Judith Brenner is an English painter who works with the themes of alchemy.  Using metal powders and experimenting with other materials on canvas, her works evolve and change as a matter of chemistry and they reflect the energy of various environments and landscapes that inspire her.  If you’d like to see her work, visit judithbrenner.com or pop in to an open day at Wimbledon Studios in London.  She’ll be at the Wimbledon Art Fair 15-18 November and is also exhibiting her life drawing works in a show with Anneka Rice from Nov 27 –  Dec 8 at the OSO Arts Centre in Barnes London .

Judith and I met at Parallax Art Fair in London July 2018, where we were both exhibiting and we recorded this chat.

During a fantastic Red Gate Gallery Residency in China, 2016, I conducted interviews with various artists and gallerists as part of my research in Beijing .  I’m calling the series Pathways to China and I hope you enjoy meeting some of the people I chatted with while I was there! The first interview is with Australian Brian Wallace, founder of Red Gate Gallery in Beijing.

A series of interviews and chats with artists and arts workers who have some kind of rural or regional connection.

18 February 2018 John McRae – This chat is with photographer John McRae.  He lives in Sydney but grew up in regional Victoria and is taking his next exhibition “Spot the Arab” to Ballarat to exhibit at the Backspace Gallery.

A series of interviews and chats with artists and arts workers who have some kind of rural or regional connection.

17 July 2018 Ana Young is an interdisciplinary artist who likes to work across drawing, painting and sculptural installations.  Her work has been displayed in the Tom Bass Scuplture Prize, the Dobell, Fisher’s Ghost and Kedumba Awards and at Chalkhorse Gallery in Sydney. Most recently her work was displayed as part of the Bush to Bay: Hinton and the Artists’ Camps exhibition at Mosman Art Gallery.  Coming soon, you can see her work as part of another group exhibition at the Broadhurst Gallery, which is part of the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery. 25 Aug – 04 Sept. 2018. Ana has a studio in Hill End and has produced various works there over the years.

A series of interviews and chats with artists and arts workers who have some kind of rural or regional connection.

01 May 2018 Kylie Shead is the Creative Producer at Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre and a driving force behind the biennial Catapult Festival and annual Writers’ and Readers’ Festival.  Kylie trained at NIDA, has worked on large scale projects and theatre productions and thrives on bringing events into fruition!  Listen to our chat here and head along to the festival 4-6 May 2018.

A series of interviews and chats with artists and arts workers who have some kind of rural or regional connection.

18 March 2018 Rosemary Valadon – Hill End based artist Rosemary Valadon is a regular in the Archibald, Sulman, Blake and Portia Geach Art Prizes.  She chats about living and working in regional NSW, her art practice and process and upcoming exhibitions in Orange, Sydney and Maitland.

A series of interviews and chats with artists and arts workers who have some kind of rural or regional connection.

08 April 2018 Peter Solness is an award winning photographer with over 35 yearsindustry experience. Peter’s recent photographic work is in a genre called Light Painting. Twice awarded the NSW Parliamentary Plein Air Photographic Prize for his Light Painting images, he is coming out to the Central West to conduct workshops and is available for bookings.