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the influence
the influence September 18, 2021
Melbourne artist Lisa Radford, a friend and colleague of Damiano Bertoli’s, remembers his major work Le Désir, a series of performances of a little-known play by Picasso.
the influence September 11, 2021
Poet Jazz Money talks about how Alexis Wright’s novel Carpentaria has inspired her work and paved the way for other Indigenous writers.
the influence September 4, 2021
The whole-work aesthetic of Japanese doom-metal band Corrupted has been a major inspiration for the noise art of Marco Fusinato.
the influence August 28, 2021
Tina Havelock Stevens says Gimme Shelter, the classic 1970 documentary about The Rolling Stones, shows her something different every time she watches it.
the influence August 21, 2021
A 2007 retrospective of Tom Kreisler’s art has had a lifelong impact on Mitch Cairns’ work.
the influence August 14, 2021
Artist Jenna Lee discusses the transformative energy of fire in Makiko Ryujin’s Burning Vessel.
the influence August 7, 2021
Broadcaster and composer Andrew Ford discusses how Luciano Berio’s O King showed him how to start with the simple.
the influence July 31, 2021
Dana Schutz’s work showed Amber Boardman how invented characters in paintings can take on lives of their own.
the influence July 24, 2021
Miles Franklin award-winner Amanda Lohrey on how the Hindu god Shiva danced creation into being.
the influence July 17, 2021
Yorta Yorta soprano and composer Professor Deborah Cheetham AO discusses how the painting Dulka Warngiid (Land for All) (2007) has influenced her musical direction.
the influence July 10, 2021
Opera and film director Constantine Costi discusses how Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ has influenced his approach to staging.
