Talking ArtZ

Talking ArtZ

By Brad Diedrich for GBMCAN om Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FMArts
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Talking ArtZ episodes

  • Talking ArtZ 17 | The Jenny Ward presents her segment 'In THe Frame' and then TheProfessor talks with Anne Edwards about 'Hands on Clay 3''

    TALKING ARTZ March 30th PODCAST
    In the Frame has a great line up in this edition of the Talking ArtZ podcast..
    There is so much art coming up in the Blue Mountains over the next few weeks.
    But first tonight we kick off with some great news for creatives.
    Arts OUTWEST is about to announce a new round of micro grants for artists affected by recent natural disasters – floods and Covidl…. Stay tuned.
    Jenny also speaks with landscape artist Herman Pekel (pron peakel) who will be exhibiting at the Lost Bear Gallery in Katoomba for six weeks from April 1.
    And the Kedumba Drawing collection in Wentworth Falls, which is regarded as the most significant collection of drawings in the country outside the National Gallery in Canberra, has just taken in several new works.
    Jenny speaks to Kedumba curator/director Marlene Plummer….
    Anne Edwards began working with clay at 16. Mentored by Col Levy and Maureen Williams, the resulting pots toured in ArtExpress and since then Anne has worked in studios in Japan, Brazil, Germany, Thailand and Australia. The professor talks to anne about her ceramics and about her music in the second hour on Blue Mountains live.
    Skilled in Event Management. Experienced Promoter with a demonstrated history of working in the music industry, chris leT’s us in with a little insight to what’s happening with music in the mountains.
    TALKING ARTZ March 30th PODCAST

    1 hr 59 min
  • Talking ArtZ 16 | The Professor talks with Jo Truman about her pocket opera TRAVERSING THE VOID

    On the podcast of GMCAN arts program Talking Artz that broadcasts on Radio Blue Mountains the Professor will be interviewed

    Jo truman about her pocket opera TRAVERSING THE VOID.

    Traversing the Void is a new contemporary chamber opera for voice, string quartet, and wind ensemble, composed by the Icelandic composer Hildigunnur Rúnarsdóttir, with the libretto by Blue Mountains local, Jo Truman.

    Eight contrasting movements take the listener on a journey, viewing the Blue Mountains through the eyes

    of a wild cockatoo. Exploring the dissonances between wild and urbanised spaces, bushfire and related contemporary existential dilemmas.

    Featuring the Blue Mountains Kanimbla Quartet and award-winning soprano Hallveig Rúnarsdóttir, twice

    voted Iceland’s best classical singer. With the Marais Project; Jenny Eriksson (viola de gamba), Tommie Andersson (lute) and Susie Bishop (voice and violin), and The Blue Mountains Suite - three short works written by Rebecca Daniel and performed by the Kanimbla Quartet.

    New work acknowledgement:

    “Hraun” - (text by Steingrimur Thorsteinsson) performed by Hallveig Rúnarsdóttir, Susie Bishop and Josephine Truman, and the Marais project.

    “Woolloomooloo” (text by Kirsten Tona) performed by Hallveig Rúnarsdóttir, Susie Bishop and Josephine Truman, and the Marais Project.


    58 min
  • Talking ArtZ 15 | The Professor talks with Manu from Farm It Forward and Sharon from Gang Gang GalleryI

    Talking ArtZ 15 | The Professor talks with Blue Mountains  artist & socially conscious entrepreneur, Manu from Farm it forward,  a Blue Mountain not-for-profit urban farming social ART enterprise.

    Brad talked on the RBM’s Talking ArtZ program to Emmanuela Prigioni from social enterprise, Farm it Forward, which has become one of our strategic partners in our growing greating ecology. We met Manu at GBMCAN's strategic planning day, when she came along as a guest of our Treasurer and keen permaculture trainer, Melissa Chambers. Manu has a masters degree in visual art and she is strongly committed to socially engaged art.


    The Professor: So what is Farm It Forward Manu?

    Manu:  Farm It Forward is a not-for-profit social enterprise that tackles issues of social isolation and food security in the Greater Glue Mountains. We grow food in market gardens that are on people's donated unused private land, to help residents of the Blue Mountains who are at risk of social isolation and food insecurity.

    There are four young people who are employed to look after these plots, of which we have 8 in total. We're based mostly around the Mid Mountains, Hazelbrook and Lawson, but we also have 2 plots in Katoomba. The Blue Mountains Food Co-op is sponsoring us to grow food for them, another is right in the middle of Katoomba between the Cultural Centre and the Carrington Hotel.

    On the Farm It Forward website their mission is described as
    “We grow nutrient dense regenerative food for our local community whilst raising awareness on growing practises and the mental health benefits of growing a food garden. Social outreach is a big part of what we do. We empower people to create local food systems creating resilience and nurturing our physical and mental health into the future.”

    The Professor: Now are you linking culture and art based activities with all the aspects of the positive things that we can do to improve things like mental health and social isolation?

    Manu: This year we're working on a project that will also include an art exhibition of materials and what we've made throughout our different projects. Something quite unique about our social Enterprise is that we managed to survive through the drought, the bushfires, the floods and the pandemic. That's largely due to the fact that we've reached so many people and they're the ones that I've been able to carry is through with this program.

    The Professor: How does your work fit in with GBMCAN’s regenesis project?

    Manu: I regularly do some visual artwork. I am a printmaker and I like to use my own pigments that I extract from my garden wood. I really enjoy doing a lot of printmaking using woodblock, linocuts and other illustration work. It's never in isolation. it's always to help with the work that we do and see in our food security work. So it's something that I've started teaching. I like not so much teaching, but sharing my skills with our volunteers and our team. The kind of artwork that I do never fits into the usual art gallery. I like to democratise art. I'm Italian and I come from a place where there is a very strong culture of appreciating art in the everyday, not in some specialise art gallery. I feel that's really important, and it fits in with the way Aboriginal people here have treated art making in their own culture.

    To hear the full podcast click play.

    1 hr
  • Talking ArtZ 14 | The Professor talks with Blue Mountains crime fiction author Michael Duffy in this Talking ArtZ Podcast Special

    The Professor talks with Blue Mountains crime fiction author Michael Duffy.

    Michael is the author of a number of crime novels, including Drive By, and true crime books. The most recent one is The Strange death of Paul Ruel, second in his current series. 

    Michael Duffy’s second offering in what is now being called the Bella Greaves Series, is a worthy sequel to the original. Its story is equally as compelling, as are its characters, including the backdrop of the Upper Blue Mountains, itself. The Strange Death of Paul Ruel achieves a similar atmosphere as The Problem with Murder, with the rugged Mountains landscape and its unpredictable weather a key feature in the story.

    As the novel begins, Paul Ruel remains an outsider to the culture of the Blue Mountains Police force after only seven months in his new position. There has been a social event for a sick colleague but Paul is not invited. He doesn’t fit in and his past fame is merely a source of jealousy. Having enjoyed semi-celebrity as a homicide detective in Sydney, Paul had been transferred to Katoomba Police station after a media gaff gave his superiors a reason to banish him.

    So when a body is found at the base of Govett’s Leap, a 180 metre tall pencil thin waterfall disgorging into the Grose Valley out of Blackheath, Paul’s thorough investigation of the circumstances of the death is seen as a symptom of his desire to recapture his past relevance and purpose. When he subsequently rescues a young drug-affected woman, Hannah, from the top of the cliff, YouTube videos of the event raise the status of the case and once again give Paul some notoriety.

    The Strange Death of Paul Ruel, like The Problem with Murder, is only available from Blue Mountains bookstores. However, it can be purchased online from orphanrock.com. Follow this link to check it out. please listen to the podcast. purchase and read the books, and spread the word to help this local author and publisher. Michael is supported by6 GBMCAN and Radio Blue Mountains.


    28 min
  • Talking ArtZ 12 | The Professor talks to Elizabeth Gadsby who is a Marketing Co-Ordinator for the Lyttleton Stores

    The Professor talks to Elizabeth Gadsby who is a Marketing Co-Ordinator for the Lyttleton Stores in Lawson who discusses upcoming exhibitions, dinners and workshops being held at the co-operative shops down on the northern side of the railway line at Lawson.

    From their website.

    "Lyttleton Stores Co-operative is a not-for-profit community enterprise in Lawson in the Blue Mountains. We are a collective of people, combining our loves of organic home grown food and artisan made craft ware. Our mission is to connect customers, makers, and growers, encouraging conscious, ethical, local economies as well as transitioning to a no-waste, lower energy future.

    Although we started out as a family partnership in 2015, the intention was to become a cooperative as our community grew. The transition to a co-operative occurred during 2018 through initiatives such as our crowd funding campaign, workshops, open gardens, exhibitions and pop up dinners. We have established connections with local teachers, makers, growers, gardeners, artists and customers who have become our community.


    We believe that a sustainable future involves a secure food system, creativity and adaptability, health and wellbeing, as well as a thriving localised economy.

    1 hr 4 min
  • Talking ArtZ 11 | The Professor talks to Natasha Daniloff, Kristine Ballard and Genni Kane.

    TALKING ARTZ

    On Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM on Thursday, December 15 The Professor talked to 2 artists who are part of this year's Christmas Art Fair at Gang Gang Gallery in Lithgow as well as musician Genni Kane who will be performing in the gallery on Sunday the 18th.

    This week’s lineup has 2 landscape artists Natasha Daniloff and Kristine Ballard who talk about their art careers and processes and their thoughts on the future of Art in the Blue Mountains.

    1 hr 9 min
  • Talking ArtZ 11 | The Professor talks to Caroline Giniunas and Christine Hyde

    The Professor presents the first show with artists from the annual Gang Gang Gallery Christmas Art Fair

    On Talking ArtZ on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM, Thursday, November 24th the Professor talked to 2 artists who are part of this year's Christmas Art Fair at Gang Gang Gallery in Lithgow. 2 local landscape artists, Caroline Giniunas and Christine Hyde talked about their art careers and processes and their thoughts for the future of Art in the Blue Mountains.


    1 hr
  • Talking ArtZ 09 | The Professor presents Jenny Ward's segment 'In the Frame'.

    TALKING ARTZ

    Jenny Ward talks about art and galleries in the Talking ArtZ segment 'In the Frame'.

    This week’s lineup traverses quirky galleries, an arts trail, an ancient Japanese practice, and local artists.

    Hear Henryck Topolnicki talk about his visionary gallery on the hill, and what to see on the upcoming Lithgow Arts Trail as she talks to Sisters, Margaret Aalders and Jill Sildever, who are sharing a studio in the beautiful Kanimbla Valley. Margaret is a watercolorist and Jill is a silversmith. Margaret’s landscapes are inspired by the valley, the red centre, and a Queensland rainforest.

    She also interviews local artists Olivia Schmidel and Gaele Rogers Perazzo, and an upcoming workshop featuring the ancient method of Kintsugi.

    The show was broadcast at6pm Thursday, October 27

    Where to listen to the broadcast each week

    On your Radio @ 89.1FM or streaming on your Device @

    https://rbm.org.au/ (click on the listen button) or

    https://radioau.net/blue-mountains/

    1 hr
  • Talking ArtZ | The Professor talks art and galleries with Jennifer Trezise and Livonne Larkins about their new exhibition, 'FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS'

    Tune in to Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM this Thursday, Oct 6 from 6 pm to hear The Professor talk art and galleries with Jennifer Trezise and Livonne Larkins about their new exhibition, 'FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS' which is currently on at Gang Gang Galler. Brad will also be chatting to gallery owner/curator Sharon Howard as well as the usual Art news and views and of course some engaging music. on the BMCAN Arts program Talking ArtZ.


    The program is available as a podcast after each broadcast.
    Where to listen to Talking ArtZ.
    On your Radio @ 89.1FM
    or streaming on your Device @
    https://rbm.org.au/ (click on the listen button) or
    https://radioau.net/blue-mountains/

    1 hr

About Talking ArtZ

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An initiative of the Greater Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network which has artists in conversations with artists.