Talking with Painters

Maria Stoljar talks with Australian painters about how they became an artist, their painting techniques, influences and current work.

Talking with Painters is a arts podcast hosted by Maria Stoljar, with 173 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.

Maria Stoljar hosts Talking with Painters, a arts show with 173 episodes published.

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  Richard Lewer After the Archibald Win + Excerpts from Our 2025 Conversation

  May 9, 2026—S0

  <p >Watch a 2 minute highlights video of this episode on the YouTube channel here</p> <p >In this special episode of Talking with Painters, I’m bringing you my conversation with Richard Lewer recorded shortly after he was announced as the winner of the 2026 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Richard won Australia’s most prestigious portrait prize for his powerful portrait of artist and Pitjantjatjara elder Iluwanti Ken, a striking full-length painting set against a powerful ochre background inspired by time spent with Iluwanti on country.</p> <p>I also share some of my favourite part...

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  Ep 172: Ann Thomson on International Women’s Day

  Mar 7, 202627 minS0

  <p >Watch a short highlights video of this episode on the TWP YouTube channel </p> <h4 >In this special International Women’s Day episode I speak with acclaimed artist, and previous podcast guest, Ann Thomson about building a career in the male-dominated art world of the mid-20th century.</h4> <p >Born in 1933, Ann’s art education took place during the 1950s and early 60s, a time when male artists like Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, John Brack and Charles Blackman dominated the Australian art scene.</p> <p >Today Ann Thomson is one of Australia’s most respected and internationally acclaimed artists...

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  Ep 171: Mary Tonkin

  Dec 28, 202544 minS0

  <p>Watch highlights from this conversation on the Talking with Painters YouTube channel</p> <p>I loved this conversation with Mary Tonkin at the S.H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney, before the start of her survey exhibition Among the Trees (opening 3 January 2026). The show brings together paintings, drawings and ceramics dating from 2008, works that reflect Mary’s deep relationship with her family farm in Victoria’s Dandenong ranges and with painting from life.  Her painting ‘Ramble Kalorama’, measuring almost 19 metres long, is a magnificent meditation on what it is to be in the Australian landscape and was a huge hit at the 20...

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  Ep 170: Aida Tomescu – ‘Messiaen’

  Nov 20, 2025—S0

  <p>A highlights video from this episode will also be coming soon to the Talking with Painters YouTube channel</p> <p>In this episode, I visit the studio of acclaimed abstract painter Aida Tomescu just days before the opening of her exhibition Messiaen at Fox Jensen Gallery in Sydney. The exhibition continues until 20 December 2025.</p> Aida Tomescu on Instagram Aida Tomescu website Aida Tomescu at Fox Jensen Gallery  Talking with Painters website Talking with Painters on Instagram Subscribe here for my monthly newsletter <p>Previous TWP YouTube videos of Aida Tomescu:</p> Aida Tomescu – extended interview Aida Tomescu talks with Mar...

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  Ep 169: 12 finalists, 12 landscapes

  Oct 4, 2025—S0

  <p>Watch an edited video version of this episode on the Talking with Painters YouTube channel here</p> <p>Podcast listeners see the works we talk about here or go to talkingwithpainters.com (ep 169)</p> <h4>When I travelled to Hobart for the announcement of the Hadley’s Art Prize, I not only interviewed the winner, Sophie Cape (you can hear her in the previous episode), but also had the privilege of speaking with twelve of the other outstanding finalists (see images of works below)</h4> <p>At $100,000 the Hadley’s is Australia’s richest landscape art prize, and the calibr...

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