WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: This year’s Sydney Architecture Festival focuses on Great Architecture – What makes a building great? Can great places bring us together and why do we need ‘great?’ Tim Horton from the Architects’ Registration Board joins the program to give us the key to the Festival and its value for the community. A […]
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Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 9 August 2018. WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Join Maisy Stapleton for a program that takes you from the paintings of John Russell, Australia’s French Impressionist to an ingenious new interpretation of Keating! the Musical. John Russell, left Sydney in the 1880s to […]
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 26 July. WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Join Maisy Stapleton in conversation about 60s Interior Decorator/Designer Marion Hall Best and the exhibition honouring her work at Hazlehurst Art Centre. Firstly Michael Lech, Curator of the exhibition, gives us an insight into this period in design, when modernism was gaining in […]
Presented by Bronwyn Rennex On Arts Thursday this week I thought I’d do something a little different. I invited artist Matt Bromhead to co-host the show with me. We chat about his exhibition Longline at Galerie Pompom, which came about with the support of Art Incubator, a support program for emerging Australian artists. […]
Read More… from Arts Thursday 5 July – artist Matt Bromhead co-hosts
ARTS THURSDAY with Maisy Stapleton on 31 May. WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Join Maisy Stapleton in conversation with two very different groups of artists to probe what ‘lies behind’ an artwork. Firstly we’ll meet two artists who are showing at the Janet Clayton Gallery in Paddington. In what will […]
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 17 May. WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Ged Gillmore writes crime fiction. His hero is an ex-drug dealer and Ged’s third book in the Bill Murdoch series has just been published. English-born Ged has found a way to successfully incorporate experiences from his […]
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Presented by Bronwyn Rennex Today on the show I speak to Scott Smart and Anni Finsterer about the play they are currently performing in at Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre, directed by Elizabeth Nabben called The Readers. The play was written by Scott and is based on the real experiences of a broke young […]
Read More… from ARTS THURSDAY 10 May – ‘The Readers’ interview with Scott Smart and Anni Finsterer
ARTS THURSDAY with Maisy Stapleton on 3 May. WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: The theme of The Australian Heritage Festival 2018 is My Culture, My Story, which forms a guide for the program this fortnight. Join me to speak to the new CEO of the National Trust of Australia (NSW), Debbie Mills […]
Presented by Bronwyn Rennex On Arts Thursday this week I speak to Moshe Rosenzveig about the upcoming festival of all things photography, Head On. Moshe is Director of the festival, which began as a portrait competition in 2004 and this year will feature over 100 venues and 800 artists. The festival runs from 5-28 May […]
Read More… from Arts Thursday 26 April – Speaking HeadOn with Moshe Rosenzveig
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 19 April looks at the Australian Design Centre in conversation with CEO Lisa Cahill and presents part two of a day out at the Biennale of Sydney WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Lisa Cahill is the CEO and Artistic Director of the Australian Design Centre. The ADC – formerly Object […]
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Presented by Bronwyn Rennex On Arts Thursday this week I speak to two people deeply involved in the Australian Photographic community, Cherie McNair, Director of the Australian Centre for Photography and Sandy Edwards, artist, curator and Director of Arthere. Cherie speaks about the ACP programs and their current exhibition by local artist Cherine Fahd called […]
Read More… from ARTS THURSDAY 12 April – talking photography with Sandy Edwards and Cherie McNair
Arts Thursday 29 March 2018, presented by Bronwyn Rennex ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: I speak to Liz Watts, one of the producers of the film MARY MAGDALENE about the making of the film. MARY MAGDALENE is an authentic and humanistic portrait of one of the most enigmatic and misunderstood spiritual figures in history. The biblical […]
Read More… from Arts Thursday 29 March – Liz Watts on making ‘Mary Magdalene’