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With a focus on the contemporary art scene in Naarm / Melbourne, we’re here to showcase art and culture. Contributors and presenters interview, review, and cover current and upcoming exhibitions, practices and everything in between. Art Smitten is the place for expanding your knowledge of art!
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For our first show back in 2026, Art Smitten will be speaking to Angela Connor, Senior Curator at MAPh on the exhibition YOUNG 📸🌟This episode kicks off with a new segment 'Art that has us SMITTEN' before focusing on how youthfulness is captured in art. We hear Angela’s perspectives on the role photography plays in representing youth and wrap up the show with a discussion on depictions of youth in film! Tune in Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia@angela___connor @maph_photographySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
For our last episode of 2025, Art Smitten is bringing you interviews with recent School of Art graduates from RMIT 🖼️ 🌟Arabella, Millie and Tully will be in the studio to share their experiences of art school, the final works that appeared in the grad show and what they have coming up next!And to all those who completed their degree this year, a big congratulations from us all !! 🙌Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm, online or via the Community Radio Plus app 📻@rmit_art @rmituniversity @synmedia @milliehopton @arabellalallaa @tully.lmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This interview is part of a segment called Music as Art, implemented by Dani Roche. In this edition, we will be hearing from the members of Special Features for our Music as Art segment! 🥁Special Features @specialfeaturesband is a heavy alt-rock band from Meanjin/Brisbane, and they spoke with Dani about how they create their music, their influences and views on music as an art form!Tune in Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia , online or via the Community Radio Plus app 📲Image credit 📸 : Kyle Dobie via Triple J unearthedSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Our team went on a super special excursion to the folks at Schoolhouse Studios in Coburg to learn more about the spaces, ethos and artists that inhibit this former supermarket space! 🛒 We spoke with Director Bron Belcher along with residents Ashley, Rhys and Mae to hear first hand the importance and impact of places like this in Naarm/Melbourne's art ecology. Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm @schoolhouse_studios See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Art Smitten is bringing you a special on poetry this episode ✍️To begin, we hear from our Executive Producer Jen all the way in Tokyo to share a little bit of her trip and examples of poetry within Japanese art 🖼️ that she has seen in the galleries. Then, the Art Smitten team share poetic extracts they love or share favourite poems of their own.🩵 Finally, Lili from Roundtable Readings joins us for an interview ~ sharing the importance of communal reading events plus a poem or two! 💫 @roundtablereadings @morningbreathingexercises Art Smitten airs on SYN 90.7fm Mondays 3-5pm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this episode of Art Smitten, presenters Afrina, Astra, Larissa and Tyra shared the art that has moved them. Tyra begins with the 2025 film 'Sinners' dir. by Ryan Coogler; Larissa speaks on her observations of the legal system in Reginald Rose's '12 Angry Men', Afrina reflects on the cultural resilience and beauty of Yosef Phelan's practice; and Astra wraps up with a comparison on loneliness in Edward Hopper's paintings and the film 'Perfect Days' by Wim Wenders. Art Smitten airs on SYN90.7fm Mondays 3-5pm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Art Smitten is bringing you a special episode on Art Criticism✍️🗞️ The team will be chatting about the importance and the impact of criticism of art in all forms, as well as our own views on how criticism effects our encounters with art.Plus, we are joined by art historian and critic Victoria Perin from Memo Review — a weekly independent art criticism platform running since 2017, to give us an insight into the local criticism ecosystem📰 @memo_review@_victoriaperin@synmedia Art Smitten airs Monday 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This episode of Art Smitten features our conversation with humanoid robot Pepper who is currently on display at the National Communication Museum in Hawthorn.Restored for their current exhibition ‘Friend’, we asked Pepper many pressing questions including if robots will take over the world… 😳😳 Jesse from NCM Studio also spoke with us about their role in robot restoration and the other machines within 'Friend'. In the second half of this episode, our wonderful Astra shares his thoughts on Spike Jonze's film 'Her' - reflecting on human loneliness and its resonance in today's AI chat-bot filled world. Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Art Smitten is joined by Amy Spiers in this episode to discuss the ‘Archives Are Hot! Artists in the Archive’ program developed by Next Wave in collaboration with CAST, Saluhan and An.Other Collective. Our presenter Tyra will also be sharing a review of Love Serenade (1996) directed by Shirley Barrett 📽️ Listen in to hear our discussion on what it means to be a socially engaged artist/researcher, what CAST is doing for researchers and our thoughts on current Feminist discourse through the lens of this late 90's film. Art Smitten airs on SYN 90.7fm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of Art Smitten, we are fortunate to be joined by artist Aisha Hara who recently had an exhibition at CAVES 🌼titled 'Green Age'.Aisha is a Japanese-Australian visual artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She is interested in the intersections of painting and translation and her exhibition is a response to the poetics of spring as found in tanka poetry 🎐We also had a discussion about NGV's recent winter blockbuster 'French Impressionism: from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston' after our Executive Producer Jen visited the show in its final days.@aisha__hara@caves.naarm 📻 Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm @synmediaImage credit: Risograph poster for 'Green Age' by Aisha HaraSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.
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