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Visual artists tell you why and how they create! From studio visits, intimate interviews, and live issues, we take art out of the gallery and into your ears.

13 JAN

The Art Show

Great conversations with visual artists, gallery and museum directors and curators.

54 min
6 JAN

Topher Campbell bares his body and soul at the Tate Modern and curator Kim Moulton on an unearthed boomerang as inspiration for a major exhibition

UK interdisciplinary artist Topher Campbell opens up his Ruckus Heart…a powerful and immersive multi-room exhibition at the Tate Modern earlier this year. Curator Kimberley Moulton shares how a child’s boomerang led her to discover what was essentially a human zoo, ultimately informing her curatorial vision for the Tarrawarra Biennial - We Are Eagles. And Julie Fragar on her 2025 Archibald Prize-winning work, Flagship Mother Multiverse (Justene), and her relationship with its subject, Brisbane artist Justene Williams.

54 min
30/12/2025

The Art Show

Great conversations with visual artists, gallery and museum directors and curators.

54 min
23/12/2025

The Art Show

Great conversations with visual artists, gallery and museum directors and curators.

54 min
16/12/2025

CJ Hendry and Ricky Swallow: two of Australia's biggest arts exports on ambition and success, plus Latai Taumoepeau's live art as protest

Three artists in their prime talk to The Art Show... CJ Hendry specialises in hyper-real paintings, but she’s just as comfortable with the art of the spectacle as she is creating the art itself - her recent showcase exhibition in NY got shut down because it drew too many people. Fellow expat Ricky Swallow has been taking LA by storm with his striking bronze sculptures, but is returning home for his first foray into public art. And Sydney-based Pasifika artist Latai Taumoepeau's monumental work is a vital call to action on climate change.

54 min
09/12/2025

Public hands and climate change: Nell, Mike Hewson, and Olafur Eliasson

Nell, who has a major retrospective at Heide Museum, speaks to Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran about ghost motifs, smiling poop, and how collaborative projects have changed her perspective on art. The Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson speaks to Rosa Ellen about a project he undertook to document the glaciers and glacial rivers of Iceland over two decades. You can see Presence, a major collection of his work, at GOMA in Brisbane. And Mike Hewson explains how he came to create playgrounds, saunas and barbecues as part of his art practice and how he become comfortable with the public clambering all over his work. Mike's latest exhibition, The Key's Under the Mat, is on at the AGNSW.

54 min
02/12/2025

Dangerously Modern Ep 3: Dorrit Black

In episode 3 of the series Dangerously Modern, we're following the journey of the magnificent Dorrit Black. Dorrit arrived in London in 1927 and embraced modernism in the new medium of lino cut printmaking. She went on to start her own Modern Art Centre in Sydney in the 1930s and inspired the next generation of artists. But professional rivalry and her status as an ‘unmarried daughter’ would challenge her autonomy and legacy. Produced and presented by Rosa Ellen and commissioned by the Art Gallery of South Australia. After a season at AGSA, the exhibition of Dangerously Modern is on at the Art Gallery of NSW until February 16, 2026.

25 min
25/11/2025

Dangerously Modern Ep 2: Stella Bowen

In episode 2 of the series Dangerously Modern we follow the painter Stella Bowen, who left Adelaide for Europe and was part of a storied avant-garde art scene in Paris in the 1920s. Overseas, a young Stella met the writer Ford Maddox Ford, a relationship that sparked her intellectually but ultimately sabotaged her own career. It wasn't until she struck out on her own as a single mother, that Stella painted her most compelling work and achieved a fragile success. Produced and presented by Rosa Ellen and commissioned by the Art Gallery of South Australia.

26 min

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Visual artists tell you why and how they create! From studio visits, intimate interviews, and live issues, we take art out of the gallery and into your ears.