Opening Drinks
Episodes
12 episodes
Episode 12: Shan Turner-Carroll with Nick Fox
Shan Turner-Carroll speaks with Tesha Malott about his exhibition, Bodies on a Rock, shown at Verge in August 2022, his practice and his creative relationship with spiritual reader Nick Foxx. Bodies On A Rock...
Thea Anamara Perkins
In this episode Tesha Malott and Thea Anamara Perkins speak about her family, practice, and That which endures, Thea’s latest body of work shown at Verge in September 2022. Thea Anamara Perkins is an Arrunda and Kawkadoon ar...
Episode 10: Anna May Kirk
In conversation with Anna May Kirk and Tesha MalottIn this episode, Anna May Kirk and Tesha Malott speak about anecdotes and precarious weather systems told by precarious positioned objects in the gallery. Anna is an artist, curat...
Episode 9: Elise Harmsen & Nicola Smith
Smith and Harmsen met at a Chantal Akerman film screening in 2016. Since this first meeting the two have shared an interest in the late director’s work and the relationship between moving image, painting, and the experience of time passin...
Episode 08: Joe and Chanelle
This episode of Opening Drinks investigates the themes in their recent exhibition Everything is ok :), looking at languages of resistance built around demonstrations of play and dialogue. An expression of agency is made throug...
Episode 07: Kirtika Kain & Sajan Mani
Episode 7 of Opening Drinks is a two part conversation in response to Kirtika Kain and Sajan Mani's recent exhibition, Earth 200 CE at Verge in March 2022. The first conversation is between Kirtika and Verge director Tes...
Episode 05: Alison Bennett and Rewa Wright
In conversation with artist Dr Alison Bennett and interactive designer Dr Rewa WrightThis episode of opening drinks sees a thoughtful conversation around ‘posts’, the mechanisms of photography and vegetal thinking. Our speakers, i...
Episode 06: Kieran Butler
Episode 6 of Opening Drinks features Kieran Butler, presenter of the project 80 years from now (Verge, January 2022). Kieran is joined by their colleague and very wonderful emerging artist, Amy Claire Mills. In the epi...
Episode 04: Seth Birchall
Episode 4 of Opening Drinks is an in conversation with Verge director Tesha Malott and Sydney based artist Seth Birchall. Seth Birchall’s current practice is primarily an engagement with landscape, which he approaches as conceptual col...
Episode 03: Wei Leng Tay in conversation with curator Olivier Krischer and Yvette Hamilton
This podcast episode is an in conversation with Singapore based artist Wei Leng Tay, Olivier Krischer and Sydney based artist Yvette Hamilton who explore the expanded field of photography in contemporary art. Work...
Episode 02: Paula do Prado
This episode of Opening Drinks features the very wonderful weaver and contemporary artist, Paula do Prado in a conversation around her practice and her show at Verge, pallay yuyay- to gather, to remember. Paula and Tesha also ...
Episode 01: Sophie Penkethman-Young
In 2018, Sophie was a finalist in the Churchie National Emerging Art Prize at Queensland University of Technology, and her works have been included in exhibitions internationally. She completed her BFA at the Australian National University S...
