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.

In part one, painter and printmaker Raymond Arnold shares why Tasmania is such an important landscape and how it became an environmental batttleground.

Photographic artist Lisa Garland has been documenting her community on the North West Coast for more than 20 years. Lisa makes portraits of people so deeply connected to where they live that often the portrait of their place tells more about them than the people themselves. As a new generation is emerging and another passing, Lisa reflects on what she looks for in her subjects and how her focus is changing.

Pat Brassington is one of Australia’s most significant and influential artists. Over four decades, Brassington has captivated audiences with her ability to transform the familiar into the fantastical through her photomontages. We talk about her childhood in Hobart and how this may have influenced her practice.

Pakana writer Adam Thompson sources much of the inspiration for his stories from his experiences working across the archipelago of Furneaux islands between lutruwita and mainland Australia. These islands are not only the backdrop for his dark moral tales but they also hold his family history.

Ellen Dahl grew up in the Arctic North of Norway and is now living and working on Gadigal Country in Sydney. We talk about her recent work that questions whether the landscapes in lutruwita, Tasmania, and Svalbard, north of the Arctic Circle share something in common. Do the similarities and differences offer another way of understanding how we see and what  feel about the world?

Troy Ruffels, a photomedia artist drawing on the tradition of painting and drawing, makes works that are both immersive and atmospheric. Troy incorporates the elements of fire and water into his daily routine from pre-dawn ocean swims to evening fire pits, creating a discipline for his art practice.