DREAM BUILD is a new series about Aussies who have been lucky enough to turn the dream of building their own home into a spectacular reality. The front door will open to some of Australia’s cutting edge homes revealing what can happen when the brief is pushed on design and budget...
MARGARET OLLEY: A LIFE IN PAINT is an intimate one-hour documentary about one of Australia's best-loved painters. A well-known figure from the time she was painted by William Dobell in 1948, Olley's celebrity status tended to overshadow her life as a painter. This film puts Margaret OIley the painter on centre stage. Many believe her last works - those painted in the...
Presented by Richard Heathcote, curator of historic Ripponlea, and spanning Australia's earliest colonial residences, from the verandah-clad pastoral homesteads to ornate Victorian mansions and Edwardian townhouses, this series presents the best of Australia's built and botanical history. It breaks through layers of history to reveal the personalities, foibles and...
DREAM BUILD is a new series about Aussies who have been lucky enough to turn the dream of building their own home into a spectacular reality. The front door will open to some of Australia’s cutting edge homes revealing what can happen when the brief is pushed on design and budget...
Alison Page lives in the tourist town of Coffs Harbour but this Yuin Waddi Waddi woman who spent her formative years in Laperouse Sydney. Alison is one of a handful of Indigenous Interior designers in this country who has designed Aboriginal culturally appropriate housing, a pink diamond jewellery collection worth over a quarter of a million dollars, and played hos...
Lucy Culliton, one of Australia's most talented contemporary painters, is travelling back to her childhood farm to try to capture the wide, open Monaro plains on canvas. This documentary reveals her processes as she immerses herself in the farming community, finding ways to depict the scale of this 'droughty landscape'. The final reveal of the finished works to the...
This special program pays tribute to Margaret Olley, one of Australia's best-loved artists and an extraordinary mentor and benefactor. We hear from her closest friends, family members, and those who have been helped by her generosity and support, including Ben Quilty, who won this year's Archibald Prize with a portrait of Miss Olley, and the Australian Chamber Orc...
This valuable and insightful presentation by Australian artist Annette Bezor, about her art, speaks eloquently to a wide audience about the cultural issues and social mechanisms of gender, sexuality, beauty, desire, the body, identity and their representation...
Vernon Ah Kee is a portraitist, graphic and video artist. In 2009 Ah kee will become one of a select group of Australians whose work will be displayed on the most important visual arts stage in the world, the Venice Biennale. Ah Kee is a prolific Brisbane based artist. His work is provocative in the themes he tackles. He asks the question through his work "what is...
Black Renaissance Alongside traditional crafts a whole area of new craft has developed. A fusion of black culture with white techniques has produced beautiful and distinctive modern crafts, such as pottery and fabrics. Practitioners talk excitedly about this being just a beginning. Work An insight into the many and varied ways in which designers produce their wor...
Kids have great imaginations, which is exactly what is needed in the wild world of invention. Ever seen a Pneumatic Pogo Bike? What about a six-legged Hydraulic Walking Car, Jet Turbine Skates, A Fishtank Belt or a jet-powered Hover Skateboard? Here's you chance to see brilliant inventions made by kids and tested by kids. Let's Get Inventin' reveals that young peo...
Anyone who has built or renovated a house could imagine the nightmare of constructing a $450 million civic and cultural landmark to a radical design (not a right angle in sight) by architects with no previous building experience. In 1997 the Victorian Government paved the way for one of the great civic spaces of the 21st century on top of the railway yards which di...
This three-part series is about the thing we call architecture . . . but it is more particularly about us. This is the story of how buildings and public spaces get to be made, told principally through an exposure of the public and private realms of a number of very different Australian architects. This series is about politics, art, history, poetry, philosophy...ab...
This series explores the design process from conception to realisation in a broad range of settings. These programs present working designers solving real design problems. We see how they formulate their ideas and bring them to life as products or processes utilising a variety of materials, technologies and production methods. The aim of this series is to stimulate in...
This is a reflection on the life and work of Jørn Utzon who died in 2008 aged 90. His enduring tribute will, of course, be the Sydney Opera House. World Heritage listed only last year, the jury referred to it as "one of the indisputable masterpieces of human creativity"...
In the sixties and seventies, Florence Broadhurst's wallpaper company produced designs that were all the rage across the globe. But shortly after her mysterious murder in 1977, her reputation went into something of a decline. She's back now, though: her wallpapers sell for $400 a roll in London. But who was Florence Broadhurst?
Contrary to popular belief, Aboriginal people lived in semi-permanent shelters before white settlement. Their shelters had complex designs and were made from a variety of materials, depending on where they lived in the country. Paul Memmott uses his research into the history of Indigenous architecture to advise architects how to design culturally appropriate homes tod...
Philip Cox is one of the elder statesmen of Australian architecture. He started his career in the middle of last century, at Sydney University in the late 1950s, and set up his first practice in the 1960s. His buildings have influenced the way Australian cities look. We find out why and meet the man himself, Philip Cox, on the eve of a new publication: Cox Architects...
This is a ten part series developed as a resource for upper primary/lower secondary English classes. The programs explore a range of text types including examples of spoken, written and visual texts and will assist teachers in the process of text selection and use in English classrooms. The focus of this exploration is a study of the linguistic structures and featu...
