Art Smitten

After an incredible day experiencing the 2026 Melbourne Sculpture Biennale at Billilla Mansion, our next episode of Art Smitten will be sharing our thoughts & reflections on the project 🍃🏡🕯️
We are also fortunate to be joined by Hannah Gartside + Beth Maslen, who both have new works presented at this year’s exhibition!

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In this episode we are joined by Mel Huang Buntine, the curator of NCM's exhibition 'Radical Computing'. This exhibition is a love letter to the computer and our relationships to technological systems, from the communal to the personal. 

The team also reflect on our own history with computers (hello Club Penguin we miss you) and play our favourite tech influenced tracks. 

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Today on Art Smitten we are thrilled to be joined by Nicholas Currie and Diego Ramírez, 2 of the artists featured in ACCA’s NEW26 exhibition which celebrates the most compelling emerging artists with bold and ambitious new commissions.

Image credits:
1) L-R: Nicholas Currie, I wonder if it’s all gammin. 2026, witchway 2026, (P)oxymoron 2026, big X 2026, self again 2026, installation view. Australian Centre
for Contemporary Art, 2026. All works commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, ACCA, Naarm/Melbourne. All works courtesy the artist and Daine Singer Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne. Photograph: Carmen Zammit

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We’ve been out walking on the beautiful streets of Naarm in preparation for today’s episode all about wandering around and finding art along the way. 🚶

Aditi shares a book review of I want to die, but I want to eat tteokbokki by Baek Sehee 

Afrina reflects on the debut single 'Ghost of You' by Whitten Ooi in relation to Edvard Munch's The Scream (1893) in our Art + Music segment

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We are excited to be discussing Ngarn Wa’ngal: Art of the gum tree currently on display at the Potter Museum of Art. This major exhibition reflects the deep cultural, ecological and symbolic significance of the gum tree — and we look forward to hearing our guest Sophie Gerhard share insights into the curatorial process! 🌿Also in this episode, Astra reflects on the art he found in a local library and Aditi shares the work of Felicity Chiao!

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Images Credit: Installation view of Ngarn Wa’ngal: Art of the gum tree, Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, 2026. @pottermuseum
Details from Matthew Harris’ ‘With a Warm Embrace’, 2023

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We are keeping things funky and fresh in this episode of Art Smitten... 

To kick things off, the team reflect on the life and work of Yayoi Kusama after passing away aged 97. Then we are joined by artist Dhishni de Silva @dhishni_art who has been running Funky Veg Still Life classes at Ruma @ru.ma_studio in Brunswick for the last month. Plus, we share our connections to art and music through Aditi's pairing of Jiang Miao's 'Heavenly Eyes' + Wisp. 

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Cover Image: by Jennifer Hunt

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This week, the whole Art Smitten team will be in the studio sharing our thoughts 💭 and feelings 💕 about some recent art experiences.
Aditi is back from South Korea, Jen reflects on the attitudes towards the Young British Artists to the rise of Charli xcx, Afrina has been inspired by Bartolini’s practice and Astra will be sharing a review of 'One Sings, the Other Doesn't' (1977) dir. by Agnès Varda. 

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In this episode, Afrina shares an interview with Irish-Palestinian artist Yosef Phelan @yosefphelan who explores identity and familial histories through hand drawn animations, audio recordings and short film. 

We also discuss works from the current exhibition Wurrdha Marra at NGV Australia, Daniel Spoerri's Prose Poems (1959–60), and went on a tangent about the impact of community radio.

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For our final episode of the season, the Art Smitten team are reflecting on music that reminds us of works of art … 💭🎶
Every week we celebrate visual art experiences through the audio medium of radio, so we can’t wait to celebrate this tension and explore how our senses collide and inform one another 💌

Artworks discussed:

David Hockney, We Two Boys Together Clinging, 1961.

Matilda Davis, Jumping for Joy (collige virgo rosas), 2024.

John Constable, Harwich Lighthouse, 1820.

John Everett Millais, A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew’s Day’, 1852.

Frida Kahlo, Viva la Vida, Watermelons, 1954.

Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa, 1831.

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Cover: Wassily Kandinsky, ‘Compositon 8’, 1923.

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In this episode we will be exploring Radical hope as a way to live, make and create during times of uncertainty. 

We discuss the current exhibition ‘Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience’ curated by Isabella Hone-Saunders and Paul Boyé as part of the MADA curator-in-residence program. Isabella joined us in the studio to chat with us all about the project!
Also, Mio shares the work of artist Wendy Hannah whose installation work in Aotearoa had her smitten 🎐

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Image Credit: Rory Pilgrim, ‘Tomorrow in your hands and Government lover’, 2026 plastic bags with printed text, grass. Exhibited in ‘Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience’ at MADA gallery

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