The Long Run #1: Gareth Sansom on painting, chance and mortality
Gareth Sansom talks about ambition, chance and mortality, and what changes over six decades and what remains the same.
Gareth Sansom talks about ambition, chance and mortality, and what changes over six decades and what remains the same.
“And I definitely think that’s what landscape is for me, it is a questioning about living and life and what we do in places and what we leave behind,” says Polly Stanton in our latest podcast, talking about how her art practice looks at the entwined relationship between culture and nature.
In our latest podcast, Katie West talks about dyeing textiles, creating spaces of meditation, and facing experiences of racism—all in a conversation centred on care and creating, linking with the NETS Victoria touring exhibition, Notions of Care at Ararat Gallery TAMA.
“I’m doing that something humans do: I’m trying to explain this time to myself by making something from it and about it,” says artist Kate Tucker in our new podcast mini-series on art, creating and care, linking with the NETS Victoria touring exhibition Notions Of Care.
At a moment where politics and individuals feel increasingly divided, Eugenia Lim creates videos, film and installations that look beyond divisiveness, capitalism and exploitation, to forefront the power of collectivity—something she speaks to in our latest podcast series Conflated.
“I think it is also about the fact that, in terms of power structures, artists want to remove mechanisms that hinder their capacity for creative freedom,” says artist, writer and curator David Cross in the second episode of our latest podcast, Conflated.
“The ideas that we attribute to bodies are arbitrary and often accepted, but don’t really exist,” says Zoë Bastin in our latest podcast series, Conflated—which links to a nationally touring exhibition of the same title, opening this week at ANU School of Art and Design Gallery. Bastin talks about the show, as well as dance, queer politics, shame, and how bodies are objectified in art and life.
A renowned curator and director of Ikon gallery in Birmingham, Jonathan Watkins talks about making contemporary art accessible while not reducing its potency, and what will define this current period of art.
“I was sort of staggered,” says writer Jennifer Higgie. “Why hadn’t I ever been taught about these women? Why weren’t they included in mainstream art histories?” Higgie is talking about the marginalisation of women in art history—and it’s something she speaks to in our latest podcast episode.
“It’s really about looking at images and putting them together, and looking at how they behave,” says David Noonan in our podcast series Artists Abroad, talking with artists who’ve moved to London and what the move has meant for their practice—while also chatting about the art itself.
“I decided that art essentially is a communication, so my basis of my work is conceptual,” says artist Bonita Ely, a pioneer in environmental art in Australia, in this episode of The Long Run, a podcast talking with artists who have 60-year practices.
Since the 1970s Margaret Dodd’s ceramic holden cars, which are pioneering feminist artworks, have forged pressing questions on femininity, masculinity, sexuality, capitalism and identity.