The Art Show
Episodes
Home truths: Ian Strange, Sera Waters and spotlight on feminist artist Frances Phoenix
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Strange uses entire houses -slated for demolition- as his canvas, exploring the symbolism of 'home' through eras of unaffordability and urban dev...
The artist defending rivers, a Russian art museum forced to react and Dennis Golding's Redfern
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo gives voice to rivers dammed for huge hydroelectric projects.What happens when the art world turns its back on Russ...
Know My Name S2 ep 7: Elaine Russell
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aunty Elaine Russell has legendary status in her home town of Sydney. She was an artist and storyteller who inspired many, and whose work has been ac...
Isaac Julien, Leda and the Swan retold and why you should know Thanakupi
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien on his latest works: a spellbinding interpretation of Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi and a ...
Know My Name S2 ep 6: Jennifer Herd
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Herd is a Mbarbarrum artist and founding member of Brisbane's proppaNOW art collective.
Flooded art galleries, Stanislava Pinchuk on Ukraine and celebrating Ethel Spowers
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Floods have ravaged art galleries and studios in northern New South Wales. We hear from a gallery director and artist Megan Cope.Plus Ukrainian-Austr...
Know My Name S2 ep 5: Dianne Jones
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dianne Jones is a provocative photo-media artist who manipulates images from colonial art to give prominence to Indigenous people.
A history of Venus in Art, the artist who lives on a boat and Yul Scarf
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The goddess of love has reigned supreme through Western art, but her roots are darker, more ancient and shape-shifting than you'd expect.Historian an...
Know My Name S2 ep 4: Laurel Nannup
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Laurel Nannup is a Noongar artist and elder who grew up near Pinjara in Western Australia. As part of the Stolen Generation she was taken from her mo...
The new 'canon', Renaissance woman Lavinia Fontana and Atong Atem's collage vision
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Who makes up âthe canonâ in Art today? A new book picks 50 artists from around the world, and across centuries, to take a meaningful snapshot of ...
Know My Name S2 ep 3: Julie Gough
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Gough is a Trawlwoolway artist whose practice often refers to her family's experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people and is held in many priva...
Patricia Piccinini's mutants light up a ballroom, My Art Crush and Thea Anamara Perkins
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patricia Piccinini is Australiaâs foremost artist exploring the relationship between humanity and technology, and the ethical tensions it inspires...
Know My Name S2 ep 2: Julie Dowling
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Dowling is considered one of Australia's greatest exponents of the family portrait, but always with an Indigenous focus.
The radical work of Vivienne Binns
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vivienne Binns shocked critics in the 1960s with her joyful paintings of giant genitalia and Dada-inspired assemblages. Now aged 81, she looks back a...
Know My Name S2 ep 1: Fiona Foley
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Know My Name Series Two: interviews with Indigenous women artists from the ABC archives. In this episode meet Fiona Foley, a Badtjala artist from K'g...
The art of mindfulness and women street photographers
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How does mindfulness stimulate artists? Meet the artists and curators of a new exhibition exploring mindfulness and meditation, called Presence of Mi...
Karla Dickens' fearless found objects, the Aboriginal flag as an artwork and clay gone wild
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Enter the eclectic studio and thought-provoking work of the Wiradjuri installation artist Karla Dickens.Plus, is the Aboriginal flag, now freed from ...
How Instagram has changed how we see and experience art
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How has social media giant Instagram changed how we experience art? Experts, artists and critics weigh in on the photo sharing platform, an evolution...
Anne Wallace and the Beijing Silvermine
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Wallace paints film-like scenes of intimacy and psychological tension that speak to iso life and the female gaze.Plus, the found photo archive t...
Hilma af Klint, the art of the book cover and Mary Tonkin's immersive landscapes
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The rediscovery of Hilma af Klint's abstract paintings has taken the art world by storm, but what meaning can we find in her powerful, mysterious wor...
Endurance act: performance art in Australia
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Performance art tests the limits of the body and the gallery space. Fiona Kelly McGregor's latest book relives its bracing ascendancy in Sydney's que...
Breaking the myths of whiteness in classical sculpture
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What if the use of white in classical sculpture was just a construct? For the ancient Greeks and Romans, sculptures were brightly-coloured affairs, c...
Video art in the wake of Black Lives Matter, surreal fake food and plein air in the Build Up
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Franklin Sirmans is the curator of Family: Visions of a Shared Humanity, an exhibition of video works by renowned Black American, British and Canad...
Life with Jeffrey Smart and Natalya Hughes takes on the shrink's couch
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The enduring power of Jeffrey Smart's urban wastelands, and his comparatively beautiful life in Tuscany, as told by the late artist's partner Ermes D...
Doug Aitken, Robert Andrew's machines with ochre residue and the lost Leonardo da Vinci
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
US artist Doug Aitken looks to the future through the hyperconnected present, in New Era.|Plus, enter the studio of Robert Andrew, whose programmable...
NFTs: next gen, reclaiming Bougainville and being an 'unwilling inspiration'
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We take stock of NFTs and hear from three people invested in the future of tokens, including Jonathan Zawada, collaborator to musician Flume.Plus, Br...
Christopher Pease layers Nyoongar iconography over colonial vistas
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Pease wanted to create his own visual language, one that spoke to European art tradition and the hidden iconography of his Nyoongar ances...
Doing Feminism, painting riverscapes and polar ice art at COP26
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A history of feminist art in Australia, painting western Tasmania and ice from a warming planet, at COP26.
A history of Venus in art with Bettany Hughes
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The goddess of love has reigned supreme through Western art, but her roots are darker, more ancient and shape-shifting than you'd expect.Historian an...
Cocktails with a curator, art on the news and Matisse in the Pacific
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet the man behind the hit YouTube series Cocktails with a Curator, from The Frick in New York.Plus, what if the arts were on the nightly TV news, l...
Know My Name episode 6: Rosalie Gascoigne
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With a bower bird's habit of collecting found objects, Rosalie Gascoigne's sculptures were inspired by her surrounding natural environment. The final...
Know My Name episode 5: Mari Funaki
24 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with sculptor and metal smith Mari Funaki, who was instrumental in getting Australian contemporary jewellery on the global map.The fifth...
Know My Name episode 4: Margaret Olley
23 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A 2009 interview with the artist Margaret Olley, two years before her death.Part of our series featuring interviews with women artists from the ABC a...
Know My Name episode 3: Ivy Shore
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Interviews with women artists from the ABC archives.In 1979 Ivy Shore won Australia's richest art competition for women painters, for a portrait of t...
Know My Name episode 2: Gwyn Hanssen Pigott
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Know My Name: interviews with women artists from the ABC archives. Hear Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, one of Australia's most renowned ceramicists, speaking t...
Know My Name episode 1: Grace Cossington Smith
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing Know My Name: interviews with women artists from the ABC archives. In this episode, hear from Grace Cossington Smith. A pioneer of modern...
Public art, toppled monuments and the statue in the crate
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What do artists think about when making huge public art? Lindy Lee is making the most expensive work commissioned by the NGA, and Judy Watson's bara ...
'We perpetuate this myth of not having a history': taking art beyond black-white terms
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Globally and at home, artists are engaging with the reckoning happening around race and colonisation. But where do recent migrants and refugees to Au...
Fifty years of the Western Desert art movement, Leigh Bowery, Mari Katayama and Darwin street art
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's 50 years since artists from Papunya began painting on board, heralding the Western Desert art movement, 'the last great art movement of the 20th...
Goya, Tik Tok art history and wine that draws
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does Francisco Goya help us make sense of the chaos of our contemporary world, and its depths of suffering? Then, discover art history through Ti...
Renaissance amnesia, Vernon Ah Kee, and a mysterious Sydney painting
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do we turn a blind eye to the aggression and militarism â and colonialism â that defined the Italian Renaissance? Plus, hear why artist Vernon Ah...
How Instagram has changed how we see and experience art
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How has social media giant Instagram changed how we experience art? Experts, artists and critics weigh in on the photo sharing platform, an evolution...
Maree Clarke, collages of protest and Craig Ruddy's studio
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maree Clarke is a key figure in the reclamation of southeast Australian Aboriginal art. Her three-decade career has centred on the revival and sharin...
What two Hazara artists feel about Afghanistan, and a new art movement is forged in metal
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Artists in Afghanistan are facing a frightening future. Australian Hazara artists Khadim Ali and Elyas Alavi speak to Daniel about whatâs happening...
Cooking Sections art collective, Kathy Temin's fake fur and Ian Fairweather in China
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet the Turner Prize-nominated UK art collective Cooking Sections, making art about the food we eat, ecology and geopolitics.Plus, how Kathy Temin c...
Anne Wallace, a mystery tomb fresco and art from Western Arnhem Land
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Wallace paints film-like scenes of intimacy and psychological tension that speak to iso life and the female gaze.Plus, the ancient tomb art in S...
Hilda Rix Nicholas, the art of the book cover and the NATSIAAs
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A new biography of the post-Impressionist artist Hilda Rix Nicholas looks at the unusual life and sometimes overlooked career of a great Australian p...
Mapping a lost Beirut and the return of stolen 'living gods'
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Two artists reflect on what has happened to Beirut since the devastating port explosion one year ago.And an antiquities sleuth and an art academic on...
Endurance act: performance art in Australia
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Performance art tests the limits of the body and the gallery space. Fiona Kelly McGregor's latest book relives its bracing ascendancy in Sydney's que...
Breaking the myths of whiteness in classical sculpture
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What if the use of white in classical sculpture was just a construct? For the ancient Greeks and Romans, sculptures were brightly-coloured affairs, c...
Artist Dale Harding joins forces with mother Kate, and a war photographer snaps the climate crisis
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The mother-and-son collaboration of artists Dale and Kate Harding works across generations, artforms âand worlds. Textile artist Kate makes quilts,...
Betty Muffler: the phenomenal artist healing country
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Art Showâs new presenter Daniel Browning finds Indigenous artists who enact healing and cultural rejuvenation through their artwork â from se...
Surrealists at sea, fake food, and the Beijing Silvermine
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Czech brothers DuĆĄan and Voitre Marek escaped communist political repression for Australia, but their Surrealist art was met with incomprehension in...
The wondrous Hilma af Klint, Tania Ferrier's angry underwear and the question of portraiture
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The rediscovery of Hilma af Klint's abstract paintings has taken the art world by storm, but what meaning can we find in her powerful, mysterious wor...
Goya, Tik Tok art history and wine that draws
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does Francisco Goya help us make sense of the chaos of our contemporary world, and its depths of suffering? Then, discover art history through Ti...