ON ART

Brisbane-born, Melbourne-based painter Anne Wallace joins Samstag curator Anna Zagala in conversation. The former Samstag scholar (1994) and subject of a major survey exhibition discusses her practice, how she thinks through her ideas, when she knows a painting is finished, and how painting has changed for her across three decades of making. Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art...

Artist and filmmaker Amos Gebhardt speaks with Naarm/Melbourne based writer Adolfo Aranjuez. They delve into Amos's expansive new moving image installation currently showing at Samstag, Small acts of resistance. Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia’s leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum The ON ART Po...

In 1996, South Australian artist Angela Valamanesh travelled to Glasgow, Scotland on a Samstag scholarship. Angela joins curator Anna Zagala to discuss her year abroad, what it taught her, and how it set the course for future work. Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstag...

Join South Australian artist Kirsten Coelho and Samstag curator Joanna Kitto as they discuss working with porcelain, the significance of the ‘ruin’, and Homer’s —the Ancient Greek text that inspired her most recent body of work,.Odyssey Ithaca Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.ed...

Kaula Lumpur-based art critic Lee Weng Choy joins Samstag curator Joanna Kitto for a conversation around art and life. They discuss missing the experience of viewing art in person, what we’re consuming, and how the present moment is making us commit to empathy. This podcast was recorded in part on Zoom and in part by Denam Moore at Solstice Podcasting, Tarntanya/Adelaide in June 2020. See omnystud...

Pittsburgh-based Samstag scholar Georgia Saxelby joins Samstag curator Anna Zagala to discuss her experience of applying to study at Carnegie Mellon in the USA, strategies for selecting a school, what it takes to get in and why she can’t wait to get back. Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more,...

Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Zoë Croggon speaks with Samstag curator Gillian Brown about her body of collage works in Samstag’s ‘Effect in three movements’. They discuss Zoë’s interest in movement and architecture, and the heightened relevance in thinking about how we occupy domestic space at a time when we’ve all been forced to do so. Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Sams...

In 'Hold Me', audiences listen in on a frustrated phone conversation between Adelaide-based artist Brad Darkson and a Centrelink worker trying to unravel the ramifications of a robo-debt, interspersed by the relentless sound of the hold music. While we're all working from home due to COVID-19, Samstag curator Gillian Brown discusses this eerily prescient work with Darkson, over the phone. Bold, cr...

Did you know that architect John Wardle designed the Samstag Museum of Art, working closely with Director Erica Green? Today on the ON ART Podcast, they discuss this process, as well as — the intriguing timber structure developed by John Wardle Architects in collaboration with artist Natasha Johns-Messenger that was Australia's contribution to the 2018 International Architecture Biennale in Venice...

Belgian artist David Claerbout sits down with UniSA's Rachel Hurst to discuss his monumental moving-image work '.Olympia (the real-time disintegration into ruins of the Berlin Olympic stadium over the course of a thousand years)' Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmu...

In our first episode for 2020, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Helen Grogan speaks with Samstag curator Gillian Brown about her work in the exhibition '.Effect in three movements' Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum . Recorded by Denam Moore at the Samstag Museum...

Naarm/Melbourne-based artist James Nguyen joins Samstag curator Anna Zagala in the studio to discuss his experience as a Samstag scholar at UnionDocs, New York on a one year fellowship in 2015, and how the lab environment subsequently shaped his practice and methodology. Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art mus...

In this episode, Samstag curator Gillian Brown speaks with artist Fiona Tan about her filmic work ', tracing imagery of Mount Fuji, Japan over the course of 150 years. Gillian was in Tarntanya/Adelaide in front of a live audience, Fiona was at home in Amsterdam. Ascent' Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art muse...

South Australian artist Louise Haselton makes sculptural works using materials gleaned from the world around her, fascinated by the push/pull between function and aesthetic. In this episode, Ken Bolton and Monte Masi respond to Haselton’s practice through poetry and performance. Later, Samstag curator Gillian Brown chats with Louise amongst her exhibition, .like cures like Bold, creative and respo...

Poetry, stories and letters from the Unbound Collective – artists, activists and academics Ali Gumillya Baker (Mirning), Faye Rosas Blanch (Mbararam/Yidinyji), Natalie Harkin (Narungga) and Simone Ulalka Tur (Yankunytjatjara). They are joined by Kaurna Elder and scholar, Uncle Lewis Yarluburka O’Brien with an introduction by Samstag curator Joanna Kitto. Bold, creative and responsive to contempora...

Aotearoa/New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana sits down with Samstag curator Gillian Brown to discuss her moving image work ' a re-imagining of the French scenic wallpaper ' depictingCaptain Cook's arrival on the Pacific Islands.in Pursuit of Venus [infected]',Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique' Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading...