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
85,000 oyster shells at Sydney Opera House and an Impressionist video game
We start this week's episode on a lapping city harbour where Quandamooka artist Megan Cope has prepared 85,000 oyster shells for her monumental artwork Whispers for the 50th anniversary of the Sydney…
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Tue 03 Oct 2023
Spencer Tunick's naked crowds plus fossil fuel sponsorship in the arts
How important is the 'social license' provided by arts events to fossil fuel companies? How significant is the money provided to art festivals by those companies? A recent study examines the current …
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Wed 27 Sep 2023
Care ethics + can joining an art collective make you happier?
How do the much-talked about principles of care ethics apply to visual arts? Whether it be the treatment of others in the commercial art world, the trope of the lone male genius, or the practices of …
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Wed 20 Sep 2023
Newell Harry sparks connections + Jim Moginie's Colour Wheel + the Whitely Art Scandal
Newell Harry is one of those people that finds the connections, the invisible networks and chance encounters - that link us all. In his exhibition Esperanto Newell makes use of found objects and sour…
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Wed 13 Sep 2023
Photographer Hoda Afshar: from Manus Island to whistleblowers and Iran's uprising
Hoda Afshar is a photo media artist known for examining people denied a voice, or those risking everything for freedom, or truth. At the same time, Hoda is is also concerned with the politics of tra…
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Wed 06 Sep 2023
Kara Walker stirs the pot with nightmarish visions of Antebellum America
Kara Walker is one of America’s most significant living artists, known for cut-paper silhouettes and gigantic public sculptures, using the visual artefacts of slavery in nightmarish black and white s…
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Wed 30 Aug 2023
Art mirrors life in the work of these fiction authors + the ethnographic vision of Gary Lee
There's an enduring appetite for novels about artists and their muses. Australian writers Kylie Needham (Girl in a Pink Dress) and Edwina Preston (Bad Art Mother) have written books centred on women …
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Wed 23 Aug 2023
NATSIAA awards showcase the best of Australian Indigenous art
A life-size sculpted tree complete with parrots and a wandering dog won the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Art Awards (NATSIAA). Every element has ceremonial significance, says Thu' and Apalec…
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Wed 16 Aug 2023
Tove Jansson's Moomins and the perfect art of picture framing
Finnish artist Tove Jansson lived a richly unconventional life as a visual artist and writer and is best known as the creator of the troll characters, The Moomins. The Moomins were a hit children's b…
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Wed 09 Aug 2023
She's got your number: 15 years of the Countess project + Gail Mabo + Mayco Naing
Since 2008 CoUNTess has been commenting and reporting on art institutions, prizes and journalism, exposing the unequal gender representation in the Australian visual arts sector. A new book about the…
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Wed 02 Aug 2023
Anne Zahalka turns her lens on her archive + gritty industrial scenes —in needlepoint
In 1989 photographer Anne Zahalka recreated a well-known painting of stylised, muscular white Australians frolicking on the beach, into a multi-ethnic tableau of an Australia that was more recognisab…
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Wed 26 Jul 2023
Chinese-Australian dissident artist Badiucao + Anna Emina El Samad
Badiucao is a Chinese-Australian political cartoonist and artist who makes work primarily about China's human rights record and role in international politics. But with a rising profile has come a lo…
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Wed 19 Jul 2023
Prudence Flint's character studies + a beginner's guide to art openings
Painter Prudence Flint has a career spanning 35 years, best known for enigmatic pictures of female protagonists in surreal domestic scenes. Despite a serious local following, her paintings have prove…
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Wed 12 Jul 2023
Maree Clarke looks deep into a rich material + Ida Sophia bears witness and Frida Kahlo returns to Australia
Maree Clarke is a key figure in the reclamation and revival of South East Australian Indigenous art, over a three-decade career. For Between Waves at the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art (ACCA),…
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Wed 05 Jul 2023
The rise and rise of the Artist-in-Residence
When did artists begin doing ‘residencies’? From the patronage system of Renaissance Italy, to artists’ colonies of the 19th Century and the decades-long stint of an artist-in-residence at the NYC Sa…
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Wed 28 Jun 2023
Hayley Millar Baker in Shadow Spirit + Marc Chagall at The Jewish Museum
Gunditjmara artist Hayley Millar Baker sets her latest film work at the witching hour, when the spirit world and physical overlap. Hayley previously worked in black and white photography, exploring t…
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Wed 21 Jun 2023
An introduction to Pierre Bonnard, misty seascapes and Marikit Santiago
Pierre Bonnard was a key artist in a movement that came after Impressionism: Les Nabis. Influenced by the flat colour and decorative elements of Japanese wood prints and Gauguin’s pure colours, Bonna…
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Wed 14 Jun 2023
Richard Bell takes his Embassy to UK's Tate Modern + what happens when an artist puts you in charge of their estate?
Daniel Browning travels to London's Tate Modern, to speak with artist Richard Bell about his ongoing installation Embassy, inspired by the original Aboriginal Tent Embassy pitched in 1972. Embassy of…
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Wed 07 Jun 2023
Louise Zhang on colour, the frying pan studio and Zico Albaiquni
Artist Louise Zhang uses a multi-hued palette and traditional Chinese symbols to explore the horror genre, spiritual beliefs and her own cultural history, on her own terms. Louise's latest exhibitio…
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Wed 31 May 2023
Mithu Sen on being a provocateur, GPS Art and Danelle Bergstrom's Swedish journey
Indian conceptual artist Mithu Sen talks about the idea of 'radical hospitality' and how she pokes fun at the art world's hierarchies. Plus, science reporter Belinda Smith explains why she creates G…
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Wed 24 May 2023
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