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Drawing with sound underground: Jason Maling’s magnum opus Diagrammatica

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham

Jason Maling works in the expanded field where — through the interface of technology, screens and a sound system — the sonic and the visual are conducted before a live audience. Diagrammatica was inspired by physics diagrams but it's grown into a beast: part drawing, part durational performance and part musical composition.
Thai-Australian artist Nathan Beard’s ironic take on museum artefacts - ABC listen

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham

Recently on the show we met Filipino artist Pio Abad to hear about his Turner Prize nominated exhibition 'To Those Sitting in Darkness' which re-presented museum objects to reveal hidden histories and the deep legacies of colonialism. Thai-Australian multidisciplinary artist Nathan Beard takes a different, less didactic, approach but, like Pio Abad, is working with cultural objects that are largely unseen. In Beard's case, Buddha heads made for ritual use, squirrelled away in the British Museum.
Frank by name: Dale Frank on taxidermy and his greatest living artwork

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham

Although he's one of Australia's most established, commercially successful and prolific artists, Dale Frank is a reluctant interview subject. Eccentric, reclusive, visionary, trailblazer — a sublime colourist, even a likeable arsehole — these are just some of the ways he's described. Which makes it even more remarkable that he agreed to be the subject of a documentary feature film, Nobody's Sweetie, a rare thing for a living Australian artist.
Pio Abad on his 2024 Turner Prize nominated body of work

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham

Just as historical objects in museum collections embody certain histories — of British imperialism and modernity — they also map loss and disappearance for those in former colonial states. Pio Abad, whose work is "concerned with the personal and political entanglements of objects," has mined the stories embedded in certain cultural material such as kris, ceremonial swords from Mindanao, and a tiara worn by Imelda Marcos, the wife of Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
One of Australia's most successful art partnerships

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham

They used to lay-buy contemporary art together when they were low-paid gallery workers, forging a business relationship early on. Now, Ursula Sullivan and Joanna Strumpf are one of Australia's most successful art partnerships in terms of the cultural impact of the artists they represent — Tony Albert, Lindy Lee, Polly Borland, ex de Medici, Sam Leach, and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, to name a few. This year, they're celebrating two decades together at the head of Sullivan + Strumpf.
How a child’s boomerang returns in the latest TarraWarra Biennial

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham

It was while researching the provenance of a child’s boomerang, found in topsoil near the site of Melbourne Zoo, that Kimberley Moulton found the key to her curatorial vision for We Are Eagles, the latest edition of the TarraWarra Biennial. The Yorta Yorta curator worked with artefacts and other historical material at Melbourne Museum for years before moving into contemporary art in her current role at the Tate in London.
Khaled Sabsabi speaks - ABC listen

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham

The Lebanese-born Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi joins The Art Show exclusively to talk about the profound impact of the decision to unceremoniously dump him as Australia's representative artist to the 2026 Venice Biennale.
The truth behind Vincent Fantauzzo's verisimilitude

Mar 18, 2025 | abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham

In art, verisimilitude — representing things as they appear — is something like telling the unvarnished truth and it makes perfect sense that it's the form in which Vincent Fantauzzo is most comfortable. His first commercial artworks were actually counterfeit 50 dollar notes, just one of the uncomfortable truths which he tells in his new autobiography, Unveiled.
Robots aside, Robert Andrew draws inspiration from country

Mar 11, 2025 | abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham

Robert Andrew's artwork features simple robotic machines, with a stylus that impulsively draws or leaves a trace; not so much artificial intelligence as incidental happenstance. Although he works with technology, Andrew has always been deeply inspired by country. So it made sense that he was invited to make work for a new group exhibition at Bundanon, the timeless yet scarred landscape that figured in the paintings of its previous owner, Arthur Boyd.
Nici Cumpston: Indigenous artist turned curator to lead overseas museum

Mar 4, 2025 | abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Sky Kirkham

Nici Cumpston has played a transformative role at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Over the past 16 years she has driven First Nations curatorial practice to new heights, shaping what began as a biennial exhibition into a festival of contemporary Indigenous art that surveys artmaking across the continent.