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Behind the Art
by Rockhampton Museum of Art
The Rockhampton Museum of Art takes you ‘behind the art’ in their in-depth conversations with artists and art professionals of high acclaim. In these engaging monthly episodes, discover enlivening insights about artists’ practise, community initiatives and the art world itself.
Episodes
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Michelle Taranto in conversation with Mandy Dollery
Michelle Taranto is a Queensland-based artist, based on Darumbal Country, who's vibrant, joy-filled practice celebrates colour, comfort, and the wonder of everyday life. Since establishing her Yeppoon home studio in 2021 under the name Arco Iris Interiors, she has developed a distinct visual...
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Judy Watson, Nathan Mudyi Sentance in Conversation with Dr Melinda Mann
On the afternoon of the opening of Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi , Dr Melinda Mann has a yarn with Judy Watson one of the exhibiting artist's in the exhibition and Nathan Mudyi Sentance, RMOA First Nations Reference Group Chair.
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Sally Molloy in conversation with Helen Kavanagh
Meanjin/Brisbane based artist, writer, and educator Sally Molloy's practice explores colonial pasts and presents as they relate to her everyday life through an open-ended engagement with Australian landscape painting history, the backyard, and popular culture. This framework provides a sweaty...
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Nhaya Nikki, Kristina Hatfield & LeLarnie Hatfield.
Three generations of Darumbal women, Nhaya Nikki, Kristina Hatfield & LeLarnie Hatfield having a yarn to celebrate NAIDOC week, 50 years of Deadly.
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Naomi Hoare in conversation with Helen Kavanagh
Best known for her evocative self-portraiture and collaborative storytelling through Modor & Dohter, a creative partnership with her daughter, Hoare’s practice explores identity, transformation and the unseen labour of caregiving. Her body itself has become an archive, marked by lived experiences...
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Locust Jones in Conversation with Helen Kavanagh and Karen Messmer
Locust Jones is a contemporary, Australian artist. For over 20 years, Locust's practice has woven layers of stories and images that replicate the frenetic pace at which society consumes everyday news and current affairs, in a variety of mediums. Jones' exhibition, To Bear Witness featured large...
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Michelle Hamer & Talitha Kennedy in Conversation
Michelle Hamer & Talitha Kennedy are two contemporary Australian artists. Hamer and Kennedy are part of a group exhibition titled Intimacy, on display at RMOA from 28 March - 5 July 2026.
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Sally Smart in conversation with Jonathan McBurnie
In 2025 Sally Smart transformed RMOA’s Long Gallery, responding to the monumental yet intimate scale of this space through exploration of the legacies of theatre and visual art.
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Shari O'Dwyer in conversation with Dr Melinda Mann
Shari O'Dwyer is an exhibiting Artist in the Cane exhibition. O'Dwyer's work is: It hangs over my head, it lurks in the shadows 2023, hand knotted sisal twine, private collection. Cane is exhibiting at RMOA from 28 February - 21 June 2026
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Joella Warkill, Imelda Miller and Jacob McGuire in conversation with Dr Melinda Mann
Right of Reply: a response to 'Cane' exhibition at RMOA 28 February 2026 - 21 June 2026. Joella Warkill, Imelda Miller and Jacob McGuire in conversation with Dr Melinda Mann.
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XXVIII Sandra SELIG | Intimacy Artist Statement
The work of Sandra Selig frequently meditates upon space, withmany of her works charting a course between the installation itself, and thematerials in use, which are often found. Here, Selig’s pieces use space totease out the poetic. Using small paper cuttings from extant book pages,sections are...
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XXVII Elizabeth SHAW | Intimacy Artist Statement
My work gives form to personal observations and internalreflections. While walking the streets or tending my garden, I often discoverfragments of broken objects—tools run over, ceramics buried—each once part of apurposeful whole. Sometimes friends share their broken things with me, andthese too…
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XXVI Eugene CARCHESIO | Intimacy Notes by Jonathan McBurnie
Eugene Carchesio has made a career of intimacy, explored throughdifferent media, usually through series. These include delicate papersculptures, small studies of leaves or birds, watercolours exploring colour andgeometry or gridded paper, music staves and collage. The artist’s 2008retrospective…
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XXV Paul TREFRY | Intimacy Notes by Adam Geczy
Details of the Dispossessed The obsession with lifelike figures can be traced back toantiquity: the ancient Greeks painted their statues, to solid give solidpresence to what were idealized forms. With occasional exceptions, therepresentation of what was not part of a world of heroism, religion or...
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XXIV Talitha KENNEDY | Intimacy Artist Statement
Intimacy is a sensation that I imbue in all my artworks. It startswith the way I create my artworks then it’s the close attention and empathy Iwant people to feel when they see my works. I lovingly craft my sculptures by hand-stitching leather andfleshing out with stuffing and wire. It’s a slow...
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XXIII Ron ADAMS | Intimacy Artist Statement
Adams’ work invites an awareness of the way in which perceptionsof how ‘signs’ operate. You might call his artworks ‘meaning composites’.Understanding that emotion and thoughts are complex and abstracted things, andnot able to be adequately pictured, Adams presents compositions that…
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XXII Caitlin HESPE | Intimacy Artist Statement
This body of work explores intimacy as something accumulated infragments, in repetitions, in layered marks and gestures. Working primarilywith coloured pencil, gouache, and fresco-like plaster surfaces, I’m drawn toprocesses that require slowness and trust: building, erasing…
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XXI Don NACE | Intimacy Artist Statement
I am primarily a cartoonist—an abstract expressionist cartoonist.I was educated during the New York School's dominance of the art world, and I incorporated many oftheir styles into my drawings, along with those of Picasso and a host of otherartists who had left a lasting impression on me.…
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XX Roy ANANDA | Intimacy Artist Statement
This suite of collage works is comprised of diagrammatic imageryexcised from aged and obsolete textbooks, reference works, and instructionmanuals. Disinterred from their utilitarian points of origin, these images arereconfigured into idiosyncratic arrangements informed by the paranormal,...
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XIX Ben TRUPPERBÄUMER | Intimacy Artist Statement
When I search to find words go accompany this artwork, titled Mending, I would say that it is an ongoing pursuit, one that is hardly ever completed.
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XVII Miles HALL | Intimacy Artist Statement
There is something intrinsically intimate in the act of looking ata painting - we can zoom in and obsess over a detail, then zoom out and witnessit as part of a greater whole. Each mark, colour and gesture has itsfundamental role to play in a larger composition; just as each…
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XVII Vicky BROWNE | Intimacy Artist Statement
My installations investigate how we understand the world throughmaterials. I am interested in the ways matter shapes our perception of objectsand our place within broader systems. My practice considers how humanmateriality is entangled with ecological processes and cosmic origins—remindingus that...
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XVI Michelle HAMER | Intimacy Artist Statement
Language has the power to both connect and divide us, to facilitate understanding and to obscure it. It can be flippant, funny and deeply personal. There are no Words explores the space between what words mean and how language is used—bothindividually and collectively. It comprises 240...
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XV Lorna QUINN | Intimacy Artist Statement
In my work, I make small, densely rendered figurative paintingspopulated with elaborate vegetable and mineral configurations. Awkward anderect, the tree forms are resentful of the way they have been rearranged andsingled out, pruned and reshaped. Mountain folds quiver and react in sharpangles and...
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XIV Robert PRESTON | Intimacy Artist Statement
The idea of creating an artist's book based on texts from one or more of the Essene Communions (so-called) had percolated inthe back of my mind for over a decade and a half before its realisation. Thoughthe character of the work appears to be relatively homogeneous, overall, thebook pages possess...
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XII Norman LINDSAY | Intimacy Notes by Jonathan McBurnie
Norman Lindsay’s vast oeuvre remains a staggering monument to hisbohemian lifestyle. While Lindsay’s work has undergone countless criticaldrubbings for its often-erotic celebration of carnivalesque sensuality, thereremains a strong argument for its reconsideration on technical andsocio-historical...
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XII Julie FRAGAR | Intimacy Artist Statement
Late in her life my old cat Dusty was made (by me) to live with anaging male border collie called Benji. While I’d had a fantasy that the two ofthem might develop some kind of bond, or if not tolerance, they didn’t. Everyday they engaged in an anxious dance that wore them both out. The problem...
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XI Regi CHERINI | Intimacy Artist Statement
It’s undeniable that dating apps have changed modern datingculture and the collective growing distrust and fatigue singles are feelingtowards the apps is steadily rising. There’s plenty to unpack in how theseplatforms are affecting romantic relationships and redefining our outlook onintimacy. The...
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X Edward STEICHEN | Intimacy Notes by Jonathan McBurnie
While Edward Steichen is justifiably remembered as one of thepioneers of fashion photography, and a great innovator of the medium morebroadly, it is the quality and striking composition of his images that findspurchase in our mind. Unlike many photographers, who use the medium to‘capture’ moments...
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IX Gemma SMITH | Intimacy Notes by Jonathan McBurnie
Gemma Smith’s practice tends to be series-based, which slowly moves along a continuum of colour and surface that belies an abiding fascination with the exploration of media. Each series, or perhaps approach is the better descriptor, seeks to resolve a specific set of visual problems, pushing back...
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VIII Edward RUSCHA | Intimacy Notes by Jonathan McBurnie
While Edward Ruscha is often remembered specifically for hisdeadpan text works and incredible drawing and painting abilities, he has alsoindulged in many side projects that explore his obsessions—signage, California and the built environment—inunexpected ways. Perhaps his most famous book work,...
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VII John BALDESSARI | Intimacy Notes by Jonathan McBurnie
John Baldessari is not an artist one might commonly associate with notions of intimacy. In fact, much of his work deliberately obscures personal details and symbols, disassociating the artist from romantic conceptions of the artist as a bard-like revelator of truth, mining emotion and pathos to...
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VI Carrol JERREMS | Intimacy Notes by Jonathan McBurnie
Carrol Jerrems’ photographic practice is simultaneously timeless and a time-capsule that depicts her all-too-brief adulthood in the 1970s. That timeless quality comes from the incredible closeness and intimacy depicted in her subjects, some of whom were friends and acquaintances. Jerrems also...
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V Joel REA | Intimacy Artist Statement
My painting practice explores self-portraiture as both protagonist and antagonist in a symbolic theatre of inner duality. Each work becomes an introspective confrontation, where the surreal imagery I meticulously render serves to externalise the fragile dialogue between self-destruction and...
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IV Kirsty BRUCE | Intimacy Artist Statement
I am an avid collector of magazines and second hand books. They are my main source material from which I obtain inspiration and ideas for my paintings; I enjoy spending a considerable amount of time looking through my collection, and finding the “right” images. The magazines are predominantly...
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III Ian FRIEND | Intimacy Artist Statement
‘Immensity is within ourselves. It is attached to a sort ofexpansion of being that life curbs and caution arrests, but which starts again when we are alone. As soon as we become motionless, we are elsewhere; we are dreaming in a world that is immense. Indeed, immensity is the movement of…
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II Nick ASBHY | Intimacy Artist Statement
Over the years different subjects have been the focus of myattention. Cars, roadside signs, motorbikes and their riders in Indonesia, ‘Big Things’, shoes abandoned in the streets, discarded chairs and bollards to name a few. Reflecting on this growing list of subject matter I can see patterns in...
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I Jo LANKESTER | Intimacy Artist Statement
I seek to create images that tell a story of the landscapes,flora, and fauna of Queensland's north, weaving together rich layers that reflect the environmental narratives of my surroundings. Inspired by the foreshore on the fringe of the built environment in Townsville's North Ward, I want to…
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Intimacy | Essay by Jonathan McBurnie
Intimacy brings together artists who practices align with the personal, the internal and the profound, to create an experience that will stay with the viewer long after they leave the exhibition. With a flood of images available at the swipe of a finger in the modern life of mass media and…
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Seinileva Huakau in Conversation with Melinda Mann
Artist, Wendy Mocke, in conversation with Dr Melinda Mann, First Nations Art Officer at RMOA in 2025. Mocke's work is on display in State of the Art: Reimagining Queensland from 19 July - 12 October 2025. The exhibition is an introspective and memory-honouring consideration of Queensland....
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Wendy Mocke in Conversation with Melinda Mann
Artist, Wendy Mocke, in conversation with Dr Melinda Mann, First Nations Art Officer at RMOA in 2025. Mocke's work is on display in State of the Art: Reimagining Queensland from 19 July - 12 October 2025. The exhibition is an introspective and memory-honouring consideration of Queensland....
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Danish Quapoor in Conversation with Shanna Muston
Artist, Danish Quapoor in conversation with Shanna Muston, Curator at RMOA in 2025. Quapoor's work is on display in desolate vessels exhibition on display 23 August 2025 - 26 January 2026. Danish Quapoor has memorialised suspended moments within the cyclical timeline of death, grief and regrowth....
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Louise Lawrence in Conversation with Helen Kavanagh
Artist in Residence, Louise Lawrence, in conversation with Helen Kavanagh. Learn more about Lawrence's four week residency at RMOA and how works from the Collection inspired new directions in her artistic practice. About Louise Lawrence Currently Lawrence resides in Mount Morgan on Ghungalu...
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Darren Blackman in conversation with Nickeema Williams
Artist, Darren Blackman, in conversation with Nickeema Williams, First Nations Art Assistant at RMOA in 2025. Blackman's work is on display in State of the Art: Reimagining Queensland from 19 July - 12 October 2025. The exhibition is an introspective and memory-honouring consideration of...
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Daniel Kielly-Davis, Kusangalala Mkoka and Melissa Mills
Join Dr Melinda Mann, First Nations Art Officer at RMOA, for a conversation with writers Daniel Kielly-Davis, Kusangalala Mkoka and Melissa Mills. Learn about how these three Central Queensland-based creative writers were commissioned to write and perform a poem in respose to D Harding's artwork,...
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Remy Faint in conversation with Melinda Mann
Artist, Remy Faint, in conversation with Dr Melinda Mann, First Nations Art Officer at RMOA. Faint's work is on display in Artists in CQ: Of the Region from 5 April - 3 August 2025. The exhibition brings together the art practices of several artists, presenting a multi-disciplinary conversation...
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Phoebe Paradise in conversation with Jonathan McBurnie
Learn more about artist Phoebe Paradise in this conversation with Jonathan McBurnie. Phoebe delivered two workshops at RMOA during 2025 and her work, FORTRESS, was exhibited in Maximum Madness at RMOA in 2024. About Phoebe Paradise Phoebe Paradise is a multi-disciplinary artist, musician and...
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Gail Meyer in conversation with Helen Kavanagh
Artist in Residence, Gail Meyer, in conversation with Helen Kavanagh. Learn more about Meyer's four week residency at RMOA and how works from the Collection inspired new directions in her artistic practice. About Gail Meyer Meyer is a Rockhampton-based artist with a practice spanning more than 20...
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LeLarnie Hatfield and Joanna Joy in conversation with Melinda Mann
Artists in Residence, LeLarnie Hatfield and Joanna Joy, in conversation with Dr Melinda Mann, First Nations Art Officer at RMOA. Learn about how Hatfield and Joy's collaborative film project took inspiration from RMOA's Collection during their residency. About LeLarnie Hatfield and Joanna Joy...
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Ainslie McMahon in conversation with Easton Dunne
Artist in Residence, Ainslie McMahon, in conversation with Easton Dunne. Learn more about McMahon's art practice and her four week residency at RMOA. About Ainslie McMahon Ainslie McMahon is an artist based in Rockhampton on Darumbal Country whose work responds to the natural environment and the...
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The Rockhampton Museum of Art takes you ‘behind the art’ in their in-depth conversations with artists and art professionals of high acclaim. In these engaging monthly episodes, discover enlivening insights about artists’ practise, community initiatives and the art world itself.
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