Talking with Painters

Nolan: Origins – Inside the exhibition with curator Denise Mimmocchi

It was great to catch up with Denise Mimmocchi, Senior Curator of Australian Art of the Art Gallery of NSW, to talk about the exhibition Nolan: Origins which opened on th

Richard Lewer After the Archibald Win + Excerpts from Our 2025 Conversation

Watch a 2 minute highlights video of this episode on the YouTube channel here In this special episode of Talking with Painters, I’m bringing you my conversation with Ric

Ep 172: Ann Thomson on International Women’s Day

Watch a short highlights video of this episode on the TWP YouTube channel  In this special International Women’s Day episode I speak with acclaimed artist, and previous

Ep 171: Mary Tonkin

Watch highlights from this conversation on the Talking with Painters YouTube channel I loved this conversation with Mary Tonkin at the S.H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney, befo

Ep 170: Aida Tomescu – ‘Messiaen’

A highlights video from this episode will also be coming soon to the Talking with Painters YouTube channel In this episode, I visit the studio of acclaimed abstract pain

Ep 169: 12 finalists, 12 landscapes

Watch an edited video version of this episode on the Talking with Painters YouTube channel here Podcast listeners see the works we talk about here or go to talkingwithpa

Ep 168 Sophie Cape wins the Hadley’s Art Prize

Watch an edited video version of this conversation on the YouTube channel here Sophie Cape has just taken out the $100,000 Hadley’s Art Prize for landscape with her powe

Ep 167 Remembering William Robinson with Davida Allen (2020)

Australia has lost one of its great painters. William Robinson has passed away at the age of 89. I was lucky enough to meet Bill in 2020 when I interviewed his close frie

Ep 166: Julie Fragar wins the 2025 Archibald Prize

Watch an  edited video version of this conversation on the YouTube channel here It’s one of the most thrilling days on the Australian art calendar—and this year, Julie F

Ep 165: Richard Lewer

Watch this interview on the Talking with Painters YouTube channel here  Step into the gripping world of Richard Lewer — where drawing, painting, and video meet the raw e

Ep 164: New Videos, Loading Dock Invite & What’s Next

Catch up on the latest YouTube videos and Instagram reels, and don’t miss the chance to be part of my next Loading Dock interview at the Art Gallery of NSW! Justin Willi

Robert Malherbe and Keith Burt (live at the Tweed Regional Gallery)

See the video version of the interview on YouTube here My conversation with two remarkable Australian artists, Robert Malherbe and Keith Burt was in front of a fabulous

Ingrid Hedgcock at the Margaret Olley Art Centre

Ingrid Hedgcock, director of the Tweed Regional Gallery, shows me around the amazing Margaret Olley Art Centre which is the relocation of Margaret Olley’s home studio fro

Sophie Perez and Sarah McDonald (with edited version on YouTube)

See an edited version of this episode (5 mins) on the talking with Painters YouTube channel An artist’s residency provides more than just uninterrupted time to work; it’

Karen Black

Podcast listeners click here to view the works Through layers of paint in varying translucency, Karen Black explores not only the physical nature of the female form but

Laura Jones wins the 2024 Archibald Prize

Watch the video version of my interview with Laura Jones here on the Talking with Painters YouTube channel Congratulations to previous podcast guest Laura Jones on winni

The Loading Dock Interviews (also on YouTube)

See the video version of this episode on the TWP YouTube channel here.  This is my 5th collection of Loading Dock Interviews of entrants to the Archibald, Wynne and Sulm

Caroline Zilinsky

See highlights of this interview on the YouTube Channel Caroline Zilinsky’s paintings freeze pivotal moments in our culture’s history, encouraging us to reflect upon our

The Story Behind the Painting (Part 2)

Podcast listeners click here to see images of the work Over the years, podcast guests have shared some fascinating back stories to paintings they have made, stories whic

The story behind the painting: Fantauzzo, Flint, Quilty and Dobell

Podcast listeners click here to see images of the works Over the years, podcast guests have shared some fascinating back stories to paintings they have made, stories whi