A World of One's Own with Tai Snaith

How important is it to visualise your work coming to life? How well do you know yourself, your history and your place in the world?

Tai and Maree get pretty heavy and emotional in an electric conversation about making contemporary work from loaded memories and histories. They talk about how important it is to avoid being put in a box, seize opportunities and be true to your self and your people. Maree talks about how she uses her work to explore and tell stories of grief, belonging and perhaps most important of all, healing.

Music: 'End of the Day' by Phia www.listentophia.com

Audio production: Bec Fary

This episode is from Season 1, which was originally called A World of Her Own. It was part of the exhibition Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism at ACCA. Thanks to ACCA for all their support.

More episodes and information at www.taisnaith.com

How does design incorporate memory and materiality? What would our built environment be like if clients and architects revived the world of imagination?

Tai and Rachel discuss the language of landscape in relation to and as an integral part of Architecture. They talk about the very personal process of designing a house and how it can influence families by making us WAIT and SHARE. They explore how rules in your practice can evolve from instincts, which in time evolve into built patterns. They also address the changing landscape of women architects' careers, flexible working models and juggling it all.

Music: 'End of the Day' by Phia www.listentophia.com

Audio production: Bec Fary

This episode is from Season 1, which was originally called A World of Her Own. It was part of the exhibition Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism at ACCA. Thanks to ACCA for all their support.

More episodes and information at www.taisnaith.com

What does it mean to be an ‘Aussie Artist’? What is wildness and how do we allow it space to thrive?

Tai and Jenny share their love of horses and the freedoms they offer to us as young girls whilst taking a close look at the Australian and international gallery scene and the ‘sober business of art’. They talk about the importance of depicting ‘broken women’ and female iconoclasts in paintings and the power of imagining other versions and stories for yourself.

Music: 'End of the Day' by Phia www.listentophia.com

Audio production: Bec Fary

This episode is from Season 1, which was originally called A World of Her Own. It was part of the exhibition Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism at ACCA. Thanks to ACCA for all their support.

More episodes and information at www.taisnaith.com

What is it like to live with a mental illness and make art? How important is editing when it comes to being an artist?

Tai and Diena discuss how difficult it can be when we are critical not only of our work but also of ourselves. They talk about finding consolation in successful works we have made and painting as a way of existing when life itself is really, really hard.

Music: 'End of the Day' by Phia www.listentophia.com

Audio production: Bec Fary

This episode is from Season 1, which was originally called A World of Her Own. It was part of the exhibition Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism at ACCA. Thanks to ACCA for all their support.

More episodes and information at www.taisnaith.com

How do we use work to explore ideas of motherhood and morality?

Tai and Patricia discuss what it means to be a mother and continue a successful art practice. They talk about issues of postnatal depression and anxiety, partners and family life. They also talk about owning and celebrating your fecundity and creating ‘finely crafted love letters’ to your audience with your work.

Music: 'End of the Day' by Phia www.listentophia.com

Audio production: Bec Fary

This episode is from Season 1, which was originally called A World of Her Own. It was part of the exhibition Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism at ACCA. Thanks to ACCA for all their support.

More episodes and information at www.taisnaith.com

How do our gestures and bodies become part of our work? And how is the act of cutting a feminist action?

Tai and Sally talk about female identity and archetypes of women such as pirates, witches and more - ideas which have been present in Sally’s life and imagination since she was a child. We talk about the act of cutting and how the female identity is both fragile and sturdy, but ultimately ‘re-arrangeable’ and fluid.

Music: 'End of the Day' by Phia www.listentophia.com

Audio production: Bec Fary

This episode is from Season 1, which was originally called A World of Her Own. It was part of the exhibition Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism at ACCA. Thanks to ACCA for all their support.

More episodes and information at www.taisnaith.com

How and what do you present to an audience? Where does the line between yourself and your work begin?

Tai and Shelley discuss the assumptions about ‘revealing the truth’ in dance and how creating complexity and a kind of ‘unhooked narrative’ that is not linear or logocentric might be a more exciting way of looking at things. We also discuss the idea of playing with ‘the gaze,’ the fraught relationship between needing approval from an audience and making work within a female body.

Music: 'End of the Day' by Phia www.listentophia.com

Audio production: Bec Fary

This episode is from Season 1, which was originally called A World of Her Own. It was part of the exhibition Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism at ACCA. Thanks to ACCA for all their support.

More episodes and information at www.taisnaith.com

How can we be open and honest and take risks, but still feel safe?

Tai and Maude talk about making work about women and what exactly does it mean to take risks in front of an audience? They share the frustration of finding it easier to write about other people’s work than their own and how to deal with failure. They ask the hard question; ‘What happens as you get older and your body can’t perform in the same way anymore?’

Music: 'End of the Day' by Phia www.listentophia.com

Audio production: Bec Fary

This episode is from Season 1, which was originally called A World of Her Own. It was part of the exhibition Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism at ACCA. Thanks to ACCA for all their support.

More episodes and information at www.taisnaith.com