Best of Artbeat on RTRFM: Recent Episodes
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It's in the callsign: RTR is arty radio. And Artbeat is where you'll hear the best local arts coverage in Perth.
Every Friday morning, the Artbeat team bring you three hours of interviews with artists, curators, producers and performers.
But if you've only got time for the timeliest, most thought-provoking pieces, subscribe to Best of Artbeat. It's three of our favourite chats from the show – and there's always plenty of great interviews to choose from.
Icon images from Wikimedia Commons. "Yagan Square in Perth", Natalia2323, 2018; "St. Petersburg Mosque", Canes, 2011; "Der Rufer...in Berlin", Yair Haklai, 2019; "Down on His Luck", Joyofmuseums,2018. Caravaggio and Goncharova paintings in the public domain.
Bec Bowman is back in your ears for this week's instalment of Artbeat!
We hear from actressViolette Ayad about the Black Swan Theatre Companyproduction Oil by Ella Hickson.
Theatre artists, Jack Martin and Jeremy James return to talk with Bec about their latest training initiative and the plans that lie ahead for RARE BIRD ensemble, a collective investigating interdisciplinary training, performance practices and theatrical forms.
And Sally Quin, curator of the UWA Art Collection chats about the Curator and Artist in Conversation event with Dr Kevin Robinson, where they unpack his retrospective exhibition Kevin Robinson: Paintings 1984-2022; revealing his thematic interests and development over nearly 40 years of painting.
You can catch up on past episodes of Artbeat here.
Best of Artbeat is back for another edition of arts and cultural chats across Boorloo with Danae Gibson!
Today she was joined by FORM CEO Tabitha McMullen to launch the exciting new Giants of Mandurah project. The Giants are part of an Australian-first exhibition by world renowned Danish artist Thomas Dambo.
PIVOT music curator David Stewart stops by to discuss New Sounds, a series of four gigs taking place in Yagan Square to bring original music from WA youth centre stage.
And longtime friend of RTR poet Tineke Van der Eecken chats about the launch of her new collection of poetry.
You can catch up on past episodes of Artbeat here.
Bec Bowman offers you some of the best arts and culture chats across the week for Best of Artbeat!
She is joined by sound work artist Sze Tsang to discuss their new sonic project Corridors of Blissterday, made in collaboration with the State Library and West Australian Music.
Novelist at 90 Alice Dale joins the air waves to chat about the release of her novel Ae Fond Kiss.
And learn more about The Milk Carton Confessions with Thea Rossen, a free live performance featuring music, movement and film presented by Tura, City of Swan and Ellenbrook Arts.
You can catch up on past episodes of Artbeat here.
Bec Bowman returns for another week of arts and culture chats for Best of Artbeat!
In today's episode she sits down with Bobby Russell and Timothy Green to discuss SITU-8: CITY, a series of eight dynamic works fromSTRUT Dance examining how stories, bodies, voices and characters have been included and excluded from the history of cinema.
Artist and researcher Oran Catts stops by to chat about the future of SymbioticaA, a peak research body for the arts and biology at the The University of Western Australia, amid calls to close the institute.
And producer Rachel Robertson unpacks the John Stringer Prize 2022 as part of WA Writers Respond, an event which invites local artists to read original creative works inspired by the converted art award.
You can catch up on past episodes of Artbeat here.
Bec Bowman returns for another week of Best of Artbeat!
Penny Shaw jumps into the studio with her to chat all about theOur Women on the Podium event- a unique conducting and leadership project platforming female musicians from Western Australia.
Bec chats with Australian Short Story Festival chair Susan Midalia about this year’s event at Fremantle Arts Centre.
And we celebrate Molly Schmit, winner of the 2022 Fremantle TAG Hungerford Awardfor an unpublished manuscript for her story Salt River Road - a tale informed by the knowledge and wisdom of Albany’s Traditional Owners.
Bec Bowman is back for Best of Artbeat offering some of the best stories in art and culture across Boorloo this week!
She sat down with Writing WA CEO Sharon Flindell to discuss the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2022 which is heading back to Perth this month; championing writers from Indonesia, Singapore and Ukraine.
We hear from the 2022 Wild Goose Lecturer Battye Historian Dr Kate Gregory about her upcoming State Library talk, Cracking O’Reilly’s Code - Assessing the significance of John Boyle O’Reilly’s 1868 Book of Poetry.
And catch up with WA's Regional Artist of the Month author Madeline Te Whiuto learn more about her new novel The Assasin Thief, published by New Dawn Publishing.
You can catch up on past episodes of Artbeat here.
Danae Gibson pops into the studio for a new edition of Best of Artbeat!
Celebrate the 2022 John Stringer Art Prize winnerJacky Cheng for her work …that awaits at the end of life - a textile installation mapping social relationships and cultural connections through the ancient technique of paper threading.
Hear local author Craig Silvey chat about his latest children's book RUNT.
And catch up with WA Regional Artistfor the Month of September Adelina Larsson Mendoza to hear all about her work as a choreographer and producer of dance.
Join Bec Bowman as she unpacks the latest in arts and culture across Boorloo for Best of Artbeat!
Today we hear from Nada Ludbay author of The Silent Heronies, which pays tribute to the unsung heroes in our community - grandparents taking care of their grandchildren. The book was launched by The Society of Women's Writers.
And RTRFMs Danielle Raffaele chats with author Jayne Tuttle about her latest book -My Sweet Guillotine. This memoir follows her return to the city of love and art following a traumatic accident.
You can catch up on past episodes of Artbeat here.
Best of Artbeat is back for another week of arts and culture chats across Boorloo with Bec Bowman!
Today on the show, we hear from Dr Marie O’Rouke about the story of Kintsugi, shortlisted for the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award.
Jenny Simpson joins the airwaves to discuss AWESOME Festival, an international school holiday arts program for young people bringing together the brightest minds in theatre, circus, music and much more at Perth Cultural Centre.
Plus, hear about Sensorium Theatre's latest installation evoking the forests of Singapore and sparking the imagination of young audiences with disability with Michelle Hovane .
Bec Bowman returns for the latest edition of Best of Artbeat, your one stop shop for the latest arts and culture news across Boorloo, Perth.
We hear about the late great Douglas Wright’s GLORIA, revived by Co3 Perth artistic director Raewyn Hill at Heath Ledger Theatre this September.
Artist and public program manager for Hackathon Shanti Jelmi and Miranda Johnston pop by the studio to chat about their event championing AR, VR and 360 video art at WA Museum Boorla Bardip.
And Nadia Hernandez and Jon Campbell discuss Speech Patterns, an exhibition at AGWA featuring work that draws on the influence of their upbringings across their extensive careers.
You can catch up on past episodes of Artbeat here.
Bec Bowman is back for Artbeat, covering the latest in arts and culture across Boorloo, Perth.
She dives into the latest offering from local author Karen Whittle-Herbert called The Cast Away of Harewood Hall, a romp which follows well-meaning university student Josh and the fallout of his decision to steal lab mice infected with a deadly disease.
Award-winning comedian Lawrence Leung stops by to chat about his new live Zoom performance Connected.
And we hear Dr Edna Murray chat about his involvement in the Irish Film Festival, including the Perth rendition of the international event.
You can catch up on past episodes of Artbeat here.
Maxxi May takes over the studio to deliver your weekly arts and culture news across Boorloo for Artbeat...
She is joined by WAAPA graduate and Julie Prize Cabaret winner Maverick Newman, who stars as Chandler in the Perth production of Friends The Musical.
Tania Ferrier stops by to chat about Pop Porn, a new exhibition at Fremantle Art Centre featuring her famous reworked playboy magazines to challenge misogynistic gender ideals and giving voice to feminine authority.
And FORMCEO Tabitha McMullen discusses the new Southern Exposure series Coalesce: Artists of the Margaret River Regionand their current exhibition showcasing South West art, now being displayed at The Goods Shed.
You can catch up on past episodes of Artbeat here.
Bec Bowman returns to the studio this week with another jam packed episode of Best of Artbeat!
Join her as she chats with the folk from The Last Great Hunt theatre about their latest production TELEPHONE, which takes audiences on a journey into hundreds of phone calls with quirky characters.
Hear about the Jilya Gala, a Tracey Westerman Jilya Institute fundraising night as part of World Suicide Prevention Day when Stuart McCleod stops by the studio.
Plus, learn about a new exhibition showing at Nyisztor Studiocalled Digital Monsters - the brainchild of multimedia creatives Lydia Tretheway and Daniel McMurray.
You can catch up on past episodes of Artbeat here.
Best of Artbeat returns with Danae Gibson at the helm to deliver the best of arts and cultural conversations across Boorloo.
She is joined by Martumilli artist Amy Mukherjee to chat about Tracks We Share: Contemporary Art of the Pilbara, showing at the Art Gallery of Western Australia until August 28.
Sam Kerr-Phillips and Lincoln McKinnon chat about Claiming Space, a photographic exhibition challenging the way we think about infrastructure and inclusivity in Fremantle, showing as part of10 Nights In Port this Winter.
Plus, hear from Dr Theo Constantino about Art on the Move, a not-for-profit which tours contemporary visual arts exhibitions into regional WA.
You can catch up on past episodes of Artbeat here.
Welcome to Best of Artbeat your weekly podcast championing the best of arts and culture in Perth as heard on RTRFM!
Today, Bec Bowman sat down with Scribblers Festival manager Maria Alessandrino to chat about the 2022 program which welcomes adults and children alike!
Regional Artist of the Month for July Renee Pettitt Schipp dials in to discuss her poetry and work with asylum seekers in detention on Christmas Island and the Cocos Keeling Islands - a story which inspired her first collection called The Sky Runs Right Through Us .
And exhibiting artists Holly Yashida and Rebecca Bauman chat about Inner Glow a new exhibition showing at the Moore Contemporary Gallery.
Best of Artbeat is back for another episode of arts and culture talks across Boorloo/Perth!
This week, Bec Bowman sat down with director and producer John Toohey to discuss Audio Walks - a series of audio tours of the Coogee coastline, talking about both the natural and social history of the area.
Emma Buswell chats about Pecha Kucha Karaoke at Fremantle Arts Centre which is a Revelation Film Festival closing party celebrating First Nations people, culture and experiences.
And Bec sits down with Bruce Gladwin to chat about the film Shadow about a trio of activists with intellectual disabilities who hold a town hall meeting about the future of AI and the unfolding chaos their discussion brings. It comes as part of Revelation Film Festival.
If you missed anything you can restream Artbeat in full here.
Welcome to Best of Artbeat where each week we cherry pick the best conversations across art and culture in Boorloo and beyond!
This week Bec Bowman is joined by Filthyratbag, aka Celeste Mountjoy, to chat about the stunning and original collection of illustrations that make up their new book What The F@*$ Is This- an empowering, heartbreaking and at times hilarious meditation on feminism, body image and societal expectations.
Sensorium TheatreArtistic Director Frankie Italiano and actor Jessica Harlond Kenny jump into the studio to discuss Whoosh!, the collective's latest immersive theatrical experience designed for little people living with disability.
And Walkley award-winning filmmaker Victoria Midwinter Pitt unpacks I'm With Her… a thrilling play exploring the era of #MeToo and Time’s Up showing at Subiaco Arts Centre this month.
Catch up on the latest arts and cultural offerings across Boorloo on this week edition of Best of Artbeat!
First up, Phillip Mitchell, Director of Hachiko: The Loyal Dog, joins Bec Bowman to chat about the story that inspired the Spare Parts Puppet Theatre production and the amazing puppets that bring the story to life.
Kathryn Favelle talks vintage knits and the art of the handmade garment, the topic of a book titled Vintage Knits.
And regional artist of the month Miranda Plumchats about reckoning with her identity, her love of Carnarvon and the transition from a corporate life to a creative life.
Best of Artbeat is back for another week of arts and cultural conversations and as always there is no shortage of local chats!
Cabaret star Brigita Hueser spoke with RTRFMs Danae Gibson about her upcoming Perth International Cabaret Festival show Maria, Marlene and Me.
Percussionist Louise Devenish and Bec Bowman discuss Alluvial Gold, a unique musical experience exploring sounds beneath the surface of our rivers.
And Liz Spencer stops by to chat about The Literature Centre Storytellers Festival to be held at the Walyalup Civic Center next weekend.
Strap yourself in! Best of Artbeat with Bec Bowman has you covered from photography, art, film and literature today.
She is joined by author and journalist Mawunyo Gbgogbo to unpack her memoir released by Penguin Random House Hip Hop and Hymns- about life as an immigrant in Australia.
Local Perth photographer David Brittain chats about his latest project Women’s Best Friend a visual series of fur mum and their beloved pets, raising money for the Homeless and Abused Animal Rescue Team of WA.
And the directors of Perth’s inaugural Strange Film FestivalJess and Oakley stop by for an interview about what audiences can expect at this years July event across venues throughout Perth.
It's a Maxxi May takeover on Artbeat this week!
She interviews prominent Chinese-Australian artist Lindy Lee and saltwater man Ron Bradford Jr about their collaborative exhibition Moon in a Dew Drop, a showcase interrogating identity and heritage at John Curtin Gallery.
Noongar, Jingili Hip Hop artist Zero Emcee stops by to chat about the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra performance Beat and Pieces: from Latino to Electro.
And Jo Pickup unpacks her award winning feature article "What happens to art caught in war's crossfire", an exploration of the conflict in Ukraine and how it has impacted culture, heritage and art in the region.
Bec Bowman is back with arts and culture chats for Artbeat, focusing this week on First Nations creatives as we kick off National Reconciliation Week.
First up we hear from Yawaru man Jason Haji Ali about the new Revealed exhibition celebrating Indigenous artists and the WA Aboriginal Art Market taking place online this year.
Sam Newman and Shayan Maleki stop by to discuss Making Noise - a mentoring service designed to work with people of all musical backgrounds and abilities.
And Distinguished director and Royal Theatre creative Drew Anthony speaks about his upcoming production of Grease and his plans to re-imagine some of the world's best known musicals.
Bec Bowman has it all on this weeks edition of Best of Artbeat!
Today she interviews local musicians Eduardo Cossio and Rodney Stone about The Definitive- a musical workshop project mentoring people from all music abilities and giving them the opportunity to learn new skills.
Janelle Koh from the School of Critical Arts joins Bec over the airwaves to discuss indigenous legal narratives.
And illustrator and academic Jordan Fyfe joins Bec to chat about her PhD research in Disability Arts at Curtin University and her lived experiences as a women with a disability in the arts industry.
This week on Best of Artbeat we explore the latest exhibitions and shows premiering across Perth with Maxxi May.
Performer Jake Bigwood jumps into the studio to chat about the latest production by West Australian Opera, The Duel - a periods standoff between Mozart and Salieri set against the backdrop of the Government House Ballroom.
The artists and curators of Sweet Pea Gallery's latest exhibition Oh discuss making art in Boorloo and artist led curation.
And creative Fiona Harmon unpacks The Ultimate Symbol, an inaugural exhibition by Perth's new contemporary art collective Nod.
Danae Gibson jumps into the studio for Best of Artbeat, welcoming creatives near and far to chat about events and exhibitions across Boorloo, Perth.
Sarah McNeildiscusses her latest Lit Liveevent this Mothers Day calledLessons My Mother Taught Me - a collection of warm, funny, tender and satirical tales about love and the lessons learnt or not learnt from our mothers.
Margaret River Readers and Writers Festivalcreative director Sian Baker chats about this years event which will see an array of creatives, writers and journalists descend on the great southern for a weekend of literary workshops.
And she welcomesCatch MusicfacilitatorJere Sosa and keyboardist Darren Taylor into the studio to discuss, Catch Music a program which makes music accessible for musicians both with and without a disability.
Bec Bowman is back for another week of Best of Artbeat - selecting her favourite chats in arts and culture across Perth.
This week...art therapist Olivia Robinson joins Bec Bowman to discuss creativity as an invaluable tool to recovery and healing.
Mark Storen and Georgia King from theatre collective Whiskey and Boots pop onto the airwaves to chat about their latest show Mama Stich - about mums, motherhood and the lived experiences of Perth locals.
And author Shelley Burr discusses her searing crime novel debut WAKE about the disappearance of a young woman and her families search for justice.
Best of Artbeat is back after a short break with Bec Bowman covering the best of arts and culture in Boorloo.
Today, she discusses the latest book from Ceridwen Dovey and Eliza Bell, Mothertongues- capturing the shared experiences and challenges of motherhood.
Regional Artist of the Monthfor April Elisha McGuckin joined Bec from Binningup to chat about her residency and creative practice whilst juggling the responsibilities of motherhood.
And Justine McKnight spoke about her up-and-coming textile feature as part of the I Am Here, Here I Amexhibition.
In today's episode of Best of Artbeat you will hear producer Danae Gibson filling in for Bec Bowman with a selection of local chats.
Composer Anna Laverty jumps on the line to discuss her residency at Gallop House as part of the National Trust of WA.
Mother-daughter clay-maker duo Emma and Andrea Vinkovic pop by the studio to chat about Claymake Studio- their independently run ceramic studio championing accessibility.
And actress Elaina O’Connor gives us a sneak peek of the Perth production of Fame: The Musical, opening next weekend.
Make sure you stream this episode in full on rtrfm.com.au or tune in live next week on The Sound Alternative 92.1.
Welcome to Best of Artbeat, your weekly podcast cherry picking the best conversations in arts and culture in Boorloo and beyond.
This week, host Bec Bowman teams up with producer Danae Gibson for a special 45th birthday bash episode, celebrating the weird, wacky and wonderful history of RTRFM 92.1.
Kath Lech, RTRFM’s first station manager dialled in to chat about the history of the station as well as her deep love for community radio.
Curator, artist and long time friend of RTRFM Lee Kinsella stops by to share her memories of playing in a local rock band and when she first discovered the sound alternative.
And Robert Fletcher joins the team to unpack ETHOS, one of the stations first flagship programs, championing LGBTQIA+ rights
Welcome back to Best of Artbeat your weekly podcast cherry picking the best conversation in arts and culture on RTRFM.
This week host Bec Bowman is joined by Nina and Hamide, the artists behind the new Perth exhibition Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice - a textile performance and sculptural exhibition touching on themes of misogyny in our digital and commercial world.
Propel Youth Arts WA’s KickstART coordinator Noemie and Cool Change co-director Mayma chat about a collaborative mentorship program championing up and coming artists.
And CLAUDIO joins Bec fresh from her acclaimed seven night live soundscape residency at the Perth Festival Sounds of Sunset show to discuss her latest singleHow To Walk Through Flame premiering at the Rechabite Friday March 25.
It's a mixed bag here on Artbeat this week with Bec Bowman back in the studio for three hours of chats about Boorloo arts and culture.
She is joined by Nathan Beard, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores his Australian-Thai heritage through sculpture and photography, to chat about his latest exhibition Low Yield Fruit,which opens on Saturday the 26th March at Sweet Pea Gallery.
The Journal of Ceramics Australia editor Vicki Grima joins Bec Bowman to discuss the organisations 60th Birthday milestone and a special edition dedicated the history and stories of the collective.
And Perth artist Jillian Ciemitis and artistic director Andrea Przygonski talk about a new showcase profiling female printmakers and their International counterparts at ARTSPACE in Adelaide.
Welcome to Best of Artbeat, a podcast where we cherry pick some of our favourite interviews between RTRFM and artists across Perth and beyond.
YA author Astrid Scholte stops by this week to talk to Bec Bowman about her latest YA novel, League of Liars, which is out on bookshelves this month.
We are also joined by writer and performer Chris Issacs, founding member of The Last Great Hunt.
Plus creative Bruno Booth discusses his excellent and insightful new exhibition at Goolagatup, which shares with generosity and vulnerability experiences of a young people with disability.
Maxxi May is back in the studio this week for another episode of Artbeat - you're weekly podcast celebrating arts and culture in Perth and beyond.
Today, she shares a local line up of stories spanning visual art, film and live performance.
We hear from Chloe Clements and Jessie Appleyard from Art Space Collective in Scarborough about an exhibition highlighting women’s history month this March.
Alliance Francaise de Perth executive director Thomas Feldstein stops to talk about the best foreign films to catch this festival season.
And House of Reign ballroom house founder Santana Diamond joins Maxxi for an exciting conversation about the safe spaces being created for LGBTQIA+ people of colour and the emergence of the ballroom community in Perth.
Welcome to Best of Artbeat your weekly podcast exploring the best of art and culture in Perth.
In this latest episode presenter Bec Bowman caught up with Sculptures by the Sea site manager and artist Noah Birch, the man in charge of the iconic Cottesloe and Bondi sculpture installations.
Andrew Verona stops by to chat about art buying as well as his fledgling art gallery dubbed Sweet Pea, which has recently opened in the City of Perth.
And Jacqueline Maley, Senior Journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers, joins Bec for a yarn about her latest fiction, The Truth About Her – which will be the topic of discussion as part of the Sunday’s Perth Writers Festival panel discussions.
Make sure you catch up on more episodes of Artbeat here.
Or tune in live Friday 9am-12pm on 92.1.
Another week another Art Beat!
This Friday Maxxi May joins us in the studio to chat about an array of arts and cultural events including Perth Festival, theatre and visual art.
Writer Kim Crotty discusses his latest production Smallest Stage- a delightful romp exploring the love and connection between a parent and a child.
The Manjimup creative draws upon his experiences in prison offering a unique and innovative illustration of longing and relationships.
DADAA curator Claire Bushby makes her way to the Mount Lawley studio to discuss the artists and works in its latest exhibition Our Language - the power of the spoken word.
And February Regional artist of the month Neil Turner chats about life in the South West and his love of woodturning.
Make sure you re-stream the full episodehere.
Art Beat is produced by Danae Gibson.
This podcast is edited by Danielle Raffaele.
Welcome to Artbeat!
What a week...Bec Bowman is back with another jam packed episode this Friday, chatting about all things local culture, art and live performance in Perth and across WA.
She is joined by Pilbara Indigenous artist Rusty from Cool Change Contemporary, a multi-gallery artist run initiative in the heart of the CBD, to discuss its latest exhibition Dandy Fleur.
The showcase champions surrealism and thermal art to create colourful and ambiguous dream-like works.
Director Ella Wright also stops by the studio to chat about her debut film Strange Changes as part of the brilliant Perth based theatre company The Last Great Hunt.
The work highlights the ongoing struggle of the everyday Aussie artists, even before the existence of a global pandemic.
Perth based fashion group Wright Collective discuss sustainable fashion in Perth and the importance of changing the way we wear think and feel about fashion.
Wright's latest collection focuses on zero-waste design and production.
It opens in the Perth CBD this weekend.
Edited by Danielle Raffaele
Welcome to Best of Artbeat, your weekly podcast celebrating local art and culture in Perth, hosted by Bec Bowman.
This week Bec talks to Georgia King and Mark Storen from theatre collective Whisky and Boots about their passion for education and how this love has inspired their latest theatre performance The Quadrangle.
Author Mandy Beaumont checks in to chat about her latest novel, The Furies - about a young woman grappling with class and gender in rural Queensland.
And Olivia Robinson gives us a sneak peek into her latest exhibition Blue Nudes, a series of works championing bodily autonomy and finding wellbeing through art.
Welcome to Best of Artbeat, your weekly podcast celebrating local art and culture in Perth.
In this Friday’s edition, Bec Bowman is joined by Donna Forsyth to discuss the cancellation of the Boyup Brook Country Music Festival due to COVID and the impact of losing art events, particularly in small communities during this time.
She is also joined by Len James to chat about a new Perth Raine Square exhibition The Gratitude Gallery at Raine Square – a collaboration between Uniting WA and UneARThed - featuring the art of five local artists with lived experiences of homelessness in Perth.
And Linda Iriza speaks about the Rhythm is Rhythm project, championing Bla(c)k and brown artists to take up more space in the music scene.
Welcome back to Best of Artbeat for 2022! It's great to have you back to discuss all things arts and culture in Perth and beyond.
This week Bec Bowman is joined by Will King and Patrick Livesey about their Fringe show Dirt, a contemporary queer thriller exploring queer identity in Moscow amidst devastating political and social attitudes toward marginalised groups.
Lisa Woodbrook joins Bec to chat about her latest musical adventure for Perth Fringe - It's Not Me It's Definitely You: Songs of Amy Winehouse and Lilly Allen.
And Isabella and Angie Boladeras step away from rehearsals for their immersive dance performance Dirty Dingo - inspired by the iconic American dance film, Coyote Ugly.
Welcome to the Best of Artbeat podcast - your one stop shop to conversations with artists and producers of art in Perth and beyond, hosted by Bec Bowman.
In this episode, Bec chats to Richard Sowada about the WA Screen Culture Awards at Luna Leederville.
Next, Anne Marie Cox stops by to discuss the Rocky Bay program highlighting accessible art for people with disabilities as part of the International Day for People with disability.
She also chats about first nations art with AGWA director Colin Walker about the Ever Present exhibition hosted at the State Gallery.
You can tune in live Friday 9am-12pm on rtrfm or stream online and download the podcast at rtrfm.com.au.
Another week another Artbeat!
This episode, Bec Bowman welcomes Arts Impact WA chair Paul Chamberlain into the studio to chat about a series of grants assisting creatives during the uncertainty of COVID-19.
John Stringer Prize winner Merrick Belyea also says hello to talk about his work as part of the contemporary visual arts exhibition celebrating the craft in Perth.
Finally, Regional Arts WA artist of the month Christopher Young shares his personal experiences with end-of-life care and how it forms a seminal part of his latest work as part of the regional arts residency.
This week on Artbeat, Bec Bowman caught up with Anna Kanaris about the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial - a project which will showcase regional creatives from the tiny community of Wingellina, just kilometres from the NT and SA border.
She also chats with Pat Johnson about her latest novella Isla Rising. It's a ghost story set in 19th-century Edinburgh, exploring themes of love, death and destiny and the otherworldly adventures of a widow on an afterlife quest to find her husband.
Finally, she dives into a fun and quirky production lead by producer and director Andrew Dobosz called Forbidden Broadway - a show which satirises popular stage shows whilst leveraging the artistic talents of LGBTQIA plus folk.
For more insightful and off-beat coverage of contemporary art in Perth, subscribe to the Best of Artbeat, were we cherry pick three of our favourite chats from the show.
This week on Artbeat, we aired three stand-out stories with a literary bent – well, two literary, one lexical.
Bec Bowman caught up with WA legend Liz Byrski for a chat about her tenth novel, At the End of the Day.
Next, Bec speaks to poet and essayist Maxine Beneba Clarke. Her latest release, How Decent Folk Behave, is powerfully engaged with the most disturbing injustices of the last decade – the Biloela family, Black deaths at the hands of police, climate change.
And finally, a mad-cap catch-up with performance-makers Tim Meakins and Danielle Freakly. Both artists are featured in AGWA's biggest exhibition of WA art to date, The View From Here.
If you've only got time for the timeliest, most thought-provoking coverage on contemporary arts, subscribe to Best of Artbeat. It's three of our favourite chats from the show – and there's always plenty of great interviews to choose from.