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every 12 days
Average audio length:
57 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
14 episodes
since Jan. 26, 2026
episodic

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Send us Fan Mail Creativity may be innate, but adulthood can teach us to mistrust it, hide it or call it something else. In this episode of The Arts Garden, three conversations trace creativity across a lifetime. Patch Theatre’s Geoff Cobham explains why children meet abstract art with instinct, op…

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Send us Fan Mail What becomes visible when artists ask us to slow down and look more closely? Fiona McIntosh transforms microscopic and cellular forms into intricate wool sculptures, using as many as 24 million needle stabs across an exhibition. She discusses the meditative labour behind her work, …
Send us Fan Mail A road-worn guitar, a coconut horse, Jane Austen compositions and a karaoke bar turned art gallery. We open with folk artist Katie Milae, fresh off the Goodness Me Festival and deep into her Art of Wildflowering tour. From road train childhoods to van-life songwriting, she unpacks …
Send us Fan Mail From indie music resistance to immersive painting and politically urgent cinema, this episode moves through art that refuses to sit still. We’re joined in-studio by San Dragan, unpacking a bold move away from Spotify and toward a grounded, community-driven music career; one built o…
Send us Fan Mail Post-Fringe, the Arts Garden resets. In Episode 10, we trace the threads of creativity across generations, forms, and philosophies, moving from Adelaide’s jazz lineage to the radical history of modernist art, and into the inner worlds of sound, voice, and meaning. 🎷 We’re joined in…
Send us Fan Mail It’s the final week of Adelaide Fringe and Festival, and Arts Garden brings together a powerful mix of artists exploring endurance, storytelling, and meaning. 🚴 Connor Delves joins us to talk about CADEL: Lungs on Legs: a high-intensity solo performance where he rides live on stage…
Send us Fan Mail We are beyond the Womad long weekend and have two weeks of festival season left. On this week's Art's Garden we talk shower burlesque thoughts, boy band dating parodies, Portuguese folktronica and making a career in circus.  New Zealand performer Gigi Cartier joins the sh…
Send us Fan Mail From Brazilian futuristic dance to avant-garde magic, clown game shows, contemporary circus from Aotearoa, stand-up rebellion and the 50-year legacy of Friendly Street Poets – Episode 7 is packed We talk emotional regulation through dance, colonial language hangovers, speed-sewn ci…
Send us Fan Mail Adelaide Fringe is in full swing and Episode Six dives deep into joyful chaos, physical theatre and urgent storytelling. 🎭 …Earnest? (Say It Again, Sorry?) What happens when the lead actor doesn’t show up and the audience becomes the cast? Josh and Rhys unpack how Oscar Wilde’s The…
Send us Fan Mail Fringe season is almost underway and so are the big cultural questions. In this pre-Fringe edition of The Arts Garden Podcast, James and Bronwin speak with artists confronting politics, identity, mental health and community in 2026. 🎭 Martha Lott (Holden Street Theatres) on The Deb…
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