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
One of Australia's most successful art partnerships
They used to lay-buy contemporary art together when they were low-paid gallery workers, forging a business relationship early on.
Now, Ursula Sullivan and Joanna Strumpf are one of Australia's most …
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Wed 23 Apr 2025
How a child’s boomerang returns in the latest TarraWarra Biennial
It was while researching the provenance of a child’s boomerang, found in topsoil near the site of Melbourne Zoo, that Kimberley Moulton found the key to her curatorial vision for We Are Eagles, the l…
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Wed 09 Apr 2025
Khaled Sabsabi speaks
The Lebanese-born Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi joins The Art Show exclusively to talk about the profound impact of the decision to unceremoniously dump him as Australia's representative artist to…
00:25:17 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
Warraba Weatherall’s first institutional solo
For Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall, art that isn't a catalyst for something—that isn't driven by critique of gatekeeping museums, the criminal justice system, or the wilful historical amnesia an…
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Tue 25 Mar 2025
The truth behind Vincent Fantauzzo's verisimilitude
In art, verisimilitude — representing things as they appear — is something like telling the unvarnished truth and it makes perfect sense that it's the form in which Vincent Fantauzzo is most comforta…
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Tue 18 Mar 2025
Robots aside, Robert Andrew draws inspiration from country
Robert Andrew's artwork features simple robotic machines, with a stylus that impulsively draws or leaves a trace; not so much artificial intelligence as incidental happenstance.
Although he works w…
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Tue 11 Mar 2025
Nici Cumpston: Indigenous artist turned curator to lead overseas museum
Nici Cumpston has played a transformative role at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Over the past 16 years she has driven First Nations curatorial practice to new heights, shaping what began as a b…
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Tue 04 Mar 2025
An art historical approach to the work of Khaled Sabsabi
When questions were raised in Federal Parliament about two artworks by Khaled Sabsabi from 2006 and 2007, it was enough to convince Creative Australia to dump the artist from next year's Venice Bienn…
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Tue 25 Feb 2025
Polymorphous performers, The Huxleys, engender joy and seriousness
Driven by their mission statement to create a queer wonderland, Will and Garett Huxley are true polymorphs.
A real-life couple who rival camp predecessors Gilbert and George, Will and Garett Huxley…
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Tue 18 Feb 2025
Whatever happened to Ricky Swallow?
After rising to prominence locally in the early 2000s, Ricky Swallow left Australia and built an international art career with his small-scale, often intimate bronzes.
Speaking from LA, Ricky talk…
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Tue 11 Feb 2025
Topher Campbell splays his 'rukus' heart
What began as a living archive of queer Black British experience in the early 2000s has morphed into visual memoir for the interdisciplinary artist Topher Campbell.
Told through three of his arthous…
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Tue 04 Feb 2025
Latai Taumoepeau: This is not a drill
Latai Taumoepeau is an artist who thinks big. Not only is her subject matter expansive—the impact of global warming and rising sea levels in the South Pacific—increasingly she produces works of remar…
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Tue 28 Jan 2025
CJ Hendry and who gets to decide 'what is art'
Blurring the line between commercial and high art, self-described Brisbane bogan CJ Hendry is a social media phenomenon.
Her seductive, hyperreal drawings of luxury and consumer goods, combined wit…
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Tue 21 Jan 2025
The Art Show
Great conversations with visual artists, gallery and museum directors and curators.
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Tue 14 Jan 2025
Laura Jones on the Archibald prize plus Jennifer Higgie on the art of interviewing artists
Daniel catches up with Archibald Prize winner Laura Jones, who painted author Tim Winton. Painter and sitter share a passion for WA's Ningaloo reef and its survival amid climate crisis. Unusually, La…
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Tue 07 Jan 2025
Joyful ceramics plus a Timor Leste artist heads to the Venice Biennale
Ceramicist Vipoo Srivilasa’s work is beautiful, playful and highly technical…and he’s having a moment, featuring in several exhibitions during 2024 including the MAKE Award, Generation Clay and re/JO…
00:54:06 |
Tue 31 Dec 2024
Street art in ascendence; the art of RONE. Plus Judy Watson's life of art
The artist RONE was always attracted to street art's impermanence. He's since moved beyond street art and into large scale installations, involving space, sound, music, light and large scale art piec…
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Tue 24 Dec 2024
Archie Moore wins at Venice Biennale + Leonardo Da Vinci + Nikki Lam
Archie Moore won the top honour at one of the world's most prestigious and oldest art festivals – the Venice Biennale -- for a monumental work showing thousands of years of family lineage, and invoki…
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Tue 17 Dec 2024
Sarah Contos looks over the Eye Lash Horizon, APA celebrates Intimate Imaginaries and Monica Rani Rudhar on personal stories writ large
Great conversations wiIn her complex installations, featuring dozens on objects and materials, Sarah Contos imbues and perceives a sensuality within everyday objects. She explores the mind, the womb,…
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Tue 10 Dec 2024
The virtual and real worlds of Cao Fei + printmaking with Karen Rogers and Sean Richard Smith
One of the most influential artists in the world, Cao Fei has documented China's rapid urbanisation and digital revolutions for over two decades. In a new exhibition at AGNSW, My City is Yours, she t…
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Tue 03 Dec 2024
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