CAPA - Visual Arts - Year 12 - Know My Name: Videos

Reflect on the role that Australian women artists play in creating culture in Australia.

Marina Abramović's art pushes the boundary between audience and artist in pursuit of heightened consciousness and personal change. In her groundbreaking 2010 work, "The Artist Is Present," she simply sat in a chair facing her audience, for eight hours a day ... with powerfully moving results. Her boldest work may still be yet to come — it's taking the form of a sprawling art institute devoted to experimentation and simple acts done with mindful attention. "Nothing happens if you always do things the same way," she says. "My method is to do things I'm afraid of, the things I don't know, to go to territory that nobody's ever been."

Destiny Deacon discusses her work in 'Half Light: Portraits from Black Australia artist' and the surprising story behind her portrait of Richard Bell.

Emily Kame Kngwarreye

An insightful interview with Shirin Neshat - What makes her work personal and political? Meet the artist as we count down to the opening of The Broad's new exhibition, SHIRIN NESHAT: I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN

Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art takes a look at Cindy Sherman's career from 2000-2016 - we caught up with curator Ellie Buttrose on these news that explore Hollywood and ageing, and what it was like to work with Cindy.

With an intense oeuvre fueled by a harrowing backstory, Artemisia Gentileschi is one of the most formidable painters of the Baroque period. Celebrated for her dramatic compositions portraying Biblical and mythological heroines, Gentileschi lent many of her canvases to female narratives, and bequeathed a rare woman’s perspective in an era otherwise dominated by the visions of men.

In this interview Australian artist Nora Heysen describes the development of her artistic career. The images in the footage are courtesy of the National Library of Australia, the Australian War Memorial, State Library of South Australia and the National Portrait Gallery.

Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 where her parents ran a tapestry gallery. At 27 she moved to New York City after marrying American art historian Robert Goldwater. She began her career with paintings and drawings in the 1940s and by the 1960s had begun to experiment with wood, plaster, latex and other solid materials to create bold and subversive sculptural forms. In this film her friend and assistant of over 30 years Jerry Gorovoy explains the childhood trauma and pain Bourgeois was communicating through her work. Tate Modern director Frances Morris describes her first time meeting the artist and discusses the multi-layered themes of loneliness and conflict, frustration and vulnerability in Bourgeois’s prolific career.

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To celebrate her receiving the 2022 Art Icon Award, internationally renowned artist Tracey Emin joins Whitechapel Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick to discuss her incredible career and ongoing influence on contemporary culture.

Judy Chicago recounts the experience of being a woman artist in the 1960s and 1970s, when the art world was dominated by men.

Learn about the life and art of Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo, who explored disability, relationships and Mexican culture in her work.

Thirty years after the feminist activists began, the Guerrilla Girls are still going. Their identities remain a secret but their fight for equality in the art world still attracts legions of fans.