In our continuing series on multiples, this week art consultant Anna Groden starts with print making techniques, talking about relief printing: woodcuts or woodblocks and linocuts. Learn how they are made and who made them: European artists, greatly influenced by the Japanese woodblocks through to our own Margaret Prescott.

In this episode, art consultant, Anna Groden, continues with printing techniques, once again revealing history, techniques and famous artists who use these methods.

On 8 January 2020, art consultant, Anna Groden, made a welcome return to  Arts Wednesday with Part 1 of a new 6-part series on multiples: etching, lithographs, linocuts, woodblocks and more. In this episode, Part 1, Anna answers the question: what are prints?

On Arts Wednesday 11 December 2019, Sylvia’s guest was Dr Keith Suter, who reviewed 2019 and presaged events in 2020. Topics covered include the rise in street protests, particularly in Hong Kong, the increasing influence of China in Australia and elsewhere and the impeachment of Donald Trump. [...]

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On Arts Wednesday 11 December 2019, Sylvia's guest was Dr Keith Suter, who reviewed 2019 and presaged events in 2020. Topics covered include the rise in street protests, particularly in Hong Kong, the increasing influence of China in Australia and elsewhere and the impeachment of Donald Trump.

Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday 4 December 2019 was Melanie Eastburn, curator at the Art Gallery of NSW, talking about Japan Supernatural, the current exhibition at the gallery. Her knowledge and expertise unlock this very complex topic. Starting with the history of the genre, Melanie moves on to talk about the fantastical characters of the [...]

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Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday 27 November 2019, was Nicholas Cowdery, Director of Public Prosecutions in NSW from 1994 – 2011. During that time, and indeed since his retirement, he has been a passionate advocate of fairness. His latest book, Frank and Fearless, documents some of the most dramatic trials, but each case helps us [...]

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Sylvia's guest on Arts Wednesday 4 December 2019 was Melanie Eastburn, curator at the Art Gallery of NSW, talking about Japan Supernatural, the current exhibition at the gallery. Her knowledge and expertise unlock this very complex topic. Starting with the history of the genre, Melanie moves on to talk about the fantastical characters of the supernatural and the artists who depict them.

Professor Geraint Lewis brings us the sixth and final part of this series, The Stuff of the Universe. Each episode, we have looked at smaller and smaller stuff and in this episode, we don’t get smaller, just weirder, according to Geraint and weirder is dark matter and dark energy. It’s like finding a piece of [...]

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And just when we thought that we had found the smallest bits of the universe, apparently there are even smaller bits. In this episode Geraint explores string theory, a mathematical formula taken up by physicists to look at possible smaller bits. [...]

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