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
'It's a sculpture' — understanding and protecting Australia's oldest art
The partial destruction of the 1,500-year-old stone sculptural arrangement in Victoria’s western district added to the devastating tally of damaged First Nations art and cultural sites. Museums Victo…
00:54:07 |
Wed 28 Apr 2021
'This is Aotearoa's First of everything' — Yuki Kihara goes to the Venice Biennale
Yuki Kihara's reaction to being chosen to represent Aotearoa/New Zealand in the 2021 Venice Biennale was to scream at the top of her lungs. But with it came a huge sense of responsibility: "If I f**k…
00:54:06 |
Wed 21 Apr 2021
Khadim Ali's Invisible Border
Khadim Ali began his art career painting propaganda murals in Iran before training in Persian miniatures and eventually finding his way to Australia. Now the acclaimed Hazara artist is launching his …
00:53:30 |
Wed 14 Apr 2021
Candid camera: William Yang on his life in photography
Photographer William Yang has been turning the camera on himself and his community with equal candour for four decades. Now he dusts off the film for the largest survey of his work yet.
Plus, when y…
00:54:06 |
Wed 07 Apr 2021
Vernon Ah Kee and Liz Ann Macgregor
Brisbane-based artist Vernon Ah Kee has been making art that asks hard questions for nearly two decades, critiquing systems and racial inequality in contemporary Australia.
Plus an interview with Li…
00:53:16 |
Tue 30 Mar 2021
Yhonnie Scarce, Dirty Three's Mick Turner, and the joy of zines
Yhonnie Scarce creates hand-blown glass installations that express the trauma of atomic testing at Maralinga in the 1950s and 60s, and the impact of colonisation.
Enter the studio of painter and mu…
00:54:05 |
Tue 23 Mar 2021
Robert Owen, shoemaker Claire Best and the crazy world of NFTs
Namila meets the abstract artist Robert Owen at a new retrospective.
Plus, enter the studio of a bespoke shoemaker mixing art and high fashion.
And an artist and journalist explain the phenomenon of …
00:54:04 |
Tue 16 Mar 2021
Four women artists tackling the environmental and body issues of the everyday
Is there a fear of the older female nude? Flesh After Fifty is an exhibition about women’s bodies over the age of 50.
Plus, Gabby O’Connor is tackling how to communicate the risk of climate change …
00:53:56 |
Tue 09 Mar 2021
Kay Rufai's smiling boys, lush landscapes and the secret history of tattoos
Kay Rufai's Smile-ing Boys Project flips negative stereotypes and perceptions associated with young black boys to create healing and social change.
Plus, head into the bush with immersive landscape …
00:54:06 |
Tue 02 Mar 2021
Hoda Afshar and Clarice Beckett
Photographer Hoda Afshar turns 110 camera lenses on well-known Australian whistle-blowers for her work 'Agonistes'.
And walk in the footsteps of modernist Clarice Beckett, the subject of a new retro…
00:54:05 |
Tue 23 Feb 2021
Rescue dogs and the good life: the art of Lucy Culliton
Artist Lucy Culliton paints almost exclusively her own homelife on the farm. She takes us through her inspiration and philosophy, including the importance of rescue animals in her life – all eight do…
00:54:02 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
Love stories of 20th century art
Art historian Kate Bryan on her favourite Art love stories of the 20th Century.
Filmmaker-turned-photographer Amos Gebhardt guides us through ‘Small acts of resistance’, a glittering triptych of que…
00:53:58 |
Tue 09 Feb 2021
The long journey to Slow Art
Savanhdary Vongpoothorn on the family stories and mythical sagas at play in her meditative Slow Art.
Plus, step into the outback landscapes of painter Zhou Xiaoping.
And two artists discuss a new …
00:54:05 |
Tue 02 Feb 2021
Refik Anadol: the artist bringing AI dreams to life
The visionary Turkish artist and his studio collaborate with computers to make hallucinatory public art.
We go into the studio of Kate Just, who's knitting a feminist project bound for the Museum of…
00:53:48 |
Tue 26 Jan 2021
Sandra Hill on art and reconciliation
Sandra Hill was 6 years old when she was taken from her family in 1958. As part of the stolen generation, it wasn't until years later that Sandra found herself able to reconnect with her culture and …
00:53:40 |
Tue 19 Jan 2021
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