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ON ART
by Samstag Museum of Art
Talks and discussions that follow the lead of contemporary art, from the Samstag Museum of Art at the University of South Australia.
Episodes
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Ida Sophia
Tarntanya/Adelaide and Berlin-based artist Ida Sophia works in sculpture, performance, and video. In her first solo exhibition in a public institution, the 40 day performance and installation work Patience and Penetentia, she examined the relational dynamic of the silent treatment. Enacted seven...
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Jemima Wyman
Jemima Wyman (Palawa) is an LA-based artist and Samstag Scholar (2005). Over three decades, Wyman has explored collective organising, democracy and dissent through photographic collage, painting, performance, textiles and moving image. She joins Associate Curator Anna Zagala in the studio to...
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Ellie Buttrose
Ellie Buttrose is the curator of the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, a survey exhibition featuring 24 artists across three venues: the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and Samstag Museum of Art. Joining Samstag’s Associate Curator Anna Zagala in the...
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Monte Masi
In 2025 Samstag Museum of Art invited Kaurna-based artist and Samstag scholar Monte Masi to create a new work to be performed across multiple performances in the gallery. Monte joins Associate Curator Anna Zagala to discuss what drew him to art in the first place, the thrills and perils of the...
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Ryan Presley
Ryan Presley (Marri Ngarr) is a visual artist living on Yugambeh Country (Logan City, QLD). His practice spans painting, printmaking, sculpture, video, installation, and writing, and is marked by a deep engagement with the visual economies of power, memory, and resistance. Commissioned by the...
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Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro have been life partners and artistic collaborators for over 25 years. They join Associate Curator Anna Zagala to discuss their new exhibition, Psychopomp, currently on display at Samstag Museum of Art. The outcome of the UniSA Jeffrey Smart Commission, the work is a...
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Louise Haselton
South Australian artist Louise Haselton was invited by curator Jasmin Stephens to create work in response to North Terrace, the cultural boulevard that runs through Tarntanya / Adelaide, for the exhibition North Terrace: worlds in relief, which recently opened at Samstag Museum of Art. Louise…
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Chunxiao Qu
Ahead of the launch of Samstag Museum of Art’s group exhibition Direct, Directed, Directly, Chinese Australian poet and artist Chunxiao Qu joins Associate Curator Anna Zagala to discuss her art practice. Chunxiao Qu grew up in Qingdao, China, before emigrating to Naarm / Melbourne in 2015 to…
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Archie Moore & Molly Reynolds
In this episode, Samstag Associate Curator Anna Zagala speaks with artist Archie Moore (Kamilaroi / Bigambul) and film maker Molly Reynolds. Molly worked with Archie to produce his Samstag Museum of Art / 2024 Adelaide Film Festival moving image commission Archie Moore: Dwelling (Adelaide Issue)....
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Ash Tower
Kaurna/Adelaide-based artist, researcher and 2024 Samstag Scholar Ash Tower joins Samstag Associate Curator Anna Zagala to discuss his love of learning, what influenced him to select the British School at Rome, Italy, and the importance of preparation. ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling...
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Vernon Ah Kee and Irene Watson - Yara Yarning
Dr Irene Watson (Tanganekald, Meintangk, Bunganditj and Potaruwutj) sits down with Dr Vernon Ah Kee (Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Gugu Yimithirr and Koko Berrin) for a yarn, six years after the pair first worked together on Vernon’s commission to create an ephemeral site-specific artwork of Kaurna...
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Dana Awartani
Saudi/Palestinian artist Dana Awartani joins Samstag Curator Anna Zagala to discuss her art practice, living between cultures, and the importance of her unique art education in both contemporary art and traditional crafts, in shaping her art practice and career. Dana shares the background to the...
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Hayley Millar Baker
Artist Hayley Millar Baker (Gunditjmara/Djabwurrung) joins Anna Zagala, Associate Curator at Samstag Museum of Art, to discuss her moving image work, Nycyninasty (2021) currently screening at Samstag as part of the 4th Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony curated by Hetti Perkins for the NGA.…
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Amrita Hepi
In 2022 Samstag Museum of Art and ACMI commissioned a new moving image work by award winning Bundjulung/Ngapuhi artist Amrita Hepi. Ahead of Samstag’s presentation of Scripture for a smoke screen: Episode 1 – dolphin house (SASA Gallery, 7 July – 11 August 2023), Associate Curator Anna Zagala…
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Archie Moore
Archie Moore (Kammilaroi/Bigambul) is an artist and Samstag Scholar. While a student in Prague, Archie travelled extensively around Europe, including a visit to the Venice Biennale. He returns to Venice 23 years later representing Australia as the 2024 Venice Biennale artist. In a wide-ranging...
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Daniel Jaber and Lee Weng Choy
Tarntanya-based Dancer and choreographer Daniel Jaber and Kuala Lumpar-based art critic Lee Weng Choy join Samstag Associate Curator to discuss Jaber’s dance trilogy Rite, Rot and Dirt performed at Samstag Museum of Art in 2022 and explore the nature of engagement from afar. “When Samstag...
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Julie Blyfield with Julie Ewington
Julie Blyfield, a South Australian/Tarntanya based artist and UniSA alumnus, sits down with art historian, writer and curator Julie Ewington to discuss her exhibition .flowers of the sea Julie shares how her grandmother was a formative influence, the importance of engaging with scientific...
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Virginia Barratt and Em König
Trans-media artist, writer and performer Virginia Barratt is joined by Em König, a multidisciplinary artist, to discuss their collaboration Exosmosis, premiering at Samstag on Thursday 16 June. Under the moniker [sadworm], Virginia and Em will present a new performance-based work centered around...
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Djon Mundine OAM
UniSA visiting research fellow, writer, curator, activist and proud Bandjalung man Djon Mundine OAM sits down with Samstag’s Associate Curator Anna Zagala to discuss his venerable career. Along the way Djon shares his curatorial process, the importance of maintaining a wide perspective and open...
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Helen Fuller and Khai Liew
Samstag Director Erica Green sits down with two Tarntanya/Adelaide-based makers, ceramicist Helen Fuller and designer Khai Liew. Helen Fuller’s exhibition of objects or ‘pots’ as she refers to them, is currently on at Samstag Museum of Art presented in collaboration with Khai Liew who conceived…
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Elyas Alavi/ Tarntanya/Adelaide based artist and Samstag Scholar
Elyas was awarded the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 2019 which enabled him to undertake a Master of Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts, London. He discusses the process of applying, selecting an institution, the factors influencing his decision and how he...
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Pilar Mata Dupont and Jessica Bunch / Writing The Ague
In the latest episode of ON ART, Samstag Curator Gillian Brown speaks with artist Pilar Mata Dupont and writer Jessica Bunch about working together to write for Pilar’s 2018 moving image work , on exhibition at Samstag from 22 October until 10 December, 2021. Speaking on Zoom from the UK,...
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Madison Bycroft / B̶I̶O̶P̶I̶C̶ or Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée
In the latest episode of ON ART, Marseille-based, Adelaide-born artist Madison Bycroft on their new moving-image commission B̶I̶O̶P̶I̶C̶ (2021) with Samstag curator Gillian Brown. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss the making and presentation of a feature-length film, the politics of...
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Alex Martinis Roe / To Become Two
In the latest episode of ON ART, Naarm/Melbourne based artist Alex Martinis Roe on the works that comprise her exhibition, (2014—2017) with Samstag curator Joanna Kitto. They discuss feminist political practices and relationships within the collectives doing that work, as well as Alex's…
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James Tylor, Jesse Jones / 2021 Adelaide//International
Hear from artists of the 2021 Adelaide//International. James Tylor speaks with poet Dominic Guerrera about the mistakes, mistranslations and loss of knowledge resulting from European colonist processes in documenting Kaurna culture. Jesse Jones discusses 'Tremble, Tremble'—a dramatic presentation...
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Kirsten Coelho / Honor Freeman, Wendy Walker, Derek Pascoe
In this episode, we’re looking at the practice of South Australian artist Kirsten Coelho. Listen in on a conversation she had with fellow ceramicist Honor Freeman, hear poetry and prose from the 2020 SALA Monograph dedicated to her practice, read by the publication’s author Wendy Walker, and hear...
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Anne Wallace / Strange Ways
Brisbane-born, Melbourne-based painter Anne Wallace joins Samstag curator Anna Zagala in conversation. The former Samstag scholar (1994) and subject of a major survey exhibition discusses her practice, how she thinks through her ideas, when she knows a painting is finished, and how painting has...
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Amos Gebhardt / Small acts of resistance
Artist and filmmaker Amos Gebhardt speaks with Naarm/Melbourne based writer Adolfo Aranjuez. They delve into Amos's expansive new moving image installation currently showing at Samstag, Small acts of resistance. Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is…
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Angela Valamanesh / 1996 Samstag Scholar
In 1996, South Australian artist Angela Valamanesh travelled to Glasgow, Scotland on a Samstag scholarship. Angela joins curator Anna Zagala to discuss her year abroad, what it taught her, and how it set the course for future work. Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag...
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Kirsten Coelho / Ithaca
Join South Australian artist Kirsten Coelho and Samstag curator Joanna Kitto as they discuss working with porcelain, the significance of the ‘ruin’, and Homer’s —the Ancient Greek text that inspired her most recent body of work,.Odyssey Ithaca Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual...
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Lee Weng Choy / On art and arts writing
Kaula Lumpur-based art critic Lee Weng Choy joins Samstag curator Joanna Kitto for a conversation around art and life. They discuss missing the experience of viewing art in person, what we’re consuming, and how the present moment is making us commit to empathy. This podcast was recorded in part…
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Georgia Saxelby / 2019 Samstag Scholar
Pittsburgh-based Samstag scholar Georgia Saxelby joins Samstag curator Anna Zagala to discuss her experience of applying to study at Carnegie Mellon in the USA, strategies for selecting a school, what it takes to get in and why she can’t wait to get back. Bold, creative and responsive to...
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Zoë Croggon / The Magazine Series
Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Zoë Croggon speaks with Samstag curator Gillian Brown about her body of collage works in Samstag’s ‘Effect in three movements’. They discuss Zoë’s interest in movement and architecture, and the heightened relevance in thinking about how we occupy domestic space at a...
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Brad Darkson / Hold Me
In 'Hold Me', audiences listen in on a frustrated phone conversation between Adelaide-based artist Brad Darkson and a Centrelink worker trying to unravel the ramifications of a robo-debt, interspersed by the relentless sound of the hold music. While we're all working from home due to COVID-19,...
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John Wardle / Somewhere Other
Did you know that architect John Wardle designed the Samstag Museum of Art, working closely with Director Erica Green? Today on the ON ART Podcast, they discuss this process, as well as — the intriguing timber structure developed by John Wardle Architects in collaboration with artist Natasha...
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David Claerbout / Olympia
Belgian artist David Claerbout sits down with UniSA's Rachel Hurst to discuss his monumental moving-image work '.Olympia (the real-time disintegration into ruins of the Berlin Olympic stadium over the course of a thousand years)' Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag...
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Helen Grogan / SET AND DRIFT
In our first episode for 2020, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Helen Grogan speaks with Samstag curator Gillian Brown about her work in the exhibition '.Effect in three movements' Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university...
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James Nguyen / Samstag Scholar
Naarm/Melbourne-based artist James Nguyen joins Samstag curator Anna Zagala in the studio to discuss his experience as a Samstag scholar at UnionDocs, New York on a one year fellowship in 2015, and how the lab environment subsequently shaped his practice and methodology. Bold, creative and...
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Fiona Tan / Ascent
In this episode, Samstag curator Gillian Brown speaks with artist Fiona Tan about her filmic work ', tracing imagery of Mount Fuji, Japan over the course of 150 years. Gillian was in Tarntanya/Adelaide in front of a live audience, Fiona was at home in Amsterdam.Ascent' Bold, creative and…
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Louise Haselton / like cures like
South Australian artist Louise Haselton makes sculptural works using materials gleaned from the world around her, fascinated by the push/pull between function and aesthetic. In this episode, Ken Bolton and Monte Masi respond to Haselton’s practice through poetry and performance. Later, Samstag...
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Unbound Collective / Sovereign Acts V: Calling
Poetry, stories and letters from the Unbound Collective – artists, activists and academics Ali Gumillya Baker (Mirning), Faye Rosas Blanch (Mbararam/Yidinyji), Natalie Harkin (Narungga) and Simone Ulalka Tur (Yankunytjatjara). They are joined by Kaurna Elder and scholar, Uncle Lewis Yarluburka...
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Lisa Reihana / in Pursuit of Venus
Aotearoa/New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana sits down with Samstag curator Gillian Brown to discuss her moving image work ' a re-imagining of the French scenic wallpaper ' depictingCaptain Cook's arrival on the Pacific Islands.in Pursuit of Venus [infected]',Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique' Bold,...
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