Arts Thursday Join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers and our special guests to explore stories behind the arts. Our first guest is Baptiste Cornillier, who has been our music curator over the last few years. French-born Baptiste works for the Sydney Opera House as Tours Operations Supervisor. While we hear so much about the Opera […]
Join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers and our special guests on Arts Thursday 12 November 2020 to explore three aspects of the visual arts – painting, drawing and photography. Firstly, we speak to Jacqualine Breakspear and Samantha Tidbeck whose joint exhibition Observations and Venerations, opens this week at Project Gallery 90 in Paddington until 25th […]
Read More… from DRAWING PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHY – Thursday 12 November 2020
Join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers and our special guests for Arts Thursday 29 October 2020. Firstly we speak with Sebastian Goldspink, newly appointed Coordinator of the Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, which opens in early 2021. The Gallery will be housed in the former Double Bay Library – the 122-year-old heritage building overlooking Blackburn Gardens […]
This Arts Thursday join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers and our special guests. Our first guest in the studio is acclaimed theatre devisor, director and designer Kim Carpenter. Kim has spent the Covid lockdown in an intensely creative period, resulting in a series of watercolours of The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde’s fairy tale of love […]
Arts Thursday 1 October 2020 focuses on makers, artists and works which inspire, explore and look to change attitudes – particularly in this time of COVID19, underpinning the role of craft, art and design in our lives. Join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers to meet Julie Ryder, whose work explores botany – its history; collectors […]
This Thursday, the emphasis is on the home, as well as an interview with photographer Greg Weight focussing on his experiments with ‘paintographs’. Greg joins Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers to speak about his new exhibition Big Tree Notes at the Australian Galleries in Paddington, which blurs the boundaries between painting and photography – a […]
Read More… from A New look at the Home and the ‘Paintograph’: 17 September 2020
This Thursday, Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers speak to two artists with new exhibitions. Firstly, meet Andjana Pachkova – formerly a Wall Street lawyer, born in the Ukraine and raised in Russia and now living in Sydney, practicing art. Her solo exhibition Fernweh – into the Blue, at the […]
This Thursday, Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers speak to Peter Morton who is recording an ongoing series on the collections in our state’s cultural institutions – museums, galleries and libraries. Today Peter is speaking to Richard Neville, Mitchell Librarian about the extraordinary holdings and the astonishing and diverse array of items in the State Library […]
Read More… from Collections, Regional Arts & Paddo Town Hall: 23 July 2020
This Thursday, Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers join you to explore arts initiatives that have pushed through the Covid19 lockdown. First up we speak with Jo Jansyn, Cultural Development Coordinator at Woollahra Council about how Council has stayed active in the community over the last months with the development of Creative Hoardings ; the new […]
Arts Thursday 25 June This Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers join you for world class design and behind the scenes info on the release of a new work by Distant Drum. First up Maisy speaks with Penny Craswell about her recently published book Design Lives Here, which presents world class Australian design in […]
Arts Thursday 11 June We’re back! This Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers for their first Arts program since the corona virus lockdown. We start today with an interview recorded by Peter Morton in an ongoing series about the treasures in our museums, galleries and libraries. Today Peter speaks to Richard Neville, […]
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton and Paula Towers We may not be able to travel at the moment, but we can still look to far horizons. Perhaps now is the time to spend learning another language – if not face-to-face, there are many on-line courses and aids to be found. Or we might now have […]