SAM Talks

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SAM Talks is a podcast series presented by our exhibition and engagement staff, exploring contemporary topics and issues that connect us across Australia. Join the conversation at www.sheppartonartmuseum.com.au or @sam_shepparton on Instagram. 

  1. SAM Talks: Making 'Lament' with Kat Parker

    JAN 20

    SAM Talks: Making 'Lament' with Kat Parker

    What does it mean to create a memorial for animals we no longer share the world with? This episode of SAM Talks was recorded live at Shepparton Art Museum during Lament — A memorial of Australian extinction by emerging artist Kat Parker, SAM’s 2025 Spotlight Artist. In conversation with SAM Curator Caroline Esbenshade, Parker discusses her printmaking practice, her use of linocut and paper, and the research underpinning the exhibition, which focuses on extinct Australian animals. The discussion also covers her process, things she's learned along the way, and the development of both two-dimensional prints and her intricate layered paper sculptures featured in the exhibition. Stay in touch with SAM on socials: Instagram / www.instagram.com/sam_shepparton Facebook / www.facebook.com/sheppartonartmuseum Sign up to our monthly newsletter via Mailchimp Visit the SAM website to discover our exhibitions and programs: www.sheppartonartmuseum.com.au About SAM: Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is located on Yorta Yorta Country, Shepparton, Victoria. As a leading Australian regional art museum, SAM showcases its exhibitions and collections in new and exciting ways to create a welcoming, inclusive, and engaging space for all visitors. Recognised for its significant Australian ceramics collection and nationally significant collection of Indigenous art, SAM’s programming is designed to be locally relevant and engages with global contemporary ideas. Through its exhibitions, collection, programs and events, SAM creates a place where art helps us to better understand the ancient culture of this country and contemporary multicultural Australia.

    45 min
  2. SAM Talks: Anthea Kemp — Seeds of Connection

    11/04/2025

    SAM Talks: Anthea Kemp — Seeds of Connection

    What does it mean to paint the landscape — not as a view, but as a living, breathing network of care? In this episode, SAM Curator Caroline Esbenshade sits down with artist Anthea Kemp, recipient of the 2025 Theodore Urbach Landscape Painting Scholarship, to reflect on her time in Shepparton. From volunteering at the Euroa Arboretum and the Goulburn Broken Indigenous Seed Bank to transforming field observations into large-scale abstract paintings, Anthea shares how immersion, attention, and patience have reshaped her understanding of both art and conservation. Together, they explore the links between creativity and ecology — how care for the smallest seed can inspire new ways of seeing the world around us. Recorded live at Shepparton Art Museum, this conversation traces the delicate balance between artmaking, place, and the quiet power of connection. Hosted by Caroline Esbenshade Recorded live at Shepparton Art Museum Learn more about the Theodore Urbach Landscape Painting here. Stay in touch with SAM on socials: Instagram / www.instagram.com/sam_shepparton Facebook / www.facebook.com/sheppartonartmuseum Sign up to our monthly newsletter via Mailchimp Visit the SAM website to discover our exhibitions and programs: www.sheppartonartmuseum.com.au About SAM: Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is located on Yorta Yorta Country, Shepparton, Victoria. As a leading Australian regional art museum, SAM showcases its exhibitions and collections in new and exciting ways to create a welcoming, inclusive, and engaging space for all visitors. Recognised for its significant Australian ceramics collection and nationally significant collection of Indigenous art, SAM’s programming is designed to be locally relevant and engages with global contemporary ideas. Through its exhibitions, collection, programs and events, SAM creates a place where art helps us to better understand the ancient culture of this country and contemporary multicultural Australia.

    54 min
  3. SAM Talks: Inside the Art of Conservation

    10/15/2025

    SAM Talks: Inside the Art of Conservation

    What does it mean to preserve the past — and prepare it for the future? In this episode, SAM Exhibitions Manager Nick Baylart sits down with conservator Robyn Ho, founder of c/o Studios, to unpack the art and science of conservation. From repairing holes in century-old canvases to restoring intent, meaning, and cultural significance, Robyn shares her journey from architecture to art conservation and reveals how global partnerships and delicate micro-surgery techniques are helping safeguard artworks for generations to come. Recorded live at Shepparton Art Museum, this conversation offers a rare glimpse behind the scenes of a profession that bridges creativity, chemistry, and care. Stay in touch with SAM on socials: Instagram / www.instagram.com/sam_shepparton Facebook / www.facebook.com/sheppartonartmuseum Sign up to our monthly newsletter via Mailchimp Visit the SAM website to discover our exhibitions and programs: www.sheppartonartmuseum.com.au About SAM: Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is located on Yorta Yorta Country, Shepparton, Victoria. As a leading Australian regional art museum, SAM showcases its exhibitions and collections in new and exciting ways to create a welcoming, inclusive, and engaging space for all visitors. Recognised for its significant Australian ceramics collection and nationally significant collection of Indigenous art, SAM’s programming is designed to be locally relevant and engages with global contemporary ideas. Through its exhibitions, collection, programs and events, SAM creates a place where art helps us to better understand the ancient culture of this country and contemporary multicultural Australia.

    1h 6m

  4. 06/29/2025

    SAM Talks: Drawing a World in Flux with Locust Jones

    In this episode, artist Locust Jones joins SAM Artistic Director Danny Lacy for a thoughtful conversation about The Bird Agents — a monumental drawing made in response to the chaos of global politics and media. Together, they explore Jones’s evolving creative practice, how sound and news cycles fuel his work, and why drawing remains his most immediate way of processing a world in constant motion. The Bird Agents is a part of the SAM Collection and was recently on show for the first time in the exhibition The Shape of Things to Come.  Locust Jones (b. 1963, Christchurch, New Zealand) currently lives and works in the Blue Mountains, Australia.In 2010 Locust completed a Masters of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts (Sydney University) where earlier in 1993 he completed an undergraduate degree in Print Media.    Since graduating Locust has held over 25 solo exhibitions within Australia and internationally, including: Burn Freeze, David Krut Projects, New York (2014); Descent into the Mass Media Maelstrom, Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Berlin (2014); 24HR News Feed, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand (2013) and Some Mistakes were Perhaps Made, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW (2012)   Locust has participated in numerous museum exhibitions including: Art Gallery of South Australia, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. His work is held in major public collections including: Art Gallery of New South Wales; Art Gallery of South Australia; Artbank; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery; National Gallery of Victoria; Australian War Memorial; Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand; James Wallace Trust, Auckland, New Zealand; National Gallery of Australia; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery; Kunstwerk Museum; Collection of Peter W. and Alison Klein, Stuttgart, Germany and the Shepparton Art Museum. Stay in touch with SAM on socials: Instagram / www.instagram.com/sam_shepparton Facebook / www.facebook.com/sheppartonartmuseum Sign up to our monthly newsletter via Mailchimp Visit the SAM website to discover our exhibitions and programs: www.sheppartonartmuseum.com.au About SAM: Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is located on Yorta Yorta Country, Shepparton, Victoria. As a leading Australian regional art museum, SAM showcases its exhibitions and collections in new and exciting ways to create a welcoming, inclusive, and engaging space for all visitors. Recognised for its significant Australian ceramics collection and nationally significant collection of Indigenous art, SAM’s programming is designed to be locally relevant and engages with global contemporary ideas. Through its exhibitions, collection, programs and events, SAM creates a place where art helps us to better understand the ancient culture of this country and contemporary multicultural Australia.

    45 min

  5. 04/24/2025

    SAM Talks: Dore Stockhausen; on art and eden

    In this episode, join us for an insightful conversation between this year’s SAM Selects exhibitor, Dore Stockhausen, and SAM Curator, Caroline Esbenshade. Together, they explore Stockhausen’s formative years, her artistic evolution, and the creative inspirations that have shaped her journey. Delve into the compelling themes and stories behind her current exhibition, echoes of a new eden, now on view in our Community Gallery until 29 June 2025. Dore Stockhausen (b. 1966 Mainz, Germany) is a mid-career artist with a rich creative practice, having shifted her focus over the last decade from jewellery-making to painting. Originally from Germany, Stockhausen migrated to Australia in 1992 and now lives and works in Beechworth, Victoria. Stockhausen has exhibited regularly since the mid-90s, and her work is represented in regional and national collections including the National Gallery of Australia. Stay in touch with SAM on socials: Instagram / www.instagram.com/sam_shepparton Facebook / www.facebook.com/sheppartonartmuseum Sign up to our monthly newsletter via Mailchimp Visit the SAM website to discover our exhibitions and programs: www.sheppartonartmuseum.com.au About SAM: Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is located on Yorta Yorta Country, Shepparton, Victoria. As a leading Australian regional art museum, SAM showcases its exhibitions and collections in new and exciting ways to create a welcoming, inclusive, and engaging space for all visitors. Recognised for its significant Australian ceramics collection and nationally significant collection of Indigenous art, SAM’s programming is designed to be locally relevant and engages with global contemporary ideas. Through its exhibitions, collection, programs and events, SAM creates a place where art helps us to better understand the ancient culture of this country and contemporary multicultural Australia.

    41 min

  6. 02/11/2025

    SAM Talks: The Human Touch with Brendan Huntley

    In October 2024, multi-disciplinary artist Brendan Huntley joined SAM Communications Officer Mikela Guseli for a conversation exploring Huntley's diverse creative practice. Known best for his clay and painting practice, the conversation spans from Huntley's early DIY art exhibitions with his parents to fronting Melbourne-based punk band Eddy Suppression Ring, and how the act of creating has been a constant form of self-discovery and self-expression through the past two decades.  Brendan Huntley is a prolific artist who works across music, painting and sculpture. His work is currently on display at SAM in Ceramics in Focus, where he playfully references historic ceramic forms to explore the human psyche and what it means to be human, instilling each of his works with individual sensibilities. Huntley approaches his ceramic practice with a belief that the transformative process of sculpting and firing clay involves a transfer of energy, giving each sculpture its own personality. Stay in touch with SAM on socials: Instagram / www.instagram.com/sam_shepparton Facebook / www.facebook.com/sheppartonartmuseum Sign up to our monthly newsletter via Mailchimp Visit the SAM website to discover our exhibitions and programs: www.sheppartonartmuseum.com.au About SAM: Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is located on Yorta Yorta Country, Shepparton, Victoria. As a leading Australian regional art museum, SAM showcases its exhibitions and collections in new and exciting ways to create a welcoming, inclusive, and engaging space for all visitors. Recognised for its significant Australian ceramics collection and nationally significant collection of Indigenous art, SAM’s programming is designed to be locally relevant and engages with global contemporary ideas. Through its exhibitions, collection, programs and events, SAM creates a place where art helps us to better understand the ancient culture of this country and contemporary multicultural Australia.

    1h 9m

  7. 01/06/2025

    SAM Talks: Ellen Lee; reflections on the 2024 Urbach Prize

    Late last year, our 2024 Theodore Urbach Landscape Prize and Studio Scholarship recipient Ellen Lee joined SAM Curator Caroline Esbenshade to discuss Lee's three-month experience at SAM and the growth she experienced in her creative practice both during and since her time in the SAM Artist Studio. In addition to discussing Lee’s experience, Caroline Esbenshade introduces the Urbach 2025 program and information on how artists can apply for the prize and scholarship opportunity. Ellen Lee is an Australian artist who works from her home studio in regional Victoria. Working with watercolour, natural pigmentation and graphite, her experiences in nature and her surroundings provide an abundance of inspiration for her large scale works on paper. Derived from the mappings and collection of marks from blind contour studies and observations of the environment; Ellen’s works centre around an exploration into the changes occurring within the landscape, and the observational nature of documenting, and drawing, in accordance to a natural response to the surrounding stimuli. Her work aims to create an immersive and sensory experience, bringing the viewer into a landscape of time, change and movement. Ellen Lee is the recipient of the 2024 The Theodore Urbach Landscape Painting Prize & Studio Scholarship. During the 3 month studio scholarship at Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), Ellen’s work will focus on the surrounding wetlands and bird life of Victoria Lake. Read more about Ellen’s experience here. Ellen Lee was the 2023 Spotlight Artist at Shepparton Art Museum (SAM). Her solo exhibition ‘Landscape; of sight, of sound’, focused on her time in local bushland of Banyula State Forest, with the scale of her works immersing the viewer in a meditative, visual landscape. Ellen Lee was awarded the DM Myers University Medal for the highest achiever of academic excellence for the College of Arts, Social Science and Commerce at La Trobe University, Australia. The Urbach program is generously supported by the Theodore Urbach Landscape Painting Scholarship and Prize Charitable Trust. The trust, established through the will of philanthropist and arts patron Theodore Urbach, was designed to provide prizes and scholarship opportunities to benefit artists and students working in the field of Australian landscape painting.  Stay in touch with SAM on socials: Instagram / www.instagram.com/sam_shepparton Facebook / www.facebook.com/sheppartonartmuseum Sign up to our monthly newsletter via Mailchimp Visit the SAM website to discover our exhibitions and programs: www.sheppartonartmuseum.com.au About SAM: Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is located on Yorta Yorta Country, Shepparton, Victoria. As a leading Australian regional art museum, SAM showcases its exhibitions and collections in new and exciting ways to create a welcoming, inclusive, and engaging space for all visitors. Recognised for its significant Australian ceramics collection and nationally significant collection of Indigenous art, SAM’s programming is designed to be locally relevant and engages with global contemporary ideas. Through its exhibitions, collection, programs and events, SAM creates a place where art helps us to better understand the ancient culture of this country and contemporary multicultural Australia.

    1h 12m

  8. 09/24/2024

    SAM Talks: Stewart Russell | Peter, Tommie, & John/reliving the dream

    In July 2024, artist Stewart Russell joined SAM Digital Content Coordinator Kati Hogarth for a conversation exploring the creation of his new installation Peter, Tommie, & John / reliving the dream.  Stewart Russell’s large-scale textile installation Peter, Tommie & John / reliving the dream explores one of the most influential political actions of the 20th century through the eyes of Australian Olympic silver medallist Peter Norman. In this episode Stewart talks about the history behind the artwork, meeting Peter Norman, his practice and inspiration behind this series.  Stay in touch with SAM on socials: Instagram / www.instagram.com/sam_shepparton Facebook / www.facebook.com/sheppartonartmuseum Sign up to our monthly newsletter via Mailchimp Visit the SAM website to discover our exhibitions and programs: www.sheppartonartmuseum.com.au About SAM: Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) is located on Yorta Yorta Country, Shepparton, Victoria. As a leading Australian regional art museum, SAM showcases its exhibitions and collections in new and exciting ways to create a welcoming, inclusive, and engaging space for all visitors. Recognised for its significant Australian ceramics collection and nationally significant collection of Indigenous art, SAM’s programming is designed to be locally relevant and engages with global contemporary ideas. Through its exhibitions, collection, programs and events, SAM creates a place where art helps us to better understand the ancient culture of this country and contemporary multicultural Australia.

    45 min
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SAM Talks is a podcast series presented by our exhibition and engagement staff, exploring contemporary topics and issues that connect us across Australia. Join the conversation at www.sheppartonartmuseum.com.au or @sam_shepparton on Instagram. 

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  • Creator
    Shepparton Art Museum
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    20
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    Clean
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