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Art Works(2021)

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First Air Date: 2021-05-05
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 0.0
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Seasons: 3
Episodes: 100

With in-studio segments, behind-the-scenes stories, interviews, playful explainers and deep-dive field reports from locations across Australia, this docuseries puts the spotlight on creativity as an overlooked but inherent part of our everyday lives.

Available on

Free

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 33
E01
Uncle Jack Charles, Atong Atem & Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran

Air Date: 2021-05-05

27m

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

E02
Race and Representation, Ziggy Ramo & Airi Ingram

Air Date: N/A

26m

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

E03
Opera Australia & Mary Quant

Air Date: 2021-05-19

28m

Deni Todorovic looks at the career of fashion designer Mary Quant, developer Siobhan Reddy talks about the storytelli...

E04
Museum of Contemporary Art & ABC Classic 100

Air Date: 2021-05-26

27m

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

E05
Miss First Nation & the Ramsay Art Prize

Air Date: 2021-06-02

29m

We head backstage at Miss First Nation, the national competition for Indigenous drag queens. Musician Eric Avery talk...

E06
Archibald Prize & Archie 100

Air Date: 2021-06-09

30m

Art Works deep dives into the 2021 Archibald Prize. We meet 1985 Archibald winner and the subject of Peter Wegner's w...

E07
Kate Just & the Great Woy Woy Tea Cosy Showcase

Air Date: 2021-06-16

28m

Artist Kate Just teaches Namila Benson how to knit while explaining her feminist art practice, before we visit the Gr...

E08
Hilma af Klint & Incognito Art Show

Air Date: 2021-06-23

31m

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

E09
Dark Mofo 2021

Air Date: 2021-06-30

26m

Art Works heads to Dark Mofo festival to hear from Tasmanian First Nations artists about the Union Flag controversy a...

E10
NAIDOC Week 2021

Air Date: 2021-07-07

31m

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

E11
Just Not Australian Touring Exhibition

Air Date: 2021-07-14

28m

Art Works explores the impact of the film and drama industry moving into Byron Bay. Artists Fiona Foley and Abdul Abd...

E12
Arts Access Victoria Amplify Festival

Air Date: 2021-07-21

27m

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

E13
Science Gallery in Melbourne

Air Date: 2021-07-28

28m

We meet Maree Clarke, the first living Victorian Aboriginal artist to have a solo exhibition at the NGV, before Namil...

E14
Brisbane Comedy Festival

Air Date: 2021-08-04

29m

Ngugi artist Elisa Jane Carmichael introduces us to the revived traditional art of weaving and Brisbane Comedy Festiv...

E15
Malthouse Theatre's Because the Night

Air Date: 2021-08-11

29m

Namila Benson talks to Yorta Yorta soprano, composer and educator (and national treasure) Deborah Cheetham and we wan...

E16
Mo'Ju, Vipoo Srivilasa & The Wellness Deity Project

Air Date: 2021-08-18

30m

We meet with award-winning Wiradjuri and Filipino musician Mo'Ju, before going foraging for driftwood with artist Pet...

E17
Maxine Beneba Clark, New Writers Collective & Alex Lahey

Air Date: 2021-08-25

27m

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

E18
NATSIAA, Ishmael, Stone Country, Ida Sophia

Air Date: 2021-09-01

27m

We check out the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards; a space-age reimagining of Moby-Dick; wea...

E19
Kylie Bracknell, Lucy Irvine, Demolition

Air Date: 2021-09-08

27m

Learn about the first feature film to be dubbed in an Australian Aboriginal language; Canberra-based Scottish sculpto...

E20
Boy Swallows Universe, Murrniny, Ngaiire

Air Date: 2021-09-15

28m

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

E21
Daniel Lafferty, The Rivers Sing

Air Date: 2021-09-22

27m

Daniel Lafferty fires up his kiln for the first time since the 2019/20 bushfires; Deborah Cheetham reflects on The Ri...

E22
Brenton E. McKenna, Mick Turner, Bukjeh

Air Date: 2021-09-29

29m

Brenton E. McKenna shares his lifelong love of comics; Mick Turner from the Dirty Three talks about the art of the al...

E23
Claire McArdle, Voices of Colour

Air Date: 2021-10-06

26m

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

E24
#KnowMyName

Air Date: 2021-10-13

30m

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

E25
Muster, Terrapin, Dale Woodbridge-Brown

Air Date: 2021-10-20

27m

Watch participatory dance work Muster; marvel at the craftsmanship of Terrapin; meet 13-year-old Bronte as she auditi...

E26
First Nations Fashion and Design

Air Date: 2021-10-27

29m

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

E27
Ausmusic Month

Air Date: 2021-11-03

31m

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

E28
Art in the Vines, Patricia Piccinini

Air Date: 2021-11-10

25m

Art Works visits the new Art in the Vines sculpture exhibition at a winery in regional Victoria. Also meet artist Pat...

E29
OzAsia Festival, Koolbardi wer Wardong

Air Date: 2021-11-17

28m

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

E30
Neo Teen Takeover, Wendy Mocke, Fiona Lee

Air Date: 2021-11-24

29m

Teens curate a bimonthly event at AGSA; Papua New Guinean artist Wendy Mocke talks about empowered Black womanhood; h...

E31
Jazz Money, Tarnanthi, Serwah Attafuah

Air Date: 2021-12-01

28m

Meet poet/artist Jazz Money and artist Serwah Attafuah and see how the first interrogates colonial spaces, and the la...

E32
Transformation, Time Pass, Baai

Air Date: 2021-12-08

29m

Hear from young people reclaiming their own narratives: by celebrating South Sudanese culture; and creating work by a...

E33
La Mama Theatre, Stella Prize

Air Date: 2021-12-15

32m

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

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