Talking with Painters
Maria Stoljar talks with Australian painters about how they became an artist, their painting techniques, influences and current work.
Episodes
April 6, 2025 • 50 mins
Podcast listeners - see the art work we talk about in this episode here
Step into the gripping world of Richard Lewer — where drawing, painting, and video meet the raw edges of human experience.
Richard doesn’t look away from life’s toughest stories. From the deeply personal — like the final days of his father’s life — to the harrowing and socially charged, including the tragic death of an Indigenous child in custody and the haunti...
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March 17, 2025 • 4 mins
Catch up on the latest YouTube videos and Instagram reels, and don’t miss the chance to be part of my next Loading Dock interview at the Art Gallery of NSW!
Justin Williams (video)
Justin Williams - ep 60 podcast interview
Robert Malherbe and Keith Burt (video)
Loading Dock Interviews Playlist
Nic Plowman (Instagram reel)
Sam Eyles (Instagram reel)
The Art Room
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December 4, 2024 • 55 mins
See the video version of the interview on YouTube here
My conversation with two remarkable Australian artists, Robert Malherbe and Keith Burt was in front of a fabulous audience at the Tweed Regional Gallery.
Robert and Keith completed residencies at the gallery's Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio, drawing inspiration from objects in Margaret Olley’s recreated home studio at the gallery. The result of their residencies is A...
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November 19, 2024
Ingrid Hedgcock, director of the Tweed Regional Gallery, shows me around the amazing Margaret Olley Art Centre which is the relocation of Margaret Olley's home studio from Paddington in Sydney.
Famous for being like an Aladdin's cave of eclectic objects, the recreated home studio contains the sources of many inspirational items which appear in Margaret Olley's paintings. Over an astonishing 21,000 items were relocated from Sydney...
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November 12, 2024 • 23 mins
See an edited version of this episode (5 mins) on the talking with Painters YouTube channel
An artist’s residency provides more than just uninterrupted time to work; it’s also a valuable space for risk-taking, experimentation, and self-reflection.
That's what I learned when I caught up with Sophie Perez and Sarah McDonald during my recent visit to the Tweed Regional Gallery. They were there for a residency in the Nanc...
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August 21, 2024 • 44 mins
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Through layers of paint in varying translucency, Karen Black explores not only the physical nature of the female form but through her use of abstraction and considered use of colour she brings out another dimension - an emotional layer.
There is a strong sense of a spontaneous response in her paintings so you may be surprised to hear that reading and research play as much a role in he...
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June 9, 2024
Watch the video version of my interview with Laura Jones here on the Talking with Painters YouTube channel
Congratulations to previous podcast guest Laura Jones on winning the Archibald Prize - Australia’s most famous portrait prize - with a sensitive and meaningful portrait of writer and environmentalist Tim Winton.
On Friday I interviewed Laura shortly after the announcement and I’m bringing you that 5 minute conversation in thi...
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May 19, 2024
See the video version of this episode on the TWP YouTube channel here.
This is my 5th collection of Loading Dock Interviews of entrants to the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes.
Six brave painters fronted my camera and microphone as they delivered their work to the packing room at the Art Gallery of NSW via the loading dock.
Thankyou to these artists (tap on their name for their Instagram page):
Andrew Bischoff
Mila Kalik...
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April 21, 2024
See highlights of this interview on the YouTube Channel
Caroline Zilinsky's paintings freeze pivotal moments in our culture's history, encouraging us to reflect upon our times, whether it's the absurdity, the horror or the humour.
At the risk of being labelled a conspiracy theorist, she's attracted to the dilemmas brought on by the internet era and shines a light on the things that trouble most of us: our loss of privacy, shortened...
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April 4, 2024
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Over the years, podcast guests have shared some fascinating back stories to paintings they have made, stories which you could never have guessed just on viewing the work.
Sometimes that back story has made me look at the work in a totally different way and I’m bringing you another eight artists' works in addition to those in ep 155.
Click on the artist's name below for the...
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February 18, 2024 • 25 mins
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Over the years, podcast guests have shared some fascinating back stories to paintings they have made, stories which you could never have guessed on merely viewing the work.
Sometimes that back story has made me look at the work in a totally different way and I’m bringing you a few of those to you in this episode. See images of the works we talk about below.
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Tickets f...
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January 23, 2024 • 34 mins
Podcast guests talk with me about the flow state!
See below for timestamps and links to each guest's full podcast interview and video
3:39 Julie Nicholson and Fiona Verity - Podcast | Instagram video
6:40 Ann Thomson - Podcast | YouTube
7:54 Joshua Yeldham - Podcast | YouTube
10:15 Antonia Perricone Mrljak - Podcast | YouTube
11:25 Wendy Sharpe - Podcast | YouTube
12:51 Lewis Miller - Podcast | YouTube
13:50 Aida Tomescu - ...
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December 2, 2023 • 6 mins
Above photo of Jan Senbergs by Riste Andrievski
Click play for my podcast introduction to this interview and scroll down for the transcript.
Podcast listeners click here and scroll down for transcript.
Watch the YouTube video of Jan Senbergs' studio and work here
Links
Jan Senbergs' website
Jan Senbergs on Instagram
Jan Senbergs at Niagara Galleries
Talking with Painters YouTube channel
Talking with Painters on Instag...
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See a video version of the interview with curator Jackie Dunn here
See a video version of the interview with artist Desmond Lazaro here
The largest exhibition of Kandinsky's work ever to be seen in Australia has just opened at the Art Gallery of NSW!
The exhibition, titled simply 'Kandinsky', brings together over 50 works of one of the 20th century's most innovative and ground breaking painters - Vasily Kandinsky - with 47 paintin...
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October 20, 2023 • 51 mins
This episode is a conversation between James Powditch and Maria Stoljar in front of an audience at the Art Gallery of NSW, recorded by the Art Gallery Society
James Powditch has always loved the movies. As a child in the 70s and 80s he would watch whatever he could get away with - from Taxi Driver to Deliverance.
But in recent years, after being shortlisted in the Archibald prize with paintings of Labor leader (now PM) Anthony Alba...
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October 7, 2023 • 24 mins
Risk. Some painters want it in their toolbox while others are terrified by it. But nearly every painter will tell you that you need it in order to move forward in your practice.
It might be using a new material, drastically altering the composition of a nearly completed painting or creating a completely different body of work to what had previously been commercially successful and critically acclaimed. Any way you look at it, you'...
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September 10, 2023 • 35 mins
More inspiration from the archives!
Here are another 12 past podcast guests talking with me about colour.
Links to full podcast conversations and YouTube videos on each of the artists in this episode:
2:13 David Griggs - Podcast | YouTube
5:00 Laura Jones - Podcast | YouTube
9:08 Lewis Miller - Podcast | YouTube
11:10 Lucy Culliton - Podcast | YouTube
13:13 Robin Eley - Podcast | YouTube
18: 25 Melinda Harper -...
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August 22, 2023 • 20 mins
This episode I'm bringing you some gems from the archives. Leading artists talk with me about colour!
Episodes of featured artists:
Jo Bertini
Paul Newton
Philip Wolfhagen
Nicholas Harding
John Wolseley
Peter O'Doherty
Links
YouTube channel
Talking with Painters website
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Nicholas Harding talks with me about his Wynne prize painting
John Wolseley talks with me about his watercol...
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August 9, 2023 • 25 mins
Watch an edited version of this conversation (4 mins) on the YouTube channel here
Ann Thomson, one of Australia's most important artists, might be in her 90th year but she shows no signs of putting down the brush.
A powerful collection of works is currently hanging in a solo show at Sydney's Defiance Gallery and Ann is looking forward to a busy 2024. A major survey show to be curated by Terence Maloon will open at the S.H.Ervin...
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June 19, 2023 • 39 mins
Watch the edited video version of this podcast episode on the Talking with Painters YouTube channel
The exhibition of Francis Giacco's paintings now showing at Australian Galleries in Sydney has been a long time coming. Covid pushed back the scheduling but it was worth the wait!
I met Francis at the gallery and we walked through the exhibition talking about several key works which cross portraiture, still life and landscape. Apart ...
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