LoveArt

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.This episode features Mike Hewson, a Sydney-based artist whose practice sits at the intersection of conceptual art, structural engineering, and public space. In this latest iteration of Mike Hewson’s GeoPet series, an elite fleet of his bejewelled brick buddies enter their bathroom era as potty pests. Clustered around Amanda Love’s porcelain throne on a custom-build aluminium shelf, their companionship is cutie and nosey; with crossed gemstone eyes they curiously shuffle up close.Recorded in April 2026, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin her practice.Hewson is represented by Lett Thomas Gallery, Auckland.

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.This episode features Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, a Sri Lankan-born Sydney based artist. Nithiyendran explores global histories and figurative languages, particularly in relation to idolatry, monumentality, gender, race, and religiosity. The installation discussed in this episode includes a series of three large, hand-built ceramic wall masks and a series of miniature bronze faces mounted to the walls. Masks have been recurring motifs within my practice. I’m interested in their layered, multi-regional histories as well as their abilities to function as mechanisms of power, concealment, and polymorphism—in ritual, performance, or protest.Recorded in March 2025, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin her practice.Nithiyendran is represented by Sullivan+Strumpf.

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.This episode features Augusta Vinall Richardson, a Melbourne based artist working with sheet and cast metals to make abstract composite sculpture. "The assemblage of my works, composed of separate, individual parts, reflects my philosophy: societies are formed through the coming together of distinct bodies—nature, buildings, animals, and people." - Richardson.Recorded in December 2024, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin her practice.Richardson is represented by The Commercial, Sydney.

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.This episode features Mia Boe's Dream Room, a direct wall painting and installation of small canvas works. Boe is a Melbourne-based painter from Brisbane with Butchulla and Burmese ancestry. Her work is influenced by the inheritance and ‘disinheritance’ of these two cultures, often responding to Empire’s deliberate and violent interferences with the cultural heritages of Burma/Myanmar and K’gari (Fraser Island).Recorded in August 2024, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin her practice.Boe is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.This episode feature's Nadia Hernández and Jon Campbell's collaborative project, Sure, a coffee sounds great, comprising setlists and drawings. Campbell has been collecting setlists from bands for several decades now and frequently incorporates them into his installations and artworks. Hernández has included a body of work from her loose and intuitive drawing practice that covers her studio walls, offering points of departure for new work.Recorded in November 2023, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin their practice.Campbell is represented by Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney and Hernández is represented by STATION.

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.This episode features Sam Gold, a queer non-binary artist who turned their hand to ceramics in earnest in 2018, bringing over a decade of training in Transpersonal Art Therapy, Furniture Design and studies in Contemporary Art to the medium. Recorded in April 2023, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin their practice.Gold is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery.

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.This episode features Rainbow Chan, an interdisciplinary artist working across music, performance, painting and installation. Her practice explores (mis)translation, diasporic experiences, globalisation’s effect on modern Chinese society, and deeply personal tales of love and loss. The installation for Love[f]Art comprises silk painting, back-strap loom weaving and sound. Chan transcribes the lyrics onto silk through brushwork, calligraphy and embroidery.Recorded in December 2022, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin her practice.Further information on Rainbow Chan can be found here.

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.This episode features Alex Seton's There’s No Place Like Home, an installation that brings together several works from the artist’s four previous exhibitions that collectively contemplate memory, forgetting and loss. In this intimate setting, Seton (re)presents works that tell his personal memories of growing up off-grid in the bush near the Wombeyan Caves.Recorded in September 2022, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin his practice.Seton is represented by Sullivan+Strumpf.

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.This episode features Nell - the mononymously titled artist - explores a poetic dichotomy of spiritual influences and good old-fashioned rock’n’roll across a variety of mediums including painting, ceramics, sculpture, video and performance.Recorded in August 2022, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin her practice.Izabela Pluta is represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.This episode features Tony Albert’s Interior Composition Tile, an extension of Albert’s Conversations with Margaret Preston series which dissects 20th-century Australian artist Margaret Preston’s iconography with a reverse ethnography. Drawing on both personal and collective histories, Albert explores the ways in which optimism might be utilised to overcome adversity.Recorded in March 2022, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin his practice.Tony Albert is represented by Sullivan+Strumpf.

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.This episode features Izabela Pluta’s An over air pursuit of likeness, consisting of two composite images affixed to a wall and a mirror, the work blends visual and textual sources, referencing a photograph Pluta’s father took from an aeroplane window in 1987 when her family emigrated from Poland to Australia.Recorded in October 2021, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin her practice.Izabela Pluta is represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.Healy and Cordeiro are Australian artists who reclaim and transform the fallout of consumer society in their practice. Titled Don't Shit where you Eat, the work draws inspiration from the 1974 Surrealist comedy Phantom of Liberty by Luis Buñuel and Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th Century Decameron, ruminating on social cues, conditions and consequences of pandemic induced isolation.Recorded in April 2021, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin their practice.Healy & Cordeiro are represented by .N Smith Gallery.

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.This episode features Mel O'Callaghan's Sea Mount (2020);  filmed in the Eastern Pacific where she undertook a three-week expedition on the Research Vessel Atlantis - the same trip from which her recent major exhibition Centre of the Centre derives. From the trusty submersible HOV Alvin, Sea Mount captures a descent through the sea’s five layers - zones that extend from the surface to the most extreme of largely unexplored depths – in an epic journey of genesis and regeneration.Recorded in December 2020, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin her practice.Mel O'Callaghan is represented by Galerie Allen, Paris; Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydney; and Galeria Belo Galsterer, Lisbon.

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.This episode features Elizabeth Pulie, discussing her site-responsive work #110 (Crisis of the Contemporary) (2020). Developed as a written and audio-based work in collaboration with Tina Havelock Stevens, the piece takes the form of a speculative conference paper, reflecting on the proposition of an “end of art.”Recorded in November 2020, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin her practice.Further information on Elizabeth Pulie's practice can be found here.

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.This episode features Sydney-based artist Clare Milledge, discussing her site-specific work Little shrike-thrush calling in the gully: in praise of shadows (2020). Structured as a pentaptych and realised using the Byzantine hinterglasmalerei technique, the work brings together fragments of language gathered from ecological fieldwork and digital encounters.Drawing on both environmental observation and contemporary modes of communication, Milledge constructs a shifting, personal lexicon that sits between the natural world and human systems of meaning.Recorded in February 2021, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin her practice.Clare Milledge is represented by STATION Australia.

Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.This episode features British-born, Sydney- and London-based artist Caroline Rothwell, discussing her site-specific work Carbon Emission 5 Constructivist Rococo (2020). Rothwell’s research-driven practice examines the relationship between human systems and the natural world, often drawing on ecological and scientific frameworks.Recorded in July 2020, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin her practice.Caroline Rothwell is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, and Yavuz Gallery, Singapore.