FBi's Canvas

The newest kid on Sydney's gallery block is Paper Plane - an art and design space in Rozelle, set to open next week and curators Lucy Ainsworth and fellow Paper Plane pilot Jackson Ainsworth joined Nell Greco in the studio.

Have you ever wanted to be an actor? Maybe you took it to the point of having acting classes or perhaps you did high school drama? If so, you may be quite familiar with the terrain covered by Charley Garber and Gareth Davies in their show 'Masterclass'.

Sean Rafferty is a Sydney artist who seems set to defy convention at every turn. To discuss his practice, he joined Nell Greco on Canvas.

When you think about it, windows are strangely very arty - we look through them constantly, but their frames create real-time canvases all day everyday. An artist that’s recently toyed with this idea is Jai McKenzie, She joined Nell Greco in the studio to discuss her work.

How does Constructivism fit into this modern-life? And how does it relate to the work of Michael Turner, an architect who has worked as the art director on Academy Award winning films such as Moulin Rogue and the Matrix trilogy... Nell Greco found out when Michael joined here in the studio.

Josst Bakker has opened a completely sustainable pop-up cafe in the Rocks. He joined Nell Greco on Canvas to tell her all about sustainability, the business and how he makes it all work.

An artist who’s a self confessed ‘bit of a tease’, Tim Andrew makes his own internal logic out of crazy juxtapositions of severed limbs, pineapples, rainbows and roaring ferocious dogs. He joined Nell Greco in the studio to make sense of it all.

In a very fitting start to the Chinese new year, Nell Greco was joined by an artist who has developed a show out of time spent drawing en plein air in the limestone peaked mountains of China’s Hunan and Guanxi province, drawings he’s managed to translate into fantastically futuristic mountain structures. Peter Nelson comes to Canvas to speak all about his real and invented landscapes.

Something you might've noticed popping up in all forms of art is Sydney at the moment is the question: What do you know about your history? Do you know where your parents grew up? Where your grandparents went to school? Or even what your great-grandparents did for a living? For Australian-Chinese artist Lindy Lee, her personal history is the basis for her artistic career. Tracing her family, cultural and even religious trajectories, Lindy’s work is both a reflection of her past and a look at a much wider world.

Outside of Sydney yesterday, there was a celebration to commemorate a possum-skin cloak created by Lake Macquarie community groups and artists. It was displayed officially for the first time as part of Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery’s Indigenous program and Donna Fernando, Indigenous project manager at Lake Mac Gallery spoke with Nell over the phone about the project.