Inside The Gallery

EXPRESS EDITION.

Archie Moore’s kith and kin has opened at the Venice Biennale. Curated by Ellie Buttrose, the work reflects on the nature and strength of First Nations Australian kinship that spans more than 65,000 years, and incorporates the land, water and all living things.

Drawing on Archie's Kamilaroi, Bigambul, British and Scottish heritage, the installation embodies his enduring exploration of history and identity, which are central themes in his artistic practice spanning over 30 years. 

This episode features comments from the launch, as well as insights from the artist and the curator, along with Creative Australia’s Franchesca Cubillo, and Aboriginal elder, writer and arts elder statesman Djon Mundine OAM speaking about the impact of First Nations' art presented at the Venice Biennale.

A transcript of this episode is available HERE thanks to the Australian Arts Channel.

kith and kin online: https://www.kithandkin.me/

Creative Australia at the Venice Biennale: https://creative.gov.au/advocacy-and-research/events/australia-at-the-venice-biennale/venice-biennale-2024/

Australia at the Venice Biennale Instagram page:  https://www.instagram.com/ausatvenice/

Donna Marcus, a multidisciplinary artist, discusses her artistic background and her use of kitchenware and cooking pots in her work. In conversation with curator Professor Pedram Khosronejad, she explains how she became fascinated with aluminum objects, particularly lightweight aluminum objects, and the stories and narratives they hold.

Covering her public artworks and how they inform her studio practice. Donna explores the significance of aluminum as a material of modernism and its connection to post-war period and domesticity.

Her work is currently on exhibition at HOTA Gallery, which showcases her installations and explores themes of feminism, migration, and consumption, and also at Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert (23 March until the 5 May 2024) which features a colour study of works and older pieces from her collection.

An in-person artist talk between Donna Marcus and Prof Pedram Khosronejad is sheduled for 3pm, 23 March 2024 at Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert.

A transcript of this podcast episode is available HERE thanks to the contribution from the Australian Arts Channel.

When the drive to create takes a turn and propels the artistic compulsion into another direction. This episode features US based actor and now designer Darren Burrows revealing his inspiration, his history, and the balance between performance, life, and the art of design.

Discussing the phenomenon of an artist known for one talent, but now channelling that creative ability into a different but equally artistic practice, Tim Stackpool explores Darren's further craft: ornate and detailed metal engraving, and hand-crafted jewellery set with gems that are truly exquisite works of art. Some of the detail is so fine, it takes a microscope to create.

Darren's Etsy store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MetalManiacArt

His latest film Magpie Funeral is available on Tubi and YouTube, as well as Prime Video.

A transcript of this discussion is available HERE.
Transcripts are made possible by the support from the Australian Arts Channel.

Drawn from a partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and loans from the National Gallery of Australia and private lenders across the country, Emerging from Darkness: Faith, Emotion and The Body in the Baroque brings together some of the most important European works in Australia for the first time.

Also exploring the few women artists of the period, NGV curator Laurie Benson discusses this rare opportunity to see these Baroque works, only at Hamilton Gallery, along with the significance of such a collection in Australia, and the incredible influence the Baroque era had on the arts worldwide. 

A transcript of the conversation in this episode is available HERE, made possible thanks to the contribution from the Australian Arts Channel.

"It began as a vague sense of unease, unconnected to anything in particular. Ordinary objects of the built environment began to take on a threatening demeanour, looming over the bright and baking streets."

Created by artists Heidi Axelsen and Hugo Moline, The Dance of the Remediators at The Lock Up in Newcastle is an archive of a possible future; a materialised dream sequence of people being called into action by coal’s humble living relatives. 

The artists discuss any cognitive dissonance of honouring the history of coal while also evoking a visual reminder that it is not always a thing to be feared. The large-scale work examines society’s relationship to energy, and recognises coal’s long photosynthetic toil and its living relatives of mosses and ferns.

A transcript of this conversation can be downloaded here, made possible with the support from the Australian Arts Channel.

2024 marks 150 years since the birth of Impressionism, the movement that revolutionised art.

During the 1860s, a group of artists, nicknamed “the Batignolles group”, regularly met at the Café Guerbois in Paris. Deviating from the academic style, these artists, which were all refused at the Salon de Paris, decided to create their own exhibition in the spring of 1874 at the studio of their photographer friend, Nadar, on the boulevard des Capucines. The inauguration took place on April 15, 1874.

Critically panned at the time, today Impressionism is one of the great phases of pictorial art, having now conquered the whole world. 

In this episode, writer, curator and broadcaster Julie Ewington speaks with Tim Stackpool about the birth of the movement, its relevance today, and about her leading a Renaissance Tour through the regions of France that influenced the Impressionists, and continues to inspire artists today.

A transcript of this edition is available here, thanks to support from the Australian Arts Channel.