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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...

Send us Fan Mail Emily Ball is an artist and teacher from the UK - she described herself as WHAT SHE IS NOT - an artist who paints things as they look or an abstract painter she is somewhere in between. She wants to make visual poetry. She is a self described magpie.  https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=emily+ball+artist&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Emily advise was so valuab...

Send us Fan Mail You are going to love this one!! We spoke to Emilya, the 'wizardess of lightbulb moments', founder and director of Art Pharmacy , an art consultancy in Sydney.  We spoke to Emiya about her illustrious art career in the UK and Australia, and how Art Pharmacy came about. She is a wonderful powerhouse of knowledge, culture, and art, brimming with ideas and interesting proje...

Send us Fan Mail Amanda O'Bryan from Creative Queen Bee spoke to us about her childhood and about publishing a book called Daily Acts of Creativity. We really enjoyed talking to Amanda about her creative journey she began life as a graphic designer, she has been also been a painter and a printmaker, and even a designer who worked on the TV show Better Homes and Garden. Amanda shared with us h...

Send us Fan Mail This week we had the most fascinating and in-depth chat with artist and teacher, Luke Thurgate . Luke has just completed a Masters's degree at the National Art School in Sydney, whilst also being a teacher so he gets to use the staffroom! That's not all that was exciting about Luke's episode on Art Wank,  we get into the nitty-gritty of his MA, exploring myth, ideol...

Send us Fan Mail  We are back ... 2022 is going to be a great year - we are excited about all the things we are wanting to do this year ..  and we are starting with a fabulous artist who is owning it and is in our opinion is killing it in the art world .... Thanks so much to Jordy Kerwick for chatting to us from France .. you can find out more about him on  https://vigogallery.com/artists/113 Vivo...

Send us Fan Mail Ana Young  is an interdisciplinary artist represented by Curatorial and Co. She is wise, articulate, and an intelligent thoughtful painter. We learned a lot from this conversation. We spoke to her before we were asked to open the Movers and Shakers exhibition by Louise Chircop, it was just a. coincidence we talked about it in the podcast, and then Louise approached us the next day...

Send us Fan Mail Zoe Grey is a painter from Marrawah in Tasmania  You can find more about her on her website  https://www.zoe-grey.com/about or on her instagram, https://www.instagram.com/zoe__makes/?hl=en You can read the article from artist profile we discussed here https://artistprofile.com.au/zoe-grey/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send us Fan Mail Jeff McCann is a consummate professional, artist, creative and designer. His business spans multi layered, including fashion, cardboard products, art and education. He is the epitome of a creative, always playing with materials and new ideas. He started out n theatre design and the drama comes out in his work. We had a great chat over zoom with Jeff about his social media content,...

Send us Fan Mail Belinda Fox the multi talented, multi disciplinary artist who is a printmaker, painter and sculptor. Belinda has always loved travelling and has always been inspired by her travel. She has lived all over the world. Check out her current body of work on her website https://belindafox.com.au and her instagram https://www.instagram.com/foxbelinda/ Belinda is on show currently at http...

Send us Fan Mail After seeing his artists friends struggle to get their work seen, Ryan Stanier founded The Other Art Fair over 10 years ago. The Other Art Fair provides the opportunity for artists to exhibit all over the world, now established in London, New York, LA, Sydney, Melbourne, Dallas, Toronto and Chicago. Since its launch, the fair has attracted over 250,00 art-loving visitors selling m...

Send us Fan Mail Katherine Hattam spoke to us at the end of our lockdown in Sydney from her Melbourne Home and Studio so sorry if some of the chat seems a bit dated ... Katherine had so much good advise we really enjoyed our time with her. Don't forget to check out her work she is currently showing in the NSW Art Gallery in a group exhibition called Matisse Life and Spirit -   https://www.art...

Send us Fan Mail We had a wonderful chat with artist Amber Wallis during the lockdown, via zoom. Amber is a thought-provoking artist, who thinks deeply about her paintings and subject matter. She is represented by Nicholas Thompson Gallery and is having a solo show for Sydney Contemporary in November 2022. She is also in upcoming group shows in Los Angeles at SADE gallery and Gruin Gallery .  &apo...

Send us Fan Mail Thanks to Georgia for her chat - you can find out more about her and her work on her website or her instagram. Julie and I enjoyed chatting to Georgia over zoom whilst in lockdown .. Julie had tech issues with her computer so that's why she goes quiet at the end of the chat... hope you enjoy this episode .. http://www.georgiaspain.com https://www.instagram.com/georgiaspainer/...