Blak Douglas on Arts Friday

Kate Grenville stops by Arts Tuesday to discuss her 25th publication, The Country Schoolmaster, a Mystery in 88 in Letters, that is out now from Black Inc. While poking around in the archives she came across a dusty box containing a bundle of letters tied with pink tape. And off she went. She was fascinating [...]Read More... from Interveiw with Kate Grenville

Fresh off her exhilarating performance for SIMA at the Oxford Art Factory, surreal blues poet, writer and activist Aja Monet joins Arts – Monday presenter Ayiko for a compelling and thought-provoking conversation exploring the intersections of art, authenticity, activism, love and community.  [...]Read More... from Interview with Aja Monet

Di & Suzi interview with Jenny and Peter Hindle who are visiting from Sussex to be at the opening night of The Unfriend (at the Ros, for Sydney Theatre Company). The reason, of course, is that they are the couple who, while on a cruise to Panama, befriended an American they describe as “very charismatic”. For a variety of reasons, after [...]Read More... from Interview with Jenny and Peter Hindle

This week on Arts Tuesday, Suzi and Diana sat down with director John Grinston for a lively chat about the underrated art of the one-act play. As Bittersweet Productions brings live theatre back to the beautiful Eternity Playhouse, John shares the unique challenges of directing short comedy, while sharing a laugh over the ultimate audience sin… [...]Read More... from John Grinston from Bittersweet Productions joins Arts Tuesday

In this episode of Arts Friday, Angela Stretch speaks with Mirri Leven, Director of Art Leven, on the opening night of the gallery’s new Woolloomooloo space and the launch of a significant exhibition and auction honouring the collecting journeys of Dame Marie Bashir and David Shehadie. Established in 1981, Art Leven has spent more than [...]Read More... from Art Leven Auction 

In this episode of Arts Friday, Angela Stretch speaks with artist, educator, curator and presiding judge Kathryn Minkley about the tenth annual Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize — Australia’s highest-value women’s art prize, with a total prize pool of $58,000 across three categories. Celebrating a decade of championing Australian women artists, the acquisitive prize and [...]Read More... from Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize 2026

Blak Douglas joins us for an insightful conversation about “home flown”. His powerful exhibition that launched at NSW Parliament House on 7 May 2026. We explore the inspiration behind the body of work, the stories and messages throughout the exhibition. Blak Douglas shares his creative process, discusses challenging traditional expectations of what Aboriginal art is [...]Read More... from Blak Douglas on Arts Friday

In this episode of Arts Tuesday, Suzi and Diana are joined in the studio by renowned accent and dialect coach, Linda Nicholls-Gidley. Teaching in many of the nation’s drama schools and working in a broad range of media ranging from film to theatre, she has over 20 years of experience. Linda speaks about different accents [...]Read More... from Arts Tuesday: Interview with Linda Nicholls-Gidley on the science of accents

Based on the novel by the Nobel prize winning author Olga Tokarczuk, Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a play being put on at the Belvoir theatre starring Pamela Rabe as Mrs Duzjeko, a woman investigating a series of murders that have mysterious connections to animals and nature. Marco Chiappi is [...]Read More... from Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead – An Interview with Marco Chiappi

A young woman, Jana Vytrhlik fled Communist Prague and, as a political refugee and via Austria and New Zealand, made her way to Sydney. She had taught herself English by watching daily soaps on TV while caring for her infant son. She was one of the original staff members at the Powerhouse Museum, where her [...]Read More... from Interview with Dr Jana Vytrhlik – Treasures of Old Jewish Sydney