What are you looking at?

Guest producer Sarah Mashman interviews two Tasmanian artists with two different experiences in France, as Covid 19 changes everything. Interviews with Megan Walch and Camille Antoine. Episode mixdown by Brendan Walls. What are you looking at? is produced by Pip Stafford and Lisa Campbell-Smith for Contemporary Art Tasmania

In this episode of What are you looking at? we talk to Reserved for Healing artist Michelle Maynard and Head of Indigenous Engagement and Strategy at MAAS, Marcus Hughes about cultural and artistic practice and the non-linear path of healing. Reserved for Healing was an exhibition at Contemporary Art Tasmania exploring intergenerational knowledge and cultural exchange in Lutruwita/Tasmania, featur...

Jim Everett puralia meenamatta is an artist, playright, poet and Tasmanian Aboriginal Elder from Cape Barren Island. Following on from our interview with Ruth Langford (S05E02) we chat to Jim about his vision for 2020 and beyond.

In the process of developing her Shotgun 7 exhibition, Increase Productivity, Grace Herbert had a few adventures. Fortunately we interviewed her along the way and got all the goss on Georgian millionaires, moving trees and art works lost at sea. This episode was produced and edited by Pip Stafford, hosted by Lisa Campbell Smith. Audio mix by Brendan Walls. Special thanks to Grace Herbert, Linda De...

Lisa Campbell-Smith talks to Ruth Langford about the legacy of her childhood and how that has lead to her work as Creative Director of Nayri Niara Good Spirit Festival and Creative Producer of walantanalinany palingina.

In our first episode for season 5 celebrated Australian artist, Louisa Bufardeci tells us about her background as an artist and how her 2012 LED installation Ethnicities to Nations came to be. Bufardeci discusses how the role of data and coding systems have informed her practice. The artwork Ethnicities to Nations is part of the group exhibition, Unspoken Rule which presents work by Australian and...

Our final episode for 2018 is also the second episode of our "Stories from the Inside" sub-series. Our original cal-out for this series was intended to be a snappy single episode of stories from arts workers and artists about their work and careers. Instead we received some personal, thoughtful interviews that deserved their own episodes. In this episode we hear from artist and lecturer...

This episode is the first of our sub-series "Stories from the Inside" - an intimate look at the lives and concerns of artists and arts workers. When we went looking for stories, we were expecting easy soundbites that could be turned into one snappy episode, but what we got instead were personal, interesting interviews that deserved their own space. In this episode we speak with Tasmanian...

Beyond the Field (still) presented the work of seventeen artists across two venues — Moonah Arts Centre and Contemporary Art Tasmania. Curated by Anne Mestitz, the intention was to explore the work of contemporary artists whose practices sit in a similar genre to the 1968, NGV exhibition, The Field. Exploring the variety of experiences that artists draw from, Beyond the Field (Still) asks: what in...

This June, James Newitt's exhibition Delay will open at Contemporary Art Tasmania for Dark Mofo 2018.  Delay, a complex installation, will revolve around a film titled I Go Further Under, which is in part inspired by the true story of Jane Cooper. In 1971, at 17 years of age Jane Cooper arrived in Hobart from Melbourne and asked local fishermen to take her to a remote island off the southern c...

In this episode we talk to Penelope Benton and Brianna Munting of NAVA, Channon Goodwin of Bus Projects and All Conference and Grace Herbert of Visual Bulk, Constance ARI and Hobiennale about labour and volunteerism in the arts.

In this episode we talk to artists who use text as part of their practice: Jude Abell, Justy Phillips, Sarah Jones and Tricky Walsh about art and writing. We ask them simple questions in an attempt to understand the juncture of art and writing, and art as writing: Are reviews an essential part of being a professional artist? Does writing work to open up or narrow down an art practice? How is text...

Antipodean artists traditionally head to the large, blockbuster art exhibitions in Europe to experience the zeitgeist of contemporary art at least once in a lifetime. In 2017 "the Big Three" — Documenta, Skulptur Projekte Münster, and the Venice Biennale — are in rare alignment and it seems many Tasmanian artists are taking the opportunity to check them out all at once. Our lucky host, T...

What are you looking at? host, Theia Connell, talks to Accident & Process artist Derek Kreckler, and curator, Hannah Matthews, about the key ideas behind this major exhibition. A PICA touring exhibition, Accident & Process is a survey exhibition bringing together, for the first time, five decades of the artist’s oeuvre. It encompasses photography, video, installation and performance docume...

Artist to Artist was a suite of four solo exhibitions curated by four artist’s presented in ‘rapid fire’ succession across four consecutive Fridays at Contemporary Art Tasmania in 2016. Project curator Kylie Johnson brought together four artist/curator teams: Paul Zika and Jacob Leary, Peter Waller and Micheala Gleave, Amanda Davies and Pat Brassington, Megan Walch and Justene Williams. In this ep...

Art works made for festivals have to be pretty attention-grabbing to rise above the general clamour of sound, food, booze and big audiences. Does this mean that these art works have to be big, bright, loud and spectacular or is there room for quieter, more contemplative work at these events? We speak to Dark Mofo Creative Director Leigh Carmichael, artist Michaela Gleave, and artist, producer and...

Sustaining an art career can be a minefield of administration and opportunities. How do you know what to do? What does professional development mean? Where do you do it? What Are You Looking At host Theia Connell talks to Wendy Morrow, Kylie Johnson, Liam James and Nadege Philippe-Janon to get some answers to these questions.

We all know that art gets bought and sold. And we know that some artists make art that is not so easily bought and sold. So who are the artists, gallerists and collectors in the mix and what do they have to say about the industry that they exist in? Download or stream our most recent episode to find out more. This episode features Emma Bett, Lucy Bleach, Peter Fay, Tom O'Hern and Tricky Walsh.

The second episode of What are you looking at? uses Contemporary Art Tasmania's Envelop(e) exhibition to explore the medium of sound. Host, Briony Kidd, asks "what is sound art?" and "how is it different from music?" This episode features interviews with envelop(e) curator, Dr Matt Warren, envelop(e) artist Julian Day and Hobart-based artist Mish Meijers, and sounds from en...

The first episode of What are you looking at?, The Gap, follows on from our successful art and feminism symposium series and specifically focuses on the pathways for women artists through the art institution. What are you looking at? Episode 1 features words from Take 2: Conversations on Art and Feminism speakers, Jackie Dunn and Elvis Richardson, co-convenor Mary Scott and interviews with artists...