Sunday Arts Magazine

Recent guest on Sunday Arts Magazine, award winning Enza Benincasa, and first time guest, Gisella Cozzo, discuss their Christmas concert. The concert will be staged at Enza’s art gallery in St Kilda and is a fundraiser for the Red Cross.

Enza is an Australian artist who paints large-scale paintings of urban and rural landscapes and of abstract art. Gisella is involved with the Red Cross, and volunteered for them when in Italy. She was a singer on Young Talent Time and is now a singer-songwriter.

Visual artist, Ash Keating, joins the team at Sunday Arts Magazine to chat about his current exhibition.

Ash is an Australian contemporary visual artist. On today’s episode of Sunday Arts Magazine, he speaks about how he uses paint-filled fire extinguishers to paint large murals.

His exhibition “Pressure” is now on show at Bunjil Place, City of Casey in Narre Warren, until 17th March, 2024.

Midsumma Festival Program Manager, Brendan Cooney, chats to David and Neil on Sunday Arts Magazine.

Brendan has occupied numerous roles of producer and venue manager at various venues around Australia. He owned the Bassline Nightclub at The Palace, St Kilda, and was the Producer and Creative Director during the nineties. Brendan graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts: Technical Production(Honours), from the Queensland University of Technology in 2009. Since then he has been working on major festivals.

He returned to Melbourne just before the outbreak of Covid. Midsumma reached out to him offering him a short term role. This short term role morphed into him becoming the Program Manager for the Midsumma Festival. This year is his third year as the Program Manager for the Midsumma Festival.

A highly educated artist, predominately sculptor, John Meade was born in Ballarat and now lives and works in Melbourne.

John joins the team at Sunday Arts Magazine to chat about his love for sculptor. He mentions his many qualifications and speaks about his It’s Personal” exhibition at the McClelland Gallery in Langwarrin. John is now Head of the Graduate Certificate of Visual Art at the University of Melbourne.

Award winning Enza Benincasa has spoken to Sunday Arts Magazine on numerous occasions in the past. Today she chats about her love for art and her career. She also highlights the recent Christmas and Fund Raising Concert she presented at her St Kilda Gallery.

Darren Tanny Tan(curator) and Clinton Hayden(artist) join the Sunday Arts Magazine team to discuss the NotFair Art Fair.

Darren is a Singapore born, Melbourne based visual artist. Curator for the recent NotFair Art Fair, his work sustains a meditation on mortality and impermanence.

Clinton, a proud Wurundjeri person from Three Rivers in N.S.W, is a Melbourne based artist. His work, also displayed at Notfair, explores the poetic ideas of belonging and the human identity. Clinton has exhibited his work both within Australia and internationally.

The team at Sunday Arts Magazine speak with returning guest, award winning Ben Opie, about the Peninsula Summer Music Festival.

Ben, Victorian oboist, has performed around Australia and internationally as a soloist, ensemble and orchestral musician. Aged care facilities and hospitals to standing on a truck tray are among the many varied places he has performed.

Today he speaks with David and Neil about the Peninsula Summer Music Festival, of which he is Artistic Co-Director.

The Peninsula Summer Music Festival takes place in January, 2024.

Passionate about film and theatre, Stephen A Russell returns to Sunday Arts Magazine, to chat about recent and upcoming films.

Imported Scotsman, Stephen is a Melbourne-based, award-winning film critic and arts journalist.

Award winning Prudence Flint chats to the team at Sunday Arts Magazine about her exhibition “Hunting and Fishing.”

Prudence lives and works in Melbourne. With no background in art, she developed an interest during the eighties when she looked through many art galleries. She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1989 and held solo exhibitions around Australia.

Prizes and awards include: Finalist in the Archibald Portrait Prize in 2015 and 2016.

Winner Doug Moran Prize in 2004

Winner Portia Geach Memorial Award in 2010

Also won the Len Fox Painting Award in 2016

Prudence has seven large pieces, entitled “Hunting and Fishing”, on display in the NGV Triennial. In “Hunting and Fishing”, Prudence is encouraging people to think, to search for ideas and find out more about things.

The Triennial is at the NGV from December 2023 until 27th April 2024.

Today the team on Sunday Arts Magazine chat to special guest, Hugh Hayden, about his artwork.

Born in New York. Hugh’s desire has always been art. He studied architecture, as the private schools he attended did not encourage studying art. He holds a Master of Fine Art from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University. Wood and branches are Hugh’s main medium. Through his sculptures, Hugh examines how human interactions with the natural environment are intimately connected.

Hugh is displaying two inspiring installations in the triennial currently running at the NGV.