Talking NeoTeric Bianca Acimovic Arts

Meeting on the lands of the Taribelang Bunda, Gurang, Gooreng Gooreng and Bailai people in the regional coastal community of Bargara, Bianca Acimovic sits down with Ariella Anderson in the studio of Malki Studio, a contemporary jewellery company specialising in unique, handmade, and culturally intersectional jewellery and art objects.

From the studio in Bargara the conversation highlights the power of art in migration and assimilation.

The practices of Malki become a precious moment; for when words are not enough, art becomes the language, breaking down cultural barriers.

Traveling to Barunggam lands, the Western Downs town of Dalby.

Recently relocated from the Capricorn coast, Bianca sits down with Michelle in a 1930’s Queenslander for a conversation that explores what it was like to live and work along the Capricorn coast and what it means to shift to the Western Downs.

With a practice that makes directly with and from the environment, ocean waters and river soils, place is an important part of Michelle’s practice.

Michelle shares her experience of Yeppoon and Rockhampton and what she is looking forward to in Dalby.

Travelling to lands of the Taribelang Bunda, Gurang, Gooreng Gooreng, and Bailai people to the regional centre of Gladstone, Bianca Acimovic meets with William Debois.

A photographer who prioritises community-driven projects, the conversation with William explores storytelling with and of regional communities.

Through recent and current creative projects, lessons of humility and community-driven outcomes are discussed.

On Gubbi Gubbi lands, Bianca Acimovic sits down with contemporary abstract landscape painter Kym Barrett.

With decades since they last sat down together, the conversation looks at Kym’s practice and studio, centered to the regional area of Chatsworth.

Through the site of Kym’s studio, the conversation delves into the natural environment and its influences to become a part of people, become a part of creative practice.

Through place, Kym speaks to the safety net of regional communities as a shelter, a place of refuge, and a place of reflection.

Speaking from the coastal town of Elliott Heads on the lands of the Taribelang Bunda, Gurang, Gooreng Gooreng and Bailai people, Bianca Acimovic meets with Adrienne Williams.

The conversation tracks the edges of climates, from environment to social and financial climate. We explore how to survive, sustain, and ideally prosper in the unknown of the future.

The conversation highlights that creative practice does not happen in isolation and that it is impacted and influenced by all facets of life and living.

Traveling to Gabinal and Jarowair Country, to the regional city of Toowoomba, Bianca Acimovic meets with Simon Mee, artist of the weird, curator of odd and sublime.

Speaking from Simon’s studio, surrounded by his curated collection that includes a rare collection of lamps and hand sewn domestic items, the conversation brings in 1980’s reference and explores following trends and breaking the mould, touching on popular culture and the cycle of popularism and fashion.