This week on SmartArts, Richard speaks with regular guest Tai Snaith about creative and educational activities you can undertake with your children, delving into the unconscious, with ideas around dreaming and free association.

Artist Deanne Gilson joins Richard to discuss her work as part of Affirmation, an exhibition which will be shown online via the Koori Heritage Trust. Gilson works in multiple mediums to reinterpret colonial images of Aboriginal people through a black lens. She says that Aboriginal artistic practise is “all healing. It’s all part of our journey, part of unpacking our past.”

Plus a conversation with Janet McLeod, the curator of Local Laughs Online about how covid-19 is impacting comedians and the way in which online platforms are changing the creative practice of comedy.