Best Ascendant Studios Podcasts (2025)

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Whatever happened to Ricky Swallow? 25:13

4d ago25:13

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After rising to prominence locally in the early 2000s, Ricky Swallow left Australia and built an international art career with his small-scale, often intimate bronzes. Speaking from LA, Ricky talks about his unconscious move towards abstraction, his first foray into public art for Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, and the profound impact of the …

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Topher Campbell splays his 'rukus' heart 25:15

12d ago25:15

25:15

What began as a living archive of queer Black British experience in the early 2000s has morphed into visual memoir for the interdisciplinary artist Topher Campbell. Told through three of his arthouse films including the uncompromising Fetish (2018) where he walks the streets of New York completely naked, an Afrofuturistic sculpture and intimate sou…

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Latai Taumoepeau: This is not a drill 25:06

18d ago25:06

25:06

Latai Taumoepeau is an artist who thinks big. Not only is her subject matter expansive—the impact of global warming and rising sea levels in the South Pacific—increasingly she produces works of remarkable scale. Deep Communion sung in minor (ArchipelaGO, THIS IS NOT A DRILL), which premiered at Venice as part of Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania and is now on …

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CJ Hendry and who gets to decide 'what is art' 25:13

25d ago25:13

25:13

Blurring the line between commercial and high art, self-described Brisbane bogan CJ Hendry is a social media phenomenon. Her seductive, hyperreal drawings of luxury and consumer goods, combined with marketing nous and a flair for self-promotion, have earned the New York-based expat a global following and commercial success. While the core of her pr…

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The Art Show 54:04

1M ago54:04

54:04

Great conversations with visual artists, gallery and museum directors and curators.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Laura Jones on the Archibald prize plus Jennifer Higgie on the art of interviewing artists 54:04

1M ago54:04

54:04

Daniel catches up with Archibald Prize winner Laura Jones, who painted author Tim Winton. Painter and sitter share a passion for WA's Ningaloo reef and its survival amid climate crisis. Unusually, Laura's own portrait is also on display – she entered it in the concurrent Sulman Prize, on at the Art Gallery of NSW. Interviewing visual artists is jus…

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Joyful ceramics plus a Timor Leste artist heads to the Venice Biennale 54:06

2M ago54:06

54:06

Ceramicist Vipoo Srivilasa’s work is beautiful, playful and highly technical…and he’s having a moment, featuring in several exhibitions during 2024 including the MAKE Award, Generation Clay and re/JOY. His work is a beacon of light and happiness in dark times. Maria Madeira escaped the Indonesian invasion of Timor Leste in 1975, to end up in a refu…

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Street art in ascendence; the art of RONE. Plus Judy Watson's life of art 54:05

2M ago54:05

54:05

The artist RONE was always attracted to street art's impermanence. He's since moved beyond street art and into large scale installations, involving space, sound, music, light and large scale art pieces, that breathe life into the rooms of decaying mansions and inside spaces. RONE's "Time" was on at AGWA Centenary Galleries in Western Australia For …

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Archie Moore wins at Venice Biennale + Leonardo Da Vinci + Nikki Lam 54:06

2M ago54:06

54:06

Archie Moore won the top honour at one of the world's most prestigious and oldest art festivals – the Venice Biennale -- for a monumental work showing thousands of years of family lineage, and invoking lives lost under the colonial state. Monsignor Alberto Rocca is an Italian priest and art curator who has a singular job: accompanying pages from Le…

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Sarah Contos looks over the Eye Lash Horizon, APA celebrates Intimate Imaginaries and Monica Rani Rudhar on personal stories writ large 54:03

2M ago54:03

54:03

Great conversations wiIn her complex installations, featuring dozens on objects and materials, Sarah Contos imbues and perceives a sensuality within everyday objects. She explores the mind, the womb, the soul and the belly of her major new exhibition, Eye Lash Horizon. Monica Rani Rudhar explores how art has deepened her connection with her family …

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The virtual and real worlds of Cao Fei + printmaking with Karen Rogers and Sean Richard Smith 54:06

2M ago54:06

54:06

One of the most influential artists in the world, Cao Fei has documented China's rapid urbanisation and digital revolutions for over two decades. In a new exhibition at AGNSW, My City is Yours, she traces the connections between major cities like Beijing and Sydney, and explores how the digital and physical worlds connect. And Karen Rogers and Sean…

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How are a new generation of diasporic Australian artists working with their cultural material? 1:09:58

3M ago1:09:58

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The histories our families share can be in the stories we tell, the food we eat, the objects that are passed down from one generation to the next. Finding our own place in those histories can be difficult, but it can also be exciting and crucial. How are Australian artists from the Asian diaspora creating their own stories? And how are they reckoni…

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Radical textiles and experimental idiocy 54:08

3M ago54:08

54:08

A time-travelling, multi-regional journey through the histories of ceramics that explores how contemporary artists are politicising this elemental medium. Nell has said that “all my life is a practice", but what does that mean for the work she creates? And how has her latest piece, a quilt featuring work by 400 people, changed her perspective on co…

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Reframing the portrait 1:14:02

3M ago1:14:02

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The self-portrait is perhaps the most ubiquitous image of the modern era, but how do contemporary artists use the portrait, not just to reflect themselves or their subject, but to shift our understanding of who we are and who we can be? Atong Atem takes us into her practice of self-portraiture, exploring how the history of beautification has inspir…

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Playgrounds and powerful women: the role of art in the public space 54:07

3M ago54:07

54:07

Public art comes with big price tags and excites popular opinion, but what does it actually take to produce such large work and how does art change our experience of the public sphere? Justene Williams takes a chainsaw to her art and to the idea that women in public should be passive, with giant feminine statues that are inspired by the sheela na g…

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Marc Newson's art inspirations and the story of Lucky Kwong 54:04

4M ago54:04

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Australian designer Marc Newson has helped to define the shape of our world today. But what are the artworks that inspired his approach and shaped his world? NGV Curator Laurie Benson takes you into the history of Rodin's The Thinker and explores what happens when a work of art becomes a cultural phenomenon. Jason Phu shares his latest Phuism. And …

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Tim Winton explores the Australian landscape and Lucienne Rickard brings audiences to tears 54:06

4M ago54:06

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Tim Winton is one of Australia's greatest writers, but this year he found himself at the centre of the art world when Laura Jones' portrait took out the Archibald Prize. From his earliest experiences in a gallery to some of the earliest examples of art in Australia, Winton shares the work that's helped to shape his own keen observations of nature a…

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The Art Show

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Rise Above by Ascendant Studios

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The Level Up Podcast

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1 in 5

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Creator Defrag

Milo BC

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Whatever happened to Ricky Swallow? 25:13

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Topher Campbell splays his 'rukus' heart 25:15

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Latai Taumoepeau: This is not a drill 25:06

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CJ Hendry and who gets to decide 'what is art' 25:13

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The Art Show 54:04

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Laura Jones on the Archibald prize plus Jennifer Higgie on the art of interviewing artists 54:04

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Joyful ceramics plus a Timor Leste artist heads to the Venice Biennale 54:06

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Street art in ascendence; the art of RONE. Plus Judy Watson's life of art 54:05

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Archie Moore wins at Venice Biennale + Leonardo Da Vinci + Nikki Lam 54:06

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Sarah Contos looks over the Eye Lash Horizon, APA celebrates Intimate Imaginaries and Monica Rani Rudhar on personal stories writ large 54:03

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The virtual and real worlds of Cao Fei + printmaking with Karen Rogers and Sean Richard Smith 54:06

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How are a new generation of diasporic Australian artists working with their cultural material? 1:09:58

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Radical textiles and experimental idiocy 54:08

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Reframing the portrait 1:14:02

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Playgrounds and powerful women: the role of art in the public space 54:07

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Marc Newson's art inspirations and the story of Lucky Kwong 54:04

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Tim Winton explores the Australian landscape and Lucienne Rickard brings audiences to tears 54:06

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