
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.
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Air Date: 2021-05-05
In the very first episode of Art Works, host Namila Benson throws a pot with actor Uncle Jack Charles and interviews ...
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Namila Benson has a much-needed conversation about race and representation with Indigenous hip hop artist Ziggy Ramo ...
Air Date: 2021-05-19
Deni Todorovic looks at the career of fashion designer Mary Quant, developer Siobhan Reddy talks about the storytelli...
Air Date: 2021-05-26
Two perfect strangers go on a blind date to the MCA, Curator Kimberley Moulton and director Bruce Gladwin talk about ...
Air Date: 2021-06-02
We head backstage at Miss First Nation, the national competition for Indigenous drag queens. Musician Eric Avery talk...
Air Date: 2021-06-09
Art Works deep dives into the 2021 Archibald Prize. We meet 1985 Archibald winner and the subject of Peter Wegner's w...
Air Date: 2021-06-16
Artist Kate Just teaches Namila Benson how to knit while explaining her feminist art practice, before we visit the Gr...
Air Date: 2021-06-23
Artist Katy B. Plummer takes us to the Hilma af Klint exhibition where she and co-curators Sue Cramer and Nicholas Ch...
Air Date: 2021-06-30
Art Works heads to Dark Mofo festival to hear from Tasmanian First Nations artists about the Union Flag controversy a...
Air Date: 2021-07-07
We meet the creators of documentaries Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra and My Name Is Gulpilil; plus Aboriginal and...
Air Date: 2021-07-14
Art Works explores the impact of the film and drama industry moving into Byron Bay. Artists Fiona Foley and Abdul Abd...
Air Date: 2021-07-21
Street artist Heesco shares the ethos behind the large-scale mural project Heesco Town in regional Victoria; and we m...
Air Date: 2021-07-28
We meet Maree Clarke, the first living Victorian Aboriginal artist to have a solo exhibition at the NGV, before Namil...
Air Date: 2021-08-04
Ngugi artist Elisa Jane Carmichael introduces us to the revived traditional art of weaving and Brisbane Comedy Festiv...
Air Date: 2021-08-11
Namila Benson talks to Yorta Yorta soprano, composer and educator (and national treasure) Deborah Cheetham and we wan...
Air Date: 2021-08-18
We meet with award-winning Wiradjuri and Filipino musician Mo'Ju, before going foraging for driftwood with artist Pet...
Air Date: 2021-08-25
We visit writer Maxine Beneba Clarke in her studio; get to know the New Writers Collective for teen women, trans and ...
Air Date: 2021-09-01
We check out the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards; a space-age reimagining of Moby-Dick; wea...
Air Date: 2021-09-08
Learn about the first feature film to be dubbed in an Australian Aboriginal language; Canberra-based Scottish sculpto...
Air Date: 2021-09-15
Meet the creators of the theatre adaptation of award-winning novel Boy Swallows Universe, the Yolngu artists from the...
Air Date: 2021-09-22
Daniel Lafferty fires up his kiln for the first time since the 2019/20 bushfires; Deborah Cheetham reflects on The Ri...
Air Date: 2021-09-29
Brenton E. McKenna shares his lifelong love of comics; Mick Turner from the Dirty Three talks about the art of the al...
Air Date: 2021-10-06
Claire McArdle takes jewellery making into the streets; meet the Voices of Colour arts collective; David Moran shows ...
Air Date: 2021-10-13
Meet artists Lisa Waup, Sally Rees and Yhonnie Scarce, as well as the artistic directors of some of Australia's most ...
Air Date: 2021-10-20
Watch participatory dance work Muster; marvel at the craftsmanship of Terrapin; meet 13-year-old Bronte as she auditi...
Air Date: 2021-10-27
Strut the catwalk with First Nations Fashion and Design; have a stickybeak inside Sam Leighton-Dore's home; share a c...
Air Date: 2021-11-03
Art Works celebrates Ausmusic Month by talking to musicians, Bukhu Ganburged, and Vika and Linda Bull; and artist and...
Air Date: 2021-11-10
Art Works visits the new Art in the Vines sculpture exhibition at a winery in regional Victoria. Also meet artist Pat...
Air Date: 2021-11-17
Art Works heads to OzAsia Festival in Adelaide; Maclagan Squeezebox Festival in regional Queensland; and to see West ...
Air Date: 2021-11-24
Teens curate a bimonthly event at AGSA; Papua New Guinean artist Wendy Mocke talks about empowered Black womanhood; h...
Air Date: 2021-12-01
Meet poet/artist Jazz Money and artist Serwah Attafuah and see how the first interrogates colonial spaces, and the la...
Air Date: 2021-12-08
Hear from young people reclaiming their own narratives: by celebrating South Sudanese culture; and creating work by a...
Air Date: 2021-12-15
We visit the newly reopened La Mama Theatre in Melbourne; see how Aboriginal artists are using a colonial statue as a...