Writers’ Block and Regional Galleries

Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 24 August focuses on regional galleries in NSW and the psyche of creative people.. Firstly, we explore why so many creative people suffer anxiety and self-doubt. Psychotherapist Peta Landman, herself an arts practitioner, author and former arts manager speaks to us about some of the issues creative individuals face […]

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Arts Thursday 9 August – star performers

Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 10 August is a colourful and diverse as the Pilipino desert Halo-halo, an eye-popping medley of shaved ice, milk, jellies, fruit, sweet beans and whatever takes your fancy. Arts Thursday continues to explore the Phillipines Art Project Bayanihan at Mosman Art Gallery and welcomes star performer, Geraldine Turner who, as […]

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Michelle Belgiorno – A Thousand Stitches of Hope

  Arts Thursday 18 May 2017. Michelle Belgiorno, one of five Australian and Japanese artists, whose work is presented in TOKKOTAI – Contemporary Australian and Japanese Artists on War and the Battle of Sydney Harbour by the Mosman Art Gallery speaks to Maisy Stapleton on Arts Thursday about her work A Thousand Stitches of Hope. Listen […]

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Arts Thursday 18 May 2017

FUTURE/PAST This Arts Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton exploring the future and the past. I’ll be speaking first to Kate Cherry, CEO and Director of NIDA (the National Institute of Dramatic Arts) on upcoming NIDA productions and her first five months in her new role. Then to Michelle Belgiorno, one of five Australian and Japanese artists, whose […]

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Tradition with a twist

Arts Thursday 15 December 2016. Meet Dr Belinda Von Mengerson, the Curator of Slipstitch, a new exhibition at Mosman Art Gallery. This is the first contemporary embroidery exhibition to be held in 3 decades. Belinda spoke to Maisy Stapleton about how embroidery has been turned on its head and taken up by a young generation of […]

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Arts Thursday 15 December 2016.

A NEW LOOK AT TRADITIONS This Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton looking at some traditions that have been turned on their head or interpreted with a twist.         First up meet Belinda Von Mengerson, the Curator of Slipstitch, a new exhibition at Mosman Art Gallery. This is the first contemporary embroidery exhibition to […]

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Arts Thursday17 November Podcast

WILDTHING Join Maisy Stapleton speaking to Katrina Cashman, Senior Curator Mosman Art Gallery about the exhibition WILDTHING – Animals in Contemporary Art on show at the Gallery until 27 November. Told through contemporary Australian art, produced within the last 15 years, WILDTHING traverses our attitudes, love for, use and abuse of the animal kingdom from […]

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Arts Thursday 17 November.

  WILDTHING and Behind the Museum This Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton in a conversation with Frank Howarth PSM, the President of Museums Galleries Australia, the membership organisation for these organisations across Australia. This forms part of an irregular series on ‘thought leaders’ in the arts and cultural world. If you’ve ever wondered about the museum […]

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Blockbuster Destination

          Destination Sydney, is a ground breaking art exhibition, spread over three iconic Sydney Galleries – Manly Art Gallery and Museum, nestled on the harbour foreshore; Mosman Art Gallery located in a refurbished church and purpose built gallery in the heart of this suburb’s leafy streets and the SH Ervin Gallery, […]

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