Artbank with Theo

Tom speaks to Natasha Conland about the upcoming Walters Prize. We hear a preview of the art and hear about how the jury selection works. Prairie talks to Steve Lovett - artist, art educator, and technician. He has recently been announced as one of the online residents at Artspace Aotearoa. 

Prairie talks to Nariman Taghipouran about his online show at Sosage Gallery. We hear from Cath Robertson - she gives us another great lesson in starting a lockdown art project. We hear our first Works For Waves Submission (a collaborative call out we for new works for radio, between Artbank and Audio Foundation). This week we have heard from GUARDIANS, with their track Lockdown Phase Dub. Cheers to Lance Strickland and Chris Schmeltz from Dunedin! 

We have a busy show for you this week. Homebound Art Club is thriving in the lockdown, and we hear from Cath Robertson, as she talks us through fun ways to begin making artwork. Andrew interviews Josie Mortensen, campaigner for Māori history, art, language, health and education, and the first Māori woman to go to Elam. Prarie continues our tour of bedrooms, as we hunt for art in lockdown. Theo and Jackson bring us more Sunday Painters!! Yeow

In the vain of "A Journey Around My Room" by Xavier de Maistre (1794), we get through lockdown by taking a sonic journey of people's bedrooms, and hear about particular objests within. In Tour de Bedrooms, Callum Devlin talks about his limited editition Spidey Spice (spiderman) Dorito chip packet. Then we head to Mount Maungnui for Laurie Steer to desrcibe the cookie jar/urn we didn't know we needed, which he is currently crafting. In Wendalin Bakker's bedroom exhibitition, she describes her wooden puzzle which she has never tried to solve for years and years. In part 2 we talk to Steven Park, in his Christchurch room, about his cast what he broke to get it. Then we chat to Stella Corkery about her late father's wood turned shelf and the repressed artists who farm western Southland. Then its up the West Coast to Julia Johnston who describes her house, a converted miners cottage north of Greymouth. More to come Next Week!!!!!!