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Behind the Art

Rockhampton Museum of Art

The Rockhampton Museum of Art takes you ‘behind the art’ in their in-depth conversations with artists and art professionals of high acclaim. In these engaging monthly episodes, discover enlivening insights about artists’ practise, community initiatives and the art world itself.

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00:19:54

Michelle Taranto in conversation with Mandy Dollery

Behind the Art ·

2026/09/17

Michelle Taranto is a Queensland-based artist, based on Darumbal Country, who's vibrant, joy-filled practice celebrates colour, comfort, and the wonder of everyday life. Since establishing her Yeppoon home studio in 2021 under the name Arco Iris Interiors, she has developed a distinct visual language that embraces bold palettes, playful compositions, and a maximalist approach to both art and living.Taranto’s paintings draw inspiration from her beloved dogs, her collection of tropical plants and

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00:32:39

Judy Watson, Nathan Mudyi Sentance in Conversation...

Behind the Art ·

2026/08/10

On the afternoon of the opening of Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi , Dr Melinda Mann has a yarn with Judy Watson one of the exhibiting artist's in the exhibition and Nathan Mudyi Sentance, RMOA First Nations Reference Group Chair.

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00:22:00

Sally Molloy in conversation with Helen Kavanagh

Behind the Art ·

2026/07/15

Meanjin/Brisbane based artist, writer, and educator Sally Molloy's practice explores colonial pasts and presents as they relate to her everyday life through an open-ended engagement with Australian landscape painting history, the backyard, and popular culture. This framework provides a sweaty context for critique, loaded with the potential for meaning making, affect, and contemplation.Molloy works with painting, collage, sculpture, sound, and poetry often challenging the implied hierarchy of

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01:17:58

Nhaya Nikki, Kristina Hatfield & LeLarnie Hatfield.

Behind the Art ·

2026/07/13

Three generations of Darumbal women, Nhaya Nikki, Kristina Hatfield & LeLarnie Hatfield having a yarn to celebrate NAIDOC week, 50 years of Deadly.

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00:19:30

Naomi Hoare in conversation with Helen Kavanagh

Behind the Art ·

2026/06/15

Best known for her evocative self-portraiture and collaborative storytelling through Modor & Dohter, a creative partnership with her daughter, Hoare’s practice explores identity, transformation and the unseen labour of caregiving. Her body itself has become an archive, marked by lived experiences of motherhood, breast cancer survival, and self-expression including tattooing her own skin in sovereignty. Naomi has also delved into breastmilk archival, memorial jewellery and mural painting,

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00:32:57

Locust Jones in Conversation with Helen Kavanagh

Behind the Art ·

2026/05/07

Locust Jones is a contemporary, Australian artist. For over 20 years, Locust's practice has woven layers of stories and images that replicate the frenetic pace at which society consumes everyday news and current affairs, in a variety of mediums. Jones' exhibition, To Bear Witness featured large scale vertical drawings cascading through RMOA’s Atrium Gallery. 18 October 2025 - 26 April 2026.

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00:40:58

Michelle Hamer & Talitha Kennedy in Conversation

Behind the Art ·

2026/05/07

Michelle Hamer & Talitha Kennedy are two contemporary Australian artists. Hamer and Kennedy are part of a group exhibition titled Intimacy, on display at RMOA from 28 March - 5 July 2026.

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00:33:40

Sally Smart in conversation with Jonathan McBurnie

Behind the Art ·

2026/04/22

In 2025 Sally Smart transformed RMOA’s Long Gallery, responding to the monumental yet intimate scale of this space through exploration of the legacies of theatre and visual art.

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00:31:05

Shari O'Dwyer in conversation with Dr Melinda Mann

Behind the Art ·

2026/04/22

Shari O'Dwyer is an exhibiting Artist in the Cane exhibition. O'Dwyer's work is: It hangs over my head, it lurks in the shadows 2023, hand knotted sisal twine, private collection.Cane is exhibiting at RMOA from 28 February - 21 June 2026

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00:42:33

Joella Warkill, Imelda Miller and Jacob McGuire in...

Behind the Art ·

2026/04/22

Right of Reply: a response to 'Cane' exhibition at RMOA 28 February 2026 - 21 June 2026. Joella Warkill, Imelda Miller and Jacob McGuire in conversation with Dr Melinda Mann.

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00:01:02

XXVIII Sandra SELIG | Intimacy Artist Statement

Behind the Art ·

2026/03/25

The work of Sandra Selig frequently meditates upon space, withmany of her works charting a course between the installation itself, and thematerials in use, which are often found. Here, Selig’s pieces use space totease out the poetic. Using small paper cuttings from extant book pages,sections are removed and singled out, represented as a kind of collage-poem, byway of installation. Specific words are left, removed, or simply blocked out,leaving a small sequence of images, and the voids left by text,

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00:00:37

XXVII Elizabeth SHAW | Intimacy Artist Statement

Behind the Art ·

2026/03/25

My work gives form to personal observations and internalreflections. While walking the streets or tending my garden, I often discoverfragments of broken objects—tools run over, ceramics buried—each once part of apurposeful whole. Sometimes friends share their broken things with me, andthese too may find their way into my practice. These remnants become materialprompts for new works, carrying stories of use, loss, and transformation. Ifocus on the narratives these materials evoke, creating objects

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00:00:55

XXVI Eugene CARCHESIO | Intimacy Notes by Jonathan...

Behind the Art ·

2026/03/25

Eugene Carchesio has made a career of intimacy, explored throughdifferent media, usually through series. These include delicate papersculptures, small studies of leaves or birds, watercolours exploring colour andgeometry or gridded paper, music staves and collage. The artist’s 2008retrospective at Queensland Art Gallery was fittingly entitled Someone’sUniverse, and featured hundreds of Carchesio’s delicate pieces. One reallydoes get the sense from Carchesio’s practice of looking into

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00:03:16

XXV Paul TREFRY | Intimacy Notes by Adam Geczy

Behind the Art ·

2026/03/25

Details of the DispossessedThe obsession with lifelike figures can be traced back toantiquity: the ancient Greeks painted their statues, to solid give solidpresence to what were idealized forms. With occasional exceptions, therepresentation of what was not part of a world of heroism, religion or fantasy,was limited to imagery of everyday encounters, such as we see in the Dutchpainting of the seventeenth century. Work, toil and deprivation only enter artaround the middle of the nineteenth century,

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00:02:19

XXIV Talitha KENNEDY | Intimacy Artist Statement

Behind the Art ·

2026/03/25

Intimacy is a sensation that I imbue in all my artworks. It startswith the way I create my artworks then it’s the close attention and empathy Iwant people to feel when they see my works.I lovingly craft my sculptures by hand-stitching leather andfleshing out with stuffing and wire. It’s a slow meditative practice that Imake in my home studio, which is my safe place where my imagination is free andmy hands play, to create something beautiful from what I see and feel of thenatural world. The intimacy

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00:01:14

XXIII Ron ADAMS | Intimacy Artist Statement

Behind the Art ·

2026/03/25

Adams’ work invites an awareness of the way in which perceptionsof how ‘signs’ operate. You might call his artworks ‘meaning composites’.Understanding that emotion and thoughts are complex and abstracted things, andnot able to be adequately pictured, Adams presents compositions that containmultiple elements and symbols. Much as semaphore or pictograms are systems forexpressing particular concepts, Adams relies on the process whereby a thing canbe spoken, written or suggested, and the recipient (us)

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00:01:40

XXII Caitlin HESPE | Intimacy Artist Statement

Behind the Art ·

2026/03/25

This body of work explores intimacy as something accumulated infragments, in repetitions, in layered marks and gestures. Working primarilywith coloured pencil, gouache, and fresco-like plaster surfaces, I’m drawn toprocesses that require slowness and trust: building, erasing, redrawing,responding. Yet there always remains the 'immediacy' of the mark - fast andslow. Sun damage - its palette, its distortion, has become a kind ofvisual language. Stretched forms, faded colours, shifting ratios:

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00:01:40

XXI Don NACE | Intimacy Artist Statement

Behind the Art ·

2026/03/25

I am primarily a cartoonist—an abstract expressionist cartoonist.I was educated during the New York School's dominance of the art world, and I incorporated many oftheir styles into my drawings, along with those of Picasso and a host of otherartists who had left a lasting impression on me. According to Andre Breton, Iam a surrealist, described as:“Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes toexpress … the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by thought, in theabsence of any

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00:01:12

XX Roy ANANDA | Intimacy Artist Statement

Behind the Art ·

2026/03/25

This suite of collage works is comprised of diagrammatic imageryexcised from aged and obsolete textbooks, reference works, and instructionmanuals. Disinterred from their utilitarian points of origin, these images arereconfigured into idiosyncratic arrangements informed by the paranormal, theesoteric, and the occult. The works attempt to channel the aesthetics andatmospheres of the somewhat amorphous field of ‘hauntology’, as expressed inthe writings of cultural theorist Mark Fisher, the music of

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00:00:38

XIX Ben TRUPPERBÄUMER | Intimacy Artist Statement

Behind the Art ·

2026/03/25

When I search to find words go accompany this artwork, titled Mending, I would say that it is an ongoing pursuit, one that is hardly ever completed.

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