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In this week’s Making Art podcast, actor and writer Neil Pigot talks to documentary filmmaker Sue Thomson, best known for her film about men and ball games Boys and Balls, about what drives her to make films. To listen to the 60 minute podcast, click here and to listen to any of the five previous podcasts click here. ***
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Daily Review presents actor Neil Pigot’s series of free, 60 minute podcasts in which he interviews artists from a range of disciplines about making art. To listen to episode FIVE with composer Tim Dargaville, click here and to hear previous episodes, click here. When people ask, as they occasionally have over the past two years, why I haven’t been acting much
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Daily Review is thrilled to present actor Neil Pigot’s series of free, 60 minute podcasts in which he interviews artists from a range of disciplines about making art. To listen to episode four with visual artist, Hannah Bertram, click here and to hear previous episodes click here. As I leave an artist after recording a conversation for this podcast series I am
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Daily Review is proud to present actor Neil Pigot’s series of free, 60 minute podcasts in which he interviews artists from a range of disciplines about making art. In Episode Three, he talks to performers Maude Davey and David Pidd (pictured above). To listen, click this link: Making Art: Episode Three with Maude Davey and David Pidd (also available on
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Daily Review is proud to present actor Neil Pigot’s series of free, 60 minute podcasts in which he interviews artists from a range of disciplines about making art. In Episode Two he talks to the poet Peter Bakowski. To listen, click this link: Making Art: Episode Two Peter Bakowski (also available on iTunes). *** When people ask what I
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Whenever a budget is handed down, I, like any self-respecting Australian artist, immediately check to see how much of our country’s investment in its arts and culture has been appropriated to make way for corporate tax cuts. By recent standards, this latest Federal budget is a good one. We only lost $89 million, and thankfully
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Daily Review is thrilled to present actor Neil Pigot’s new series of free, 60 minute podcasts in which he interviews artists from a range of disciplines about making art. To listen to the first interview – with Archibald Prize winning painter Lewis Miller (pictured in the self-portrait above) – click this link: Making Art: Episode One ‘Lewis Miller’ (also
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I have a friend who has a joke that I love: “If our Agriculture Ministers knew as little about producing food as our Arts Ministers know about producing art, then we’d all starve to death”. I was thinking of this last week when the Victorian Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley took a massive, unexpected
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Over the course of the 20th century and into our current one, empirical advances have been made in the way we use words to sell goods and services. The result is that the impressionistic rhetoric of promotion has developed significant currency, so much so that ad speak has become in many ways the language of
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No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried. Democracy is a not just a wonderfully robust concept, it is a delightfully simple one. To be called a modern democracy, all a country needs
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