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Artist to Artist Talks Knowledge In Motion

Today’s artists, in conversation, here and now.

Looking up, looking around, looking right side up, looking upside down. Artist to Artist is conceived as a series of insights – short, sharp conversations that offer fresh perspectives on local and global cultures.

Over the course of one year, an intergenerational roster of Australian and international artists will participate in a series of conversations – each one unmoderated – in evenings that fizz with possibility. 

From conversations that centre the capacity of music to heal, experimentation in design thinking, the loss of indigenous knowledge, and art as a means for healing, resistance and solidarity, artists are invited to inhabit the driver’s seat, setting the tone and tempo of the discussions that aim to sideswipe, whiplash and malfunction assumed knowledge – challenging us to look harder, further and deeper into what we understand about the world today. 

Contemporary Art presented by Sydney Opera House

Angela Tiatia and Julianknxx

27 Nov 2024

Filmmakers and artists Angela Tiatia and Julianknxx discuss how their creative work as artists can heal and repair social, cultural, and historical fissures.

  • Talks and Ideas

James Nguyen and Guadalupe Maravilla

27 Jan 2025

Focusing on art, ritual and activism, Australian-Vietnamese artist James Nguyen and American-El Salvadorian Guadalupe Maravilla delve into how ancestral knowledge can be channelled to heal the body, mind and spirit of trauma.

  • Talks and Ideas

Max Lamb and Martino Gamper

26 Mar 2025

Industrial designers Max Lamb and Martino Gamper centre their firebrand humour, and lifelong friendship, in a thoughtful discussion on how the design process can poetically remake the built world.

  • Talks and Ideas

Megan Cope and Raven Chacon

20 May 2025

Quandamooka artist Megan Cope and Diné winning composer and artist Raven Chacon explore how First Nations cultural work can work in defiance of Indigenous erasure, reasserting indigenous knowledge and processes.

  • Talks and Ideas

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These artists ask us to lift the moral floor, to stay clear eyed and alert, and most importantly, to confront, head on, while remaining tender, the rapidly shifting world we live in today. It gives me great pleasure to introduce Artist to Artist to Sydney, a city that hungers for ideas that are global and grand.

Micheal Do, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art