Ep 26 | Julie Blyfield, a South Australian/Tarntanya based artist and UniSA alumnus, sits down with art historian, writer and curator Julie Ewington to discuss her exhibition flowers of the sea.  

Julie shares how her grandmother was a formative influence, the importance of engaging with scientific collections, and the unique quality of bi-metal (copper and sterling silver) that uniquely lent itself to this new body of work.  
ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced in Tarntanya/Adelaide on 13 July 2022.

Ep 25 | Trans-media artist, writer and performer Virginia Barratt is joined by Em König, a multidisciplinary artist, to discuss their collaboration Exosmosis, premiering at Samstag on Thursday 16 June.

Under the moniker [sadworm], Virginia and Em will present a new performance-based work centered around Virginia as a performer and Em’s responsive live soundscape. Joanna Kitto, former Associate Curator at Samstag Museum of Art, joins them.

ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced in Tarntanya/Adelaide on 8 October 2021.

ABC Radio National, The Art Show with Daniel Browning
Broadcast: Wed 16 Mar 2022, 10:05am

Over the course of his career Isaac Julien has moved from making art films shown in cinemas to making films shown in art galleries, unfolding over multiple screens. His lavish, cinematic installations tell stories of Black identity, immigrant workers trapped in a British underclass and heroic figures like the 19^th C. abolitionist Frederick Douglass. But also films about architecture and design – such as the revolutionary ideas of Brazilian modernist Lina Bo Bardi. Isaac's work is on show now in Adelaide at the Samstag Museum of Art and at the John Curtin Gallery in Perth.

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Ep 24 | Djon Mundine OAM

UniSA visiting research fellow, writer, curator, activist and proud Bandjalung man Djon Mundine OAM sits down with Samstag’s Associate Curator Anna Zagala to discuss his venerable career.   

Along the way Djon shares his curatorial process, the importance of maintaining a wide perspective and open approach, how the Aboriginal Memorial came about, and what the dingo has to tells us about settler culture.  

ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced in Tarntanya/Adelaide on 11 March 2022.

Ep 23: Helen Fuller and Khai Liew | Samstag Director Erica Green sits down with two Tarntanya/Adelaide-based makers, ceramicist Helen Fuller and designer Khai Liew.

Helen Fuller’s exhibition of objects or ‘pots’ as she refers to them, is currently on at Samstag Museum of Art presented in collaboration with Khai Liew who conceived of the imaginative installation.

They discuss Helen’s love of the night sky in the Flinders Ranges, her recently recent foray in working with clay, how a visit to Helen’s home and studio was a source of inspiration to Khai, and the steps that led them both to the present moment.

ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced in Tarntanya/Adelaide on 8 March 2022.

Ep 20 | In the latest episode of ON ART, Marseille-based, Adelaide-born artist Madison Bycroft on their new moving image commission BIOPIC or Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée  (2021) with Samstag curator Gillian Brown. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss the making and presentation of a feature length film, the politics of storytelling and the philosophical notion of opacity.