The Creative Kind is a visual arts podcast built around listener questions, explored with artists and art professionals. An artist-led conversation that goes into the grey areas of visual art and the creative life.
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Change, Risk and New Beginnings with Anita Phillips
Anita Phillips is a West Australian landscape painter raised on a Wheatbelt farm, who spent close to four decades as a home economics teacher before painting became her full-time focus. In this conversation she talks about selling her Perth home, resigning from teaching, and moving to the Bellarine Peninsula near Geelong and what she expects to change, and not change, in her and her work once she's away from the landscape she's painted for most of her career.
Anita talks through how her practice has developed and shifted over time, the role travel has played, the residencies that sparked real change in her, and how drawing and journalling became central to her process alongside painting.
She also discusses the role of her circle of artist friends have played throughout her career and how those friends have supported her, mentored her early on, and given her the confidence to make this move. She also talks about the mentoring she sought out earlier in her career, and about the wider artist community she's built through Instagram and residencies.
Find Anita Phillips here (https://www.instagram.com/anitaphillipsstudio/) on instagram and here : anitaphillips.com.au (https://www.anitaphillips.com.au/)
Anita has an upcoming exhibition titled 'Shaped By Weather' with Michael Reid Southern Highlands (michaelreidsouthernhighlands.com.au) from 17th September to 18th October 2026
Mentioned:
Carly Le Cerf : here (https://www.instagram.com/carlylecerf/) on instagram and here carlylecerf.com.au (https://www.carlylecerf.com.au/)
Julz Beresford: here (https://www.instagram.com/julzberesford_artist/) on instagram and here julzberesford.com (https://www.julzberesford.com/)
Lauren (Elise) Kennedy: here (https://www.instagram.com/lauren_elise_kennedy/) on instagram and here laurenelisekennedy.com.au (https://www.laurenelisekennedy.com.au/)
Sophie Perez: here (https://www.instagram.com/sophieperezartist/) on instagram and here sophieperezartist.com (https://www.sophieperezartist.com/)
PS Art Space (PSAS):here (https://www.instagram.com/ps.artspace/) on instagram and here psas.com.au (https://www.psas.com.au/)
Michael Reid Southern Highlands: here (https://www.instagram.com/michaelreid.southernhighlands/)on instagram and here michaelreidsouthernhighlands.com.au (https://michaelreidsouthernhighlands.com.au/)
Brisons Veor, Cape Cornwall (residency) — brisonsveor.org.uk (https://brisonsveor.org.uk/)
WASPS Scotland (residency organisation, Skye and Shetland) — waspsstudios.org.uk (https://waspsstudios.org.uk/)
Sydney Contemporary here (https://www.instagram.com/sydneycontemporary/) on instagram and here sydneycontemporary.com.au (sydneycontemporary.com.au)
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31 Aug 2026
Changing Direction with Amy Stapleton
In this episode I talked with Amy Stapleton about changing direction in her art practice. Amy has moved from painting gum trees and landscapes towards more abstract and experimental work. We discuss the difficulty of moving away from work that has been successful and how she has facilitated her practice to change.
Amy talks about burnout, the value of stepping away, and how a residency at The Corridor Project helped her reconnect with making. We also discuss exhibitions, art communities, building confidence, working across different materials and scales, and the challenge of creating without knowing what the outcome will be.
We talk about comparison, success and finding your own voice, as well as Amy's interest in art history and looking at how other artists' practices have changed over time.
Amy has an upcoming show ‘Do not go gentle’ with Side Gallery (https://sidegallery.com.au/) in Brisbane on October 8-17, where proceeds from sales will support Dangerous Females' (https://www.dangerousfemales.com.au/) work for domestic and family violence services.
Find Amy at her website here (https://www.amystapleton.com/) and on instagram here (https://www.instagram.com/amystapletonart/)
People and places mentioned
The Corridor Project (https://www.thecorridorproject.org/),
Laura Horn (https://www.laurahornart.com/classes)
Cynthia Copley (https://www.cynthiacopleyfineart.com.au/)
Julie Bradley (https://www.instagram.com/julie.bradley.art/?hl=en)
Ipswich Art Gallery - Sharing the National Collection (https://ipswichartgallery.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/sharing-the-national-collection) (Rothko & Agnes Martin, on loan from the National Gallery of Australia)
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10 Aug 2026
Mentoring with Laura Brinin
Laura Brinin is back on the podcast, and today we're talking about mentoring. Laura is a curator and arts administrator, and one half of Side Gallery in Brisbane, and she also works at a university art gallery and does professional development with artists.
We talk about whether Laura had a mentor herself, and the piece of advice she got early on that she now thinks was the best bad advice she's ever received. We chat about how to know when you're actually ready for mentoring versus when you think you need it, and why finding the right mentor matters. We get into the difference between mentoring and just getting feedback on your work, and whether mentoring should come through your gallery or sit outside of it.
Laura talks through a couple of mentoring myths, what her own process actually looks like, and a mistake she sees a lot in early-career artists around niching down too soon. We also talk about finding your community, how she likes to run a group critique, what to do if your work starts looking too similar to someone else's, and how mentoring is usually structured in terms of frequency and length.
Laura Brinin @laura__who (https://www.instagram.com/laura__who/)
Side Gallery, Brisbane sidegallery.com.au (http://sidegallery.com.au)
Dunedin Public Art Gallery (https://dunedin.art.museum/)
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