The Art Show
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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.
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Tschabalala Self merges myth and the everyday
To look at the art of Tschabala Self is to feel fabric think. Stitched velvet, printed cotton, painted skin: bodies collaged from memory and from life...
Sarah Rhodes explores the relationship between people and place
Some landscapes don't just surround us, they get inside us. A windswept farm, a rugged coastline, a cave heavy with shadow: they're places that don't...
Quentin Sprague on the art of looking
To write about art is really to write about looking. About how artists meet the world: what they notice; what slips through; what remains.
In Wh...
Lisa Reihana brings truth to history
Two hundred years ago, a French wallpaper pictured the Pacific: the islands and empire in perfect harmony against windless calm seas. But it was decor...
Nusra Latif Qureshi's House of Irredeemable Objects
Nusra Latif Qureshi has built a career extending South Asian painting traditions while pressing on empire, displacement, and desire — revealing how po...
Sophie Cape's wild landscapes take out top prize
Some paintings are sealed off from the world: neat, polished, contained.
But Sophie Cape's canvases feel porous, weathered by the elements thems...
Thomas Demand recreates the world
Throughout his practice, the German artist Thomas Demand rebuilds the world in paper, meticulously constructing life-sized models of everyday spaces o...
Nicolas Rothwell returns to the Western Desert
Nicolas Rothwell writes at the edges of things. He's twice won the Prime Minister's Literary Award — for both fiction and non-fiction — and his work s...
Ben Law on William Yang
William Yang's photographs are part memoir, part invitation. Queer lives, Asian faces, vanished places — all lit with the soft glow of attention.
Garth Greenwell & Mark Armijo McKnight's creative friendship
In 2020, Aperture magazine invited Garth Greenwell to write about Mark Armijo McKnight's photographs. The images immediately captivated him, offering...
Being forgotten and being remembered
Scott Burton made art that touched the body before the mind. But like so many artists and men of his generation, he died of AIDS in 1989.
Before...
Making space for a child's perspective
Children live in a world not quite built for them and, for a long time, galleries were no exception. No touching. No talking. Just stand and receive.<...
The art of children's books
With just a few lines and strokes, picture books hold whole worlds: joy and sorrow, memory and wonder. They can be stark, fun and beautiful, all at on...
Five Acts of Love
Five Acts of Love, now on at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, isn't a show about romance.
It's about love when it's fierce, when it's...
Darrell Sibosado and Frances Rings light up the stage
When artists step into the theatre, the stillness of the studio meets the breath of the stage. And audiences, perhaps without even knowing, lean in.
Yolŋu Power puts Yirrkala art front and centre
Yolŋu Power: The Art of Yirrkala, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is not just an art exhibition, but a field of ancestral presence.
It's...
Shanysa McConville looks back over 65000 years of art
For much of the last century, in museums, the works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists were treated as something outside the main story...
Grace Herbert tees off on the unnecessary lines between art and sport
From feminist beginnings to kitsch commercialism, minigolf has a rich history. But what happens when you let artists loose to design their own holes?<...
Arcangelo Sassolino embraces the possibility of change
Arcangelo Sassolino's work captures a suspended instant: just before collapse, just after ignition.
At the 2022 Venice Biennale, Sassolino paid...
Del Kathryn Barton’s creative world-building project imagines empowered, spirited women
Del Kathryn Barton exorcised her rage in her critically acclaimed feature film Blaze, but its aftermath is grief.
You wouldn't know it if you c...
Drawing with sound underground: Jason Maling’s magnum opus Diagrammatica
Jason Maling works in the expanded field where — through the interface of technology, screens and a sound system — the sonic and the visual are conduc...
Thai-Australian artist Nathan Beard’s ironic take on museum artefacts
Recently on the show we met Filipino artist Pio Abad to hear about his Turner Prize nominated exhibition 'To Those Sitting in Darkness' which re-prese...
Frank by name: Dale Frank on taxidermy and his greatest living artwork
Although he's one of Australia's most established, commercially successful and prolific artists, Dale Frank is a reluctant interview subject.
Ec...
Olfactory artist Nadia Vitlin infuses her artwork with scent
Sydney-based artist Nadia Vitlin works with olfaction — our sense of smell — infusing her artwork, whether it be clay or paint, to create bespoke piec...
Pio Abad on his 2024 Turner Prize nominated body of work
Just as historical objects in museum collections embody certain histories — of British imperialism and modernity — they also map loss and disappearanc...
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 Su...
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...
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...
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 ju...
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...
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...
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 p...
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...
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 p...
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...
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 To...
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...
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, hyperre...
The Art Show
Great conversations with visual artists, gallery and museum directors and curators.
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 an...