Artist Tara Gilbee has a multidisciplinary approach to art making that incorporates solograph and pin hole photography techniques. Her work will be displayed in MPRG’s upcoming exhibition ‘Surreal Landscapes’ as well as an online exhibition of her works resulting from her time spent at the Police Point Artist in Residency, on the Mornington Peninsula, in 2018 and 2019. Discover more about Tara’s background as a health professional and how this has fostered ideas around power and forensics and ideas around the body and how we speak about illness and negotiate vulnerability.

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Tara Gilbee - solograph and pin hole photography

Curator Danny Lacy talks to Mornington Peninsula based artist Sophie Perez about studying at the Royal College of Art in London, her inspirations and her love of colour. Sophie shares how she captures the essence of the Mornington Peninsula landscape in paint and discusses her new studio, her 9 x 10 inch commission paintings and how she promotes herself on social media.

Sophie Perez - The landscape in-between

Artist and avid collector Patrick Pound talks about his MPRG exhibition 'A Collection of Stranger Things'. Pound delved into the MPRG Collection and drew out works that he recontexualised alongside his own collections of found photographs and objects. Patrick Pound is well known for his collections-based artworks, where he collects thousands of photographs that he themes together as museums. Discover more about his collection methodology and how the collection has become the medium. A conversation with MPRG curator Danny Lacy, 2020. Introduction by Nathan Schroeder, Music courtesy of The Basics

Patrick Pound - A Collection of Stranger Things

Three generations of artists from the same family - Christine Lloyd, Michael Favaloro and Merryn Lloyd - talk to curator Danny Lacy about their work in a recent exhibition at MPRG. In the Valley was an exhibition that highlighted the beauty and fragility of our natural environment and was presented as part of CLIMARTE’s ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 festival. Discover how three generations from one family presented different perspectives of the same Mornington Peninsula location. A conversation with MPRG curator Danny Lacy. Introduction by Nathan Schroeder, Music courtesy of The Basics

Christine Lloyd, Michael Favaloro and Merryn Lloyd - three generations of artists

Juan Ford examines the human figure and its relationship to the environment. He has consistently been engaged with opening up new possibilities for realism in painting. Find out more about how exhibiting in artist-run spaces helped develop his practice. He also talks about his artistic process and still life constructions and why his work is often a multifaceted, but sometimes contradictory affair. A conversation with MPRG curator Danny Lacy. Our 2018 podcast program is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation. Introduction by Nathan Schroeder, Music courtesy of The Basics

Juan Ford - timeless painting

A special episode of practical and inspirational advice for artists by artists featured in MPRG's 2018 exhibition program and podcast series. We asked artists what they wish they knew when they were just starting out. Hear advice from 14 Australian artists, including Raafat Ishak, Jon Campbell, Andrew Hazewinkel, Kylie Stillman, James Tylor, Laura Wills, Rosie Weiss, Katherine Hattam, Danica Chappell, Catherine Truman, Natasha Bieniek, Vipoo Srivilasa, Chris Bond and Christian Capurro. Top tips: Be incredibly patient and don’t compromise. Raafat Ishak Be prepared to work hard … and stay with it. Jon Campbell If you make things that take a long time to make, make things simultaneously that are really quick. If you’re making things that are really big in scale, make things simultaneously that are of a really intimate scale. Always work across the full spectrum of what you are doing … Andrew Hazewinkel Find work that you enjoy to support your practice … because if your practice is purely non-financial you have so much more freedom in what you make. Kylie Stillman You’re an artist for a lifetime. It doesn’t all have to happen straight away. Rosie Weiss Listen to your heart, not always your head. Catherine Truman Say yes to opportunities when they present themselves, even if that scares you. Natasha Bieniek Keep making good work. Vipoo Srivilasa Avoid fads. Chris Bond Be incredibly dogged and find people who care about what you do. Christian Cappuro Our 2018 podcast program is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation. Introduction by Nathan Schroeder, Music courtesy of The Basics

Best advice for artists from 14 Australian artists

Christian Capurro's 'Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette' is a September 1986 issue of Vogue Hommes magazine that has been carefully erased by over 260 people. The participants inscribed the time taken to erase the page with its monetary value according to their current income. Discover how Capurro is interested in the idea of how erasure is manifested and how image making is simultaneously a making and unmaking process. A conversation with MPRG curator Danny Lacy. Our 2018 podcast program is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation. Introduction by Nathan Schroeder, Music courtesy of The Basics

Christian Capurro - making and unmaking

Chris Bond’s practice involves the invention and embodiment of fictional artists and writers. In his painting practice, this is often realised in imagined books, magazines and correspondence. Bond’s new series of four small watercolours for the Obsession: Devil in the detail exhibition continue his chimerical alter-ego of Martin Meeks, a Boston-based artist possessing species dysphoria, who identifies himself as an ocelot. Find out more about how Chris Bond works in ways that are unlikely. A conversation with MPRG curator Danny Lacy. Our 2018 podcast program is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation. Introduction by Nathan Schroeder, Music courtesy of The Basics

Chris Bond - fictional constructs

Vipoo Srivilasa is a ceramic artist who was born in Thailand. He creates contemporary porcelain sculptures and vessels that transmit a universal message about cross-cultural experiences. In this podcast, Vipoo talks about how he works with artisans around the world to make his iconic creatures and how his patience series was a reaction to the distraction of social media. Discover more about his art projects, his new studio and how he manages his busy international schedule. A conversation with MPRG curator Danny Lacy. Our 2018 podcast program is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation. Introduction by Nathan Schroeder, Music courtesy of The Basics

Vipoo Srivilasa – patience is a virtue

Natasha Bieniek’s works shrink the everyday down into microcosms. Her tiniest paintings are only 4 x 5 centimetres. Natasha talks about how she is reviving the tradition of miniature painting and why she has shifted from portraiture to landscape painting. A conversation with MPRG curator Danny Lacy. Our 2018 podcast program is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation. Introduction by Nathan Schroeder, Music courtesy of The Basics

Natasha Bieniek - Reviving miniature painting

Artist Catherine Truman talks about her JamFactory touring exhibition No Surface Holds. Truman's practice incorporates contemporary jewellery, objects, digital image and film installation with a focus upon the parallels between artistic process and scientific method. Discover how Truman co-founded the Gray Street Workshop, about her residencies overseas and her collaborative work with neuroscientist and poet Professor Ian Gibbons and what it feels like to be recognised as a JamFactory living icon. A conversation with MPRG curator Danny Lacy. Our 2018 podcast program is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation. Introduction by Nathan Schroeder, Music courtesy of The Basics

Catherine Truman - artistic process and scientific method

Danica Chappell explores the malleability of analogue photography to create unique abstract works. Hear about the process and challenges behind the work she makes and her defining research at the Bauhaus museum after receiving a Jim Marks Postgraduate Scholarship. A conversation with MPRG curator Danny Lacy. Our 2018 podcast program is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation. Introduction by Nathan Schroeder, Music courtesy of The Basics Image: Danica Chappell, Shallow Shadow #1 (detail)

Danica Chappell - riffing off photography’s history

Katherine Hattam who has been a finalist in the National Works on Paper eleven times. Katherine talks about her two stage process of making work, her repeating motif of the table covered in everyday objects and why she is fascinated by the William Buckley story, featured in her 2018 National Works on Paper work He Forgot How To Speak English. A conversation with MPRG curator Danny Lacy. Our 2018 podcast program is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation. Introduction by Nathan Schroeder, Music courtesy of The Basics

Katherine Hattam - objects of the everyday

Rosie Weiss is a Mornington Peninsula based artist and educator. In 1992 she won the Moet & Chandon Australian art Fellowship. Rosie's work Two Banksias Holding On was acquired for the MPRG collection in the 2018 National Works on Paper. Rosie talks about her diaristic approach to her work, her interest in the environment and how she makes sense of the world through her art. Hear about her first teaching job at Pentridge, instructing life drawing in Saudi Arabia and her work with the Rosebud West women’s group. A conversation with MPRG curator Danny Lacy. Our 2018 podcast program is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation. Introduction by Nathan Schroeder, Music courtesy of The Basics

Rosie Weiss - artist as a gentle activist

Curator Danny Lacy talks to James Tylor and Laura Wills, winners of the $15,000 Mornington Peninsula Shire / Beleura - The Tallis Foundation major acquisitive award in the 2018 National Works on Paper. Their award-winning work The Forgotten Wars 2017 was based on town and mining maps from the British Parliamentary papers and Commissioners’ reports on the colonization of Australia. The Australian Frontier wars were a series of armed conflicts, massacres and battles that took place from 1788 to 1930 between the invading British Government and Aboriginal Australians. They talk about this unique collaboration as an Indigenous and a non-indigenous artist and how they are decolonising the Australian frontier war stories. A conversation with MPRG curator Danny Lacy. Our 2018 podcast program is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation. Introduction by Nathan Schroeder, Music courtesy of The Basics

James Tylor & Laura Wills on the forgotten wars

A podcast for people curious about art and the lives of artists, a conversation series produced by Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. MPRG is the region's premier public art gallery, supported by Mornington Peninsula Shire and other partners. Our 2018 podcast program is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation.