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Art Smitten is SYN's weekly guide to arts, culture and entertainment in Australia and around the world. With a focus on youth and emerging arts, we're here to showcase culture ahead of the curve. From our base in Naarm/Melbourne, contributors interview, review, and cover the very best of what the world’s second-most liveable city has to offer. Whether it's film, fashion, photography or Fauvism you're into, Art Smitten is the place!
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For our first episode of season 4, the team is so excited to be speaking with two of the artists featured in KINGS current exhibition program. Ayah Zakout and Ebony Maurice-Wilmott joined us to share insights about their art practices and the works featured within their exhibitions. @ayahzakout.jpeg @ebony_maurice.wilmott @kingsartistrun Season 4 of Art Smitten begins this Monday from 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia 📻 listen on the radio, online or the Community Radio Plus app. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listen to our conversation with Kate Barber, cofounder of Spring1883, an art fair hosted inside the iconic Hotel Windsor on Spring Street 🏩 ! Within their own reserved room, gallerists uniquely display works by artists they represent in the unconventional hotel suites instead of the typical 'white cube' model characteristic of typical art fairs. @spring1883@synmediaListen on Art Smitten on Mondays via the Community Radio Plus app, online or tune into 90.7fm 🎧Image: Daine Singer room, 2014. Photographer: Zan Wimberley. Courtesy of Spring1883.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Tune in to hear an interview with Saluhan Collective collaborators MJ Flamiano and Catherine Ortega-Sandow about their current curatorial project Fugitive Archives!! 🏷️The exhibition series examines the role of artist-led, community-based, and independent archives as transformative tools for collective organising and knowledge production. The first show, Fugitive Archives: otherwise or elsewhere, seeks to draw on the tangled relationships between the archive and the artist, with a focus on artists with Filipino heritage. It is currently on display @mada_fine_art MADA Gallery until August 18th ~Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on @synmedia SYN 90.7fm 📻@s_a_l_u_h_a_n@mjflamiano@catherineortegasandowImage credit: ‘Fugitive Archives: otherwise or elsewhere’ opening event featuring works by Nice Buenaventura and Stephanie Misa, 2025, photo by Thomas McCammon @tommccammonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Join Viv & Sim as they interview Joanne Samuel, the Director of 'The Legend of Five'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Viv & Sim interview Lauren Esposito, the lead actress of 'The Legend of Five', to talk about the film & her journey.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We are dishing up a real treat for you all 🍽️ this collaboration with our dear friends at Talk On Your Fork brings an episode focused on the intersection of food & art! To begin, Astra will be sharing their thoughts on the film ‘The Menu’ (2022) 🥣 PLUS for a real treat, we will be speaking to Gemma Leslie from @foodforeveryone.aus about her incredible project that pairs artists with chefs all to raise funds for those in need. We end with a discussion focused on the history Dutch Still Life paintings to wrap up the show. Art Smitten airs on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia on Mondays 3-5pm. Also available on the Community Radio Plus app 📲 Be sure to listen to Talk On Your Fork! Wherever you get your podcasts. Image: Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, ‘Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes’, 1780. Courtesy of The Met Museum.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We are joined by photographer, artist and co-founder of the Pacific Centre for Photographic Arts Aishah Kenton in this episode of Art Smitten. Listen to hear all about the workshops and programs that PCPA facilitate along with Aishah’s own photographic art practice! In the second half of the show, the team review films seen in the final weeks of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) for 2025. Movies covered include Sorry, Baby (dir. Eva Victor), Peter Hujar's Day (dir. Ira Sachs) and Urchin (dir. Harris Dickinson). Art Smitten airs on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia from 3-5pm on Mondays 🛰️ also available on the Community Radio Plus app 📲 Image: Nur Aishah Kenton, untitled (Salam)-- a self-portrait with my mother in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2024 @aishah_k @pacificphotoartsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Maya Borjesson @handclap joined us in the studio 🔊 for this episode of Art Smitten.Based in Naarm/Melbourne, Maya is a sound artist and architect who explores ambient music’s potential in evoking memories as well as sound’s relationship to architecture. We also briefly discuss the history of sound as an artform to contextualize our discussion around sound as an artistic medium! Art Smitten airs Monday 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm 📻 @synmedia Work by Maya Borjesson included in this podcast includes 'A Thread Beneath Our Skin' which was exhibited at No Vacancy Gallery as part of the show 'Stillness in Motion". Image credit: Joshua Maxwell de Hoog @jesterempathSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
For our first episode of season 3, we are kicking things off with a discussion about the rise of AI in art 📟 Afrina asked local art students for their opinion on the use of AI and the team shared their own perception of the ever-changing tool and its place in creativity.Astra shares his review of the film ‘The Man Who Sleeps’ (1974) directed by Bernand Queysanne to wrap up this episode. The film is an adaptation of French novelist Georges Perec’s 1967 novella titled A Man Asleep and is perhaps the perfect film to bet the winter blues. 🎧 Art Smitten airs on SYN 90.7fm @synmediaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, we had the pleasure of chatting with Lucia, Head Editor of Demure Magazine. Demure is a local online publication focused on highlighting experimental and engaging explorations of literature, arts, culture and fashion. With their first issue released in August of 2021, Demure has continued to expand, with a print-publication release for their most recent edition! Art Smitten airs on SYN Radio 90.7 FM SYN Media acknowledges and pays respect to the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands the SYN office and studios stand. SYN and the Art Smitten team would like to further acknowledge the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the Lands and Waters across Australia where our content reaches. Art Smitten would like to expand that respect to Bunjil, the great creator ancestor of the Kulin nations. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Zack and Ben joined Brandon Pape, artistic director at Antipodes Theatre Company, who talks about adapting the classic show Guys and Dolls. You can listen to Art Smitten live every Saturday from 12pm on SYN 90.7. Get in touch with the show on our Instagram @artsmittensynSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Here at Art Smitten, we chatted with local Naarm filmmaker Lucie McMahon about her documentary film, Things Will Be Different. The film explores community, the impact of losing one’s home and the important role that public housing plays in so many people’s lives. The film follows residents who are forced to relocate from the Walker Street estate in Northcote after it is sold for private development. The first screening of the film which includes a walking tour will take place on Saturday the 10th of September for the Darebin FUSE Festival. The second screening takes place on Sunday the 18th of September at the Thornbury Picture House. Be sure to follow @artsmittensyn on Instagram, and tune in to SYN 90.7FM every Wednesday at 4pm-6pm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ai Yamamoto and Dan West are musicians, instrumentalists, producers, composers and educators. Ai collects sounds from field recordings, sounds from our daily lives and game sounds, creating textures and flowing melodies in her work. Dan fuses sounds from both people and machines from within his custom shipping container sound lab. For Art Smitten, we spoke with them about their upcoming performance at the Neon Parlour art gallery over in Thornbury for this year’s Spring Darebin FUSE festival. They will be creating a great immersive experience within the space on the 10th and 11th of September at 8pm so don’t miss out! For more information and to book your tickets, click here. Be sure to follow @artsmittensyn on Instagram, and tune in to SYN 90.7FM every Wednesday at 4pm-6pm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
From the flagship youth arts organisation Western Edge comes Distortion - a genre-ending and time trippy production that will be unlike anything you have seen before. Distortion will be playing at Wyndam Cultural Centre, Footscray Community Arts Centre and the Bowery Theatre in St Albans from the 3rd to the 17th of September. We chatted with lead artist Clarisse Bonello and co-artistic director John Marc Desengano all about Western Edge and the upcoming Distortion. For more info and to book tickets click here. Be sure to follow @artsmittensyn on Instagram, and tune in to SYN 90.7FM every Wednesday at 4pm-6pm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Joseph O'Farrell (JOF) is a Melbourne/Naarm based artist and the creative director of White Night. Known for his own large-scale installations focused on accessibility and inclusivity, JOF’s aim with his work is to develop art that adds value to the community. Here at Art Smitten, we spoke with him about an event that does just that. White Night is a celebration of arts, culture and community. It will take place in Bendigo on Saturday 3 September and over in Geelong on Saturday 8 October. Don’t miss it! For more info check out: https://whitenight.com.au/bendigo/ https://whitenight.com.au/geelong/ Be sure to follow @artsmittensyn on Instagram, and tune in to SYN 90.7FM every Wednesday at 4pm-6pm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Raphael Recht is a Naarm/Melbourne based rapper, performer, photographer, creative director, health advocate and more. Art Smitten EP Cristina spoke with him about his new album titled Lifexpectancy. Dubbed a hip-hop musical journey, Lifexpectancy is the soundtrack to Raph’s life experiences, including growing up with cystic fibrosis and having the opportunity to meet and perform with the one and only Michael Jackson back in 1997 which helped shape his love for performing. Lifexpectancy is out now, which you can listen to and purchase here. Be sure to follow @artsmittensyn on Instagram, and tune in to SYN 90.7FM every Wednesday at 4pm-6pm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Rebecca is an Australian artist and educator, with a special focus on print-making, textiles and dyeing techniques. She has exhibited her work throughout Australia including the RMIT gallery and the Canberra Contemporary art space. Art Smitten host Mherhean spoke with Rebecca about the art exhibition titiled Above the Canopy at Town Hall Gallery. The exhibition showcases Australia’s diverse natural environment and its relationship to climate change, which is especially relevant now. Her work, along with many other artists is now showing. The exhibition is open until Saturday the 24th of September. For more info click here. Be sure to follow @artsmittensyn on Instagram, and tune in to SYN 90.7FM every Wednesday at 4pm-6pm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode, we had a chat with FortyFiveDownstairs all about their annual Emerging Artist Award! 🏆We were fortunate to be joined by Felix Oliver, 2024 Winner, and learnt more about the process and story behind their winning piece 🙌 Listen in to hear details about the selection process and the aims of the award opportunity. @fortyfivedownstairs@felix0liver🎧 Art Smitten airs on SYN 90.7fm @synmediaImage credit: Emerging Artist Award 2024 1st Prize Winner: Felix Oliver, Dripping palms, Inkjet print on Platine paper, American oak, 63 x 44.5 cm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This special episode features a panel discussion with @un_projects (AU) and @pilotmagazined (UK) @ngvmelbourne for Melbourne Art Book Fair! 📚We spoke about all things publications - finding out what it takes to create a lasting magazine in our increasingly digital age.This conversation took place live at 1–2pm on Sunday the 18th of May 🗓️Moderated by Audrey Merton, Executive Producer for Art Smitten on SYN 90.7FM @synmedia@auvbm@eggeplant@dkteppSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jen and Zeta are joined by Alta Forma's Director Meredith Turnbull on this episode of Art Smitten. ⛓️Located on St Kilda Rd, Alta Forma supports artists who work in expanded object and jewellery practices to create experimental and socially engaged projects.⛓️💥 Listen in to hear about the specialties of curating object-based artworks and the vision for this space!@_altaforma_@merecatuArt Smitten airs on Wednesdays at 3pm on SYN Media @synmedia 90.7fm 🖇️ Image details: Exhibition view 'Still Life and Peaches', Katie Collins and AnnaVarendorff, 5 February - 1 March, 2025See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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