Artoble Podcast

Send us a messageLyn DiCiero speaks with Fremantle-based artist Jo Darvall whose new solo Held Ground at the Studio Gallery Yallingup focuses on a small pocket of Wadandi Boodja in the Margaret River Region. The exhibition is her 21st solo over a 40-year-long practice, which has taken her from rural Victoria to studying at the Victorian College of the Arts, and to Western Australia in 2005. In Victoria she co-founded the Artists for Kids Culture Trust raising over $1 million for charitable projects, and in WA she co-founded the Swan River Print Studio at Goolugatup Heathcote.  Her works have been exhibited beyond Australia in Beijing, Singapore and Fiji and collected around the world. She says Held Ground at the Studio Gallery Yallingup is the best body of works she’s produced.Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageLyn DiCiero speaks with Tania Ferrier whose exhibition, Angry Underwear is currently on show at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery. First exhibited in 1989, Tania developed Angry Underwear in response to witnessing an assault on a dancer in a strip club in New York where she was working as a bar tender. Emblazoned with snarling animal faces, dancers in the club wore the underwear as a form of protection and a form of protest to demonstrate their right to protect their own bodies. But what started a personal act of solidarity grew into a media sensation, attracting celebrities such as Madonna and model Naomi Campbell. In 2021, her work was featured in the National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name exhibition, celebrating women artists who changed the narrative of Australian art. Today, Ferrier’s practice continues to evolve and the message of Angry Underwear just as relevant now.Angry Underwear is on show at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery until 15 February 2026. Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageLyn DiCiero speaks to Fiona Sinclair, artistic director of Southern Forest Arts. Based in Northcliffe, it’s the lead organisation behind the third Regional Arts Triennial, a sprawling state-wide program of 15 exhibitions and events over this year and next. The Triennial covers locations from Kunnunura in the north to Albany in the south and culminates in an exhibition at John Curtin Gallery next September.Fiona speaks about the history of the event and its aims and outcomes for regional arts and artists.  Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageListen to Lyn DiCiero in conversation with Geoff Warn from With Architecture Studio and Wallace gallery space and Being and Flux exhibition collaborators artist Simon Gilby and writer Richard King. Geoff Warn reveals the beginnings of Wallace and its unusual operating method that puts creativity above commercial value. Both Simon and Richard discuss their unique partnership for their exhibition at Wallace, where visual art and the written word meld and develop to explore new frontiers for both. Geoff Warn is co-founder of With Architecture Studio, and Wallace, a gallery space with its walls in Northbridge. With was established in 1985 and has over 40 years of commissions and awards across architecture, urban design, master planning, interior architecture and public art. The first exhibition at Wallace was in 2021 with a unique gallery model which avoids commercial and funded stereotypes and delves into interpretations which might not otherwise be seen.Simon Gilby studied at Claremont School of Art. He's regularly in group exhibitions, has lectured at various universities over the years and undertakes public art commissions, working with towns and communities across Western Australia. He instigated The Syndicate in 2010, championed and organised by collector Lloyd Horn, where a group of collectors pooled funds to allow artists to work unrestricted by income to stretch their practice into new realms. His work explores what it means to be human with changes around technology and culture. In this exhibition he explores concept of self in the modern world. Richard King is an author, critic and poet based in Fremantle, whose work appears widely, including in Best Australian Science Writing, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Monthly and The London Magazine. His book, Brave New Wild, about to be launced at the end of the exhibition, asks whether technology can really save the planet. Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageListen to Lyn DiCiero speak to Jerome Davenport about his background and the inspiration for moving from the performing arts to the visual arts, starting a long list of completed works around Western Australia. Born in Narrogin, he grew up surrounded by nature, providing a respect and love of the natural environment, seen often in his work.Also recognised as Ketones6000 and now with over 15 years of mural painting experience, he has established himself as one of Australia’s leading mural artists. HIs portfolio includes various and diverse projects for local governments, schools, private homes, celebrities and commercial locations all over the world. As the Founder, Director and Lead Artist of Blank Walls, a street art and mural creators based in Perth and UK, he has established a strong presence in the arts industry. Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageListen to Lyn DiCiero in conversation with Rina Franz, whose exhibition Between Worlds: The Vision of Rina Franz is on show at the City of Perth’s Council House Gallery until 31 October 2025. Born in Rome, she initially studied architecture and art history before migrating to Western Australia and studying art at Edith Cowan and Curtin University. She went on to teach students herself at Curtin University, Edith Cowan University and the University of WA, and spent 34 years lecturing at TAFE until last year. Her years teaching has matched an intensive art practice, exploring space, distance, time, memory and the contrast of living between two cultures. She’s exhibited around Australia and internationally during her lengthy career, winning numerous awards along the way, and is represented in major public art collections both in Australia and overseas. In this podcast, Rina discusses her life and influences and, battling recent ill health, reflects on a lifetime of art. In particular two works are discussed –  an earlier work from the 1990s and her most recent exhibited work: 1994: PICA Boans installation, held inside two disused cool rooms. Amidst the lingering smell of its former life as storage for meat goods, the work created the illusion of infinite space using both physical pillars and drawn perspective, creating a disorientating experience within the small confines of the space.2024: The Invisible Thread, 170 blue and white linen collars, approximately 4m x 4m 4m, suspended from the ceiling of Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery recalls the lives of seamstresses like her mother, with the names of clients, found in her mother’s workbooks following her death, embroidered to each one. The works also refers to the post war social divide of blue and white collar workers, with seamstresses quietly connecting both ends of the spectrum.Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageListen to Lyn DiCiero's conversation with Sarah Robinson and David Carson about Canopies and Cathedrals, a unique cross continent exhibition over June/July this year which blended the Gothic architectural grandeur of Wells Cathedral in Somerset in the UK with the beauty of old-growth wilderness forests in Western Australia. Here in Perth, we’ll be able to see a video of this fascinating project screening at the Northbridge Piazza throughout August. Sarah and David also worked with Jackson Mouldycliff, Colin Potter and Phil Mouldycliff from experimental electronic sound collective MPM who crafted a sound journey for the exhibition, evoking memory, mystery and spatial reverence within the soaring walls of Wells Cathedral. Sarah studied Fine Art Printmaking at West Surrey College of Art and Design before completing a Master of Fine Arts at the Royal College of Art in London. Post grad she studied Education at Manchester Metropolitan University, and received a Doctorate of Philosophy at Edith Cowan University in Perth in 2017.  David studied art the Canterbury College of Art and explores new imaging technologies, including video, which he manipulates to create liminal spaces in time. Both artists have held a wide range of teaching roles while maintaining active art practices.Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageListen to Lyn DiCiero in conversation with Annette Peterson and Sue Leeming who together with Nicole Steenhof have joined forces for Tender, on show at Rockingham Arts Centre. Tender navigates the theme as an aesthetic and cathartic experience, signifying more than the word. Annette Peterson studied at Curtin University and completed a Master of Design and Art in 2017. She works across painting, animation, mixed media and technology such as smartphones, as well as journalism. Sue Leeming studied at the University of Auckland, graduating with Post Graduate Diploma of Fine Art at its Elam School of Art completed after a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her practice is based around paint and drawing mediums. She experiments with the physicality of paint and process to produce abstracted landscapes drawn from her subconscious.  And lastly, Nicole Steenhof who graduated from Curtin University just last year with a Postgraduate Certificate of Fine Arts. Her work consists of sculpture made from found and recycled materials and paintings which focus on a connection to the histories of oceans. Tender is show at Rockingham Arts Centre from 30 July until 17 August 2025. Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageHear Lyn DiCiero speak with Victorian-based artist Jarrad Martyn, whose work explores our relationship with the natural world, both in a contemporary sense and historically. Blending the figurative and abstract, his works leave an other-wordly impression with images sourced from family albums, in particular, his father’s experience as a helicopter pilot in Antarctica in the 1980s, to travel snapshots. He’s won a swathe of awards and is represented in an ever growing list of collections. He returns to familiar ground in Perth, where he grew up, with Under the Weather the Storm at Stala Contemporary in West Leederville. Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageLyn DiCiero speaks with Western Australian artist Gai Saunders, who held her first solo in 1993. Now, more than thirty years later, her work I left my dream on my pillow, is hanging at the Royal Academy of Arts 2025 Summer Exhibition in London. Gai reveals the process, her art journey and more, leading to her work sharing the same gallery space at the Royal Academy as a large work by Dame Tracey Emin and a portrait by Cindy Sherman. Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageLyn DiCiero speaks with Sydney-based artist Col Jordan, exhibiting To Op with Thanks at Mossenson Galleries in Subiaco until 28 June, 2025. Turning 90 later this year, Col's practice changed direction when he received a catalogue for The Responsive Eye, on show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965. While audiences called the new Optical Art "bewildering and unsettling," Col found it a revelation. He exhibited in The Field, the radical and controversial exhibition headlining the opening of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1968. Six decades after Op Art transformed his practice irrevocably, he continues to explore its impact.  Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageLyn DiCiero speaks to US-based artist Brendan Murphy ahead of his Boonji Spaceman sculpture, Lightning, being unveiled at Stirling Gardens in Perth. The seven-metre high sculpture is set to make a lasting impression in the city for the next 12 months. The unveiling of the work coincides with his first solo in Australia, Life is Electric, at Gullotti Galleries in Cottesloe. Brendan's work is represented worldwide with collectors including Serena Williams, Robert De Niro, Ryan Gosling and Warren Buffet. Life is Electric is on show at Gullotti Galleries from 23 May until 10 July.  Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageLyn DiCiero speaks with Lee Kinsella, curator at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and Tace Stevens, a Noongar and Spinifex visual storyteller based in Perth. Tace is one of a group of artists in the de-centre re-centre at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, a Perth Festival exhibition held in partnership with the Perth Centre for Photography, and is on show until 3 May.Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageLyn DiCiero speaks to Candice Nannup, a Willman, Ballardong Noongar curator and artist based on Wardandi Boodja. Candice is the curator of the 25th iteration of Noongar Country on show at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery until 20 July. Her emerging curatorial practice is deeply rooted in cultural storytelling, community engagement, and the celebration of Noongar art and identity. With strong support from local Noongar artists, the exhibition carries with it a sense of pride and community spirit. Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageLyn DiCiero speaks with Walyalup/Fremantle-based artists Audrey Fernandes-Satar and Arif Satar about their current exhibition Bird Song, on show at Mundaring Arts Centre. Working both individually and collaboratively for several decades, their practice intersects at shared memories and histories. In this exhibition the two traverse themes such as displacement and identity, following on from The Bird is Not Mine, exhibited at the 2023 Venice Architectural Biennale, working across sculpture, drawing, text, printmaking, sound and moving images. As well as exhibiting their works over decades, the multi-disciplinary artists have undertaken socially-engaged community projects and produced public art both in Australia and internationally. Audrey Fernandes-Satar was born in India and grew up in Mozambique. Arif Satar, with an Indian/African/Arabic background, was born in Mozambique, growing up under Portugese facist and colonial rule. The two met at art school at the University of Lisbon in Portugal in the 1980s.“I often wish I were a plant. I would be able to settle in one place and would be relaxed as long as light and water were available. And since I would have no brain, I would be free from thinking about this or that all the time.” – Hiroshi SugimotoListen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageLyn DiCiero speaks to Penelope Collis about Perception, her joint exhibition with Bec Thomas at Contemporary Art Spaces in Mandurah. UK-born in Cornwall, Penelope moved to Mandurah in 2022 after a lifetime of travel adventures. The move has offered the opportunity to fully immerse into her practice after an art degree attained in the 1990s. In this exhibition, she explores consumerism, our throw-away society, perfectism and aesthetics, through hand-built ceramics adorned with found objects. The exhibition is on show until 9 March at Contemporary Arts Spaces in Mandurah. Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageLyn DiCiero speaks with Kelsey Ashe whose major solo, The Deep Green Sea is on show at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery. A PhD Supervisor at Curtin University, Kelsey has exhibited widely nationally and internationally at galleries such as the National Gallery of Victoria, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and Brooklyn Gallery in New York. Her works have become highly coveted in recent years, and have been included in major art collections or picked up by the likes of Kate Cebrano and American actor Kate Walsh. In this exhibition, her dramatic screenprints of nocturnal oceans reflect many layers of influence and exude an air of mystery that draws viewers into a world which is both fictional and referenced from reality. The Deep Green Sea is on show at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery until 23 February 2025.  Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageLyn DiCiero speaks with Ross Potter ahead of his solo exhibition, Things That Sleep Beneath the Snow at Rockingham Arts Centre. A result of his month-long residency in Iceland last year, the exhibition reveals the hidden beauty in a predominantly black and white, snow-filled landscape in the far northern Icelandic town of Siglufjörður, where shovelling snow and driving through snowstorms is part of everyday life. "I became fascinated with the way the snow can conceal so much, creating a hidden world. Under these blankets of pure white lay so many forgotten remnants of summer - wonderful little details that became more obvious as the warmer days of April arrived," says Ross. Things That Sleep Beneath the Snow is on show at Rockingham Arts Centre 10am - 4pm Wednesday to Sunday from 31 January until 23 February. Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageWhat is the art that comes after war?  How do visual artists address the trauma of war and life after conflict?Lyn DiCiero speaks with Curtin University Professor Kit Messham-Muir, one of three researchers from the Art of Peace project, their work culminating in a free symposium at Curtin University 1 and 2 February, coinciding with an exhibition, Art of Peace at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, on show from 1 February - 29 June 2025.  The symposium and exhibition give artists a voice in the aftermath of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, and Timor-Leste, where populations each emerged from hell on earth.  Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageListen on Artoble – the art finder App and discover art here for iPhone at the Apple store: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/artoble-discover-art/id6502944188 and here for Android on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hr.apps.n307518 About this podcastLyn DiCiero speaks to Richard Seale ahead of his exhibition Little Gems. The exhibition is a photographic journey of Garden Island, now home to the Royal Australian Navy, but once a shack community of 150 or so hand-built timber, iron and asbestos shacks where Seale and his family holidayed for 13 years. A utopian destination of off-grid living with a profound effect on the psyche of the artist, the immersive exhibition recalls carefree living with little parental control, as Seale counts himself among the last generation of free-range children. Little Gems, Richard Seale's first exhibition, is on show at Rockingham Arts Centre from 11 – 26 January, 2025.   Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!

Send us a messageLyn DiCiero speaks to Ross Potter ahead of his Artist Talk at 3.30pm Sunday 1 December at Henderson Environmental Centre, North Beach. In this episode Ross discusses his City of Stirling residency in contrast to his residency in Iceland, his tendency towards dead birds and a new direction in mastering animation. See more details in the Events section of the Artoble app. Listen on the go with Artoble Podcasts!