Art Smitten

In this episode we will be exploring Radical hope as a way to live, make and create during times of uncertainty. We discuss the current exhibition ‘Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience’ curated by Isabella Hone-Saunders and Paul Boyé as part of the MADA curator-in-residence program. Isabella joined us in the studio to chat with us all about the project!Also, Mio shares the work of artist Wendy Hannah whose installation work in Aotearoa had her smitten 🎐Tune into SYN90.7fm from 3-5pm Mondays to hear us live each week🤞Image Credit: Rory Pilgrim, ‘Tomorrow in your hands and Government lover’, 2026 plastic bags with printed text, grass. Exhibited in ‘Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience’ at MADA gallerySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For this week’s episode of Art Smitten ~ we are looking to the world around us and discussing how nature inspires artistic practice 🔍🐛🐜🌷🐦‍⬛The team visited the Potter Museum of Art’s current exhibition ‘a velvet ant, a flower and a bird’, and will be speaking to Pippa Milne all about the show!Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm @synmediaImage: Ingela Ihrman, Waterlily Amazonica, 2012. Courtesy the artist @blodfrukten_fran_istiden@pottermuseumSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode explores the bed and our rooms as sites for artistic expression + resistance 💭🛌 Speaking first to George @cinnam0nros3 about their essays on Beside Oracle before hearing about an upcoming group exhibition curated by Nina @nini.beani titled ‘forever bedroom’🤍🤍🤍Art Smitten airs 3-5pm Mondays on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia ☁️ Image courtesy of Nina Seeburg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode of Art Smitten features our conversation with humanoid robot Pepper who is currently on display at the National Communication Museum in Hawthorn.Restored for their current exhibition ‘Friend’, we asked Pepper many pressing questions including if robots will take over the world… 😳😳 Jesse from NCM Studio also spoke with us about their role in robot restoration and the other machines within 'Friend'. In the second half of this episode, our wonderful Astra shares his thoughts on Spike Jonze's film 'Her' - reflecting on human loneliness and its resonance in today's AI chat-bot filled world.  Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Art Smitten, we are fortunate to be joined by artist Aisha Hara who recently had an exhibition at CAVES 🌼titled 'Green Age'.Aisha is a Japanese-Australian visual artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She is interested in the intersections of painting and translation and her exhibition is a response to the poetics of spring as found in tanka poetry 🎐We also had a discussion about NGV's recent winter blockbuster 'French Impressionism: from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston' after our Executive Producer Jen visited the show in its final days.@aisha__hara@caves.naarm 📻 Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm @synmediaImage credit: Risograph poster for 'Green Age' by Aisha HaraSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are dishing up a real treat for you all 🍽️ this collaboration with our dear friends at Talk On Your Fork brings an episode focused on the intersection of food & art! To begin, Astra will be sharing their thoughts on the film ‘The Menu’ (2022) 🥣 PLUS for a real treat, we will be speaking to Gemma Leslie from @foodforeveryone.aus about her incredible project that pairs artists with chefs all to raise funds for those in need. We end with a discussion focused on the history Dutch Still Life paintings to wrap up the show. Art Smitten airs on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia on Mondays 3-5pm. Also available on the Community Radio Plus app 📲 Be sure to listen to Talk On Your Fork! Wherever you get your podcasts.  Image: Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, ‘Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes’, 1780. Courtesy of The Met Museum.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listen to our conversation with Kate Barber, cofounder of Spring1883, an art fair hosted inside the iconic Hotel Windsor on Spring Street 🏩 !  Within their own reserved room, gallerists uniquely display works by artists they represent in the unconventional hotel suites instead of the typical 'white cube' model characteristic of typical art fairs.  @spring1883@synmediaListen on Art Smitten on Mondays via the Community Radio Plus app, online or tune into 90.7fm 🎧Image: Daine Singer room, 2014. Photographer: Zan Wimberley. Courtesy of Spring1883.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Maya Borjesson @handclap joined us in the studio 🔊 for this episode of Art Smitten.Based in Naarm/Melbourne, Maya is a sound artist and architect who explores ambient music’s potential in evoking memories as well as sound’s relationship to architecture. We also briefly discuss the history of sound as an artform to contextualize our discussion around sound as an artistic medium! Art Smitten airs Monday 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm 📻 @synmedia Work by Maya Borjesson included in this podcast includes 'A Thread Beneath Our Skin' which was exhibited at No Vacancy Gallery as part of the show 'Stillness in Motion". Image credit: Joshua Maxwell de Hoog @jesterempathSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.