Season 1
(2021)
Cast
as Self - Host
Episodes
Uncle Jack Charles, Atong Atem & Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran 0.0
May 5, 2021
In the very first episode of Art Works, host Namila Benson throws a pot with actor Uncle Jack Charles and interviews ar…
Race and Representation, Ziggy Ramo & Airi Ingram 0.0
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Namila Benson has a much-needed conversation about race and representation with Indigenous hip hop artist Ziggy Ramo an…
Opera Australia & Mary Quant 0.0
May 19, 2021
Deni Todorovic looks at the career of fashion designer Mary Quant, developer Siobhan Reddy talks about the storytelling…
Museum of Contemporary Art & ABC Classic 100 0.0
May 26, 2021
Two perfect strangers go on a blind date to the MCA, Curator Kimberley Moulton and director Bruce Gladwin talk about ho…
Miss First Nation & the Ramsay Art Prize 0.0
June 2, 2021
We head backstage at Miss First Nation, the national competition for Indigenous drag queens. Musician Eric Avery talks …
Archibald Prize & Archie 100 0.0
June 9, 2021
Art Works deep dives into the 2021 Archibald Prize. We meet 1985 Archibald winner and the subject of Peter Wegner's win…
Kate Just & the Great Woy Woy Tea Cosy Showcase 0.0
June 16, 2021
Artist Kate Just teaches Namila Benson how to knit while explaining her feminist art practice, before we visit the Grea…
Hilma af Klint & Incognito Art Show 0.0
June 23, 2021
Artist Katy B. Plummer takes us to the Hilma af Klint exhibition where she and co-curators Sue Cramer and Nicholas Cham…
Dark Mofo 2021 0.0
June 30, 2021
Art Works heads to Dark Mofo festival to hear from Tasmanian First Nations artists about the Union Flag controversy and…
NAIDOC Week 2021 0.0
July 7, 2021
We meet the creators of documentaries Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra and My Name Is Gulpilil; plus Aboriginal and T…
Just Not Australian Touring Exhibition 0.0
July 14, 2021
Art Works explores the impact of the film and drama industry moving into Byron Bay. Artists Fiona Foley and Abdul Abdul…
Arts Access Victoria Amplify Festival 0.0
July 21, 2021
Street artist Heesco shares the ethos behind the large-scale mural project Heesco Town in regional Victoria; and we mee…
Science Gallery in Melbourne 0.0
July 28, 2021
We meet Maree Clarke, the first living Victorian Aboriginal artist to have a solo exhibition at the NGV, before Namila …
Brisbane Comedy Festival 0.0
August 4, 2021
Ngugi artist Elisa Jane Carmichael introduces us to the revived traditional art of weaving and Brisbane Comedy Festival…
Malthouse Theatre's Because the Night 0.0
August 11, 2021
Namila Benson talks to Yorta Yorta soprano, composer and educator (and national treasure) Deborah Cheetham and we wande…
Mo'Ju, Vipoo Srivilasa & The Wellness Deity Project 0.0
August 18, 2021
We meet with award-winning Wiradjuri and Filipino musician Mo'Ju, before going foraging for driftwood with artist Pete …
Maxine Beneba Clark, New Writers Collective & Alex Lahey 0.0
August 25, 2021
We visit writer Maxine Beneba Clarke in her studio; get to know the New Writers Collective for teen women, trans and no…
NATSIAA, Ishmael, Stone Country, Ida Sophia 0.0
September 1, 2021
We check out the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards; a space-age reimagining of Moby-Dick; weara…
Kylie Bracknell, Lucy Irvine, Demolition 0.0
September 8, 2021
Learn about the first feature film to be dubbed in an Australian Aboriginal language; Canberra-based Scottish sculptor …
Boy Swallows Universe, Murrniny, Ngaiire 0.0
September 15, 2021
Meet the creators of the theatre adaptation of award-winning novel Boy Swallows Universe, the Yolngu artists from the r…
Daniel Lafferty, The Rivers Sing 0.0
September 22, 2021
Daniel Lafferty fires up his kiln for the first time since the 2019/20 bushfires; Deborah Cheetham reflects on The Rive…
Brenton E. McKenna, Mick Turner, Bukjeh 0.0
September 29, 2021
Brenton E. McKenna shares his lifelong love of comics; Mick Turner from the Dirty Three talks about the art of the albu…
Claire McArdle, Voices of Colour 0.0
October 6, 2021
Claire McArdle takes jewellery making into the streets; meet the Voices of Colour arts collective; David Moran shows us…
#KnowMyName 0.0
October 13, 2021
Meet artists Lisa Waup, Sally Rees and Yhonnie Scarce, as well as the artistic directors of some of Australia's most ce…
Muster, Terrapin, Dale Woodbridge-Brown 0.0
October 20, 2021
Watch participatory dance work Muster; marvel at the craftsmanship of Terrapin; meet 13-year-old Bronte as she audition…
First Nations Fashion and Design 0.0
October 27, 2021
Strut the catwalk with First Nations Fashion and Design; have a stickybeak inside Sam Leighton-Dore's home; share a cup…
Ausmusic Month 0.0
November 3, 2021
Art Works celebrates Ausmusic Month by talking to musicians, Bukhu Ganburged, and Vika and Linda Bull; and artist and g…
Art in the Vines, Patricia Piccinini 0.0
November 10, 2021
Art Works visits the new Art in the Vines sculpture exhibition at a winery in regional Victoria. Also meet artist Patri…
OzAsia Festival, Koolbardi wer Wardong 0.0
November 17, 2021
Art Works heads to OzAsia Festival in Adelaide; Maclagan Squeezebox Festival in regional Queensland; and to see West Au…
Neo Teen Takeover, Wendy Mocke, Fiona Lee 0.0
November 24, 2021
Teens curate a bimonthly event at AGSA; Papua New Guinean artist Wendy Mocke talks about empowered Black womanhood; how…
Jazz Money, Tarnanthi, Serwah Attafuah 0.0
December 1, 2021
Meet poet/artist Jazz Money and artist Serwah Attafuah and see how the first interrogates colonial spaces, and the latt…
Transformation, Time Pass, Baai 0.0
December 8, 2021
Hear from young people reclaiming their own narratives: by celebrating South Sudanese culture; and creating work by and…
La Mama Theatre, Stella Prize 0.0
December 15, 2021
We visit the newly reopened La Mama Theatre in Melbourne; see how Aboriginal artists are using a colonial statue as a c…