Sunday Arts

Sunday, 19 October 2008 05:00pm

This week on Sunday Arts, the work of artist Vera Möller is featured, plus Fenella Kernebone speaks with cabaret performer Paul Capsis.

Paul Capsis
Paul Capsis is one of Australia's most talented and loved cabaret performers. Capsis has performed all over the world and recently returned to Australia after performing in New York. He has won a swag of Helpmann and Green Room Awards for his work and is currently starring in The Rocky Horror Show at Melbourne's Comedy Theatre until late January 2009. Capsis performs one of his own works for Sunday Arts and afterwards has a chat with Fenella Kernebone.

Vera Möller

Sunday, 12 October 2008 05:00pm

This week on Sunday Arts Michael Veitch meets violinist and conductor Andre Riéu; Virginia Trioli speaks with the politically-charged John Doyle; and Chris McAuliffe investigates the trend of environmentally conscious art.

Andre Riéu
Andre Riéu is a Dutch violinist and a conductor who has enjoyed enormous success, particularly in Australia where he has sold over a million recordings. Last year after his first visit to Australia, Riéu had a record nine DVDs in the top 10 ARIA DVD chart. His live performances are quite extravagant and include his Strauss Orchestra and Choir, the Platinum Tenors, dancers from the Vienna State Opera Ballet, and the Vienna Figure Skating Association. Riéu will be undertaking an Australian tour covering Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth from November 15 to December 4. He will also be guest-editing the November edition of Limelight magazine.

John Doyle

Sunday, 07 September 2008
05:00pm

This week on Sunday Arts Virginia Trioli speaks with British actor, playwright and director Steven Berkoff; Michael Veitch meets Andrew Davies, the writer who brought Bridget Jones and Pride and Prejudice to the screen; and we look at an Indigenous play a decade in the making.

Steven Berkoff

Sunday, 31 August 2008
5.00pm

This week on Sunday Arts Virginia Trioli speaks with Wagnerian soprano, Lisa Gasteen; English music legend, Barry Adamson performs; and artist Alexander Knox talks about his project that has changed the look of a Melbourne landmark.

Lisa Gasteen
Lisa Gasteen is considered one of the world's leading Wagnerian sopranos. Gasteen first grabbed international attention when she won the prestigious Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 1991. She has made the stronger German roles her trademark, her specialty being the role of Brunnhilde in Wagner's The Ring Cycle. Gasteen has delighted audiences in Australia and Europe having performed with the Royal Opera (UK), the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin State Opera, as well as with Opera Australia. She has returned from Europe to live in Brisbane, and her engagements this year include performances with symphony orchestras in Hobart, Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne.

Barry Adamson

Sunday, 24 August
5.00pm

This week on Sunday Arts the Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia (SIPCA), held every four years, takes centre stage as the recital finalists perform in what is recognised as one of the world's great piano competitions.

SIPCA attracts more applications than any other major piano competition in the world and features outstanding representation from many countries.

Major piano manufacturers provide new concert grand pianos and technical support staff for the international auditions in 12 major cities worldwide as well as for the competition itself.
SIPCA is presented in association with the University of Sydney and the ABC. This ninth SIPCA runs from 16 July to August 2.

All 27 concerts will be broadcast live on ABC Classic FM.

Sunday Arts will be repeated on ABC2 – Sunday, August 24 at 7:30pm

Sunday, 17 August 2008
5.00pm

This week on Sunday Arts, Virginia Trioli visits the opening of the magnificent Emily Kame Kngwarreye exhibition in Tokyo; Fenella Kernebone takes a look at Australian children's books; and Virginia also speaks to Graeme Blundell.

Virginia Trioli takes a look at Utopia: The genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye. The feature was filmed on location at the National Arts Centre in Tokyo in May. As well as speaking to very excited Japanese visitors at the exhibition, Virginia talks to curator Margo Neale, collector and arts patron Janet Holmes à Court and Professor Akira Tatehata, head of the National Museum of Art in Osaka and the driving force behind the exhibition. The exhibition is comprised of 120 of Emily's paintings from over 60 collections, and includes what is believed to be her first painting on canvas, Emu Woman. Australians can see the exhibition for themselves at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra from August 22.

Sunday, 10 August
5.00pm

This week on Sunday Arts the creator and star of Keating! The Musical, Casey Bennetto stops by to perform two numbers; artists respond to the city of Adelaide in Uneasy; and Fenella Kernebone finds out about Red Tree, a collaboration between a chamber orchestra, a film composer, a children's choir and illustrator Shaun Tan.

Casey Bennetto

Sunday, 03 August
5.00pm

This week on Sunday Arts we repeat Virginia Trioli's interview with Britain's most famous living sculptor, Antony Gormley; Fenella Kernbone visits the Brisbane Festival; and 'Aboriginal Moomba', an exhibition about Indigenous Australian performers in the 1950s.

Brisbane Festival
Contemporary Legend Theatre of Taiwan is bringing a very different kind of show to this year's Brisbane Festival. This unique theatre company is known for fusing Eastern and Western traditions and has already produced a number of other classic texts from the Western canon, including King Lear and Waiting for Godot. The Kingdom of Desire will be the first production that the company has brought to Australia and it's a pretty impressive show. There are 22 actors who dance, sing and perform martial arts, all accompanied by a live Chinese orchestra. The Kingdom of Desire is on at the Brisbane Festival from the 23 - 26 July.

Aboriginal Moomba

Sunday, 27 July
5.00pm

This week on Sunday Arts we feature the celebrated portrait photographer Polly Borland; Perth-based artist Stormie Mills; and the first theatre production to be put on by the new theatre company 1927.

Polly Borland

Sunday, 20 July
5.00pm

This week on Sunday Arts Virginia Trioli catches up with British funny-man Lenny Henry; we take a look at The Art Life at The Biennale of Sydney; and feature What The Future Sounded Like, a documentary that colours in a lost chapter in music history.

Lenny Henry

British comedian Lenny Henry started his stand up career in 1975. Since then he has also worked as a writer and actor in film, television and documentaries including a voice acting role in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. He has even taken a stab at singing, appearing on the Kate Bush album The Red Shoes (1993), and has worked as a radio DJ. However Henry has always returned to stand up and this July he is coming to Australia with his new show Where You From? following a sell-out season in the UK.

The Art Life At The Biennale of Sydney

Sunday, 13 July
5.00pm

This week on Sunday Arts, Fenella Kernebone meets Australia's Julius Avery who has just taken out a Jury Prize at the 61st Cannes Film Festival. The program also features Hijacked, an amazing home-grown photography project.

Julius Avery

Sunday, 06 July
5.00pm

Iconic Australian designer Florence Broadhurst single-mindedly decided to turn the business of making wallpaper into an art form.

Her designs, created in the 1960s and 1970s, are back in vogue, adorning not just walls across the globe but furniture, fashion accessories, carpets, bikinis and high-fashion dresses.

Yet mysteries about this enigmatic woman remain. There are 530 designs in the Broadhurst archive. Was Broadhurst telling the truth when she claimed to have created hundreds more - the so-called 'Lost Broadhursts'?

Journalist Helen O'Neill has been on the case for over four years. In 2006 she published an award-winning book Florence Broadhurst: Her Secret and Extraordinary Lives.

Sunday, 29 June
5.00pm

This week on Sunday Arts we feature the political art of South African William Kentridge, the work of leading, but largely unknown, photographer Maggie Diaz, and music from one of the world's most popular pianists Emanuel Ax.

Maggie Diaz

Sunday, 22 June
5.00pm

This week on Sunday Arts prolific English music legend Barry Adamson performs; we take a look at a truly worldwide event, the World Press Photography Awards; and speak to activist and industrial designer, Cynthia E Smith.

World Press Photos

Sunday, 15 June
5.00pm

This week on Sunday Arts Virginia Trioli meets Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz; we look at the artists who are re-tracing South Australia's Heysen Trail; and we have music from Paprika Balkanicus.

Junot Diaz