Know My Name S2 ep 2: Julie Dowling
Julie Dowling is considered one of Australia's greatest exponents of the family portrait, but always with an Indigenous focus.
Feb 14, 2022•20 min
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The radical work of Vivienne Binns
Vivienne Binns shocked critics in the 1960s with her joyful paintings of giant genitalia and Dada-inspired assemblages. Now aged 81, she looks back at a vast arts practice that has never stopped questioning: what is art, and what do we want to say with it? Plus, Jazmina Cininas' magical take on a DIY folk instrument that conjures Pagan myths and Lithuanian folk lore.
Feb 08, 2022•54 min
Know My Name S2 ep 1: Fiona Foley
Know My Name Series Two: interviews with Indigenous women artists from the ABC archives. In this episode meet Fiona Foley, a Badtjala artist from K'gari in Queensland
Feb 07, 2022•17 min
The art of mindfulness and women street photographers
How does mindfulness stimulate artists? Meet the artists and curators of a new exhibition exploring mindfulness and meditation, called Presence of Mind.Plus, meet Gulnara Samoilova, founder of the global project Women Street Photographers.
Feb 01, 2022•54 min
Karla Dickens' fearless found objects, the Aboriginal flag as an artwork and clay gone wild
Enter the eclectic studio and thought-provoking work of the Wiradjuri installation artist Karla Dickens.Plus, is the Aboriginal flag, now freed from copyright restrictions, a work of art?And the 'wild clay' movement, where potters dig their own.
Jan 25, 2022•54 min
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 of the gallery system, while drastically changing our consumption of art.
Jan 18, 2022•54 min
Anne Wallace and the Beijing Silvermine
Anne Wallace paints film-like scenes of intimacy and psychological tension that speak to iso life and the female gaze.Plus, the found photo archive that documents China's embrace of capitalism.
Jan 11, 2022•54 min
Hilma af Klint, the art of the book cover and Mary Tonkin's immersive landscapes
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? Plus, artist and designer W.H. Chong on the secret behind the perfect book cover.And head into the bush with immersive landscape painter Mary Tonkin.
Jan 04, 2022•54 min
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 lesser-known artists who lived and breathed it.Plus, performance artists Justin Shoulder and Stelarc. And, how do art galleries preserve performance art?
Dec 28, 2021•54 min
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 olive skin. Now scholars and artists want us to see that, too.
Dec 21, 2021•54 min
Video art in the wake of Black Lives Matter, surreal fake food and plein air in the Build Up
Franklin Sirmans is the curator of Family: Visions of a Shared Humanity, an exhibition of video works by renowned Black American, British and Canadian artists, including Arthur Jafa and Garrett Bradley.Plus, 'hyper-surreal' sculpture made with fake food.And enter the studio of Darwin plein air painter Max Bowden as she works through the Top End’s Build Up season.
Dec 14, 2021•54 min
Life with Jeffrey Smart and Natalya Hughes takes on the shrink's couch
The enduring power of Jeffrey Smart's urban wastelands, and his comparatively beautiful life in Tuscany, as told by the late artist's partner Ermes De Zan.Plus, visit the studio of Natalya Hughes as she works on an installation of mid-century aesthetics and Freud's psychoanalytic theory.
Dec 07, 2021•53 min
Doug Aitken, Robert Andrew's machines with ochre residue and the lost Leonardo da Vinci
US artist Doug Aitken looks to the future through the hyperconnected present, in New Era.|Plus, enter the studio of Robert Andrew, whose programmable machines imprint ochre residue and missing histories.And a real-life art thriller documentary centred around the 'lost Leonardo da Vinci'.
Nov 30, 2021•55 min
NFTs: next gen, reclaiming Bougainville and being an 'unwilling inspiration'
We take stock of NFTs and hear from three people invested in the future of tokens, including Jonathan Zawada, collaborator to musician Flume.Plus, Bruno Booth on being an 'unwilling inspiration'. And Taloi Havini reclaims connections to land, culture and identity of Bougainville, PNG.
Nov 23, 2021•54 min
Christopher Pease layers Nyoongar iconography over colonial vistas
Christopher Pease wanted to create his own visual language, one that spoke to European art tradition and the hidden iconography of his Nyoongar ancestors. Plus, the horses that inspire Michael Zavros.And what happens when a painter loses half her hand? After a bad accident, Kaye Strange adapted.
Nov 16, 2021•54 min
Doing Feminism, painting riverscapes and polar ice art at COP26
A history of feminist art in Australia, painting western Tasmania and ice from a warming planet, at COP26.
Nov 09, 2021•54 min
A history of Venus in art with Bettany Hughes
The goddess of love has reigned supreme through Western art, but her roots are darker, more ancient and shape-shifting than you'd expect.Historian and TV presenter Prof Bettany Hughes joins Daniel to tell the surprising history of the powerful immortal.Plus, a seascape painter who lives on a yacht, and artist Khaled Sabsabi explores the exchange between spiritual belief and our human aspirations.
Nov 02, 2021•54 min
Cocktails with a curator, art on the news and Matisse in the Pacific
Meet the man behind the hit YouTube series Cocktails with a Curator, from The Frick in New York.Plus, what if the arts were on the nightly TV news, like sport? And artists respond to Matisse's Tahiti-inspired work in a new exhibition.
Oct 26, 2021•54 min
Know My Name episode 6: Rosalie Gascoigne
With a bower bird's habit of collecting found objects, Rosalie Gascoigne's sculptures were inspired by her surrounding natural environment. The final episode in this series of radio interviews with Australian women artists from the ABC archives.
Oct 25, 2021•10 min
Know My Name episode 5: Mari Funaki
An interview with sculptor and metal smith Mari Funaki, who was instrumental in getting Australian contemporary jewellery on the global map. The fifth episode in a pod-only series featuring interviews with women artists from the ABC archives.
Oct 24, 2021•9 min
Know My Name episode 4: Margaret Olley
A 2009 interview with the artist Margaret Olley, two years before her death.Part of our series featuring interviews with women artists from the ABC archives.
Oct 23, 2021•9 min
Know My Name episode 3: Ivy Shore
Interviews with women artists from the ABC archives.In 1979 Ivy Shore won Australia's richest art competition for women painters, for a portrait of trail blazing trade unionist Della Elliot.
Oct 22, 2021•7 min
Know My Name episode 2: Gwyn Hanssen Pigott
Know My Name: interviews with women artists from the ABC archives. Hear Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, one of Australia's most renowned ceramicists, speaking to the ABC’s Julie Copeland in 1994.
Oct 21, 2021•14 min
Know My Name episode 1: Grace Cossington Smith
Introducing Know My Name: interviews with women artists from the ABC archives. In this episode, hear from Grace Cossington Smith. A pioneer of modernism in Australia and one of the country’s most influential artists. Here she is interviewed in 1965 by Hazel de Berg for the National Library of Australia’s oral history collection.
Oct 20, 2021•14 min
Public art, toppled monuments and the statue in the crate
What do artists think about when making huge public art? Lindy Lee is making the most expensive work commissioned by the NGA, and Judy Watson's bara will grace Sydney's harbour with a giant Gadigal fish hook.Then, the US art lab addressing the problem of confederate monuments to racist causes... and Indigenous artists Julie Gough, Nicholas Galanin and Yhonnie Scarce on Australia's own colonial memorialising.
Oct 19, 2021•54 min
'We perpetuate this myth of not having a history': taking art beyond black-white terms
Globally and at home, artists are engaging with the reckoning happening around race and colonisation. But where do recent migrants and refugees to Australia fit into the dialogue?
Oct 12, 2021•54 min
Fifty years of the Western Desert art movement, Leigh Bowery, Mari Katayama and Darwin street art
It's 50 years since artists from Papunya began painting on board, heralding the Western Desert art movement, 'the last great art movement of the 20th Century' according to one famous critic.Plus, an artist's tribute to the iconic Leigh Bowery. A Japan-Australia photographic project featuring Mari Katayama.And Darwin's Street Art Festival brings new life to empty walls.
Oct 05, 2021•54 min
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, water… and wine.
Sep 29, 2021•54 min
Renaissance amnesia, Vernon Ah Kee, and a mysterious Sydney painting
Do we turn a blind eye to the aggression and militarism — and colonialism — that defined the Italian Renaissance? Plus, hear why artist Vernon Ah Kee can't ignore a distinct Australian brand of racism, and whether a work by the Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi found its way to 1970s Sydney.
Sep 22, 2021•54 min
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 of the gallery system, while drastically changing our consumption of art.
Sep 15, 2021•54 min
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