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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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