Arts aficionado James alongside intrepid arts-gatherer Bronwin, invite you to come delve into the fertile soil of Adelaide’s cultural landscape. Share in the nurturing and propagation of creative minds and voices in action; taste the locally-harvested insights of arts practitioners with provocative stuff to say – and great ways to say it; be enticed to explore and savour the rich produce of their conversations; and be nourished and inspired by the gorgeous, seasonal and perennial blooms of diverse creative expression. The Arts Garden will fill your market bag with visual, performing, poetry, and multimedia arts – a What’s On guide in wild and vibrant hue
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We’re All Born Artists: Losing and Reclaiming Creativity
Send us Fan Mail Creativity may be innate, but adulthood can teach us to mistrust it, hide it or call it something else. In this episode of The Arts Garden, three conversations trace creativity across a lifetime. Patch Theatre’s Geoff Cobham explains why children meet abstract art with instinct, openness and play through Me and My Shadow. Visual artist Jane Skeer reflects on beginning art school at 47 and realising that the creative life she was searching for had been present all along. As sh...
2 Aug 2026
What Are We Not Seeing? Fiona McIntosh and i know the end
Send us Fan Mail What becomes visible when artists ask us to slow down and look more closely? Fiona McIntosh transforms microscopic and cellular forms into intricate wool sculptures, using as many as 24 million needle stabs across an exhibition. She discusses the meditative labour behind her work, moving needle felting beyond kitsch and finding inspiration within the David Roche Collection. Then choreographer Alix Kuijpers and performers Fern Mines and Caroline De Wan explore the quiet queer ...
25 Apr 2026
Arts Garden Ep. 12 – Wildflower Roads, Spamalot Chaos, Musical Austen & Karaoke Art
Send us Fan Mail A road-worn guitar, a coconut horse, Jane Austen compositions and a karaoke bar turned art gallery. We open with folk artist Katie Milae, fresh off the Goodness Me Festival and deep into her Art of Wildflowering tour. From road train childhoods to van-life songwriting, she unpacks music as medicine, movement, and connection, plus a glimpse of her long-awaited debut album. Then it’s full absurdist throttle with the cast of Spamalot from the Metropolitan Musical Theatre C...
15 Apr 2026
Arts Garden Ep. 11 – Reclaiming Art: Music, Memory, and Meaning Beyond the Algorithm
Send us Fan Mail From indie music resistance to immersive painting and politically urgent cinema, this episode moves through art that refuses to sit still. We’re joined in-studio by San Dragan, unpacking a bold move away from Spotify and toward a grounded, community-driven music career; one built on live performance, connection, and creative autonomy. Then, artist Grace Harper takes us inside her Berlin residency and intuitive painting practice, where abstraction, emotion, and flow stat...
1 Apr 2026
Arts Garden Ep. 10 — Jazz, Modernism & Making Meaning
Send us Fan Mail Post-Fringe, the Arts Garden resets. In Episode 10, we trace the threads of creativity across generations, forms, and philosophies, moving from Adelaide’s jazz lineage to the radical history of modernist art, and into the inner worlds of sound, voice, and meaning. 🎷 We’re joined in-studio by James Muller and Lyndon Gray of The Exhibits, ahead of their upcoming album launch. They reflect on collaboration, creative renewal, and building the next wave of jazz musicians through t...
18 Mar 2026
Episode 9: Building Worlds, Riding Cadel & Finding Meaning in the Chaos
Send us Fan Mail It’s the final week of Adelaide Fringe and Festival, and Arts Garden brings together a powerful mix of artists exploring endurance, storytelling, and meaning. 🚴 Connor Delves joins us to talk about CADEL: Lungs on Legs: a high-intensity solo performance where he rides live on stage while telling the story of Cadel Evans’ Tour de France victory. We explore the discipline of endurance sport, the challenge of telling a “winner’s story”, and why this is such a uniquely Austr...
10 Mar 2026
Episode 8: Come For The Boy Band Parody, Stay For The Sparkling Wine And Fire Pole
Send us Fan Mail We are beyond the Womad long weekend and have two weeks of festival season left. On this week's Art's Garden we talk shower burlesque thoughts, boy band dating parodies, Portuguese folktronica and making a career in circus. New Zealand performer Gigi Cartier joins the show to talk about Showgirl Roulette: a wild, improvised cabaret where a spinning wheel decides the lineup and random song selections push performers into freestyle chaos. We also discuss the craft of burl...
3 Mar 2026
Episode 7: Fringe Fever, Circus Chaos & 50 Years of Poetry
Send us Fan Mail From Brazilian futuristic dance to avant-garde magic, clown game shows, contemporary circus from Aotearoa, stand-up rebellion and the 50-year legacy of Friendly Street Poets – Episode 7 is packed We talk emotional regulation through dance, colonial language hangovers, speed-sewn circus couture, migration and magic, hot girl comedy politics, and why poetry might matter more than political turmoil. In This Episode 🎧 Talita Fontainha – TQ Productions Tune In! The Frequency Withi...
24 Feb 2026
Episode Six: Earnest Chaos, Mime Romance & Young Women Finding Their Voice
Send us Fan Mail Adelaide Fringe is in full swing and Episode Six dives deep into joyful chaos, physical theatre and urgent storytelling. 🎭 …Earnest? (Say It Again, Sorry?) What happens when the lead actor doesn’t show up and the audience becomes the cast? Josh and Rhys unpack how Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest transforms into an interactive experiment in identity, ego and theatrical bravery. By the final bows, there are no professional actors left, only audience heroes. 🤍 Joy...
17 Feb 2026
Episode Five: Empire, Burnout & Fringe Reckonings
Send us Fan Mail Fringe season is almost underway and so are the big cultural questions. In this pre-Fringe edition of The Arts Garden Podcast, James and Bronwin speak with artists confronting politics, identity, mental health and community in 2026. 🎭 Martha Lott (Holden Street Theatres) on The Debate, class satire in Eat the Rich, and why this year’s Fringe is bold, political and provocative. 📷 Alex Frayne (Adelaide Festival) on photographing America as an empire in slow decline; a three-mon...
11 Feb 2026
Arts Garden Ep 4: Celestial Gardens, Irish Tenors & Unrehearsed Truths — Fringe Awakens
Send us Fan Mail Fringe is almost here and Episode Four of The Arts Garden dives straight into the heart of it. We begin in the gardens with Sacred Resonance, exploring illuminated landscapes, heart-coherence installations and immersive sound baths that blur the lines between nature, frequency and connection. Then it’s dance, collaboration and creative risk with Alex Kuijpers, bringing three distinct works to Adelaide Fringe from cosmic queer horror in Astral Ghost Orchid to the improvised en...
4 Feb 2026
Arts Garden Ep 3: Grief on Stage, Circus Process & Comedy Truths
Send us Fan Mail This episode of Arts Garden dives head-first into Adelaide Fringe season, with conversations spanning grief, circus, comedy, and the realities of making creative work sustainable. We’re joined first by Melissa and Connor from CRAM Collective, who introduce their new Fringe work Meteors. Developed through a residency at The Mill, the show explores how young people experience grief; the silences around it, the awkward kindness of casseroles and lasagnes, and the long journey th...
28 Jan 2026
Arts Garden Ep 2: Adelaide Fringe Curation, Space Invaders Comedy & Cosmic Art
Send us Fan Mail Episode 2 — Arts Garden: Fringe curation, cosmic art, comedy bodies, and expanded sound Episode Two of Arts Garden is firmly in Adelaide Fringe mode, moving between curation, creation, and the different ways artists make meaning in a noisy world. We’re joined by Joanne Hartstone (Joanne Hartstone Presents), marking 20 years at Adelaide Fringe, to talk through her 2026 program — from intimate, high-impact theatre and myth-driven storytelling to new work designed to “catch fire...
26 Jan 2026
Episode One: January 19 2026
Send us Fan Mail Episode 1 — Arts Garden: Fringe warm-up (Burlesque, Latin Surrealism, and theatre that moves) Welcome to Arts Garden with James and Bronwyn: your weekly scan of what’s happening across Adelaide’s arts scene, with an eye on what’s coming up at Adelaide Fringe. In Episode 1, we’re joined by Miss Teaser Amore (Teaser Productions) to talk about two Fringe shows: RnB Burlesque (a Sunday night showcase designed to spotlight emerging performers) and The Burlesque Hoe Down (a c...
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