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Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 91 Helen Redmond Helen Redmond’s journey into art is, like many others, an indirect one. She grew up on a rural property in southern Queensland, trained in journalism and interior design, and then spent 25 years at Vogue Living as a stylist, Interiors Editor and Senior Editor, including many years as Melbourne Editor. And then, mid-career, she made the brave decision to leave publishing and enrol at the National Art School in ...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 90 Jude Rae Jude Rae is one of Australia's most respected painters. She’s an artist who has spent over four decades looking very, very hard at the things most of us walk straight past — jars, bottles, gas cylinders, fire extinguishers, empty foyers — and turning them into paintings of extraordinary stillness and presence. Jude was born in Sydney and was the daughter of realist painter David Rae. In fact, both her father and Gra...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 89 Louise Weaver Louise Weaver’s superb work asks us to look at the natural world...a little differently. She has spent much of her career exploring the relationship between nature, culture and our often-complicated attempts to represent the world around us. Working across sculpture, installation, textiles, painting and mixed media, Louise is perhaps best known for her extraordinary reimagining of animals and...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 88 Emily Ferretti Emily Ferretti is a Melbourne-based painter whose still-life and landscape images move between representation and abstraction. The importance of feeling and emotion becomes obvious looking at her work. She grew up on a property in country Victoria, trained at the Victorian College of the Arts, and has since built a career via residencies at Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne, the Cité Internationa...

Australian Women Artists The podcast Ep 87 Sally Ross Sally Ross is an intellectually captivating painter who works between hypnotic landscapes and psychological portraiture. Sally has spent over three decades developing a distinctive visual language defined by flattened, patterned surfaces, cool palettes, and a deep dialogue with art history. After eight formative years living in France, (amongst other things, running an artists’ squat in an aband...