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Tyler Jackson Chappell
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Uncovering creative archetypes; is there any one blueprint or heaps? Chatting with creatives from all different fields, exploring creative processes and finding what it means to live a creative life. Not as much about advice as permission to get out there and make something (though there is plenty of great advice too). Hosted by Tyler Jackson Chappell

  1. Oct 14

    Ida Sophia - Performance Artist, Sculptor, Educator

    Ida Sophia is an artist currently based between Adelaide and Berlin. Working in sculpture, durational performance, and video, her practice is rooted in autobiographical entry points. Using conceptual materials, ritual and time, she explores themes of regret, longing, forgiveness and the complexity of connection. Ida Sophia’s works employ beauty and sensory elements as a kind of lure, inducing audiences to linger in discomfort, reflection, or revelation in order to elicit physiological and emotional responses. Though secular in intent, her aesthetic draws from religious material culture, creating works that feel both sacred and subversive. Interested in how interpersonal dynamics and unspoken experiences are carried by the body and played out in society, Ida Sophia interrogates how art can become a site for acknowledging and transforming conditioned experience. Completing her BVA at Adelaide Central School of Art in 2022, Ida Sophia went on to win the prestigious Ramsay Art Prize in 2023 for her video work Witness (2022). Ida has exhibited both locally and internationally, notably: SAMSTAG museum of art, Dark MOFO MONA Museum, Bardo Projekt Raum, Scope BLN, The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) and Performance Space Carriageworks. Recorded on Karuna Yerta Links: Ida Sophia’s website https://www.idasophia.art/ Ida Sophia’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/idasophia_artist/ Ida’s work in Bulgaria https://www.idasophia.art/portfolio/separation-transition-incorporation Patience & Penitentia https://www.idasophia.art/portfolio/patienceandpenitentia Vitalstatistix https://vitalstatistix.com.au/ Witness https://www.idasophia.art/portfolio/witness Ida Sophia on Substack https://substack.com/@atelieridasophia

    Ida Sophia - Performance Artist, Sculptor, Educator

  2. Sep 30

    Alex Sawyer - Author

    Alex Sawyer is an author living in the Adelaide foothills, Kaurna Yerta. His debut novel, Rat Daniels, won the 2023 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. Alex is a clinical psychologist by trade (not a firefighter, despite what the internet may say). Hosted by Tyler Jackson Chappell Recorded on Ngarrindjeri/ Ramindjeri land on the Fleurieu Peninsula. Links: Rat Daniels by Alex Sawyer https://www.hachette.com.au/alex-sawyer/rat-daniels Alex Sawyer Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alexsawyerwriting/

    Alex Sawyer - Author

  3. Sep 14

    Mickey Mason - Painter

    Intergalactic-birdwatching-paradise-cowboy Mickey Mason is doing big things. Painting the world through his cosmic desert/ tropical beach lens of the world. His cold shed is the womb from which beauty and colour and sharks burst forth. Recorded on Ngarrindjeri/ Ramindjeri land on the Fleurieu Peninsula. Links: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mickeymasonpaint/ Mickey at Brunswick Street Gallery https://brunswickstreetgallery.com.au/blogs/artists/mickey-mason Mickey at 19Karen https://www.19karen.com.au/artists/mickey-mason/ Mickey at Maunsell Wickes https://maunsellwickes.com/artists/mickey-mason/ Mickey Mason x Volcom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxRdYf9H_Sk

    Mickey Mason - Painter

  4. Aug 31

    LIVE ARTIST TALK - Jane Smeets & Ben Saunders - Mixed Media Artists

    Something a bit different! I was lucky enough to be invited to Artworx Gallery in Goolwa during their SALA exhibition ’Blue Interpreted’. I sat down with Jane Smeets and Ben Saunders for a wonderful chat in front of a live audience. Jane Smeets’ previous role as an arts psychotherapist in palliative services has a significant influence on her art practice. Working with people facing end of life has raised her awareness of caring for life and the natural world. Jane’s large-scale mixed media paintings of birdlife and kangaroos invite the viewer to cultivate wonder and appreciation for the natural world. Ben Saunders is an award-winning contemporary Australian artist based in Adelaide, South Australia, known for creating atmospheric, textural landscape paintings that sit at the intersection of fine art and modern interior design. His work combines layered textures, earthy palettes, and sculptural surfaces to produce bold, statement artworks that anchor a room and evoke the quiet drama of the natural world. This conversation was recorded on Ngarrindjeri land. Links: Jane Smeets’ website https://www.janesmeetsart.com/ Jane’s instagram https://www.instagram.com/jane_smeets/ Ben Saunders’ website https://www.bensaundersartist.com/ Ben’s instagram https://www.instagram.com/bensaundersartist Artworx Gallery and Gifts https://www.artworxgallery.com.au/

    LIVE ARTIST TALK - Jane Smeets & Ben Saunders - Mixed Media Artists

  5. Aug 14

    Millie Bird - Potter & Artist

    Bio: Millie Bird is a Goolwa-based potter (she prefers that to ceramic artist) working under the creative name Chicky Ceramics. Millie's pots tend to talk about the sea, mortality, the human condition, buildings, and vintage cars, among other things. They often show the interdependence between beauty and sorrow, pain and elegance, death and what it means to be alive. Recorded on Ngarrindjeri land on the Fleurieu Peninsula. Links: Chick Ceramics https://chickyceramics.com/ Chick Ceramics Instagram https://www.instagram.com/chicky.ceramics/?hl=en Chick Ceramics Shop https://chickyceramics.com/collections/shop-all Gerry Wedd https://www.instagram.com/gerrywedd/?hl=en Joseph Boas https://www.instagram.com/josephboas_ceramics/ Goodbank Gallery https://www.instagram.com/goodbankgallery/?hl=en Chilli Octopus https://www.instagram.com/chillioctopus/?hl=en Chantell Murphy https://ilukastudio.com.au

    Millie Bird - Potter & Artist

  6. Jul 31

    Amanda Westley - Indigenous Artist

    Amanda Westley is a Ngarrindjeri woman and artist, born in Victor Harbor, South Australia in 1985. Her totems are the whale, pelican and black swan. Growing up she experienced the best of both worlds living the farm life 12kms out of the coastal country town of Victor Harbor. Her father was a boat builder so the water and the ocean have always been a big part of her life. Amanda’s painting style is dot work and the bright colours from my coastal country hometown and the ocean are represented through her paintings. She has been painting from a very young age and her style is contemporary Aboriginal dot art, having always enjoyed painting and the calm that it brought. Her paintings represent country; for Aboriginal people land has a spiritual and cultural connection and is so important to identity and way of life. With her painting she has used a combination of pinks, yellows, blues, greens and oranges to represent how she sees her Ngarrindjeri country. Amanda’s family is one of the oldest Aboriginal families on the south coast; the land she calls home has been a part of her family for a very long time, and by creating these paintings she acknowledges the important connection her family has with this land. Recorded on Ngarrindjeri/ Ramindjeri Land Links: Amanda’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/amandaindigenousartist/ Amanda at Artworx Gallery - https://www.artworxgallery.com.au/artworx-artists/amanda-westley Art Images Gallery - https://artimagesgallery.com.au/collections/amanda-westley Japingka Gallery https://japingkaaboriginalart.com/articles/amanda-westley-the-painting-of-all-of-me/ Coe Gallery https://coegallery.com/collections/amanda-westley Creative Mob Project https://www.instagram.com/creativemobproject/ “NAIDOC WEEK: Ngarrindjeri woman Amanda Westley reflects on her art being gifted to the pope” - ABC https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/adelaide-mornings/amanda-westley/106892860

    Amanda Westley - Indigenous Artist

  7. Jul 14

    Farrin Foster - Writer, Editor & Occasional Filmmaker

    Farrin Foster is an editor, writer, and occasional film-maker. She is currently the founding editor of Splinter literary journal, and was previously the editor of independent masthead CityMag. Farrin has worked extensively as a journalist and a writer and has been published by titles like the Guardian, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, and The Big Issue. Hosted by Tyler Jackson Chappell Recorded on Ngarrindjeri/ Ramindjeri land on the Fleurieu Peninsula. Links: Splinter Journal https://splinterjournal.com/ Farrin Foster https://farrinfoster.com/ Tyrone Ormsby https://tyroneormsby.com/ Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcom https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1989/03/13/the-journalist-and-the-murderer-i Ballkids on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/au/title/82635442 CityMag https://www.indailysa.com.au/citymag Writers SA https://writerssa.org.au/ Authors ditch University of Queensland Press after Indigenous kids book pulled for 'anti-Semitism' of illustrator https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-23/authors-quit-university-of-queensland-press-jazz-money-matt-chun/106596326 Why MasterChef is a Masterclass in Australian Propaganda by Farrin Foster https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/why-masterchef-is-a-masterclass-in-australian-propaganda/ Amra Pajalic https://www.amrapajalic.com/ Ellena Savage https://ellenasavage.com/ Sick Note by Olivia De Zilva https://www.pinkshortspress.com.au/books/p/sick-note?srsltid=AfmBOorCLw98ZnLcPpoDxtRZ5GkB7UsHpW3A-mdqJIMRBCKOBxEauWoK Rat Daniels by Alex Sawyer https://www.hachette.com.au/alex-sawyer/rat-daniels How to Emerge by Jill Jones https://vagabondpress.net/products/jill-jones-how-to-emerge

    Farrin Foster - Writer, Editor & Occasional Filmmaker

  8. Jun 30

    Tom Ling - Photographer & Educator

    Tom Ling is a South Australian based photographer, educator, documentor of space and time and conversational wizard. A profoundly deep thinker, every question I asked him about his work resulted in a cornucopia of insights about the creative practice. Tom boasts an extensive list of clients and collaborators and he was just last year, recognised as a finalist in the Bowness Photography Prize, Australia’s richest photography prize, with the work exhibited at the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh). Tom is someone who has very intentionally made decisions to lead a prolific and rewarding creative life; an example of all the things this show is about. Recorded on Ngarrindjeri/ Ramindjeri land on the Fleurieu Peninsula. Links: Website https://thomasling.com.au/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/_brotherfish/ https://www.instagram.com/tomling.jpg/ Hart Avenue https://thomasling.com.au/Hart-Avenue-Exhibition Carpark Stories https://thomasling.com.au/Carpark-Stories-Book-Exhibition Museum of Australian Photography https://maph.org.au/artists/934/ Ailish Ling on the podcast https://rss.com/podcasts/heaps-creative/2774287

    Tom Ling - Photographer & Educator
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Uncovering creative archetypes; is there any one blueprint or heaps? Chatting with creatives from all different fields, exploring creative processes and finding what it means to live a creative life. Not as much about advice as permission to get out there and make something (though there is plenty of great advice too). Hosted by Tyler Jackson Chappell

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  • Creator
    Tyler Jackson Chappell
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Tyler Jackson Chappell
  • Show Website
    Heaps Creative