Inside The Gallery

Created by Indonesian/Australian artist Jumaadi, Upside-Down Garden is a magical environment that evokes the transformation of life and objects from one state to another. Located in Sydney's Barangaroo precinct, this public installation is a multilayered intervention, imbued with personal mythologies and cultural references. It holds fragments of time, creatures, history -both seen and unseen- mem...

Two simultaneous exhibitions at the Grafton Regional Gallery . One, a survey of ceramic works by Alan Peascod, the other, more recent pieces by Avital Sheffer, present contrasting but complementary views on the art and craft of pottery across ages. In this episode, we hear from the curator, Professor Pedram Khosronejad about the exhibitions, and also speak with gallery director Dr Jane Kreis about...

In his first solo exhibition at NERAM, outsider artist Lae Oldmeadow presents The Garden, a contemplative and tactile installation where nature and culture intertwine. In this episode, NERAM guest curator Professor Pedram Khosronejad (Western Sydney University) interrogates the artist about his history and his inspiration, along with the small interventions that made significant impacts on the art...

ART DECO celebrates 100 years. The enduring 20th century's art movement is recognised as transformative, but what really makes it so special? In this episode, author, collector and all round creative Claudia Chan Shaw speaks with Tim Stackpool about the history of Art Deco, and how its influence is still being felt today. More information about Claudia Chan Shaw : https://claudiachanshaw.com/ A tr...

Sydney Contemporary returns to Carriageworks from 11 to 14 September this year for its biggest edition yet. Presented across distinct sectors and accompanied by a dynamic public program, there are four days of bold gallery presentations, large-scale installations, experimental live performances, thought-provoking panel discussions and of course: champagne! New this year, Photo Sydney premieres at...

How does a freelance curator undertake their work in Australia, and what opportunities are really presented? Does it take a special entrepreneurial spirit? In this episode, we hear an open and frank perspective from independent curator Michelle Chanique about the challenges and benefits of working in the arts, without being tied to any particular institution. Michelle's art precinct tours (Curated...

From the early performances of the 1970s, to the hugely popular suspended stone circles, to the installations that incorporate a sense of theatre, Ken Unsworth continues to offer a disturbing and uncompromising view of our shared humanity. In this episode of the podcast, we speak with Macquarie University senior gallery curator Rhonda Davis, and exhibition curator Brad Buckley about the installati...

Nelson Nghe is a Western Sydney-based artist engaging with a diverse range of media including painting, photo media and assemblage. His practice is characterised by the passionate use of mixed media and playful abstractions to push boundaries and highlight the living experience of gambling harm as an affected other.  His exhibition LOSSES DISGUISED AS WINS at Firstdraft in Sydney, illuminates the...

Measuring Australia’s creative world ranking. An educational futurist and passionate arts educator, Professor Dr Anne Bamford OBE is Director of the International Research Agency, and President of the Education Inspiring Peace Laboratory, and was the former Strategic Education, Skills and Culture Director for the City of London. In this episode: After 2 decades abroad Dr Bamford has returned to Au...

Sydney commercial gallery COMA makes a big move, relocating to a bigger single venue, featuring an enormous exhibition space, viewing rooms across two levels, and onsite storage. This episode features COMA founder Sotiris Sotiriou speaking about the motivation behind the move, the gallery’s vision for the future, and about choosing Justin Williams for the new space’s inaugural show , titled WAITIN...

LON Gallery in Melbourne began as a project space in 2016 based on a non-profit model that primarily supported emerging artists. The gallery established it's formal program in 2019, which provided the opportunity to work with a select number of artists in depth and to foster the critical development of their practices. At Sydney Contemporary in 2024,  LON gallerist Adam Stone devoted their stand e...

"I'm a black woman in the world. Every day when I step outside of my door, I can't be invisible."  From Tate Modern to the National Gallery of Victoria, Atong Atem has captured the eye of curators, critics and collectors alike as an artist who creates beautifully crafted images that explore family, migration and her South Sudanese heritage. Her work explores the inherent intimacy of portraiture an...

"I didn't know being a slut could be a form of art" Sexuality and gender diversity are not unusual to find within the nature of any artist's work, but perhaps being a result of direct sexual practice is somewhat surprising. Emil Canita was exhibited by MARS Gallery in Melbourne earlier this year, and then later reached a broader audience at Sydney Contemporary. As a trans Filipino sex worker and a...

Painting exclusively together for many decades, Grace Crowley & Ralph Balson ’s dynamic exchange extended and challenged both artists. They respectively produced some of the earliest and most important works of abstract art in the country. Their collaborative approach to painting – the sharing of ideas, techniques and materials – resulted in two significant bodies of work that broke new ground...

MultiFutures imagines potential worlds of tomorrow through the lens of cultural and linguistically diverse International and Australian artists. The exhibition addresses the importance of diversity in the creation of imaginary and real-world futures based on lived experiences of First Nations and CaLD communities. Featuring multimedia artistic practices informed by AfroFuturism, Indigenous Futuris...

During his forty-year career, master lithographer Fred Genis (1934 – 2022) worked in the United States, Europe, and Australia, collaborating with leading artists from around the world. His working life spanned monumental eras in the 20th Century art including the American Abstract Expressionist movement of 1960s and 70s New York. The Grafton Regional Gallery presents a major retrospective exhibiti...

EXPRESS EDITION. Archie Moore’s kith and kin has opened at the Venice Biennale. Curated by Ellie Buttrose, the work reflects on the nature and strength of First Nations Australian kinship that spans more than 65,000 years, and incorporates the land, water and all living things. Drawing on Archie's Kamilaroi, Bigambul, British and Scottish heritage, the installation embodies his enduring exploratio...

Donna Marcus , a multidisciplinary artist, discusses her artistic background and her use of kitchenware and cooking pots in her work. In conversation with curator Professor Pedram Khosronejad , she explains how she became fascinated with aluminum objects, particularly lightweight aluminum objects, and the stories and narratives they hold. Covering her public artworks and how they inform her studio...

When the drive to create takes a turn and propels the artistic compulsion into another direction. This episode features US based actor and now designer Darren Burrows revealing his inspiration, his history, and the balance between performance, life, and the art of design . Discussing the phenomenon of an artist known for one talent, but now channelling that creative ability into a different but eq...

Drawn from a partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and loans from the National Gallery of Australia and private lenders across the country, Emerging from Darkness: Faith, Emotion and The Body in the Baroque brings together some of the most important European works in Australia for the first time. Also exploring the few women artists of the period, NGV curator Laurie Benson discus...

"It began as a vague sense of unease, unconnected to anything in particular. Ordinary objects of the built environment began to take on a threatening demeanour, looming over the bright and baking streets." Created by artists Heidi Axelsen and Hugo Moline,  The Dance of the Remediators at The Lock Up in Newcastle is an archive of a possible future; a materialised dream sequence of people being call...

2024 marks 150 years since the birth of Impressionism, the movement that revolutionised art. During the 1860s, a group of artists, nicknamed “the Batignolles group”, regularly met at the Café Guerbois in Paris. Deviating from the academic style, these artists, which were all refused at the Salon de Paris, decided to create their own exhibition in the spring of 1874 at the studio of their photograp...

The Art Gallery of Western Australia and SPACED present  Rural Utopias  at The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) from 25 November 2023. Rural Utopias features new works by 10 artists from across Australia, developed over a series of residencies in rural and remote Western Australia, in dialogue with selected objects from AGWA’s $361 million State Art Collection. In collaboration with their h...

We’re invited, by the Australian Museum to transport ourselves back 3,300 years, across the sands of the Sahara Desert to reach the heartbeat of ancient Egypt ruled by the most celebrated pharaoh in the country's storied history. This is the opportunity to experience one of the greatest collections of its kind, in an Australian-first exhibition, Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs . This all-new...

Sangeeta Sandrasegar ’s art practice is centred on hybridity theories, and explores her life in Australia as an artist of Malaysian, Indian and Australian heritage, and the relationship between migrant communities and homelands. Her practice, including her highly regarded work with paper cutouts, has engaged with shadows as an ephemeral motif symbolising the movement of cultures and people. Recent...