Making Art is a fortnightly podcast that takes an anthropological look at the process of making creative work. Each instalment features a casual and candid conversation with an Australian artist from a variety of disciplines about their individual journey, their own particular way of Making Art.
Making Art – Episode 13 Joanne Murray Smith Episode Released 22nd September 2020 Joanna Murray Smith is an elegant and fiercely intelligent woman so it came as no surprise that from the moment she resplendently appeared on the zoom link for our chat she launched headlong into a philosophical discussion about the effects of the […]
7 Sept 2020
12 Frank Woodley
Making Art – Episode 12 Frank Woodley Episode Released 4th September 2020 Get Smart featuring Don Adams as the secret Maxwell Smart is without doubt one of the greatest comedy series of all-time. A product of the scatological minds of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry it was a favourite of mine growing up and while […]
21 Aug 2020
11 Jo Lloyd
Making Art – Episode 11 Jo Lloyd Episode Released 21st August 2020 The art of choreography, the skill of communicating complex ideas through movement alone, is not an easy one. Enter Melbourne’s Jo Lloyd. Creatively restless and wary of comfort zones, over the past 2 decades Jo has created a body of work that continues […]
8 Aug 2020
10 Paul Kelly
Making Art – Episode 10 Paul Kelly Episode Released 8th August 2020 It’s easy, particularly it would seem in this country, to underestimate the impact certain individuals have on our cultural life. We don’t hold our culture in our consciousness and so we can miss the fact that a person has been quietly creating a […]
17 Jul 2020
09 Robyn Butler & Wayne Hope
Making Art – Episode 09 Robyn Butler & Wayne Hope Episode Released 17th July 2020 What qualities are desirable if you want to succeed in the arts? It’s an interesting question that for some reason has a habit of throwing up some rather abstract responses. Whenever the question gets posed it seems to encourage people […]
26 Oct 2018
08 Tom Holloway
Making Art – Episode 08 Tom Holloway Episode Released 28th October 2018 When his hauntingly moving and gently unsettling 2007 play Beyond the Neck was presented at Belvoir Street in Sydney Tom Holloway announced himself as a mid-career playwright with a powerful, distinctive Australian voice. That Beyond the Neck, which looked closely and empathetically at […]
5 Oct 2018
07 Questions of Value
Making Art – Episode 07 Questions of Value Episode Released 7th October 2018 The speed and perceived complexity of life in the modern world appears to be forcing a number of our time honoured clichés into retirement. “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” faces an uncertain future in our fast […]
20 Jul 2018
06 Sue Thomson
Making Art – Episode 06 Sue Thomson Episode Released 22nd July 2018 “Creative Victoria is the state government body dedicated to championing, growing and supporting Victoria’s creative industries. We invest in the ideas, talent, organisations, events and projects that make Victoria a creative state”. So go the opening lines of Creative Victoria’s home page and […]
6 Jul 2018
05 Tim Dargaville
Making Art – Episode 05 Tim Dargaville Episode Released 8th July 2018 When people ask, as they occasionally have over the past two and a half years, why I haven’t been acting much lately I’ve often replied that I’m “taking a breather”, “regrouping”, “resting and having a think about things”. Which is bollocks. The truth […]
22 Jun 2018
04 Hannah Bertram
Making Art – Episode 04 Hannah Bertram Episode Released 24th June 2018 As I leave an artist having recorded a conversation for this podcast series I am trying more and more to listen for an instinctive voice, a clue that might shed some light on the direction this companion article will take. What I guess […]
20 Apr 2018
03 Maude Davey & David Pidd
Making Art – Episode 03 Maude Davey & David Pidd Episode Released 10th June 2018 I would like to confess to a number of guilty pleasures. At the moment I’m enjoying chocolate coated digestive biscuits dunked in milk. So delicious. And good for you. I am also happy to come out as a closet Formula […]
19 Apr 2018
02 Peter Bakowski
Making Art – Episode 02 Peter Bakowski Episode Released 27th May 2018 When people ask what I do for a living I say, “Well, I’m an actor and I write a bit.” The standard reply is, “Oh, I thought you might be an actor.” When I ask how they arrived at that conclusion most often […]
18 Apr 2018
01 Lewis Miller
Making Art – Episode 01 Lewis Miller Episode Released 13th May 2018 I was standing in the lotto queue the other day waiting to make an investment in my long term happiness and watched as the woman in front of me spend $170 on her fortnightly flutter with her credit card. The guy behind the […]
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