Talking NeoTeric
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Talking NeoTeric takes you across the vast state of Queensland, connecting with visual artists and arts workers living and working in regional Queensland. Spotlighting creative practitioners, Talking NeoTeric shares their work and practices positioning the makers and producers of visual arts as storytellers of our time. The conversations of Talking NeoTeric reach far beyond the arts, with contributions to the broader notions of health, liveability and prosperity of regional Queensland. Join Bianca Acimovic as she travels Queensland and brings into the conversation 12 artists and arts workers.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
Talking NeoTeric takes you across the vast state of Queensland, connecting with visual artists and arts workers living and working in regional Queensland. Spotlighting creative practitioners, Talking NeoTeric shares their work and practices positioning the makers and producers of visual arts as storytellers of our time. The conversations of Talking NeoTeric reach far beyond the arts, with contributions to the broader notions of health, liveability and prosperity of regional Queensland. Join Bianca Acimovic as she travels Queensland and brings into the conversation 12 artists and arts workers.
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.neot.net.au/baa
Episodes
Ariella Anderson from Malki Studio in Bargara
6/25/2023
Meeting on the lands of the Taribelang Bunda, Gurang, Gooreng Gooreng and Bailai people in the regional coastal community of Bargara, Bianca Acimovic sits down with Ariella Anderson in the studio of Malki Studio, a contemporary jewellery company specialising in unique, handmade, and culturally intersectional jewellery and art objects.
From the studio in Bargara the conversation highlights the power of art in migration and assimilation.
The practices of Malki become a precious moment; for when words are not enough, art becomes the language, breaking down cultural barriers.
Duration:00:25:45
Michelle Black in Dalby
6/18/2023
Traveling to Barunggam lands, the Western Downs town of Dalby.
Recently relocated from the Capricorn coast, Bianca sits down with Michelle in a 1930’s Queenslander for a conversation that explores what it was like to live and work along the Capricorn coast and what it means to shift to the Western Downs.
With a practice that makes directly with and from the environment, ocean waters and river soils, place is an important part of Michelle’s practice.
Michelle shares her experience of Yeppoon and Rockhampton and what she is looking forward to in Dalby.
Duration:00:24:48
William Debois in Gladstone
6/11/2023
Travelling to lands of the Taribelang Bunda, Gurang, Gooreng Gooreng, and Bailai people to the regional centre of Gladstone, Bianca Acimovic meets with William Debois.
A photographer who prioritises community-driven projects, the conversation with William explores storytelling with and of regional communities.
Through recent and current creative projects, lessons of humility and community-driven outcomes are discussed.
Duration:00:24:48
Kym Barrett in Chatsworth
6/4/2023
On Gubbi Gubbi lands, Bianca Acimovic sits down with contemporary abstract landscape painter Kym Barrett.
With decades since they last sat down together, the conversation looks at Kym’s practice and studio, centered to the regional area of Chatsworth.
Through the site of Kym’s studio, the conversation delves into the natural environment and its influences to become a part of people, become a part of creative practice.
Through place, Kym speaks to the safety net of regional communities as a shelter, a place of refuge, and a place of reflection.
Duration:00:24:30
Adrienne Williams in Elliott Heads
5/28/2023
Speaking from the coastal town of Elliott Heads on the lands of the Taribelang Bunda, Gurang, Gooreng Gooreng and Bailai people, Bianca Acimovic meets with Adrienne Williams.
The conversation tracks the edges of climates, from environment to social and financial climate. We explore how to survive, sustain, and ideally prosper in the unknown of the future.
The conversation highlights that creative practice does not happen in isolation and that it is impacted and influenced by all facets of life and living.
Duration:00:26:18
Simon Mee in Toowoomba
5/21/2023
Traveling to Gabinal and Jarowair Country, to the regional city of Toowoomba, Bianca Acimovic meets with Simon Mee, artist of the weird, curator of odd and sublime.
Speaking from Simon’s studio, surrounded by his curated collection that includes a rare collection of lamps and hand sewn domestic items, the conversation brings in 1980’s reference and explores following trends and breaking the mould, touching on popular culture and the cycle of popularism and fashion.
Duration:00:24:48
Christine Holden in Boyne Island
5/14/2023
Travelling to the lands of the Goreng Goreng people in Central Queensland, Bianca Acimovic sits along the Boyne River with artist Christine Holden, a practitioner who brings together foraged materials, community participation and weaving.
Through Christine’s practice, the conversation touches on the intersections of commercial fishing, weaving practice and rethinking our plastic journey both commercially and domestically.
Duration:00:24:30
Carly Baker-Burnham from The Rex in Monto
5/7/2023
Speaking from the rural town of Monto in North Burnett region, Bianca Acimovic meets with Carly Baker-Burnham to talk about all things arts, culture and business.
Through the lens of community building and The Rex, the conversation unpacks what makes a regional town, who makes them, and how they materialise.
Duration:00:28:09
Bindi Waugh in Yarwun
4/30/2023
From the lands of the Taribelang Bunda, Gurang, Gooreng Gooreng and Bailai in the regional community of Yarwun, Bianca Acimovic sits down in the studio with Iman and Bundjalung women Bindi (Belynda) Waugh.
Speaking from a place that sits within big industry, the conversation explores balancing the need of the community and the growth of the industry and how they both need each other.
Bindi shares her unique perspectives, as she terms them, from being Indigenous, invader and immigrant, and how she brings this to the public discourse through her creative practice.
Duration:00:25:46
Matthew Jamieson from Monto Museum of Art in Monto
4/23/2023
On Gureng Gureng Country, from the town of Monto in the North Burnett region, Bianca Acimovic sits down with the son of the late Gil Jamieson and the Director of Monto Museum of Art, Matthew Jamieson.
With Matthew now entrusted as a caretaker of the legacy collection, the conversation delves into what it means to be entrusted to care for the legacy of an artist and their collection of works remaining artworks.
Duration:00:24:48
Cara-Ann Simpson in Haden
4/16/2023
Travelling to the lands of the Jarowair people of the Wakka Wakka nation in southern Queensland, Bianca Acimovic sits in the landscape with multidisciplinary artist Cara-Ann Simpson, a practitioner who engages in sensory perception, deep listening, and active observation.
Through Cara’s practice, the conversation highlights the importance of personal health and self-care and discovering what is at the core of individual motivation, aspiration and living.
Duration:00:24:48
Amanda-Lyn Pearson from The Crackup Sisters in Winton
4/9/2023
Speaking from Winton, in Western Queensland, Bianca Acimovic meets up with Amanda-Lyn Pearson at The Home of The Crackup Sisters.
The conversation unpacks who The Crackup Sisters are, what is the Home of The Crackup Sisters, and what can happen when you construct a new cultural venue in Winton from 100% donated materials.
Duration:00:26:08