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Where do artists find their inspiration?

Kinderling Kid, Marcel, meets up with contemporary artist, Dale Harding, to find out!

Dale is a Brisbane-based artist who draws on his family stories and lineage with the Bidjara, Garingbal and Ghungalu peoples to make his art. Dale makes contemporary paintings inspired by the galleries of rock art, and the natural world of his grandparent’s countries.

In this episode, Dale shares some of his favourite stories about the land, animals and family history that inspire his art. And we learn that art can teach us a lot about our environment, and even bring us closer together as people by showing us what we have in common.

Outside the Lines is a Kinderling co-production with the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art’s Children’s Art Centre. This production was possible thanks to the generous support of the Neilson Foundation.

Produced by Caitlin Gibson
Sound Design and Mix by Camilla Hannan
Executive Producer: Lorna Clarkson

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How do you make colours?

Gemma Smith is one of Australia’s most acclaimed abstract artists working today. Her artworks reveal a fascination, and obsession, with colour and how it can change, trick, and move you.

In this episode of Outside the Lines, we head to Gemma’s studio where she shares how colours are made, and how she uses colours in special ways to play tricks on your eyes. Colours are actually more complicated than you had ever imagined!

Listen now to Outside The Lines with Gemma Smith. Maybe after listening to this episode you’ll see colour in a whole new way too!

Outside the Lines is a Kinderling co-production with the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art’s Children’s Art Centre. This production was possible thanks to the generous support of the Neilson Foundation.

Produced by Caitlin Gibson
Sound Design and Mix by Camilla Hannan
Executive Producer: Lorna Clarkson

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How does un-making a flag become art?

Join Kinderling Kid, Holiday when she meets Raquel Ormella to explore this question and more!

Raquel Ormella is an Australian artist who uses textile, video and drawing to make art about environmental and social issues. Her artworks often resemble protest materials such as flags, banners and slogans. Raquel is particularly concerned about climate change and its effect on young people.

In this episode, Raquel shows Holiday how flags can include AND exclude people; that art is about being creative and making yourself happy; and that you can even make art in bed!

Listen now to Outside the Lines with Raquel Ormella.

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Outside the Lines is a Kinderling co-production with the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art’s Children’s Art Centre. This production was possible thanks to the generous support of the Neilson Foundation.

Produced by Caitlin Gibson

Sound Design and Mix by Camilla Hannan

Executive Producer: Lorna Clarkson

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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How can you use your body like a paintbrush?

Join Kinderling Kid, Holiday when she visits Angela Tiatia to ask this question and more!

Angela Tiatia explores contemporary culture through her art, drawing attention to its relationship to representation, gender, neo-colonialism and the commodification of the body and place, often through the lenses of history and popular culture.

Holiday – like Angela – cares about the environment so they chat about how Angela’s art can help people learn about big, important things in the world - like climate change; and how curiosity is a superpower; and how video art is just like slow moving paintings.

Listen now to Outside the Lines with Angela Tiatia.

Outside the Lines is a Kinderling co-production with the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art’s Children’s Art Centre. This production was possible thanks to the generous support of the Neilson Foundation.

Produced by Caitlin Gibson

Sound Design and Mix by Camilla Hannan

Executive Producer: Lorna Clarkson

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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How can making art be good for the planet?

Join Kinderling Kid, Kip when he visits Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan to ask this question and more!

Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan are a husband and wife artists who compose elaborate installations and sculptures invested with a sense of Filipino culture and character, often set against experiences of dislocation and change.

But what would they like to teach kids? Well, in this episode they share that art doesn’t have to be expensive to make; art can be made from anything you find around you; and we discover how old boxes can tell incredible stories about everything from moving house, to climate change!

Listen now to Outside the Lines with Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan.

Outside the Lines is a Kinderling co-production with the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art’s Children’s Art Centre. This production was possible thanks to the generous support of the Neilson Foundation.

Produced by Caitlin Gibson

Sound Design and Mix by Camilla Hannan

Executive Producer: Lorna Clarkson

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What does ‘art’ mean in Aboriginal culture?

Kinderling Kid, Marcel, meets up with contemporary artist Tony Albert to find out.

Tony is a descendant of the Girramay, Yidinji and Kuku Yalanji peoples and is one of the most exciting contemporary artists in Australia. Through a mix of humour and poignancy, Albert tackles issues of race and representation by recontextualising objects of ‘Aboriginalia’; kitsch items featuring caricatured depictions of Aboriginal people and their culture.

In this episode Tony shares why there are no boundaries between art and life in Aboriginal culture; how art can give people a voice in the world; and that no-one is good or bad at art as long as they have a story to tell.

Listen now to Outside the Lines with Tony Albert.

Outside the Lines is a Kinderling co-production with the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art’s Children’s Art Centre. This production was possible thanks to the generous support of the Neilson Foundation.

Produced by Caitlin Gibson

Sound Design and Mix by Camilla Hannan

Executive Producer: Lorna Clarkson

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How do you make art you can’t see?

Kinderling kids – Pip and Lottie – find out this and more when they meet up with a very special artist called Ross Manning.

Ross is a sound artist who turns everyday objects - like cans, rocks and even fans - into instruments that make music like you’ve never heard before. But why? As a way to explore humanity’s ongoing and increasingly complex relationship with technology.

In this episode, Ross answers the kids’ big art questions like; “When is having a big imagination better than knowledge”? And “Why is breaking the rules sometimes okay”?

Listen now to Outside The Lines with Ross Manning.

Outside the Lines is a Kinderling co-production with the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art’s Children’s Art Centre. This production was possible thanks to the generous support of the Neilson Foundation.

Produced by Caitlin Gibson

Sound Design and Mix by Camilla Hannan

Executive Producer: Lorna Clarkson

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How do you weave a story?

In this episode, Kinderling kids – Pip and Lottie – find out the answer to this question and more from Quandamooka woman, and multidisciplinary artist, Elisa Jane (Leecee) Carmichael.

As an artist, Leecee honours her salt-water heritage by incorporating materials collected from Country, embracing traditional techniques, and expressing contemporary adaptations through painting, weaving, and textiles.

In this episode, Leecee answers the kids’ big art questions like; “How does family and home inspire art”? And “why would you put a hole in your artwork on PURPOSE”?

Outside the Lines is a Kinderling co-production with the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art’s Children’s Art Centre. This production was possible thanks to the generous support of the Neilson Foundation.

Produced by Caitlin Gibson

Sound Design and Mix by Camilla Hannan

Executive Producer: Lorna Clarkson

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.