Toffee sculptures, cannibalism and who’s funding who…we chat with artists to unpack what’s happening in contemporary art right now. Hosted and produced by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie for Contemporary Art Tasmania.
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Toffee sculptures, cannibalism and who’s funding who…we chat with artists to unpack what’s happening in contemporary art right now. Hosted and produced by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie for Contemporary Art Tasmania.
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May 28, 2026
Eat the art
<p>Starting at the intersecting point of culinary and creative practice, <strong>Haneen Mahmood Martin </strong>and <strong>Caitlin Fargher </strong>discuss how an arts practice can be productive medium to unpack lineage and familial history, talk models of curatorial care and explore what it can look like to hold space for different experiences.</p><p><br></p><p>This episode was hosted by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie and produced by Honor Marino. What are you looking at? Is presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Haneen Mahmood Martin</strong> is a Kuala Lumpur born, Malay-Saudi multi-arts manager and programmer, writer, and artist who has worked extensively nationally and internationally, especially between Garramilla/Darwin, Narrm/Melbourne, Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide, and Malaysia. She works with a focus on best-practice engagement and ethical governance as it pertains to underrepresented migrant and PoC communities and building sustained relationships. Haneen is currently the General Manager of Corrugated Iron Youth Arts and has worked across the country and across art forms as a producer for the likes of Performing Lines, RISING, Biennale of Sydney, MPavilion, Regional Arts Australia and Next Wave, as a programmer as the inaugural Artistic Associate at Brown’s Mart, Manager of the National Young Writers Festival, and General Manager for Skinnyfish Music. Keeping a close eye on cultural advocacy and change at a national and international level, Haneen co-wrote the Engage! Report and Toolkit published by Contemporary Asian Australian Performance and Arts on Tour and holds an MFA (Cultural Leadership) at NIDA. She also manages a directory for Malay and Malaysian creatives in Australia and hosts the Sayang-Sayang Supper Club from her home.</p><p><a href="https://haneenmartin.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://haneenmartin.com/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/haneenmmartin/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/haneenmmartin/</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Caitlin Fargher </strong>is a multi-disciplinary artist and budding arts educator working in sculptural installation, arts production and curation. Caitlin lives near the bush and rivulet in Kingston. Her work is created through an embodied practice that explores histories, sites, ecologies, and memories. She collects materials responsibly from the environments that her works are informed by, including clay, flora, recycled objects, and minerals. Her methods of making are informed by gardening and cooking techniques, environmental systems, and family traditions. When working with people, she enacts a practice of care, trust, and creativity, allowing the people she works alongside to guide the collaborative, imaginative art making process, learning to together to create experimental and expressive moments in time. </p><p>Caitlin’s current projects include a solo exhibition at Devonport Regional Gallery, being one of the lead artists for The Future of Toys: Youngies and Oldies (Hobart City Council x Good Grief Studios), and resident at Poatina Arts Centre in 2024. She undertook the Art Farm Birch’s Bay’s Perennial Residency program in 2023 culminating in the children’s workshop IMAGINATION IRRIGATION; Watch this Space ARI's Travelling Artist Program in mparntwe/Alice Springs in 2021; as well as being Artist in Residence at Hadley's Orient Hotel in 2020 which culminated in the installation Sweet Water. She was the Contemporary Art Tasmania Curatorial Mentorship recipient in 2020 with her exhibition re-member. She was a Board Member and producer at Constance ARI from 2018-2024, initating projects such as ngayapi niyakara (Born to Dream), and was the treasurer of Good Grief Studios from 2019-2025 working on programming, events and community engagement. Caitlin studied at UNSW Art & Design, finishing with First Class Honours in Visual Arts in 2017, and in 2022 she began her Masters of Teaching (Secondary, Arts) at UTAS to further her interest in Art Education. From 2025 she will work as an art teacher at Elizabeth College.</p><p><a href="https://www.caitlinfargher.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.caitlinfargher.com/</a></p><p>https://www.instagram.com/caitfar/</p>
March 6, 2026
Art that re-makes: the transformative potential of materials
<p>This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a series of conversations with artists Noah Johnson, Lila Meleisea and Justene Williams focussing on how the use of certain materials influence and inform their artistic practice.<a href="https://www.instagram.com/derecycler/"></a></p><p> Produced and hosted by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie for Contemporary Art Tasmania.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/derecycler/">Noah Johnson</a> is a black multidisciplinary artist, born in Lutruwita (Hobart). They first began painting as a way to visually represent their creative mind and their roots to their African American culture which paved the way for their love of fashion and consequently sewing & design. Noah runs a fashion label DERECYCLER, an upcycling slow fashion label which came to fruition when they were 16 years old. Their values lie in sustainability and story telling through their textile art while they use a mixture of simple to intricate design choices to convey that.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/lila.meleisea/?hl=en">Lila Meleisea</a> has an interdisciplinary and social practice that places equal importance on both process and outcome. She is a conscious collaborator with others (human, plants, animals, cosmos) holding an understanding of balance and the importance of reciprocity. Using cultural research, community engagement, music, art and curiosity, she is a nurturer, teacher and advocate for holistic relationships between humans and the earth and environmental awareness.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/justenewilliams/?hl=en">Justene Williams</a> emerged in the 1990s as an exponent of Sydney’s grunge culture. Since 2016, she has led multidisciplinary teams to create spectacular, often large-scale, long-format live works. Now she returns to an earlier form of ‘poor art’, using a ‘make-do’ ethos and revisiting ideas of labour. Collapsing personal narratives, consumer culture and mythology whilst channelling the spirits of art history, she finds inspiration from figures such as her father and his auto recycling yard and Santa Claus, celebrating the avant-garde dream of the total artwork whilst deconstructing and communicating with a 21st century body. Justene attempts to transform the everyday via action, energy, and emotion.Field recordings and music used in this episode is provided courtesy of Lila Meleisea. In order of appearance: (1) FOREST: MANUMEA featuring Dr Ulf Beichle: Field recording of Manumea call and Lila Meleisea - Fagufagu (2) SIAPO MAKING SOUNDS: Scraping (3) Lota Nu’u (Music: Mata’utia Pene Solomona, Words: Rev. James E. Newell (LMS Missionary), Tune Name: Samoana (Initiated by Elder Dr. Elia Ta’ase @ Pouesi DMA Recital 1992). Performed by Suga</p>
August 28, 2025
Art and money, money and art: from fundraising to funders
<p>This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a table conversation with Zara Sully, Pete Marseveen and Nour Abdullatif about the relationship between art and money, initially focussing on fundraising but then expanding to explore other facets.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/zarasully.art/?hl=en"><u>Zara Sully</u></a> (they/them) is an artist, arts worker, curator, and researcher and director of <a href="https://www.sawtoothari.com/home"><u>Sawtooth ARI</u></a> in Launceston, Lutruwita/Tasmania.</p><p><a href="https://www.headlessmind.com/about"><u>Peter Marseveen</u></a> (he/him) is a photographic artist, arts technician and activist based in Nipaluna/Hobart.</p><p>Nour Abdullatif (she/they) is founder and director of <a href="https://www.unassignedgallery.com.au/"><u>Unassigned Gallery</u></a> in Naarm/Melbourne. </p><p><br></p><p>This episode is hosted and produced by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie. What Are You Looking At? is presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania</p>
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