Art Smitten

In this episode we will be exploring Radical hope as a way to live, make and create during times of uncertainty.  We discuss the current exhibition ‘Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience’ curated by Isabella Hone-Saunders and Paul Boyé as part of the MADA curator-in-residence program. Isabella joined us in the studio to chat with us all about the project...

Art Smitten is dishing up a special on ‘art speak’ and the vernacular we use when talking about art 🗣️🗣️🗣️ The team will be reflecting on a recent attempt by the National Gallery of Art in Washington to Gen Z-ify art history. We will also be reflecting on John Berger’s influential series ‘Ways of Seeing’ and discover what the heck ekphrasis means!?!!?!? 🤎🤎Tune in Mo...

For this week’s episode of Art Smitten ~ we are looking to the world around us and discussing how nature inspires artistic practice 🔍🐛🐜🌷🐦‍⬛ The team visited the Potter Museum of Art’s current exhibition ‘a velvet ant, a flower and a bird’, and will be speaking to Pippa Milne all about the show! Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm  @synmedia Image: In...

We are putting the SMITTEN into Art Smitten this week as we discuss art that act as measures of devotion <3 🏹 During the show we will be joined by Isabel from the State Library of Victoria to discuss the current exhibition 'Rebel Heart: Love Letters and Other Declarations' ✍️ Jen also discusses the conceptual art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres in the art that has us smitten segment and we briefly ch...

This episode explores the bed and our rooms as sites for artistic expression + resistance 💭 🛌 Speaking first to George  @cinnam0nros3  about their essays on Beside Oracle before hearing about an upcoming group exhibition curated by Nina  @nini.beani  titled ‘forever bedroom’ 🤍🤍🤍 Art Smitten airs 3-5pm Mondays on SYN 90.7fm  @synmedia ☁️ Image courtesy of N...

The long weekend is the perfect time to tick off all those movies on your watchlist - so that's exactly what we will be talking about on today’s show! 📽️ Tyra talks about Vietnamese film 'Bunny!!' (2026), Astra speaks to 'Wanda' (1970), Afrina reflects on her recent trip to Taiwan and the team discuss recent comments made by Timothée Chalamet dissing the opera and ballet ... Art Smitt...

Get out of your house and onto the streets for today’s episode of Art Smitten 🗞️ In our episode, we will be discussing the streets as inspiration featuring a discussion about Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Death in Brunswick (1990) and a special conversation with Savannah from City Gallery. 📸 Their exhibition ‘On The Streets Where I Live’ features the work of Viva Gibb who photogr...

Astra speaks with Ben, the programmer for Fed Square's Open Air! Hear them speak in detail about the uniqueness of outdoor cinematic experiences, public space activation and the films on offer for the 2026 program.  Art Smitten airs 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we are fortunate to be joined by Francesca Smith and Mas Cremasco, two of Yarra Youth’s Artists-in-Residents 🖌️ We spoke to them about their practices and the workshops they have been running with young people in the City of Yarra! This episode also features reviews on Laneway '26, "Wuthering Heights", and art reflections by our presenters.  For more like this, be sure...

For our first show back in 2026, Art Smitten will be speaking to Angela Connor, Senior Curator at MAPh on the exhibition YOUNG 📸 🌟This episode kicks off with a new segment 'Art that has us SMITTEN' before focusing on how youthfulness is captured in art. We hear Angela’s perspectives on the role photography plays in representing youth and wrap up the show with a discussion on depictions of...

For our last episode of 2025, Art Smitten is bringing you interviews with recent School of Art graduates from RMIT 🖼️ 🌟 Arabella, Millie and Tully will be in the studio to share their experiences of art school, the final works that appeared in the grad show and what they have coming up next! And to all those who completed their degree this year, a big congratulations from us all !! 🙌 Art Smitten...

This interview is part of a segment called Music as Art, implemented by Dani Roche. In this edition, we will be hearing from the members of Special Features for our Music as Art segment! 🥁Special Features  @specialfeaturesband  is a heavy alt-rock band from Meanjin/Brisbane, and they spoke with Dani about how they create their music, their influences and views on music as an art form! T...

Our team went on a super special excursion to the folks at Schoolhouse Studios in Coburg to learn more about the spaces, ethos and artists that inhibit this former supermarket space! 🛒 We spoke with Director Bron Belcher along with residents Ashley, Rhys and Mae to hear first hand the importance and impact of places like this in Naarm/Melbourne's art ecology.  Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm...

Art Smitten is bringing you a special on poetry this episode ✍️ To begin, we hear from our Executive Producer Jen all the way in Tokyo to share a little bit of her trip and examples of poetry within Japanese art 🖼️ that she has seen in the galleries.  Then, the Art Smitten team share poetic extracts they love or share favourite poems of their own. 🩵 Finally, Lili from Roundtable Readings joi...

On this episode of Art Smitten, presenters Afrina, Astra, Larissa and Tyra shared the art that has moved them. Tyra begins with the 2025 film 'Sinners' dir. by Ryan Coogler; Larissa speaks on her observations of the legal system in Reginald Rose's '12 Angry Men', Afrina reflects on the cultural resilience and beauty of Yosef Phelan's practice; and Astra wraps up with a comparison on loneliness in...

Art Smitten is bringing you a special episode on Art Criticism✍️🗞️ The team will be chatting about the importance and the impact of criticism of art in all forms, as well as our own views on how criticism effects our encounters with art. Plus, we are joined by art historian and critic Victoria Perin from Memo Review — a weekly independent art criticism platform running since 2017, to give us...

This episode of Art Smitten features our conversation with humanoid robot Pepper who is currently on display at the National Communication Museum in Hawthorn. Restored for their current exhibition ‘Friend’, we asked Pepper many pressing questions including if robots will take over the world… 😳😳 Jesse from NCM Studio also spoke with us about their role in robot restoration and...

Art Smitten is joined by Amy Spiers in this episode to discuss the ‘Archives Are Hot! Artists in the Archive’ program developed by Next Wave in collaboration with CAST, Saluhan and An. Other Collective.  Our presenter Tyra will also be sharing a review of Love Serenade (1996) directed by Shirley Barrett 📽️  Listen in to hear our discussion on what it means to be a socially en...

In this episode of Art Smitten, we are fortunate to be joined by artist Aisha Hara who recently had an exhibition at CAVES 🌼titled 'Green Age'. Aisha is a Japanese-Australian visual artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She is interested in the intersections of painting and translation and her exhibition is a response to the poetics of spring as found in tanka poetry 🎐 We also had a discussion about...

For our first episode of season 4, the team is so excited to be speaking with two of the artists featured in KINGS current exhibition program. Ayah Zakout and Ebony Maurice-Wilmott joined us to share insights about their art practices and the works featured within their exhibitions.  @ayahzakout.jpeg   @ebony_maurice.wilmott   @kingsartistrun Season 4 of Art Smitten begins this Mond...

We are dishing up a real treat for you all 🍽️ this collaboration with our dear friends at Talk On Your Fork brings an episode focused on the intersection of food & art! To begin, Astra will be sharing their thoughts on the film ‘The Menu’ (2022) 🥣 PLUS for a real treat, we will be speaking to Gemma Leslie from @foodforeveryone.aus about her incredible project that pairs artists wi...

We are joined by photographer, artist and co-founder of the Pacific Centre for Photographic Arts Aishah Kenton in this episode of Art Smitten. Listen to hear all about the workshops and programs that PCPA facilitate along with Aishah’s own photographic art practice! In the second half of the show, the team review films seen in the final weeks of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIF...

Listen to our conversation with Kate Barber, cofounder of Spring1883, an art fair hosted inside the iconic Hotel Windsor on Spring Street 🏩 !  Within their own reserved room, gallerists uniquely display works by artists they represent in the unconventional hotel suites instead of the typical 'white cube' model characteristic of typical art fairs.  @spring1883 @synmedia Listen on Art Smi...

Tune in to hear an interview with Saluhan Collective collaborators MJ Flamiano and Catherine Ortega-Sandow about their current curatorial project Fugitive Archives !! 🏷️ The exhibition series examines the role of artist-led, community-based, and independent archives as transformative tools for collective organising and knowledge production.  The first show, Fugitive Archives: otherwise or els...

Maya Borjesson  @handclap joined us in the studio 🔊 for this episode of Art Smitten. Based in Naarm/Melbourne, Maya is a sound artist and architect who explores ambient music’s potential in evoking memories as well as sound’s relationship to architecture. We also briefly discuss the history of sound as an artform to contextualize our discussion around sound as an artistic medium!...