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Willy (Wilamina) Russo
by Willy Russo
Sharing stories about art + life from different with Willy Russo. Including - Interview With An Artist (5 Seasons) Two Red Chairs (1 Season)
Episodes
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LIFE | 2024 Summer Edition | Fun? Are you having any?
What do you do for fun and when was the last time you had it? What if I told you fun would make you a better parent, partner, friend and even better at your job! Dr Mike Rucker is an Organisational psychologist and author of the book - The Fun Habit joins me to talk about the importance of fun…
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LIFE | 2024 Summer Edition | Couldn't Wouldn't Didn't
LIFE | My name is Willy Russo and chances are, you’re tuned in here for art content. As much as I love art and talking with creatives, over the summer I’ve worked on a couple of side episodes that I thought I would bring to you as a little holiday listening. These are not specifically art…
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S5 Ep 114 IWAA The Gallery Edition | Sophie Vander of Curatorial + Co
Mid year holiday episode! Sophie Vander is the Director and Founder of Curatorial + Co. Curatorial + Co have built a solid reputation placing contemporary artwork within residential and commercial architecture and the public domain. They also have a thriving Art Consultancy business, working with…
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Two Red Chairs With Artist Susie Choi
Artist Susie Choi connected with her artistic love in a round about way. There was a kids party. There were decorations. And then before she knew it, she was enrolling at National Art School and ripping up the carpet in the nursery to turn it into a studio. Susie joins Willy Russo for the final...
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Two Red Chairs With Artist Sophie Victoria
Sophie Victoria is the Breaking Bad of the art world. Backyard chemistry with her uncle has led to a love affair with her art practice with stunning results. Sophie joins Willy Russo for Two Red Chairs talking about her relationship to her practice and how to keep the passion alive in the studio....
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Two Red Chairs with Artist Kim Leutwyler
Kim Leutwyler wants to take their art to Mexico for a cute date on the beach and we want to go with them! Kim and Willy chat about the benefits of having a day job, the experience of going full time into art, and how Kim deals with their tendency to go all-in and forget about the outside world.…
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Two Red Chairs with Artist Ash Holmes
The power of journalling. An art store clairvoyant, of sorts. Ash Holmes, artist and Founder of HAKE House, joins Willy in the chairs talking about her relationship to her art and how she keeps the passion alive in the studio. Two Red Chairs is created and hosted by artist mentor and content...
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Two Red Chairs with Artist Jamie Preisz
Is this a toxic relationship? Ethical non-monogamy. Four pieces of advice that hold the pillars of a house up that keep a practice going - Jamie Preisz joins Willy Russo on Two Red Chairs to talk all things keeping the passion alive in the studio. Two Red Chairs is created and hosted by Willy...
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Two Red Chairs with Artist Sarah McDonald
Put on a good tune and shimmy your way back into the good books. That's just one piece of advice Sarah McDonald shares this week on her long lasting relationship with her art practice and how to keep the passion alive in the studio. Two Red Chairs is created and hosted by artist mentor and…
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Two Red Chairs With Michael Simms
The piano might be his side love, but painting and drawing will always hold top spot. Michael Simms joins Willy Russo to talk through the love he has for his practice and how he keep the passion alive in the studio. Two Red Chairs is created and hosted by artist mentor and content creator…
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Two Red Chairs With Dee Smart
Dee Smart and creativity have an eternal love affair. It may have morphed over the years but it continues to burn bright. Dee walks Willy Russo through the relationship evolution and gives her top tip for keeping the passion alive in the studio. Two Red Chairs is created and hosted by artist...
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Two Red Chairs with Midori Goto
Midori Goto's sculptures would be right at home in one of Heston Blumenthal's gastronomical ventures. The bizarre, the experimental, the dream like. Midori joins Willy Russo for this week's artist chat on keeping the passion alive in the studio for Two Red Chairs. Two Red Chairs is created and...
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S5 Ep 113 IWAA The Gallery Edition | Katie Hopkinson-Pointer from Project Gallery 90
Season Five of Interview With An Artist is Gallery Directors from around Australia. Katie Hopkinson-Pointer opened Project Gallery 90 in 2018, but her love affair with art started a long time before that. As an artist herself, Katie has been creating and showing for decades. The jump to open the...
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Two Red Chairs with Philjames
Sydney based painter Philjames is all in. He's totally committed to his practice. But it seems his practice is playing hard to get. Tune in to find out how Phil keeps the passion alive in the studio when the love affair is at times one sided. Two Red Chairs is created and hosted by artist mentor...
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S5 Ep 112 IWAA The Gallery Edition | Kathryn Stafford from Gallows Gallery
Season Five of Interview With An Artist is Gallery Directors from around Australia. Second generation art dealer and gallerist Kathryn Stafford knows what it takes to run a gallery. With over 30 years in the industry, Kathryn is now the Director of Gallows Gallery in Perth, on the land of the...
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Two Red Chairs with Mason Kimber
Mason Kimber creates textural 3D works that dance across the boundary of wall hung paintings and sculpture. For keeping the passion alive in the studio Mason has two great suggestions. Two Red Chairs is the creation of artist mentor and broadcaster Wilamina (Willy) Russo with filming and…
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Introducing Two Red Chairs
When an artist commits to their practice, it's like they're committing to a long term relationship. And just like any long term relationship, keeping the passion alive can be a challenge. Join Australian arts broadcaster and mentor Willy Russo as she chats with artists about their relationship…
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Two Red Chairs with Photographer Bo Wong
Two Red Chairs is the new artist interview series from Willy Russo. When an artist commits to their practice, it's like they're committing to a long term relationship. And just like any relationship, they go through phases like dating, committing fully, the honeymoon phase and the day in day out…
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S5 Ep 111 IWAA The Gallery Edition | Alexie Glass-Kantor from Artspace
Season Five of Interview With An Artist is Gallery Directors from around Australia. Don't give up. Make art because you want to. If you believe in something, keep pursuing it. These are just a few of the takeaways from the powerhouse that is Alexie Glass-Kantor. Among many things, Alexie is the...
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S5 Ep 110 IWAA The Gallery Edition | Luke Potkin from The Other Art Fair
Season Five of Interview With An Artist is Gallery Directors from around Australia. Luke Potkin’s high school art teacher, Mr Howles, had little faith Luke would end up in the art world. How wrong he was. As Fair Director of The Other Art Fair Sydney, Luke is in a dream role. Marrying his love of...
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S5 Ep 109 IWWA The Gallery Edition | Andy Dinan from Mars Gallery
Season Five of Interview With An Artist is Gallery Directors from around Australia. Andy Dinan founded MARS Gallery in Melbourne 18 years ago. Andy pushes hard to give her artists international opportunities, such as Photo London this year, and in 2022 Photo Basel in Switzerland. In today’s…
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S5 Ep 108 IWWA The Gallery Edition | Leesa Hickey and Laura Brinin of Side Gallery
Season Five of Interview With An Artist is Gallery Directors from around Australia. Side Gallery is small but mighty. Based in Brisbane on the land Yuggera and Turrubul people, Leesa Hickey and Laura Brinin are taking their gallery in the suburbs from strength to strength. Leesa started with...
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S5 Ep 107 IWAA The Gallery Edition | Megan Dicks and Hannah Abbott from Otomys
Season Five of Interview With An Artist is Gallery Directors from around Australia. Two women started a conversation about art 7 years ago, and they’ve been talking ever since. Megan Dicks and Hannah Abbott of Otomys on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation have a deep, deep love...
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S5 Ep 106 IWAA The Gallery Edition | Sarah Birtles Art + Advice
Season Five of Interview With An Artist is Gallery Directors from around Australia. Sarah Birtles is the founder of Sarah Birtles Art + Advice After a winding career through various arts positions, three years ago Sarah founded her business. I liken Sarah Birtles Art and Advice to a gallery…
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S5 Ep 105 IWAA The Gallery Edition | Rachael Parsons Director of NERAM
Season Five of Interview With An Artist is Gallery Directors from around Australia. Rachel Parsons is the Director of NERAM - that’s the New England Regional Art Museum in Armidale, on the land of the the ANAIWAN people. Rachel began her time at NERAM as a curator in 2016. When Rachael…
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S5 Ep 104 - IWAA The Gallery Edition | Valeria Scoponi from The Junction Co's Courthouse Gallery + Studio
Season Five of Interview With An Artist is Gallery Directors and Managers from around Australia. We’re heading west again. Far north west, Western Australia. To Port Headland on Kariyarra Country and the land of the Karriyarra, Ngarla and Nymal people. The Junction Co’s Courthouse Gallery +…
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S5 Ep 103 - IWAA The Gallery Edition | William Mansfield from Arthouse Gallery
Season Five of Interview With An Artist is Gallery Directors from around Australia. William Mansfield, the Gallery Manager of Arthouse Gallery on the land originally known as Kogerah by the Gadigal people or Rushcutters Bay, joins us this week. Will first joined the gallery in a part time…
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S5 Ep 102 - IWAA The Gallery Edition | Sandy Tippett from The Studio Gallery and Bistro
Season Five of Interview With An Artist is Gallery Directors from around Australia. Sandy Tippett from The Studio Gallery and Bistro in Yallingup on the land of the Wardandi people in Western Australia, has been at the gallery for eight years. Sandy is the classic, graphic designer working in...
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S5 Ep 101 - IWAA The Gallery Edition | Ralph Hobbs of Nanda Hobbs
Season 5 of Interview With An Artist is Gallery Directors from around Australia. Ralph Hobbs is one of the founders behind Nanda Hobbs Gallery in Sydney. The first part of Ralph's career was spent teaching high school students about art and developing his own practice. Eventually his desire to…
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S5 Ep 100 - IWAA The Gallery Edition | Amber Creswell Bell of Michael Reid
Season 5 of Interview With An Artist is Gallery Directors from around Australia. Amber Creswell Bell is the Director of Emerging Art at Michael Reid. Amber’s career into art began with writing, and then curating her own shows with artists she hand picked, to eventually being approached by Michael...
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S4 EP99 Jasmine Mansbridge and Willy Russo get a little deep for the last show of 2022
@jasmine_mansbridge www.jasminemansbridge.com For the final episode of 2022 Jasmine Mansbridge joins us. Jasmine first joined the show back in 2020. Her murals, paintings and sculptures caught Willy's eye. Jasmine paints geometrical works that seem like portals or windows to another world. There…
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S4 Ep98 Emily Day and Kate Quinn on Instagram friendships, the truth about running workshops and the power of just giving it a go
@e_milydaystudio @katequinnart @bloom_art_experiences Have you ever considered running creative workshops? Today's guest are the artists behind Bloom Art Experiences. Brisbane based Emily Day and Kate Quinn started Bloom in early 2021. Far from the paint by numbers, or paint and sip type...
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S4 EP 97 Rone on TIME and how street art has taken him places he never imagined
@r_o_n_e www.rone.art Rone is arguably Australia's preeminent street artist. The softly spoken, humble creative grew up in Geelong Victoria. It was in his early 20s riding his skateboard around Melbourne that he really connected with street art. It was a discovery which steered his life in a...
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S4 EP96 Pierre Mukeba is navigating life with his art and taking the world by storm in the process
@arch_pierre_mukeba The light and life in Pierre Mukeba is undeniable. The self taught artist won the Churchie art prize in 2017, the RamsayArt Prize People's Choice in 2019, and has exhibited in the Adelaide Biennial and the NGV Triennial and has had two solo shows with Roslyn Oxley. Pierre's...
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S4 EP95 Julz Beresford has always had a deep love for nature
@julzberesford_artist www.julzberesford.com After a 20 year career as a food stylist, Julz Beresford has had a roaring start to her life as an artist. In the first four years of painting full time, she was hand picked up by Amber Creswell Bell to join the showing roster with Michael Reid. And...
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S4, EP94 Julie Nicholson has found her groove in abstract landscapes
@julienicholsonartist www.julienicholsonartist.com Julie Nicholson needs little introduction. The Batman to Fiona Verity's Robin, the Art W**k duo have forged a pathway in the Australian art world with their much loved podcast. But we're not here to talk about that. We're here to talk about…
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S4 Ep93 Caroline Zilinsky is a deep thinker
@carolinezilinsky www.zilinsky.com Interview With An Artist is the show where Willy Russo speaks with a range of art world players. Caroline Zilinsky is a Sydney based artist working in the portraiture and figurative genre. She is represented by Nanda Hobbs and this year was a finalist in the...
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S4 EP92 Gemma Rasdall answers all your international artist residency questions
@gemmarasdall @chateau_orquevaux www.chateauorquevaux.com International residencies are something I get asked a lot about. And previous guest and friend of the pod Sydney artist Gemma Rasdall has just returned from one in France. So you know what, I thought I would ask her all the questions you…
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S4 EP 91 SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY 2022 - Live walk through with Michael Reid OAM, Tim Klingender and Kalli Rolfe
Sydney Contemporary is back and in full swing for 2022! This bonus episode is a live recording and very much thanks to the generous offer of Michael Reid OAM to walk me, Willy Russo, around the fair. He then connected me with Tim Klingender, who connected me with Kalli Rolfe. You have to listen…
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S4 Ep90 Georgia Draws A House knows how much we love home
@georgiadrawsahouse www.georgiadrawsahouse.com A late night spray paint expedition and an unplanned PR sensation saw Georgia Draws A House blast into existence. It all began with a drawing of her childhood home for her mum. And then one for her mum's friend. And then one for her mum's friends'...
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S4 EP89 Nicole Kelly didn't show her work for the first five years, now she's with Arthouse Gallery
@nk_nk_ www.nicolerenaekelly.com How many of us run towards something we don't know how to do? I would say for the most part, we run in the opposite direction! But for NSW South Coast based artist Nicole Kelly, it's a major driver in her painting. Her desire to paint subject matter she is quite...
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S4 EP88 Alan Cruickshank The Third escaped the family business for the art world, or so he thought
@artandculturejournal Alan Cruickshank the third was born to ideally take over the family publishing business in Adelaide from his father, Alan Cruickshank the second. Alan the third had other plans - he found the art world. Throughout Alan's career in the art world, he has spent time as an…
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S4 EP87 Jane Messenger is the art advisor bringing institutional rigour to collectors new and old
@messengerartadvisory www.messengerart.org Jane Messenger is the founder and director of Messenger Art Advisory. Jane works with clients ranging from large corporations, high net worth individuals and more recently emerging collectors, helping to bring rigour to their art buying experience. You…
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S4 EP86 Fiona Verity draws like you and I need to breathe
@fionaverity www.fionaverityartist.com You may know my guest this week for a variety of reasons. You may know her distinctive drawings of interiors and objects captured with vigour and life; she may have taught you in one of her much loved art classes on Sydney's Northern Beaches; or maybe you've...
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S4 Ep85 Matthew Quick has lived a life and then some
@matthewquick www.matthewquick.com.au Buckle in. This week's episode is a wide ranging conversation about travel adventures, creativity, and among other things, how the Playboy bunny got its name. I'm serious! My guest this week is Melbourne based painter Matthew Quick. What you are going to...
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S4 EP84 Catherine O'Donnell honours the building and lives that can be overlooked
@catherine_odo www.catherineodonnell.com.au My guest this week is drawing artist Catherine O’Donnell. It was one of Catherine’s curtains that caught my eye. She drew the most simple of settings with a feeling someone had just passed behind. Catherine's work is an honouring of the quiet homes and...
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S4 Ep83 Lesley Wengembo is a rising star of the hyper-realist movement
@lwengemboart www.lwengembo.com I want you to imagine this. You're in your early 20s, you've grown up in a big close family. You're a budding artist and have been accepted to speak at a symposium in Paris. You've never flown overseas before and your mum's not that keen on you going, but she knows...
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S4 EP82 Kacy Grainger of Grainger Gallery treats her artists like family
@graingergallery www.graingergallery.com This week's show starts with a love story. A love story built on food, art, wine, and now a gallery. Joining us on the show is Canberra based artist and gallery owner, Kacy Grainger. Kacy and her husband Richard met at art school in the 90s. She was…
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S4 Ep81 Andrea Huelin knows the importance of putting yourself out there.
@andreahuelinartist www.andreahuelin.com Cairns based artist Andrea Huelin owes a failed job application for becoming a full time painter. Andrea works on the ethos of pushing yourself and putting yourself out there. An attitude that saw her exhibiting in the Cairns Regional Gallery, which is…
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S4 Ep 80 Gerwyn Davies is the ultimate multi-hyphenate artist
@ger.wyn www.gerwyndavies.com From his early days of stealing a housemates sewing machine and watching Good Morning Australia, to now collaborating with global luxury brand Hermes, Gerwyn Davies has come a long way. His photographic works are layered in skill and creativity. Not only does Gerwyn...
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Sharing stories about art + life from different with Willy Russo. Including - Interview With An Artist (5 Seasons) Two Red Chairs (1 Season)
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