Art Smitten

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!Art Smitten is a SYN Media Podcast.

Art Smitten is a arts podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 705 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #2

  Interview with Yosef Phelan, reflection on 'Wurrdha Marra' at NGV Australia & Daniel Spoerri assemblages

  Aug 16, 202647 minS42

  In this episode, Afrina shares an interview with Irish-Palestinian artist Yosef Phelan  @yosefphelan who explores identity and familial histories through hand drawn animations, audio recordings and short film.  We also discuss works from the current exhibition Wurrdha Marra at NGV Australia, Daniel Spoerri's Prose Poems (1959–60), and went on a tangent about the impact of community radio. Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on SYN Media 90.7fm   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Episode #19

  This track reminds me of … Pairing art and song

  Aug 16, 202655 minS41

  For our final episode of the season, the Art Smitten team are reflecting on music that reminds us of works of art … Every week we celebrate visual art experiences through the audio medium of radio, so we can’t wait to celebrate this tension and explore how our senses collide and inform one another Artworks discussed: David Hockney, We Two Boys Together Clinging,  1961. Matilda Davis, Jumping for Joy (collige virgo rosas) , 2024. John Constable, Harwich Lighthouse, 1820. John Everett Millais, A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew’s Day’, 1852. Frida Kahlo,  Viva la Vida, Watermelons, 1954. Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa , 1831. Art Smitten airs Monday 3-5pm on SYN90.7fm @synmedia Cover: Wassily Kandinsky, ‘Compositon 8’, 1923. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Episode #12

  Radical Hope - with Isabella Hone-Saunders

  May 8, 202649 minS41

  In this episode we will be exploring Radical hope as a way to live, make and create during times of uncertainty.  We discuss the current exhibition ‘Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience’ curated by Isabella Hone-Saunders and Paul Boyé as part of the MADA curator-in-residence program. Isabella joined us in the studio to chat with us all about the project! Also, Mio shares the work of artist Wendy Hannah whose installation work in Aotearoa had her smitten 🎐 Tune into SYN90.7fm from 3-5pm Mondays to hear us live each week🤞 Image Credit: Rory Pilgrim, ‘Tomorrow in your hands and Government lover’, 2026 plastic bags with printed text, grass. Exhibited in ‘Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience’ at MADA gallery See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Episode #9

  Art speak - how do we talk about art?

  May 8, 202644 minS41

  Art Smitten is dishing up a special on ‘art speak’ and the vernacular we use when talking about art 🗣️🗣️🗣️ The team will be reflecting on a recent attempt by the National Gallery of Art in Washington to Gen Z-ify art history. We will also be reflecting on John Berger’s influential series ‘Ways of Seeing’ and discover what the heck ekphrasis means!?!!?!? 🤎🤎Tune in Mondays at 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia Credit to @ngadc and Alison Luchs, National Gallery of Art, Curator of Early European Sculpture and Deputy Head of Sculpture for the clip played at 1:21 to 2:06.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Episode #10

  The natural world inspiring us all - with Pippa Milne from the Potter Museum of Art

  May 2, 202640 minS41

  For this week’s episode of Art Smitten ~ we are looking to the world around us and discussing how nature inspires artistic practice 🔍🐛🐜🌷🐦‍⬛ The team visited the Potter Museum of Art’s current exhibition ‘a velvet ant, a flower and a bird’, and will be speaking to Pippa Milne all about the show! Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm  @synmedia Image: Ingela Ihrman, Waterlily Amazonica, 2012. Courtesy the artist  @blodfrukten_fran_istiden @pottermuseum See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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