with red lips, and pink or …
00:54:04 |
Wed 21 Jul 2021
Artist Dale Harding joins forces with mother Kate, and a war photographer snaps the climate crisis
The mother-and-son collaboration of artists Dale and Kate Harding works across generations, artforms —and worlds. Textile artist Kate makes quilts, while Dale’s work is most commonly seen in the rare…
00:54:05 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
Betty Muffler: the phenomenal artist healing country
The Art Show’s new presenter Daniel Browning finds Indigenous artists who enact healing and cultural rejuvenation through their artwork – from senior Pitjantjatjara elder and Betty Muffler, whose pra…
00:54:05 |
Wed 07 Jul 2021
Surrealists at sea, fake food, and the Beijing Silvermine
Czech brothers Dušan and Voitre Marek escaped communist political repression for Australia, but their Surrealist art was met with incomprehension in 1950s Australia. Now decades of their vibrant arti…
00:54:08 |
Wed 30 Jun 2021
The wondrous Hilma af Klint, Tania Ferrier's angry underwear and the question of portraiture
The rediscovery of Hilma af Klint's abstract paintings has taken the art world by storm, but what meaning can we find in her powerful, mysterious work? The curator of the largest exhibition to reach …
00:54:19 |
Wed 23 Jun 2021
Goya, Tik Tok art history and wine that draws
How does Francisco Goya help us make sense of the chaos of our contemporary world, and its depths of suffering? Then, discover art history through TikTok… and a contemporary sculpture powered by wind…
00:54:07 |
Wed 16 Jun 2021
Portrait of a nation: the Archibald at 100
Australia's Archibald portrait prize has been running for 100 years and remains wildly popular with punters, with its spats and controversies often more memorable than its artworks. What lies behind …
00:54:03 |
Wed 09 Jun 2021
'Frankenstein was a really bad parent': Patricia Piccinini's mutants light up a ballroom
Patricia Piccinini returns to press our ethical buttons with new hyper-real silicon sculptures, staged in a hidden ballroom above Melbourne's busiest train station.
Pus, what's the state of drawing …
00:54:04 |
Wed 02 Jun 2021
Behind the portraits of the cult 'Aussie' poster series
For years now, Peter Drew's been challenging notions of Australian identity in his 'Aussie' poster series — join him as he pastes up his next series around Melbourne's laneways. Then hear about how W…
00:54:05 |
Wed 26 May 2021
Finding Australia's lost impressionist, and the beauty in gumnuts
Who exactly was Iso Rae, the Melbourne-born impressionist painter who honed her craft in northern France? Plus, a different take on a distinctly Australian 'ready-made' — the gumnut — with Colombian-…
00:54:08 |
Wed 19 May 2021
'It lit a fire in me': How Atong Atem flips the ethnographic gaze
Australian-South Sudanese artist Atong Atem brilliantly flips the Ethnographic gaze to create gorgeous studio portraits with a powerful statement.
Plus, how does the medium of video art exist in the…
00:53:12 |
Wed 12 May 2021
Hostile topographies, the iPhone miniature and museums in the age of COVID-19
How do you turn the stark geographical facts of war and conflict into art? And how do you do it authentically and sensitively, from the far-off shores of Australia? Stanislava Pinchuk started making …
00:54:06 |
Wed 05 May 2021
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