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Send us Fan Mail Thanks you Emily Besser for your time and sharing your stories. You can find out more about Emily on her website. https://www.emilybesser.com or her instagram https://www.instagram.com/emilybesser/?hl=en You can find out more about Nicole Barakat workshop in the following link. http://www.nicolebarakat.com.au/learn Emily was also featured in Amber Creswell Bell’s new book, Austral...

Send us Fan Mail We interviewed Ali Tahayori at his home and studio in Newtown, Sydney, a long way from his hometown of Shiraz, Iran. Ali moved to Australia from Iran in 2007 after imprisonment and torture for being gay became unsustainable to remain in his homeland .  We discovered Ali at the NAS MFA Exhibition where he showed his impressive broken mirror artworks and video installation. 'Bo...

Send us Fan Mail Many thanks to Trevor Victor Harvey from Harvey Galleries for an enlightening chat You can find Trevor and his marvellous team on their website - https://harveygalleries.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send us Fan Mail Many thanks for talking to us Mary Tonkin To find out more about this Artist check out her instagram https://www.instagram.com/mary.tonkin/?hl=en or with Australian Galleries who represents her https://australiangalleries.com.au/artists/mary-tonkin/ 'Landscape painter Mary Tonkin completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in 1995 and a Master of Fine Arts in 2002 at Monash U...

Send us Fan Mail Many thanks to Art Advisor Michael Powe for your time talking to us. Michael’s business is Anala Art Advisory. https://analaartadvisory.com.au Johnny Romeos show, Cloud 9, is opening on Friday 10 March in Melbourne at West End Art Space. https://westendartspace.com.au/exhibitions_details/johnny-romeo-pop-popart/ ‘When it comes to capturing this overwhelming sense of being high on...

Send us Fan Mail Many thanks to Artist Ali Noble for your time. You can find out more about Ali on her website or instagram. Good luck with your Masters! Ali Noble’s primary interest is the discourse of textiles; which she frequently explores alongside the aesthetics of abstract formalism and mysticism. Ali’s current work, as part of her MFA research, is connected to an ongoing enquiry into the tr...

Send us Fan Mail Many thanks to Cybele for welcoming us into her home and studio very close to us in Avalon Beach.  'Cybele Cox’s practise explores ancient feminine symbols and occult mysticism, which is part of a larger enquiry into representations of women in the western art canon. Using hand built ceramic totems and figures, painting, drawing and more recently costume, Cox seeks to re-invo...

Send us Fan Mail Christopher Hodges artist and gallerist from the fabulous Utopia gallery many thanks for the chance to chat art at your gallery.  Christopher will be exhibiting at Utopia gallery from Feb 4-26th in there, ‘Thirty Five’, show celebrating 35 years of Utopia Sydney. Congratulations!!  To find out more about Christopher check out his website here. https://www.christopherahodges.com Ho...

Send us Fan Mail Many thanks to Amber Boardman for your time talking to us about the show Fair Play currently showing at Manly Regional Gallery. You can find out more about the exhibition with the following link. https://www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/whats-on/fair-play If you would like to find out more about Amber https://www.amberboardman.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Send us Fan Mail Melanie Vugich is an Australian artist giving the still life genre a modern twist. She is a still life painter from Broken Hill, who lived in Florence, Italy for 25 years designing textiles. She has recently collaborated with the fashion designer, Oscar De La Renta, for a collection using her paintings as prints. Her paintings feature flowers, books, fruits and vases she has colle...

Send us Fan Mail Many thanks to Josh for having us to his studio - to find out more about Josh you can go to his website. Josh describes his work as referencing our experience of peripheral vision of the local world but describes our visual experience as being truncated and redacted - as we are living on our phones and our experiences with visual media are so fleeting and sporadic and perhaps peop...

Send us Fan Mail https://elladreyfus.com/weight-and-sea To find out more about Ella Dreyfus check out her website https://elladreyfus.com or her instagram https://www.instagram.com/ella_dreyfus/ To find out more about her artwork in Sculpture by the Sea https://elladreyfus.com/weight-and-sea and Ellas latest Film Dreyfus-drei look here https://elladreyfus.com/dreyfus-drei-film Many thanks Ella for...

Send us Fan Mail We spoke to Giles Alexander from his  St. Peters studio.  His painting practice strives to understand, 'us', and 'belonging' and in turn, the universe. Hence, Giles's fascination with planets and space.  'Giles Alexander’s art practice explores the visual discourse of belonging. He asks us how we find a sense of belonging in a city, a country, the wor...

Send us Fan Mail Thank you to Joanna Logue for a fabulous chat - we so enjoyed talking with you and could not wait to get back to the studio to paint, you were so inspiring and generous. You can find out more about Joanna's art practise on her website https://www.joannalogue.com or her instagram https://www.instagram.com/joannalogue/?hl=en You can see Joanna's work at https://kingstreetg...

Send us Fan Mail We love Troy Emery' s work, his playful, soft sculptures are so extraordinary and tactile, when we saw them at the Art Pharmacy office we had to touch them!! Martin Browne Contemporary in Sydney represents him. We talked to Troy over zoom as he is based in Melbourne, about taxidermy, natural history museums, materials, degradation of nature, Hermes windows, and much more!! We...

Send us Fan Mail Bernard is currently on show at Trevor Victor Harvey Galleries in Seaforth until 26 November 2022 - https://www.instagram.com/trevorvictorharvey/?hl=en Bernard Ollis is an artist of immense talent and knowledge - it was a pleasure to go and chat with him on the podcast - his studio is a riot of colour filled with awesome art works in paint, oil pastel of all manor of fabulous spac...

Send us Fan Mail We spoke to Sarah Robson at Manly Art Gallery and Museum , surrounded by her current exhibition, Abstract Realities: The MAG&M Project, alongside artists Julian Goddard (Perth), and David Thomas (Melbourne). This exhibition brings together three artists, to create site-sensitive installations that are temporal, open, and sensory. In addition to their own works, the artists hav...

Send us Fan Mail Many thanks to Helen Earl Ceramic artist from NSW. Helen creates ceramics from clay with found objects. They are transitory experience of being in the world.  Her website is https://www.helenearl.com Or you can find out more on her instagram https://www.instagram.com/helenearlart/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send us Fan Mail Abdul Abdullah is one of Australia's leading artists and we were lucky enough to meet and interview him at his studio in St. Leonards, shortly before he moves to Bangkok, Thailand. 'Abdul Abdullah is an Australian multi-disciplinary artist. As a self-described ‘outsider amongst outsiders’ with a post-9/11 mindset, his practice is primarily concerned with the experience o...

Send us Fan Mail Scott McCracken is an artist from the UK we met through the Turps Banana art school. You can find out more about Scott on his website https://www.scottmccracken.co.uk His work is hard to distill or describe you could call him a painter of still life or even a surrealist or abstract painter. Scott talked to us about many great  in this chat and talks to us about making art, his pro...

Send us Fan Mail     Marnie Ross is well known for being the founder of the Little Things Art prize that is celebrating its 8th year - go check it out it is is currently (opens 14th September 2022) on show at https://saintcloche.com You can find out more about Marnie and the Little Things Art prize on her website http://www.marnierossartist.com The medium Marnie talks about is from Matisse - https...

Send us Fan Mail Wendy Sharpe needs no introduction, but here's one anyway!! 'Wendy Sharpe is one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists, she lives and works in Sydney and Paris. She has been awarded The Sulman Prize, two Travelling Scholarships, The Portia Geach Memorial Award (twice), The Archibald Prize, and many others. She has been a finalist in The Sulman Prize thirteen times, and T...

Send us Fan Mail David Fairbairn lives and works in Wedderbern not far from Campbelltown with artist and partner Suzanne Archer. We were excited to go back to their amazing home and studios to interview David a few weeks ago. We had an in-depth discussion with David about his upbringing, growing up in Africa, boarding school in England and finally reaching the sunny climes of Australia in his earl...

Send us Fan Mail Ember Fairbairn has based herself primarily in Melbourne and Queensland, satisfying her love of contemporary culture and the need to be immersed in remote parts of nature. Fairbairn’s practice focuses primarily on painting and she holds a Masters in Contemporary Art. Ember is based in the Yarra Valley. Her exhibiting history spans from 2001 in both solo and group shows in artist r...

Send us Fan Mail Tiarna Herczeg is one to watch - she is a young indigenous Artist from Sydney. The best place to learn about her is on her social media pages https://www.instagram.com/tiarna.herczeg/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.