Behind the Art

Jun 30 2024 65 ep. 25 mins 9
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The Rockhampton Museum of Art takes you ‘behind the art’ in their in-depth conversations with artists and art professionals of high acclaim. In these engaging monthly episodes, discover enlivening insights about artists’ practise, community initiatives and the art world itself.

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Melissa Mills in conversation with Easton Dunne

Jun 30 2024 33 mins  
Artist in Residence Melissa Mills speaks with Easton Dunne about her practice and the work she's making during her residency at RMOA. Melissa Mills Melissa Mills is a photographer whose cultural inheritance is the innate connection and grounding she has with her Ancestral homelands of the Ghungulu, Karingbal/Garingbal and Bidjara Peoples of the Central Queensland regions. Mill

Julie Fragar in conversation with Jonathan McBurnie

May 31 2024 39 mins  
Artist Julie Fragar speaks with RMOA Director Jonathan McBurnie about her show Biograph, which was also curated by Jonathan. Biograph is the first career survey of Fragar’s work. Mapping more than twenty years of practice, the exhibition assembles key works made between 1998 and 2021, including some previously unexhibited. The survey is arranged according to key ongoing themes f

Hamish Sawyer in conversation with Emily Wakeling

Feb 07 2024 36 mins  
Hamish Sawyer speaks with Emily Wakeling about the Bayton Award 2023. Hamish Sawyer is a curator, writer and currently the Artistic Director of NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Cairns.

Anitha Menon in conversation with Easton Dunne

Jan 16 2024 23 mins  
Anitha Menon talks with Easton Dunne about her practice and inspirations from the RMOA collection during her time as artist in residence at the museum.

Pat Hoffie in conversation with Jonathan McBurnie

Nov 22 2023 21 mins  
Pat Hoffie speaks with Jonathan McBurnie about her involvement in the WrestleMANIA exhibition. Hoffie discusses the biblical influences, as well as that of outsider artist Henry Darger, in her large scale paintings. Touching upon her artistic process, Brisbane’s Festival Hall (once a key venue for pro wrestling for Queensland) and conspiracy theory, Hoffie offers fascinating insi

Locust Jones in conversation with Jonathan McBurnie

Nov 22 2023 24 mins  
Locust Jones speaks about his large scale drawings made for WrestleMANIA. Jones’ pieces are made as realtime responses to the global news cycle, and circumnavigate the artist’s sense of outrage, the absurd and tragedy, trying to make sense of the static. Jones discusses his early experiences of televised wrestling during his New Zealand childhood and incorporating its larger-th

Erica Gray in conversation with Jonathan McBurnie

Nov 22 2023 12 mins  
Erica Gray speaks about her textile installation exhibited in WrestleMANIA. Gray plays with the theatrical, performative aspects of Wrestlers and their audiences to create a vivid representation of the (melo)drama of wrestling.

Bruce Reynolds in conversation with Jonathan McBurnie

Nov 22 2023 15 mins  
Bruce Reynolds discusses his work for WrestleMANIA. With an enduring interest in the antiquity and remix culture, Reynolds reflects upon his limited childhood experience with television and, through it, wrestling.

Peter Hudson in conversation with Jonathan McBurnie

Nov 19 2023 16 mins  
Peter Hudson in conversation with Jonathan McBurnie

Euan Macleod in conversation with Jonathan McBurnie

Sep 24 2023 15 mins  
Euan Macleod in conversation with Jonathan McBurnie Euan Macleod was featured in the exhibit WrestleMANIA at Rockhampton Museum of Art during 2022-2023. This episode explores MacLeod’s experience and thought process on creating his work, particularly diving into his personal connection to wrestling and how it inspires him to create.