Talking with Painters
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Want to hear from the painter behind the painting? Maria Stoljar talks enthusiastically with Australian painters about how they became an artist, their influences, painting techniques, current work and lots more!
Talking with Painters
3d ago
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Caroline Zilinsky’s paintings freeze pivotal moments in our culture’s history, encouraging us to reflect upon our times, whether it’s the absurdity, the horror or the humour.
At the risk of being labelled a conspiracy theorist, she’s attracted to the dilemmas brought on by the internet era and shines a light on the things that trouble most of us: our loss of privacy, shortened attention, a heightened focus on appearance, a growing indifference to human suffering and the increasing power assumed by tech giants.
Her paintings often depict a po ..read more
Talking with Painters
2w ago
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Over the years, podcast guests have shared some fascinating back stories to paintings they have made, stories which you could never have guessed just on viewing the work.
Sometimes that back story has made me look at the work in a totally different way and I’m bringing you another eight artists’ works in addition to those in ep 155.
Click on the artist’s name below for the full podcast episode (and any YouTube videos) and see images of the works we talk about below.
Davida Allen
Jacqui Stockdale
Sam Leach
Sam Leach YouTube video
Robin Ele ..read more
Talking with Painters
2M ago
Podcast listeners click here to see images of the works
Over the years, podcast guests have shared some fascinating back stories to paintings they have made, stories which you could never have guessed on merely viewing the work.
Sometimes that back story has made me look at the work in a totally different way and I’m bringing you a few of those to you in this episode. See images of the works we talk about below.
Links
Tickets for talk with Caroline Zilinsky at the Art Gallery of NSW (Artists in Conversation)
YouTube video – Anthony White
Vincent Fantauzzo podcast episode
Prudence Flint podcas ..read more
Talking with Painters
3M ago
Join me at the AGNSW for my conversation with the fascinating artist Caroline Zilinsky on 6 March – more info and tickets here
Welcome to the fourth of my ‘Inspiration from the Archives’ series. This episode is all about getting into the zone or the flow state when you’re painting, that time when the negative voices quieten in your head and the work seems to come effortlessly. Hear from these fabulous podcast guests!
3:39 Julie Nicholson and Fiona Verity – Podcast | Instagram video
6:40 Ann Thomson – Podcast | YouTube
7:54 Joshua Yeldham – Podcast | YouTube
10:15 Antonia Perr ..read more
Talking with Painters
4M ago
Above photo of Jan Senbergs by Riste Andrievski
Click play for my podcast introduction to this interview and scroll down for the transcript.
Podcast listeners click here and scroll down for transcript.
Watch the YouTube video of Jan Senbergs’ studio and work here
Links
Jan Senbergs’ website
Jan Senbergs on Instagram
Jan Senbergs at Niagara Galleries
Talking with Painters YouTube channel
Talking with Painters on Instagram
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With over six decades of work as a painter, printm ..read more
Talking with Painters
6M ago
See a video version of the interview with curator Jackie Dunn here
See a video version of the interview with artist Desmond Lazaro here
The largest exhibition of Kandinsky’s work ever to be seen in Australia has just opened at the Art Gallery of NSW!
The exhibition, titled simply ‘Kandinsky’, brings together over 50 works of one of the 20th century’s most innovative and ground breaking painters – Vasily Kandinsky – with 47 paintings from the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Curated by the Guggenheim’s curator of modern art and provenance Megan Fontanella together with the AGNSW’s senio ..read more
Talking with Painters
7M ago
Risk. Some painters want it in their toolbox while others are terrified by it. But nearly every painter will tell you that you need it in order to move forward in your practice.
It might be using a new material, drastically altering the composition of a nearly completed painting or creating a completely different body of work to what had previously been commercially successful and critically acclaimed. Any way you look at it, you’re leaving yourself open to the possibility of failure, disappointment and probably the most painful of all – ridicule.
So whether we call it risk, c ..read more
Talking with Painters
8M ago
More inspiration from the archives!
Here are another 12 past podcast guests talking with me about colour.
Links to full podcast conversations and YouTube videos on each of the artists in this episode:
2:13 David Griggs – Podcast | YouTube
5:00 Laura Jones – Podcast | YouTube
9:08 Lewis Miller – Podcast | YouTube
11:10 Lucy Culliton – Podcast | YouTube
13:13 Robin Eley – Podcast | YouTube
18: 25 Melinda Harper – Podcast | YouTube
20:35 Tim Storrier – Podcast | YouTube
22:35. Wendy Sharpe – Podcast | YouTube
25:28 Idris Murphy – Podcast | YouTube ..read more
Talking with Painters
8M ago
This episode I’m bringing you some gems from the archives. Leading artists talk with me about colour!
Episodes of featured artists:
Jo Bertini
Paul Newton
Philip Wolfhagen
Nicholas Harding
John Wolseley
Peter O’Doherty
Links
YouTube channel
Talking with Painters website
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Nicholas Harding talks with me about his Wynne prize painting
John Wolseley talks with me about his watercolour techniques
  ..read more
Talking with Painters
9M ago
Watch an edited version of this conversation (4 mins) on the YouTube channel here
Ann Thomson, one of Australia’s most important artists, might be in her 90th year but she shows no signs of putting down the brush.
A powerful collection of works is currently hanging in a solo show at Sydney’s Defiance Gallery and Ann is looking forward to a busy 2024. A major survey show to be curated by Terence Maloon will open at the S.H.Ervin Gallery in Sydney and travel to Orange Regional Art gallery in country NSW and solo shows at Messums in London and with Stephane Jacob in Paris are also in the ca ..read more