Vivienne Binns

A podcast series by Tim Ross

A yellow phallus ejaculates flowers

Vivienne Binns, Phallic monument, 1966, purchased 1993. © Vivienne Binns/Copyright Agency.

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Australian artist Vivienne Binns reveals deeply personal snapshots of her life as an artist in Sydney in the 1960s and 70s. Through a series of vignettes, she reflects on her goal to make art accessible through the community and women’s art movements.

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Tim Ross on Leonard French

An abstract painting with two bird like figures

Tim Ross muses on the influence of art in our lives and his own enduring connection with the work of artist Leonard French.

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Masami Teraoka & ukiyo-e printmaking

Colour print of man and woman staring at each other in the ocean. Print style reminiscent of traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e prints

Explore the unique tradition of ukiyo-e printmaking through an analysis of Masami Teraoka's Hawaii Snorkel series

Read Time 38 minutes

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Two of the national gallery's curators discussing paintings on the portrait wall at the entrance to the know my name exhibition

Interviews, artist profiles, behind the scenes views and other stories from within the Gallery and across Australia.

Inside Vivienne Binns’s Tower of Babel

Photograph of conservator checking small object with light

Vivienne Binns's Tower of Babel 1989 is a sculpture of 80 small dioramas mounted onto a wooden substrate and elevated on a pedestal.

Read Time 3 minutes
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Backwards intaglio: making Frank Stella’s ‘Swan Engravings’

Black and white photo of Frank Stella and Kenneth Tyler on the ground assembling magnesium plates for ‘Swan engraving IV’

Tyler Graphics printer Rodney Konopaki discusses the process of using 17,000 Q-tips to help create Frank Stella's Swan engravings.

Read Time 17 minutes
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Pat Gilmour (1932-2021)

Colour photo of Pat Gilmour in an art studio

The Kenneth Tyler Collection team remember Pat Gilmour, the inaugural Head of International Prints and Illustrated Books at the National Gallery.

Read Time 12 minutes