Describe Everything

Sarah Empey is legally blind and works as a consultant with art galleries and museums, co-designing audio descriptions and creating more accessible spaces. We chat about best practice for audio description, and share a beautiful William Robinson description. With many thanks to the JFM Fund, QUT Art Museum, and of course Sarah Empey.

This is an audio described tour of the South Australian Museum’s Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize exhibition. It is created so that visitors who are blind or have low vision can experience the artworks, but anyone is welcome to listen.

Welcome to an unusal audio tour of a contemporary exhibition at Samstag Museum of Art. How do we say what we need to say, and who’s listening? Are we making sense? What’s the point in trying? This amazing group of contemporary artists explore communication and connection, and this podcast attempts yet another translation into audio description. Artist featured are Richard Bell (Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman and Gurang Gurang) / Madison Bycroft / Kuba Dorabialski / Danielle Freakley / Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader / Monte Masi / Chunxiao Qu.

More information can be found here: https://helpmannacademy.com.au/graduate-exhibition-2025/

Dreaming Cat can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY, USA: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/752008

Portrait of a Woman can be found in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, USA: https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.43626.html

The Milkmaid can be found in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, or online here: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-2344