Behind the Art

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The Rockhampton Museum of Art takes you ‘behind the art’ in their in-depth conversations with artists and art professionals of high acclaim. In these engaging monthly episodes, discover enlivening insights about artists’ practise, community initiatives and the art world itself.

  1. 13 JAN

    Seinileva Huakau in Conversation with Melinda Mann

    Artist, Wendy Mocke, in conversation with Dr Melinda Mann, First Nations Art Officer at RMOA in 2025. Mocke's work is on display in State of the Art: Reimagining Queensland from 19 July - 12 October 2025. The exhibition is an introspective and memory-honouring consideration of Queensland. Showcasing Queensland artists, it contests and explores the idea of the State in all of its conceptual and geographical character. Artists blur borders to clarify the meaning of Queensland through stories about people and places before and since colonisation. This diverse assembly of Queensland artists remind us of who and where we come from, and explore where we are going. Featuring James Bourbon, Darren Blackman, Rachel Burke, Ruth Cho, Jamie Congdon, Ernest Garrett, Naomi Hobson, Seinileva Huakau, Tara Lewis, Noel McKenna, Wendy Mocke, Sally Molloy, Glen O’Malley, Teho Ropeyarn, Joel Sam, Clare Jaque Vasquez, Judy Watson, and Keemon Williams. Co-curated by Robert Connell, Ashla Doherty, Melinda Mann, Jonathan McBurnie, Tessa McIntosh and Emily Wakeling.

    50 min

  2. 13 JAN

    Wendy Mocke in Conversation with Melinda Mann

    Artist, Wendy Mocke, in conversation with Dr Melinda Mann, First Nations Art Officer at RMOA in 2025. Mocke's work is on display in State of the Art: Reimagining Queensland from 19 July - 12 October 2025. The exhibition is an introspective and memory-honouring consideration of Queensland. Showcasing Queensland artists, it contests and explores the idea of the State in all of its conceptual and geographical character. Artists blur borders to clarify the meaning of Queensland through stories about people and places before and since colonisation. This diverse assembly of Queensland artists remind us of who and where we come from, and explore where we are going. Featuring James Bourbon, Darren Blackman, Rachel Burke, Ruth Cho, Jamie Congdon, Ernest Garrett, Naomi Hobson, Seinileva Huakau, Tara Lewis, Noel McKenna, Wendy Mocke, Sally Molloy, Glen O’Malley, Teho Ropeyarn, Joel Sam, Clare Jaque Vasquez, Judy Watson, and Keemon Williams. Co-curated by Robert Connell, Ashla Doherty, Melinda Mann, Jonathan McBurnie, Tessa McIntosh and Emily Wakeling.

    22 min

  3. 17/10/2025

    Danish Quapoor in Conversation with Shanna Muston

    Artist, Danish Quapoor in conversation with Shanna Muston, Curator at RMOA in 2025. Quapoor's work is on display in desolate vessels exhibition on display 23 August 2025 - 26 January 2026. Danish Quapoor has memorialised suspended moments within the cyclical timeline of death, grief and regrowth. desolate vessels are devoid of physical contents, yet metaphorically filled with personal lamentations and broader considerations such as the climate crisis. Danish Quapoor is a visual artist based on Gurambilbarra/Townsville. His multidisciplinary practice is typically unified by repetitive processes and a flat-colour style in which stylised forms float amidst sparse compositions.

    24 min

  4. 17/10/2025

    Louise Lawrence in Conversation with Helen Kavanagh

    Artist in Residence, Louise Lawrence, in conversation with Helen Kavanagh. Learn more about Lawrence's four week residency at RMOA and how works from the Collection inspired new directions in her artistic practice. About Louise Lawrence Currently Lawrence resides in Mount Morgan on Ghungalu Country. Since encountering yellow fireclay on her property and its links to the historic gold mine brickworks she has been exploring the characteristics and varieties of local wild clay. It is with these clays that she creates sculptures and carved bowls which are bisque fired in her hand built wood fired kiln. She seeks to use sustainable methods for all her ceramic creations and prefers slip sgraffito decorations rather than glazes. Lawrence is passionate about supporting fellow artists and has recently organized the artist run school holiday workshop program for local school children in Mount Morgan. She frequently visits regional towns to engage new communities in pottery and supports local festivals and markets in collaboration with other local artists. Having taught Visual Arts at different high schools in Central Queensland she has recently ceased full time teaching to pursue art professionally and embrace home education for her youngest two children.

    24 min

  5. 18/07/2025

    Darren Blackman in conversation with Nickeema Williams

    Artist, Darren Blackman, in conversation with Nickeema Williams, First Nations Art Assistant at RMOA in 2025. Blackman's work is on display in State of the Art: Reimagining Queensland from 19 July - 12 October 2025. The exhibition is an introspective and memory-honouring consideration of Queensland. Showcasing Queensland artists, it contests and explores the idea of the State in all of its conceptual and geographical character. Artists blur borders to clarify the meaning of Queensland through stories about people and places before and since colonisation. This diverse assembly of Queensland artists remind us of who and where we come from, and explore where we are going. Featuring James Bourbon, Darren Blackman, Rachel Burke, Ruth Cho, Jamie Congdon, Ernest Garrett, Naomi Hobson, Seinileva Huakau, Tara Lewis, Noel McKenna, Wendy Mocke, Sally Molloy, Glen O’Malley, Teho Ropeyarn, Joel Sam, Clare Jaque Vasquez, Judy Watson, and Keemon Williams. Co-curated by Robert Connell, Ashla Doherty, Melinda Mann, Jonathan McBurnie, Tessa McIntosh and Emily Wakeling.

    45 min

  6. 18/07/2025

    Daniel Kielly-Davis, Kusangalala Mkoka and Melissa Mills

    Join Dr Melinda Mann, First Nations Art Officer at RMOA, for a conversation with writers Daniel Kielly-Davis, Kusangalala Mkoka and Melissa Mills. Learn about how these three Central Queensland-based creative writers were commissioned to write and perform a poem in respose to D Harding's artwork, ‘Wall Composition on Darumbal’ (25 February 2022 - 20 July 2025), and listen to them read their poetic works. Video documenting this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2fUTxYzAs4

    43 min

  7. 18/07/2025

    Remy Faint in conversation with Melinda Mann

    Artist, Remy Faint, in conversation with Dr Melinda Mann, First Nations Art Officer at RMOA. Faint's work is on display in Artists in CQ: Of the Region  from 5 April - 3 August 2025. The exhibition brings together the art practices of several artists, presenting a multi-disciplinary conversation about national identity and the acknowledgement of Asian cultures as an enduring component of Australian culture. Featuring work by Ping Carlyon, Jacky Chan, Remy Faint, Qing Huang, Hanbing Lu and Anitha Menon. Curated by Robert Connell and Emily Wakeling. About Remy Faint Sydney based artist Remy Faint explores global and personal histories through painting, assemblage and collage, expanding the idea of painting to create works that could also be considered objects. Faint’s European paternal family studied and worked in schools throughout Central Queensland, where visiting family is reflected on as a meaningful part of his life. Like many who came to this area seeking new possibilities, Faint’s maternal family immigrated to Australia from the Guangzhou province in China to the Victorian goldfields in 1878. Facing discrimination and economic challenges family decedents spread across Australia, such as working in Sydney markets, frequently trading produce with East Coast and Central Queensland vendors.

    32 min

  8. 18/07/2025

    Phoebe Paradise in conversation with Jonathan McBurnie

    Learn more about artist Phoebe Paradise in this conversation with Jonathan McBurnie. Phoebe delivered two workshops at RMOA during 2025 and her work, FORTRESS, was exhibited in Maximum Madness at RMOA in 2024. About Phoebe Paradise Phoebe Paradise is a multi-disciplinary artist, musician and designer based in Brisbane, Australia; specialising in illustration, murals and public art installations.  Phoebe’s practice explores the everyday poetics and visual identity of her hometown through surreal architectural renderings and suburban tableaus that border on speculative science fiction. Often playful and dripping with nostalgia, Phoebe’s body of work is hyper-niche, yet elicits a universal sense of belonging that has captured the imagination of her broad audience.

    37 min
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The Rockhampton Museum of Art takes you ‘behind the art’ in their in-depth conversations with artists and art professionals of high acclaim. In these engaging monthly episodes, discover enlivening insights about artists’ practise, community initiatives and the art world itself.

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  • Creator
    Rockhampton Museum of Art
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    87
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