Artoble Podcast

Send us a message Lyn DiCiero speaks to Stormie Mills ahead of a major survey at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, tracing his history from wild child to respected artist.  Stormie's first solo at Jack Sue Gallery in Perth in 1999 sold out in minutes. Since then, his work has appeared in galleries, public spaces and private collections across Australia, the UK, USA, Europe and Asia. More...

Send us a message Lyn DiCiero speaks with Fremantle-based artist Jo Darvall whose new solo Held Ground at the Studio Gallery Yallingup focuses on a small pocket of Wadandi Boodja in the Margaret River Region. The exhibition is her 21st solo over a 40-year-long practice, which has taken her from rural Victoria to studying at the Victorian College of the Arts, and to Western Australia in 2005. In Vi...

Send us a message Lyn DiCiero speaks with Tania Ferrier whose exhibition, Angry Underwear is currently on show at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery. First exhibited in 1989, Tania developed Angry Underwear in response to witnessing an assault on a dancer in a strip club in New York where she was working as a bar tender. Emblazoned with snarling animal faces, dancers in the club wore the underwear as a...

Send us a message Lyn DiCiero speaks to Fiona Sinclair, artistic director of Southern Forest Arts. Based in Northcliffe, it’s the lead organisation behind the third Regional Arts Triennial, a sprawling state-wide program of 15 exhibitions and events over this year and next.  The Triennial covers locations from Kunnunura in the north to Albany in the south and culminates in an exhibition at John Cu...

Send us a message Listen to Lyn DiCiero in conversation with Geoff Warn from With Architecture Studio and Wallace gallery space and Being and Flux exhibition collaborators artist Simon Gilby and writer Richard King . Geoff Warn reveals the beginnings of Wallace and its unusual operating method that puts creativity above commercial value. Both Simon and Richard discuss their unique partnership for...

Send us a message Listen to Lyn DiCiero speak to Jerome Davenport about his background and the inspiration for moving from the performing arts to the visual arts, starting a long list of completed works around Western Australia. Born in Narrogin, he grew up surrounded by nature, providing a respect and love of the natural environment, seen often in his work. Also recognised as Ketones6000 and now...

Send us a message Listen to Lyn DiCiero in conversation with Rina Franz, whose exhibition Between Worlds: The Vision of Rina Franz is on show at the City of Perth’s Council House Gallery until 31 October 2025. Born in Rome, she initially studied architecture and art history before migrating to Western Australia and studying art at Edith Cowan and Curtin University. She went on to teach students he...

Send us a message Listen to Lyn DiCiero's conversation with Sarah Robinson and David Carson about Canopies and Cathedrals, a unique cross continent exhibition over June/July this year which blended the Gothic architectural grandeur of Wells Cathedral in Somerset in the UK with the beauty of old-growth wilderness forests in Western Australia. Here in Perth, we’ll be able to see a video of this...

Send us a message Listen to Lyn DiCiero in conversation with Annette Peterson and Sue Leeming who together with Nicole Steenhof have joined forces for Tender, on show at Rockingham Arts Centre. Tender navigates the theme as an aesthetic and cathartic experience, signifying more than the word.  Annette Peterson studied at Curtin University and completed a Master of Design and Art in 2017. She works...

Send us a message Hear Lyn DiCiero speak with Victorian-based artist Jarrad Martyn, whose work explores our relationship with the natural world, both in a contemporary sense and historically. Blending the figurative and abstract, his works leave an other-wordly impression with images sourced from family albums, in particular, his father’s experience as a helicopter pilot in Antarctica in the 1980s...

Send us a message Lyn DiCiero speaks with Western Australian artist Gai Saunders, who held her first solo in 1993. Now, more than thirty years later, her work I left my dream on my pillow, is hanging at the Royal Academy of Arts 2025 Summer Exhibition in London. Gai reveals the process, her art journey and more, leading to her work sharing the same gallery space at the Royal Academy as a large wor...

Send us a message Lyn DiCiero speaks with Sydney-based artist Col Jordan, exhibiting To Op with Thanks at Mossenson Galleries in Subiaco until 28 June, 2025. Turning 90 later this year, Col's practice changed direction when he received a catalogue for The Responsive Eye, on show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965. While audiences called the new Optical Art "bewildering and u...

Send us a message Lyn DiCiero speaks to US-based artist Brendan Murphy ahead of his Boonji Spaceman sculpture, Lightning , being unveiled at Stirling Gardens in Perth. The seven-metre high sculpture is set to make a lasting impression in the city for the next 12 months. The unveiling of the work coincides with his first solo in Australia, Life is Electric , at Gullotti Galleries in Cottesloe.  Bre...

Send us a message Lyn DiCiero speaks with Lee Kinsella, curator at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and Tace Stevens, a Noongar and Spinifex visual storyteller based in Perth. Tace is one of a group of artists in the de-centre re-centre at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, a Perth Festival exhibition held in partnership with the Perth Centre for Photography, and is on show until 3 May. Listen on the go with...

Send us a message Lyn DiCiero speaks to Candice Nannup, a Willman, Ballardong Noongar curator and artist based on Wardandi Boodja. Candice is the curator of the 25th iteration of  Noongar Country on show at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery until 20 July. Her emerging curatorial practice is deeply rooted in cultural storytelling, community engagement, and the celebration of Noongar art and identity. Wi...

Send us a message Lyn DiCiero speaks with Walyalup/Fremantle-based artists Audrey Fernandes-Satar and Arif Satar about their current exhibition Bird Song, on show at Mundaring Arts Centre. Working both individually and collaboratively for several decades, their practice intersects at shared memories and histories. In this exhibition the two traverse themes such as displacement and identity, follow...

Send us a message Lyn DiCiero speaks to Penelope Collis about Perception , her joint exhibition with Bec Thomas at Contemporary Art Spaces in Mandurah. UK-born in Cornwall, Penelope moved to Mandurah in 2022 after a lifetime of travel adventures. The move has offered the opportunity to fully immerse into her practice after an art degree attained in the 1990s. In this exhibition, she explores consu...

Send us a message Lyn DiCiero speaks with Kelsey Ashe whose major solo, The Deep Green Sea is on show at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery. A PhD Supervisor at Curtin University, Kelsey has exhibited widely nationally and internationally at galleries such as the National Gallery of Victoria, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and Brooklyn Gallery in New York. Her works have become highly covet...

Send us a message Lyn DiCiero speaks with Ross Potter ahead of his solo exhibition, Things That Sleep Beneath the Snow at Rockingham Arts Centre. A result of his month-long residency in Iceland last year, the exhibition reveals the hidden beauty in a predominantly black and white, snow-filled landscape in the far northern Icelandic town of Siglufjörður, where shovelling snow and driving through sn...

Send us a message What is the art that comes after war?  How do visual artists address the trauma of war and life after conflict? Lyn DiCiero speaks with Curtin University Professor Kit Messham-Muir, one of three researchers from the Art of Peace project, their work culminating in a free symposium at Curtin University 1 and 2 February, coinciding with an exhibition, Art of Peace at the Art Gallery...

Send us a message Listen on Artoble – the art finder App and discover art here for iPhone at the Apple store: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/artoble-discover-art/id6502944188 and here for Android on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hr.apps.n307518 About this podcast Lyn DiCiero speaks to Richard Seale ahead of his exhibition Little Gems. The exhibition is a photographic jo...

Send us a message Lyn DiCiero speaks to Ross Potter ahead of his Artist Talk at 3.30pm Sunday 1 December at Henderson Environmental Centre, North Beach. In this episode Ross discusses his City of Stirling residency in contrast to his residency in Iceland, his tendency towards dead birds and a new direction in mastering animation. See more details in the Events section of the Artoble app.  Listen o...