Talking with Painters

Ep 157: Caroline Zilinsky

Last Sunday at 7:32 AM

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Caroline Zilinsky’s paintings freeze pivotal moments in our culture’s history, encouraging us to reflect upon our times, whether it’s the absurdity, the horror or the humour.

At the risk of being labelled a conspiracy theorist, she’s attracted to the dilemmas brought on by the internet era and shines a light on the things that trouble most of us: our loss of privacy, shortened attention, a heightened focus on appearance, a growing indifference to human suffering and the increasing power assumed by tech giants.

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The story behind the paintings (Part 2)

#156

04/04/2024

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Over the years, podcast guests have shared some fascinating back stories to paintings they have made, stories which you could never have guessed just on viewing the work.

Sometimes that back story has made me look at the work in a totally different way and I’m bringing you another eight artists’ works in addition to those in ep 155.

Click on the artist’s name below for the full podcast episode (and any YouTube videos) and see images of the works we talk about...

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

02/19/2024

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 which you could never have guessed on merely viewing the work.

Sometimes that back story has made me look at the work in a totally different way and I’m bringing you a few of those to you in this episode. See images of the works we talk about below.

Links

Tickets for talk with Caroline Zilinsky at the Art Gallery of NSW (Artists in Co...

Inspiration from the archives | The Flow State

01/23/2024

Podcast guests talk with me about the flow state!

See below for timestamps and links to each guest’s full podcast interview and video

3:39 Julie Nicholson and Fiona Verity – Podcast | Instagram video

6:40 Ann Thomson – Podcast | YouTube

7:54 Joshua Yeldham – Podcast | YouTube

10:15 Antonia Perricone Mrljak – Podcast | YouTube

11:25 Wendy Sharpe – Podcast | YouTube

12:51 Lewis Miller – Podcast | YouTube

13:50 Aida Tomescu – Podcast | YouTube

16:30 David Griggs – Podcast | YouTube

17:27 Idris Murphy – Podcast | YouTube

18:40 Kathrin Longhurst – Podcast | YouTube

20:50 Anthony White – Podcast | YouTube (coming soon)

22:07 Bernard Olli...

Ep 153: Jan Senbergs

12/02/2023

Above photo of Jan Senbergs by Riste Andrievski

Click play for my podcast introduction to this interview and scroll down for the transcript.

Podcast listeners click here and scroll down for transcript.

Watch the YouTube video of Jan Senbergs’ studio and work here

Links

Jan Senbergs’ website Jan Senbergs on Instagram Jan Senbergs at Niagara Galleries Talking with Painters YouTube channel Talking with Painters on Instagram Talking with Painters on Facebook Subscribe to the TWP newsletter PDF version of transcript for tablet/desktop

With over six decades of work as a p...

Ep 152: ‘Kandinsky’ with co-curator Jackie Dunn and artist Desmond Lazaro

11/05/2023

See a video version of the interview with curator Jackie Dunn here

See a video version of the interview with artist Desmond Lazaro here

The largest exhibition of Kandinsky’s work ever to be seen in Australia has just opened at the Art Gallery of NSW!

The exhibition, titled simply ‘Kandinsky’, brings together over 50 works of one of the 20th century’s most innovative and ground breaking painters – Vasily Kandinsky – with 47 paintings from the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Curated by the Guggenheim’s curator of modern art and provenance Meg...

Ep 151: James Powditch live at the AGNSW

10/21/2023

This episode is a conversation between James Powditch and Maria Stoljar in front of an audience at the Art Gallery of NSW, recorded by the Art Gallery Society

James Powditch has always loved the movies. As a child in the 70s and 80s he would watch whatever he could get away with – from Taxi Driver to Deliverance.

But in recent years, after being shortlisted in the Archibald prize with paintings of Labor leader (now PM) Anthony Albanese and journalists Kerry O’Brien and Laura Tingle he noticed other themes emerge; media and politics.

In his most...

Inspiration from the Archives | Risk

10/07/2023

Risk. Some painters want it in their toolbox while others are terrified by it. But nearly every painter will tell you that you need it in order to move forward in your practice.

It might be using a new material, drastically altering the composition of a nearly completed painting or creating a completely different body of work to what had previously been commercially successful and critically acclaimed. Any way you look at it, you’re leaving yourself open to the possibility of failure, disappointment and probably the most painful of all – ridicule.

So whether we call it...

Inspiration from the Archives | Colour (Part 2)

09/10/2023

More inspiration from the archives!

Here are another 12 past podcast guests talking with me about colour.

Links to full podcast conversations and YouTube videos on each of the artists in this episode:

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Inspiration from the Archives | Colour (Part 1)

08/22/2023

This episode I’m bringing you some gems from the archives. Leading artists talk with me about colour!

Episodes of featured artists:

Jo Bertini Paul Newton Philip Wolfhagen Nicholas Harding John Wolseley Peter O’Doherty

Links

YouTube channel Talking with Painters website Sign up to the TWP newsletter Nicholas Harding talks with me about his Wynne prize painting John Wolseley talks with me about his watercolour techniques Short Instagram video of Paul Newton talking about flesh tones (longer YouTube video coming soon)