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Send us Fan Mail We really loved our chat with Peter Sharp ! Very inspiring talk and we learned so much from Peter who was very generous with his words and the pastries he bought us!! We interviewed Peter in his studio in Sydney and talked about his teaching, his upcoming show, Fowlers Gap, being an artist, and much more.. Peter is represented by Nicholas Thompson gallery in Melbourne and his new...

Send us Fan Mail Shuffle Studios is in Brookvale.  To find out more about Tony check out his website. https://www.shufflestudio.com/   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send us Fan Mail Spoiler alert - Nick Bishop is brilliant!!! In this episode, he explains, how the NFT world can assist artists and galleries in fantastic ways. Nick explains the different layers of the web3 world, blockchain and NFTs in such an understandable way. He runs a web3 venture capitalist company with three partners, Not Centralised. They will be holding a talk at Manly Art Gallery or th...

Send us Fan Mail We spoke to Ash at her studio and gallery space, Hake House of Art , in Brookvale. She is a young vibrant artist with a smart head on her shoulders, once represented by a gallery, she decided to go it on her own, and the results have proved she made the right decision. We spoke to her about being a 4th generation artist, setting up a gallery space, colour psychology, techniques, o...

Send us Fan Mail Element Ensemble is an improvisational sound experience by Peta Morris, Noah Bloom, Finlay Hogan and guest artists.  Immerse yourself in soundscapes and visual projections inspired by the local environment and created by Element Ensemble, a three-piece improvisational music group. See Element ensemble perform as part of the creative open on August 13th 7-8 pm at Curl Curl Creative...

Send us Fan Mail Many thanks to LOTTIE Consalvo for speaking to us on zoom - we enjoyed the chat very much sorry if the Audio is not great - rain rain go away. You can find out about LOTTIE Consalvo on her website https://www.lottieconsalvo.com Lottie instagram feed https://www.instagram.com/lottieconsalvo/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send us Fan Mail Aidan Gageler is a recent graduate of Camberwell Arts College in London, graduating with a 1st in Fine Art Photography. Since moving back to Newcastle, Australia, he has taken a job at Bundanon Trust and is taking his time thinking and talking about his art practice. After finding old photography paper in a flea market in Poland, he explored the possibilities of developing the pap...

Send us Fan Mail Brett Piva artist  and super community arts man of Newcastle.  Find out about Brett on his website https://www.brettpiva.com You can find out about his group space Onwards here https://www.onwardsgallery.com Many thanks Brett  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send us Fan Mail It's difficult to describe the work of James Drinkwater, he really is indefinable. His confidence and talent shine in his work, bold and edgy, full of energy and texture. James was always destined to be an artist as we discovered in our chat, an aunt providing the nurturing and example to become an artist alongside a close and loving family. He won the Brett Whiteley scholars...

Send us Fan Mail Harriett Watts many thanks for welcoming us into your studio. Harriet has always been interested in change and ephemerality - she is fascinated about materials and how we can become more focused on sustainability.  You can find out more about Harriett on her instagram  https://www.instagram.com/hettywatts/?hl=en or on linked in https://au.linkedin.com/in/harriet-watts-587649118?or...

Send us Fan Mail Tara Axford welcomed us into her home in Sydney last week to talk with us about her work, and her 25-year career as art director of publications such as The Good Weekend magazine. 'As a mixed media artist working with prints, collage, mixed media, fibre arts, and photography, I am interested in the push-pull of constantly searching for something... Are we developing something...

Send us Fan Mail Many thanks to Suzanne Archer for welcoming us into your home and studio. We enjoyed your hospitality and generosity so much. Suzanne will be showing at Nicholas Thompson Gallery from 15 June to 2 July. You can get THE BOOK - The Song of the Cicada from Nicholas Thompson Gallery. https://www.nicholasthompsongallery.com.au/artists/suzanne-archer/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

Send us Fan Mail Lily Cummins is an artist from the  Southern Highlands.  We had a great chat about studying and residencies.  Her practise examines both the self and the emotive bonds and attachments Lily feels that she attaining a Masters has given her practise a great deal of rigger, It really helped her grow as an artist and a person to keep studying and gain a masters. Lily studied at NAS and...

Send us Fan Mail Thanks to Utopia Gallery and Helen Eager for showing us your work and talking to us at your amazing studio.  'Helen Eager has sustained a solo exhibition program for over three decades with her drawings, paintings and prints. Over the years, the shift from domestic interiors to pure abstraction has been a consistent evolution, her love of colour and light a constant thread. H...

Send us Fan Mail Marina Debris is a great pseudonym for this American, Australian-based artist and activist. She uses trash washed up on the beach to create 'trashion', such as in 2020, a dress made out of hundreds of discarded face masks. Marina has also created installation work, such as, 'The Inconvenience Store', for Sculpture by the Sea, which was a mock-up shop, created w...

Send us Fan Mail We spoke to Malcolm Greenwood at his studio in Mosman. What a lovely man. He showed us around his amazing studio full of pots, bowls, and plates, some of 400 makes a week for Australia's top restaurants and hotels such as Bennelong and the Baillie Lodges Group. He started out in business management and then a realisation that his health was suffering from the stress he starte...

Send us Fan Mail Misha Harrison is an artist from Wollongong, NSW, specialising in assembled plywood artworks. She carefully cuts, carves, sands, stitches and paints her artworks into life, depicting still life, portraiture, and abstraction. We spoke to Misha at a live interview at Sydney Road Gallery back in Feb, and at Fiona and I's exhibition back in February. Misha drove all the way from...

Send us Fan Mail Michelle Connolly studio is so awesome, full of her assembled sculptures, paintings and creations. It's like stepping into a theatre, full of characters and stories between them. Michelle is very interested in outsider art, she sees something in that kind of work that she recognises. We had a great chat with her about living in the USA in North Carolina and how that shaped he...

Send us Fan Mail We had a fabulous chat with Donna Green in Utopia Gallery, Waterloo, surrounded by her beautiful exhibition, Vessel, which is on at the gallery from 2nd April - 30th April. Go have a look at these amazing ceramics, collages, and drawings, all speaking to each other in a visceral way. We talked to Donna about living in New York, how she came to ceramics, the technicalities of makin...

Send us Fan Mail Hedley Roberts is an artist from the Uk - he is based in Margate in Kent. His first introduction to art was an encyclopaedia on art that his parents bought him when he was 10 years old.  We had such a fabulous chat with him about what being an artist is and how its evolved over time. He simply states that you need Time, Space and a network of people. Hedley says find the activity...

Send us Fan Mail We interviewed Billy Bain  in 2021 for a public live stream with Northern Beaches Council Creative Tool Kit, a professional development scheme for creatives in the area.  Before the interview, we visited Billy's studio in Avalon to see the new work he is creating for his upcoming show, 'Being Manly', at Manly Art Gallery and Museum opening March 25th. His ceramic cr...

Send us Fan Mail Matthew Wright is from Western Australia he began his creative  life by studying Jazz music at University.  He did a short course in painting and has been working away building his painting practise. He is a self taught - you can find out about his visual art practise from his website   https://www.matthewwrightart.com You can also find Matthew on social media - here is his instag...

Send us Fan Mail We spoke to Nick Collerson for a long time and we left it all in because he is so damn interesting! We could have spoken to Nick for hours, he is such a deep thinker and perceptive artist, it was very insightful. We think you are going to love this episode. He also teaches at the National Art School so get yourself on one of his short courses.  Nick also runs an artist studio in S...

Send us Fan Mail Orlanda Broom is a landscape and abstract painter from the UK she paints highly saturated dense exotic jungly places in her landscapes that are alluring and incising but if you got stuck in them you would perhaps be afraid... You can find these amazing paintings on Orlanda's website https://orlandabroomartist.com You can also find her on her on instagram https://www.instagram...

Send us Fan Mail We LOVED talking to Morgan Stokes i n his amazing apartment in Sydney surrounded by his beautiful artwork. He is pushing the boundaries of what a painting can be, or is defined to be, which is very exciting. We met Morgan, his partner Charlie, and their friend at The Other Art Fair and instantly loved them all! We had an art crush on Morgan’s work after Sophie from Curatorial and...