The Drawing Room

The Drawing Room

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The Drawing Room episodes

  • Fiona Foley: Biting the Clouds
    Throughout her work as a visual artist, Fiona Foley has engaged with the history of Queensland's Indigenous people.
    Her new book, Biting the Clouds, continues that exploration of history.
    In the Drawing Room, Dr Foley talks about opium, the real meaning of 'protection' acts and the damaging secrecy of the past.
    23 min
  • Fiona Foley: Biting the Clouds
    Throughout her work as a visual artist, Fiona Foley has engaged with the history of Queensland's Indigenous people.
    Her new book, Biting the Clouds, continues that exploration of history.
    In the Drawing Room, Dr Foley talks about opium, the real meaning of 'protection' acts and the damaging secrecy of the past.
    23 min
  • The art of philanthropy
    What does it take, to keep the arts alive and thriving? And what role should philanthropy play?
    Alexandra Burt and Rachel Healy were both recognised at this year's Creative Partnerships Awards.
    In the Drawing Room they discuss philanthropy, flygskam, and the key conversations facing the arts.
    25 min
  • The art of philanthropy
    What does it take, to keep the arts alive and thriving? And what role should philanthropy play?
    Alexandra Burt and Rachel Healy were both recognised at this year's Creative Partnerships Awards.
    In the Drawing Room they discuss philanthropy, flygskam, and the key conversations facing the arts.
    25 min
  • Voices of the sleepless
    What does the person you walked past on the street today think about when they're awake late at night?
    Maybe they've been having strange dreams: 2020 has certainly been the year for it.
    Maybe they work the late shift and are always up and about when the rest of the world is asleep.
    A new project, The Nightline, is asking everyone to call in and share their late-night thoughts.
    20 min
  • Voices of the sleepless
    What does the person you walked past on the street today think about when they're awake late at night?
    Maybe they've been having strange dreams: 2020 has certainly been the year for it.
    Maybe they work the late shift and are always up and about when the rest of the world is asleep.
    A new project, The Nightline, is asking everyone to call in and share their late-night thoughts.
    20 min
  • Garry Disher looks for Consolation
    Garry Disher's novels are an essential and influential part of Australian crime fiction, and have seen him acknowledged with the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.
    His latest, Consolation, is the third book to follow Paul Hirschhausen, a constable working in a small town, somewhere between Adelaide and the Flinders Ranges.
    In the Drawing Room, Disher discusses community, mysteries, and his own experience growing up in regional Australia.
    20 min

About The Drawing Room

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Retire to the eclectic environs of the RN Drive Drawing Room, for music, musings and unexpected conversations. The Drawing Room is equal parts performance space, salon, and kitchen table confessional.

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