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
Karla Dickens' fearless found objects + clay gone wild
Enter the eclectic studio and thought-provoking work of the Wiradjuri installation artist Karla Dickens. Plus, we look at ‘wild clay', the DIY-trend for gathering your own. But before you pull on gum…
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Tue 27 Dec 2022
Edward Burtynsky, painting the Holy Family and Dennis Golding's Redfern.
Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian-Ukrainian photographer who captures human activity on Earth that's normally too big to perceive, except through aerial photography.
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Tue 20 Dec 2022
Alexander McQueen's spectacular art and high stakes fashion + how do you make an exhibition about the air itself?
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Tue 13 Dec 2022
How Cressida Campbell makes things beautiful + what do we think of Sydney Modern?
Cressida Campbell is best known for beautiful scenes of domestic interiors and still life arrangements, achieved through an intriguing technique. Kind of a cross between painting and printmaking. She…
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Tue 06 Dec 2022
Imants Tillers on his credo and why he had to 'fire' his parents, and mixed reactions to climate activism in galleries
Tue 29 Nov 2022
Mary Beard on how the Caesars used Art to wield power, plus why did climate activists target a Gustav Klimt?
Classicist Mary Beard examines art inspired by the lives and excesses of the Caesars, who wielded power in cruel and immoral ways.
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Tue 22 Nov 2022
Inside Yayoi Kusama's world with Stephanie Rosenthal, plus Nalini Malani + Katie West
You know the Japanese superstar artist Yayoi Kusama for her polka dots and infinity mirror rooms, and giant spotted pumpkins.
Tue 15 Nov 2022
Art that's rubbish: why more artists are using post-consumer waste
A trash-talking episode of The Art Show. We live on a planet choking on post-consumer waste and single-use plastics, so is it any wonder that more and more artists are using it as a serious material?
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Tue 08 Nov 2022
What to know about the great Barbara Hepworth, an artist asks for family stories + fish traps, re-told
Dame Barbara Hepworth is a revered figure in British art, who has never had a dedicated solo show in Australia.
Her abstract sculptures echo the coastal landscape where she lived, and the human body…
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Tue 01 Nov 2022
'Shaken to the core': the Indonesian art collective at the centre of the Documenta 15 controversy + Bertie Blackman
We meet a member of Taring Padi, the Indonesian artists' collective at the centre of an art controversy at Documenta 15, the prestigious art show held every five years in Germany. In 2022 the show wa…
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Tue 25 Oct 2022
Filming art for the big screen, sewing my feminist muse and soulful bird portraits
British filmmaker Phil Grabsky is responsible for a prolific number of documentaries about famous artists, often in collaboration with large museums. Plus, Julia Gutman on 'painting with fabric' and …
Tue 18 Oct 2022
Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenburg's creative and romantic partnership
We look at the love story between two of modern art's greats: Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns... but is it visible in their work? Plus, meet Patrick Pound: the artist who's lovingly collected 60…
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Tue 11 Oct 2022
Polly Borland on her pivot to sculpture and how it felt to photograph the Queen
Australian-born Polly Borland is best known for photographing kink sub cultures, Nick Cave and the late Queen, but she has also long been experimenting with the surreal. She tells Daniel about her sh…
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Tue 04 Oct 2022
The radical work of Vivienne Binns + when did people start smiling in western Art?
In the 1960s Vivienne Binns scandalised critics with her joyfully sexual paintings of giant genitalia and Dada-inspired pop art. But instead of following her expected path, Binns abandoned painting a…
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Wed 28 Sep 2022
After censorship scandal, Paul Yore returns with joyful, trademark trash
Paul Yore's colourful artworks riff off pop culture, queer identity, religion and politics. In 2014, he was embroiled in a censorship scandal that saw him charged with child pornography (later droppe…
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Wed 21 Sep 2022
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 14 Sep 2022
Edward Burtynsky, how to draw hands + an artist goes to Burning Man
Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian-Ukrainian photographer who hangs out of helicopters to capture aerial scenes of rapid industrialisation and destruction, on Earth. So how does he pick his monumental su…
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Wed 07 Sep 2022
Why viruses can have style and molecules look beautiful
Drew Berry is a biomedical animator, who brings to life microscopic molecular processes in vivid colour. He’s won an Emmy for his visualisation of DNA and been described as the ‘Steven Spielberg of m…
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Wed 31 Aug 2022
Afghan artists on Taliban anniversary, and how to start drawing?
One year on since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, we speak to Adelaide-based Hazara artist and poet Elyas Alavi and photographer and conceptual artist Rada Akbar, now living in France.
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Wed 24 Aug 2022
The lake that vanished + Rachel Griffiths + Catherine Woo
Fifty years ago, a stunning glacial outwash lake in southwest lutruwita/Tasmania disappeared under an inundation of river water for a hydro-electric dam. A new exhibition looks at the profound loss f…
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Wed 17 Aug 2022
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