Artist Alessandro joins Art Destinations Sicily to reflect on his childhood in a remote fishing village on the south-west coast of Sicily. He decribes Torretta Granitola as an “island within an island” marked by fragments of migrant boats, and the unspoken presence of the Mafia. He discusses how these formative experiences shaped his shift from architecture to art, and how drawing became both a meditative practice and a democratic tool.

Today, Alessandro’s work flows across mediums—murals, stop-motion, and fluid drawings. His artworks resist borders, tracing connections between figures from his childhoood memories while also drawing on Sicily’s Baroque architectural history.

Palermo’s Palazzo Butera director Claudio Gulli on how artworks and objects in the Valsecchi Collection are reimagined through playful curatorship

Vienna-born artist Hanna Burkart has spent over a decade without a permanent home, creating art through walking, sleeping, and living in places across the world. In this conversation, she shares how site-specific works emerge from immersion in landscapes—from sleeping under the stars to transforming abandoned spaces—and how her nomadic life shapes her art.

Through a fight-specific approach rooted in walking and observation, Sicilian artist Irene Coppola responds to a Palermo shaped by war, pollution and speculative development, revealing deeper stories of resistance

From Sicily to Milan, Francesco Vullo shows how materials like stone can hold memories, emotions, and a deep sense of place.

We are in conversation with Vito Planeta who is spearheading the cultural vision of Planeta Wineries and building on the legacy of his late uncle, the renowned winemaker and cultural advocate Vito Planeta (1966–2023).

Sicilian artist Elisa Giardina Papa discusses her Venice Biennale work U Scantu: A Disorderly Tale and other installations exploring myth, memory, and resistance to categorisation in contemporary art.

Alfio A. Puglisi on how the Sicily Artist in Residence Program (SARP) is transforming Sicily into a global hub for contemporary art through site-specific residencies, local collaboration, and atmospheric place-making.

We travel to Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, rich with layers of history, myth, and volcanic soil. We'll be exploring how artists live, work, and create here — interviewing some of the most compelling voices in contemporary art working through residencies and site-specific projects.

We reflect on the Art Destinations Lutruwita | Tasmania season in a wrap-up episode that draws links between the episodes and between season 1 Venice and season 2 Lutruwita | Tasmania.

We are in conversation with US-born photographic artist David Stephenson, who received an MFA from the University of New Mexico in 1982 before taking a teaching position at the University of Tasmania’s School of Art. His work has consistently explored the sublime, in relation to his transcendental experience of place.

With an ongoing interest in human interventions in the landscape, David arrived in Tasmania in the lead-up to the Franklin Dam blockade and continues to document Tasmania’s contested places. He also experiments with the different ways the photographic image, and different subject matters, can represent time.

In part two of our conversation with Raymond Arnold, he talks about his printmaking and painting practice, and how he shares his art practice with his community in Queenstown with the aim of revitalising the region.