Making Art – Episode 13 Joanne Murray Smith Episode Released 22nd September 2020 Joanna Murray Smith is an elegant and fiercely intelligent woman so it came as no surprise that from the moment she resplendently appeared on the zoom link for our chat she launched headlong into a philosophical discussion about the effects of the […]

Making Art – Episode 12 Frank Woodley Episode Released 4th September 2020 Get Smart featuring Don Adams as the secret Maxwell Smart is without doubt one of the greatest comedy series of all-time. A product of the scatological minds of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry it was a favourite of mine growing up and while […]

Making Art – Episode 11 Jo Lloyd Episode Released 21st August 2020 The art of choreography, the skill of communicating complex ideas through movement alone, is not an easy one. Enter Melbourne’s Jo Lloyd. Creatively restless and wary of comfort zones, over the past 2 decades Jo has created a body of work that continues […]

Making Art – Episode 10 Paul Kelly Episode Released 8th August 2020 It’s easy, particularly it would seem in this country, to underestimate the impact certain individuals have on our cultural life. We don’t hold our culture in our consciousness and so we can miss the fact that a person has been quietly creating a […]

Making Art – Episode 09 Robyn Butler & Wayne Hope Episode Released 17th July 2020 What qualities are desirable if you want to succeed in the arts? It’s an interesting question that for some reason has a habit of throwing up some rather abstract responses. Whenever the question gets posed it seems to encourage people […]

Making Art – Episode 08 Tom Holloway Episode Released 28th October 2018 When his hauntingly moving and gently unsettling 2007 play Beyond the Neck was presented at Belvoir Street in Sydney Tom Holloway announced himself as a mid-career playwright with a powerful, distinctive Australian voice. That Beyond the Neck, which looked closely and empathetically at […]

Making Art – Episode 07 Questions of Value Episode Released 7th October 2018 The speed and perceived complexity of life in the modern world appears to be forcing a number of our time honoured clichés into retirement. “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” faces an uncertain future in our fast […]

Making Art – Episode 06 Sue Thomson Episode Released 22nd July 2018 “Creative Victoria is the state government body dedicated to championing, growing and supporting Victoria’s creative industries. We invest in the ideas, talent, organisations, events and projects that make Victoria a creative state”. So go the opening lines of Creative Victoria’s home page and […]

Making Art – Episode 05 Tim Dargaville Episode Released 8th July 2018 When people ask, as they occasionally have over the past two and a half years, why I haven’t been acting much lately I’ve often replied that I’m “taking a breather”, “regrouping”, “resting and having a think about things”. Which is bollocks. The truth […]

Making Art – Episode 04 Hannah Bertram Episode Released 24th June 2018 As I leave an artist having recorded a conversation for this podcast series I am trying more and more to listen for an instinctive voice, a clue that might shed some light on the direction this companion article will take. What I guess […]

Making Art – Episode 03 Maude Davey & David Pidd Episode Released 10th June 2018 I would like to confess to a number of guilty pleasures. At the moment I’m enjoying chocolate coated digestive biscuits dunked in milk. So delicious. And good for you. I am also happy to come out as a closet Formula […]

Making Art – Episode 02 Peter Bakowski Episode Released 27th May 2018 When people ask what I do for a living I say, “Well, I’m an actor and I write a bit.” The standard reply is, “Oh, I thought you might be an actor.” When I ask how they arrived at that conclusion most often […]

Making Art – Episode 01 Lewis Miller Episode Released 13th May 2018 I was standing in the lotto queue the other day waiting to make an investment in my long term happiness and watched as the woman in front of me spend $170 on her fortnightly flutter with her credit card. The guy behind the […]