6.9 How to Draw with Tango Conway

In the studio this week is Amelia Skelton, 2026 recipient of the The 2026 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging). We cover her career from studying sculpture and drawing at art school and now returning to NAS as a teacher. We also talk textiles, trash, Oscar the Grouch, karaoke and the TC 2 Loom.Amelia on ig https://www.instagram.com/milskelton/Hung up on ig https://www.instagram.com/hungup.au/

Episode 6.17 Show notes:Neha Kale is a widely-published writer. She works in many forms including criticism, journalism, essay and other nonfiction. For close to fifteen years, her writing on art, contemporary culture and society has appeared frequently in international and Australian publications including The Sydney Morning Herald, ArtReview, Vogue, Elephant, VICE, The Guardian, Griffith Review, Art Guide Australia, SBS, Kill Your Darlings, Gourmet Traveller, The World of Interiors, Running Dog, i-D, Wonderground, BBC and more.Mixing personal narrative with art and cultural criticism, Foreign Return explores the work of artists Dayanita Singh, Ana Mendieta, Tracey Emin, Brett Whiteley and Danie Mellor among others to investigate the myth of the suburbs, the shadows of colonial inheritance, and the changing ways we need to conceive of homes and their ownership.Word cloud “We are living in the aftermath of so many histories” show texts, colonial contexts, the sweep of history, Dayanita Singh, experimental art writing, feelings first/embodied criticism, Australian property obsession, writing in long-hand, privacy, forgetting the audience, watching the self watch the world,Reading list:Olivia Laing; Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, Lonely CityDayanita Singh: Dream VillaAnnie Erneaux: The YearsDeborah Levy Hot MilkNeha Kale; Foreign ReturnFollow hung up on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hungup.au/ 

This week on the pod we have Daniel Mudie Cunningham! Daniel is the former Director of Programs at Carriageworks, and the current director of Wollongong Art Gallery. His work has been widely exhibited and collected by institutions including MoNA and Art Gallery of Western Australia.Topics we covered include: How we met Dan by eavesdropping, Matt got locked up in earlwood, family portraits at Hurstville westfield, five year plans, Aiden grapples with DEATH, Lost media, Tow truck delivery to the Tina Turner concert, Matt’s ego death, and Aiden’s free psychotherapist, and the Moby song that inspired his Funeral SongsDan’s Linkshttps://danmudcun.com/creation/are-you-there-the-bookhttps://boxd.it/9JSUf

Hung up is back the couch this week with Jason Phu chatting about his process, prizes, teaching art in 2026, race around the world, matt's wedding reels and negotiating business opportunities in China

You guys, it's a the return of ⁠@calli_comical⁠ !we talk frolicking, sebatticals, her creative process, embellishment, four way stretch, wild horses, moving to london, more from Aiden’s prison stories, burning out, and what it’s like making costumes for big stars

Matt and I have been reading Toby since we lived a Marrickville warehouse in 2017. They are currently a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney for creative writing and former poetry editor at Overland Literary Magazine.Toby has published nine books of poetry including the topic of this episode Or: an Autobiography published by Upswell PublishingThis week we talk: The poetic voice, gender, rupture, puns, being a parent, calligrams, when Rimbaud came to australia, images vs words, left justification, and getting scammed in the music industryEpisode in bio.Follow us on IG at: @hungup.au

We sat down with one half of Nova Milne, Steph Nova Milne, Printmaking Lecturer at National art School. What happened next may shock you.Public programming, the limits of language, video art seats, video art on ABC iView, enmeshment, Telepathic art-making, love poems, nina simone’s gum, can you step on the gum, Nabokov’s Custard Heart, follow us on insta at @hungup.au

We're back. So back, with another episode of Hung Up for you. Today's guest is @pattys_toybox Wordcloud:Job Stoppers, Getting started, tattooing your self and others with care, Inked Up the TV show, Orthodoxy, Fine lines, Hierarchies of materials, Housewives, Ren and Stimpy, Wonderful balls, and much more!Episode link in bio

We're so back with another conversation, this time with Erin Murphy!Erin is a Sulman Prize 2025 Finalist and 2025 a Brett Whitely travelling scholarship Finalist.Having an art boss, not spending too much time at the Darlo all of the time, science objects, the lack of robots at Nas, prime pigs, animals are fun to paint and look at, the world is a massive checklist, Conrad Clapheck, Regional galleries, Newport, Falling by the Cooks River

We caught up with Tango for one of our trademarked wide ranging discussions, this time including. Scared students, her brilliant Snooze Portraits, being friends with your therapist, 1st year ego death, bedbugs in Paris and much, much more.