Art Smitten

🕯️Today on Art Smitten, we’ll be joined by Faith Spencer, whose solo show, ‘If stars were to touch me, I’d feel it’, has just opened at @alltheverybest_ in Abbotsford! Faith is a painter whose practice explores light and atmosphere through layered colour and a transient visual language. Drawing on lived experience and remembered observations, Spencer considers the relations...

After an incredible day experiencing the 2026 Melbourne Sculpture Biennale at Billilla Mansion, our next episode of Art Smitten will be sharing our thoughts & reflections on the project 🍃🏡🕯️ We are also fortunate to be joined by Hannah Gartside + Beth Maslen, who both have new works presented at this year’s exhibition! Tune into SYN90.7fm this Monday 3-5pm to hear it all 🤍 @synmedia...

In this episode we are joined by Mel Huang Buntine , the curator of NCM's exhibition ' Radical Computing '. This exhibition is a love letter to the computer and our relationships to technological systems, from the communal to the personal.  The team also reflect on our own history with computers (hello Club Penguin we miss you) and play our favourite tech influenced tracks.  See omnystud...

Today on Art Smitten we are thrilled to be joined by Nicholas Currie and Diego Ramírez, 2 of the artists featured in ACCA’s NEW26 exhibition which celebrates the most compelling emerging artists with bold and ambitious new commissions. Image credits: 1) L-R: Nicholas Currie, I wonder if it’s all gammin. 2026, witchway 2026, (P)oxymoron 2026, big X 2026, self again 2026, installa...

We’ve been out walking on the beautiful streets of Naarm in preparation for today’s episode all about wandering around and finding art along the way. 🚶 Aditi shares a book review of I want to die, but I want to eat tteokbokki by Baek Sehee  Afrina reflects on the debut single 'Ghost of You' by Whitten Ooi in relation to Edvard Munch's The Scream (1893) in our Art + Music segment...

We are excited to be discussing Ngarn Wa’ngal: Art of the gum tree currently on display at the Potter Museum of Art. This major exhibition reflects the deep cultural, ecological and symbolic significance of the gum tree — and we look forward to hearing our guest Sophie Gerhard share insights into the curatorial process! 🌿Also in this episode, Astra reflects on the art he found in a lo...

We are keeping things funky and fresh in this episode of Art Smitten...  To kick things off, the team reflect on the life and work of Yayoi Kusama after passing away aged 97. Then we are joined by artist Dhishni de Silva @dhishni_art who has been running Funky Veg Still Life classes at Ruma @ru.ma_studio in Brunswick for the last month. Plus, we share our connections to art and music through...

This week, the whole Art Smitten team will be in the studio sharing our thoughts 💭 and feelings 💕 about some recent art experiences. Aditi is back from South Korea, Jen reflects on the attitudes towards the Young British Artists to the rise of Charli xcx, Afrina has been inspired by Bartolini’s practice and Astra will be sharing a review of 'One Sings, the Other Doesn't' (1977) dir. by Agn...

In this episode, Afrina shares an interview with Irish-Palestinian artist Yosef Phelan  @yosefphelan who explores identity and familial histories through hand drawn animations, audio recordings and short film.  We also discuss works from the current exhibition Wurrdha Marra at NGV Australia, Daniel Spoerri's Prose Poems (1959–60), and went on a tangent about the impact of community...

For our final episode of the season, the Art Smitten team are reflecting on music that reminds us of works of art … 💭🎶 Every week we celebrate visual art experiences through the audio medium of radio, so we can’t wait to celebrate this tension and explore how our senses collide and inform one another 💌 Artworks discussed: David Hockney, We Two Boys Together Clinging,  1961. Ma...

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...