House Conspiracy Podcast

The Sauce theatre collective sits down (twice) with House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien to talk about teamwork, show redevelopment, and design-led practice.

The Sauce is a collective of Brisbane-based emerging theatre artists focused on the creation of new collaboratively devised work. First established in 2015, they have a history of creating work specifically for local audiences with a view to stimulate dialogue and understanding ...

Scientist and artist Jeanette Stok sits down with House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien to discuss the minute details of things.

Jeanette Stok is both an artist and a scientist. She is particularly interested in how repetitive actions are an integral component of the everyday, the generation of knowledge, identity and heritage. Her practice combines drawing, printing, sculpture and video and she recently completed her BFA at QCA (2016...

Comic book duo Cami Duran & Nick Rees sit down with House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien to talk about growing up overseas, as well as how their journeys are the same and how they differ.

Camila Duran and Nick Rees are comic book artists working on visual stories about displacement and identity, using their experiences growing up overseas to explore setting as character.

See more of Cami & Nick: houseconspiracy.org/camila-dura...

Artist of many hats Michelle Vine sits down with Jonathan O'Brien to talk about empathic embrace, collaboration, and the differences between galleries and museums.

Michelle Vine is a contemporary artist and photographer who graduated from QCA in 2016. She has travelled across Queensland and to Germany for her feminist art-science project based on German Naturalist Amalie Dietrich. Her photography has documented her own intimate perf...

Actor and artist Gemma Elsom sits down with House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien to talk about radical honesty, performance, and social media.

Gemma Elsom is a an artist from the Sunshine Coast, with a practice centred in performance. Combining a background in long form improv and the Meisner technique - her work calls for pure honesty from the audience as well as the actors. Gemma has developed a keen eye for producing experimental ...

Public historian Hilary Davies talks to House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien about what it means to be a historian in 2017.

Brisbane writer and historian Hilary Davies writes Australian history books and articles, and historical fiction. She holds a PhD in history and is the author of Surveying Success, an award-winning book about life in colonial Queensland. She ‘turned Indie’ publisher in 2015, and as Isabella Hargreaves has releas...

Performance artists Jason McKell and Elizabeth Bloomer of Pipí Cucú Theatre talk to House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien about theatre, skill-sharing, and starting something new in Brisbane, Australia.

Pipí Cucú began life in 2016, as a collective that specialises in Physical and Visual Theatre. We are committed to providing access to training and performances, that are otherwise rare or unavailable within Australia. To date, these i...

Contemporary artist Anna Litwinovicz sits down with Jonathan O'Brien to talk about the natural shift of focus from the physical to the metaphysical.

Anna Litwinowicz is a Brisbane based emerging artist currently undertaking a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art) at QUT. She explores a wide range of mediums but focuses primarily on the combinations of video, photography, installation and performance based works. The seeds to her ideas ...

Visual artists Helen Hardess and Jude Roberts sit down with Jonathan O'Brien to talk about responding to nature, presenting those responses, and the process of doing it all together.

Helen Hardess is currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Art, Queensland College of Art majoring in Sculpture. Using a process-driven methodology in a spatial practice, she explores the layered and contesting social, cultural and economic responses to l...

Multidisciplinary artist Jacinta Giles sits down with Jonathan O'Brien to discuss moving into art later in life, working with other people's images, and how to establish and maintain a critique group.

Currently a research candidate at Queensland College of Art, Jacinta Giles’s practice merges experimental photography, montage and cinematic stills to interrogate the contemporary experience of fear. Her interests lie in exploring how ...

Christian contemporary artist Adele Grobler Dellit talks to House Conspiracy's Jonathan O'Brien about what it's like to be an artist before and after finding faith.

Adele's work focuses on her relationship with God. After becoming a Christian in 2016, it became clear to her that there are very few Contemporary Christian artists. She explores what Contemporary Christian paintings look like, through her own testimony and hermeneutical...

Digitally-focused artist Kailum Graves talks to Jonathan O'Brien about the internet as a tool, curation as art, and the legality of copyright and appropriative works.

Kailum Graves is an emerging artist critically obsessed with the artifactual digital object. He works predominantly in the medium of photography and within the sphere of the photographic process, including large-scale video installations. His practice reflects the infl...