Best Nathan Beard Podcasts (2025)

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Shanysa McConville looks back over 65000 years of art 25:15

17h ago25:15

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For much of the last century, in museums, the works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists were treated as something outside the main story — consigned to a footnote of history or a side room in major galleries. A new exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art wants to put the record straight. Titled 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australia…

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Jennifer Jezewski: Luxury Media in Nashville 42:54

2d ago42:54

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We speak with the publisher of Modern Luxury Nashville about the launch of the publication and why Nashville is the latest city to become part of the portfolio.

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Grace Herbert tees off on the unnecessary lines between art and sport 25:16

8d ago25:16

25:16

From feminist beginnings to kitsch commercialism, minigolf has a rich history. But what happens when you let artists loose to design their own holes? Forget white walls and hushed tones—today we're heading to a golf course. Curator Grace Herbert explains the ideas behind Swingers, where putters are swapped for latex tails and square balls add a uni…

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Arcangelo Sassolino embraces the possibility of change 25:15

15d ago25:15

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Arcangelo Sassolino's work captures a suspended instant: just before collapse, just after ignition. At the 2022 Venice Biennale, Sassolino paid homage to Caravaggio's Beheading of Saint John the Baptist. But where Caravaggio painted light and shadow, Sassolino sculpts with fire and steel: molten light heated to 1500 degrees, falling from above into…

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Del Kathryn Barton’s creative world-building project imagines empowered, spirited women 25:15

22d ago25:15

25:15

Del Kathryn Barton exorcised her rage in her critically acclaimed feature film Blaze, but its aftermath is grief. You wouldn't know it if you cast your eye around her Paddington studio: wide-eyed sylphs, sibyls and sages emerge from minutely detailed canvases where chequerboards, dots and strawberries are laden with new meaning. Much like a cinema …

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Emma McCallie: Bringing Folx to the Table 56:49

23d ago56:49

56:49

A conversation with Emma McCallie, co-founder of Folx Table, “the first sit down social network” that connects people at events in restaurants in the Nashville area.

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Drawing with sound underground: Jason Maling’s magnum opus Diagrammatica 25:15

29d ago25:15

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Jason Maling works in the expanded field where — through the interface of technology, screens and a sound system — the sonic and the visual are conducted before a live audience. Diagrammatica was inspired by physics diagrams, but it's grown into a beast: part drawing, part durational performance and part musical composition. And it all takes place …

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Thai-Australian artist Nathan Beard’s ironic take on museum artefacts 25:15

1M ago25:15

25:15

Recently on the show we met Filipino artist Pio Abad to hear about his Turner Prize nominated exhibition 'To Those Sitting in Darkness' which re-presented museum objects to reveal hidden histories and the deep legacies of colonialism. Thai-Australian multidisciplinary artist Nathan Beard takes a different, less didactic, approach but, like Pio Abad…

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Frank by name: Dale Frank on taxidermy and his greatest living artwork 25:14

1M ago25:14

25:14

Although he's one of Australia's most established, commercially successful and prolific artists, Dale Frank is a reluctant interview subject. Eccentric, reclusive, visionary, trailblazer — a sublime colourist, even a likeable arsehole — these are just some of the ways he's described. Which makes it even more remarkable that he agreed to be the subj…

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Olfactory artist Nadia Vitlin infuses her artwork with scent 25:14

2M ago25:14

25:14

Sydney-based artist Nadia Vitlin works with olfaction — our sense of smell — infusing her artwork, whether it be clay or paint, to create bespoke pieces that mimic the transportive power of scent: one of the most evocative, deeply personal and memory-laden senses humans possess. She experiments in the fourth dimension, and it all began with leaves …

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Pio Abad on his 2024 Turner Prize nominated body of work 25:11

2M ago25:11

25:11

Just as historical objects in museum collections embody certain histories — of British imperialism and modernity — they also map loss and disappearance for those in former colonial states. Pio Abad, whose work is "concerned with the personal and political entanglements of objects," has mined the stories embedded in certain cultural material such as…

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Chris Mallon: Tennessee Whiskey Workshop 43:17

2M ago43:17

43:17

Chris Mallon, the founder and lead for the Tennessee Whiskey Workshop discusses his immersive whiskey experience and why he feels its important to target women with his product and marketing.

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One of Australia's most successful art partnerships 25:14

2M ago25:14

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They used to lay-buy contemporary art together when they were low-paid gallery workers, forging a business relationship early on. Now, Ursula Sullivan and Joanna Strumpf are one of Australia's most successful art partnerships in terms of the cultural impact of the artists they represent — Tony Albert, Lindy Lee, Polly Borland, ex de Medici, Sam Lea…

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How a child’s boomerang returns in the latest TarraWarra Biennial 25:13

3M ago25:13

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It was while researching the provenance of a child’s boomerang, found in topsoil near the site of Melbourne Zoo, that Kimberley Moulton found the key to her curatorial vision for We Are Eagles, the latest edition of the TarraWarra Biennial. The Yorta Yorta curator worked with artefacts and other historical material at Melbourne Museum for years bef…

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Khaled Sabsabi speaks 25:17

3M ago25:17

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The Lebanese-born Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi joins The Art Show exclusively to talk about the profound impact of the decision to unceremoniously dump him as Australia's representative artist to the 2026 Venice Biennale. The decision exposed the arts funding body Creative Australia to claims of political interference, racism and censorship — e…

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Allie Kleva: The Success of Women’s Basketball in Nashville 28:23

3M ago28:23

28:23

Allie Kleva of Athletics Unlimited discusses the future of women’s professional basketball in Nashville.

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Warraba Weatherall’s first institutional solo 25:12

3M ago25:12

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For Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall, art that isn't a catalyst for something—that isn't driven by critique of gatekeeping museums, the criminal justice system, or the wilful historical amnesia and complacency—isn't worth making. Warraba has just unveiled his first institutional solo at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, laying bare his politi…

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The truth behind Vincent Fantauzzo's verisimilitude 25:13

3M ago25:13

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In art, verisimilitude — representing things as they appear — is something like telling the unvarnished truth and it makes perfect sense that it's the form in which Vincent Fantauzzo is most comfortable. His first commercial artworks were actually counterfeit 50 dollar notes, just one of the uncomfortable truths which he tells in his new autobiogra…

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Robots aside, Robert Andrew draws inspiration from country 25:15

4M ago25:15

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Robert Andrew's artwork features simple robotic machines, with a stylus that impulsively draws or leaves a trace; not so much artificial intelligence as incidental happenstance. Although he works with technology, Andrew has always been deeply inspired by country. So it made sense that he was invited to make work for a new group exhibition at Bundan…

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Nici Cumpston: Indigenous artist turned curator to lead overseas museum 25:15

4M ago25:15

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Nici Cumpston has played a transformative role at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Over the past 16 years she has driven First Nations curatorial practice to new heights, shaping what began as a biennial exhibition into a festival of contemporary Indigenous art that surveys artmaking across the continent. As Tarnanthi reaches its tenth anniversa…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Nathan Beard Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Going All The Way

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Shanysa McConville looks back over 65000 years of art 25:15

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Jennifer Jezewski: Luxury Media in Nashville 42:54

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Grace Herbert tees off on the unnecessary lines between art and sport 25:16

1
Arcangelo Sassolino embraces the possibility of change 25:15

1
Del Kathryn Barton’s creative world-building project imagines empowered, spirited women 25:15

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Emma McCallie: Bringing Folx to the Table 56:49

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Drawing with sound underground: Jason Maling’s magnum opus Diagrammatica 25:15

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Thai-Australian artist Nathan Beard’s ironic take on museum artefacts 25:15

1
Frank by name: Dale Frank on taxidermy and his greatest living artwork 25:14

1
Olfactory artist Nadia Vitlin infuses her artwork with scent 25:14

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Pio Abad on his 2024 Turner Prize nominated body of work 25:11

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Chris Mallon: Tennessee Whiskey Workshop 43:17

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One of Australia's most successful art partnerships 25:14

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How a child’s boomerang returns in the latest TarraWarra Biennial 25:13

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Khaled Sabsabi speaks 25:17

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Allie Kleva: The Success of Women’s Basketball in Nashville 28:23

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Warraba Weatherall’s first institutional solo 25:12

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The truth behind Vincent Fantauzzo's verisimilitude 25:13

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Robots aside, Robert Andrew draws inspiration from country 25:15

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Nici Cumpston: Indigenous artist turned curator to lead overseas museum 25:15

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