Where do artists find their inspiration? Kinderling Kid, Marcel, meets up with contemporary artist, Dale Harding, to find out! Dale is a Brisbane-based artist who draws on his family stories and lineage with the Bidjara, Garingbal and Ghungalu peoples to make his art. Dale makes contemporary paintings inspired by the galleries of rock art, and the natural world of his grandparent’s countries.  In this episode, Dale shares some of his favourite stories about the land, animals and family...

How do you make colours? Gemma Smith is one of Australia’s most acclaimed abstract artists working today. Her artworks reveal a fascination, and obsession, with colour and how it can change, trick, and move you. In this episode of Outside the Lines, we head to Gemma’s studio where she shares how colours are made, and how she uses colours in special ways to play tricks on your eyes. Colours are actually more complicated than you had ever imagined! Listen now to Outside The Lines with Gemma...

How does un-making a flag become art? Join Kinderling Kid, Holiday when she meets Raquel Ormella to explore this question and more! Raquel Ormella is an Australian artist who uses textile, video and drawing to make art about environmental and social issues. Her artworks often resemble protest materials such as flags, banners and slogans. Raquel is particularly concerned about climate change and its effect on young people. In this episode, Raquel shows Holiday how flags can include AND...

How can you use your body like a paintbrush? Join Kinderling Kid, Holiday when she visits Angela Tiatia to ask this question and more! Angela Tiatia explores contemporary culture through her art, drawing attention to its relationship to representation, gender, neo-colonialism and the commodification of the body and place, often through the lenses of history and popular culture. Holiday – like Angela – cares about the environment so they chat about how Angela’s art can help people learn...

How can making art be good for the planet? Join Kinderling Kid, Kip when he visits Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan to ask this question and more! Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan are a husband and wife artists who compose elaborate installations and sculptures invested with a sense of Filipino culture and character, often set against experiences of dislocation and change. But what would they like to teach kids? Well, in this episode they share that art doesn’t have to be expensive to make;...

A QAGOMA Kids Podcast About Art

How do you make art you can’t see? Kinderling kids – Pip and Lottie – find out this and more when they meet up with a very special artist called Ross Manning. Ross is a sound artist who turns everyday objects - like cans, rocks and even fans - into instruments that make music like you’ve never heard before. But why? As a way to explore humanity’s ongoing and increasingly complex relationship with technology. In this episode, Ross answers the kids’ big art questions like; “When is having a...

How do you weave a story? In this episode, Kinderling kids – Pip and Lottie – find out the answer to this question and more from Quandamooka woman, and multidisciplinary artist, Elisa Jane (Leecee) Carmichael. As an artist, Leecee honours her salt-water heritage by incorporating materials collected from Country, embracing traditional techniques, and expressing contemporary adaptations through painting, weaving, and textiles. In this episode, Leecee answers the kids’ big art questions like;...

How do you draw a feeling? Our hosts, Pippy & Lottie, find out this and more when they meet one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, Ben Quilty! Ben is one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists and is best known for painting bold and confronting subjects that question identity and reflect on art’s power to make sense of the world. In this episode Ben answers the kids’ big art questions like; “How do you make art without using your eyes”? And “How can...

Does art have secret messages? Our hosts, Pippy & Lottie, find out this and more when they meet contemporary artist, Jemima Wyman! Jemima is known for her work across multiple mediums, including performance, video, painting, installation and photography. Many of Wyman’s works utilize these mediums to focus on visually based resistance strategies – drawing inspiration from visual patterns found in the natural world. In this episode Jemima answers the kids’ big art questions like; “How...

A QAGOMA Kids Podcast About Art