Season 1 (2021)

Uncle Jack Charles, Atong Atem & Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
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May 5, 2021 • 27m

In the very first episode of Art Works, host Namila Benson throws a pot with actor Uncle Jack Charles and interviews artist Atong ...Read more

Race and Representation, Ziggy Ramo & Airi Ingram
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January 1, 1970 • 26m

Namila Benson has a much-needed conversation about race and representation with Indigenous hip hop artist Ziggy Ramo and attempts ...Read more

Opera Australia & Mary Quant
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May 19, 2021 • 28m

Deni Todorovic looks at the career of fashion designer Mary Quant, developer Siobhan Reddy talks about the storytelling potential ...Read more

Museum of Contemporary Art & ABC Classic 100
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May 26, 2021 • 27m

Two perfect strangers go on a blind date to the MCA, Curator Kimberley Moulton and director Bruce Gladwin talk about how collabora...Read more

Miss First Nation & the Ramsay Art Prize
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June 2, 2021 • 29m

We head backstage at Miss First Nation, the national competition for Indigenous drag queens. Musician Eric Avery talks about playi...Read more

Archibald Prize & Archie 100
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June 9, 2021 • 30m

Art Works deep dives into the 2021 Archibald Prize. We meet 1985 Archibald winner and the subject of Peter Wegner's winning entry,...Read more

Kate Just & the Great Woy Woy Tea Cosy Showcase
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June 16, 2021 • 28m

Artist Kate Just teaches Namila Benson how to knit while explaining her feminist art practice, before we visit the Great Woy Woy T...Read more

Hilma af Klint & Incognito Art Show
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June 23, 2021 • 31m

Artist Katy B. Plummer takes us to the Hilma af Klint exhibition where she and co-curators Sue Cramer and Nicholas Chambers explai...Read more

Dark Mofo 2021
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June 30, 2021 • 26m

Art Works heads to Dark Mofo festival to hear from Tasmanian First Nations artists about the Union Flag controversy and how the fa...Read more

NAIDOC Week 2021
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July 7, 2021 • 31m

We meet the creators of documentaries Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra and My Name Is Gulpilil; plus Aboriginal and Torres Strai...Read more

Just Not Australian Touring Exhibition
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July 14, 2021 • 28m

Art Works explores the impact of the film and drama industry moving into Byron Bay. Artists Fiona Foley and Abdul Abdullah speak a...Read more

Arts Access Victoria Amplify Festival
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July 21, 2021 • 27m

Street artist Heesco shares the ethos behind the large-scale mural project Heesco Town in regional Victoria; and we meet the music...Read more

Science Gallery in Melbourne
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July 28, 2021 • 28m

We meet Maree Clarke, the first living Victorian Aboriginal artist to have a solo exhibition at the NGV, before Namila Benson visi...Read more

Brisbane Comedy Festival
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August 4, 2021 • 29m

Ngugi artist Elisa Jane Carmichael introduces us to the revived traditional art of weaving and Brisbane Comedy Festival continues ...Read more

Malthouse Theatre's Because the Night
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August 11, 2021 • 29m

Namila Benson talks to Yorta Yorta soprano, composer and educator (and national treasure) Deborah Cheetham and we wander through M...Read more

Mo'Ju, Vipoo Srivilasa & The Wellness Deity Project
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August 18, 2021 • 30m

We meet with award-winning Wiradjuri and Filipino musician Mo'Ju, before going foraging for driftwood with artist Pete Rush. Artis...Read more

Maxine Beneba Clark, New Writers Collective & Alex Lahey
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August 25, 2021 • 27m

We visit writer Maxine Beneba Clarke in her studio; get to know the New Writers Collective for teen women, trans and non-binary pl...Read more

NATSIAA, Ishmael, Stone Country, Ida Sophia
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September 1, 2021 • 27m

We check out the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards; a space-age reimagining of Moby-Dick; wearable art fro...Read more

Kylie Bracknell, Lucy Irvine, Demolition
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September 8, 2021 • 27m

Learn about the first feature film to be dubbed in an Australian Aboriginal language; Canberra-based Scottish sculptor Lucy Irvine...Read more

Boy Swallows Universe, Murrniny, Ngaiire
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September 15, 2021 • 28m

Meet the creators of the theatre adaptation of award-winning novel Boy Swallows Universe, the Yolngu artists from the remote North...Read more

Daniel Lafferty, The Rivers Sing
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September 22, 2021 • 27m

Daniel Lafferty fires up his kiln for the first time since the 2019/20 bushfires; Deborah Cheetham reflects on The Rivers Sing; Sa...Read more

Brenton E. McKenna, Mick Turner, Bukjeh
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September 29, 2021 • 29m

Brenton E. McKenna shares his lifelong love of comics; Mick Turner from the Dirty Three talks about the art of the album cover; th...Read more

Claire McArdle, Voices of Colour
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October 6, 2021 • 26m

Claire McArdle takes jewellery making into the streets; meet the Voices of Colour arts collective; David Moran shows us unconventi...Read more

#KnowMyName
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October 13, 2021 • 30m

Meet artists Lisa Waup, Sally Rees and Yhonnie Scarce, as well as the artistic directors of some of Australia's most celebrated ma...Read more

Muster, Terrapin, Dale Woodbridge-Brown
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October 20, 2021 • 27m

Watch participatory dance work Muster; marvel at the craftsmanship of Terrapin; meet 13-year-old Bronte as she auditions for Balle...Read more

First Nations Fashion and Design
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October 27, 2021 • 29m

Strut the catwalk with First Nations Fashion and Design; have a stickybeak inside Sam Leighton-Dore's home; share a cuppa with lat...Read more

Ausmusic Month
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November 3, 2021 • 31m

Art Works celebrates Ausmusic Month by talking to musicians, Bukhu Ganburged, and Vika and Linda Bull; and artist and graphic desi...Read more

Art in the Vines, Patricia Piccinini
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November 10, 2021 • 25m

Art Works visits the new Art in the Vines sculpture exhibition at a winery in regional Victoria. Also meet artist Patricia Piccini...Read more

OzAsia Festival, Koolbardi wer Wardong
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November 17, 2021 • 28m

Art Works heads to OzAsia Festival in Adelaide; Maclagan Squeezebox Festival in regional Queensland; and to see West Australian Op...Read more

Neo Teen Takeover, Wendy Mocke, Fiona Lee
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November 24, 2021 • 29m

Teens curate a bimonthly event at AGSA; Papua New Guinean artist Wendy Mocke talks about empowered Black womanhood; how Fiona Lee ...Read more

Jazz Money, Tarnanthi, Serwah Attafuah
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December 1, 2021 • 28m

Meet poet/artist Jazz Money and artist Serwah Attafuah and see how the first interrogates colonial spaces, and the latter toys wit...Read more

Transformation, Time Pass, Baai
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December 8, 2021 • 29m

Hear from young people reclaiming their own narratives: by celebrating South Sudanese culture; and creating work by and about the ...Read more

La Mama Theatre, Stella Prize
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December 15, 2021 • 32m

We visit the newly reopened La Mama Theatre in Melbourne; see how Aboriginal artists are using a colonial statue as a canvas in Ho...Read more