What Artists Eat
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04/24/24 • 52 min
For Tim Shiel, music isn't just a career—it's a personal practice, a means of self-expression, and a conduit for connection. He eschews the notion of the tortured artist, finding inspiration not in pain, but in abundance and community.
Tim is a musician, producer and broadcaster, hosting Arvos on Double J & Something More on triple j.
As Tim continues to navigate the ever-shifting landscapes of parenthood and music, one thing remains constant: his unwavering dedication to his craft and his commitment to fostering a supportive and inclusive community for fellow artists.
In a world that often prioritizes profit over passion, Tim stands as a beacon of authenticity and inspiration, reminding us that the true essence of art lies not in its commercial value, but in its ability to move and connect us on a deeper level.
You can find Tim's Egg n Beans recipe on our website!
Find us @whatartistseat on Instagram and our website www.whatartistseat.com.au
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Links to Tim's work and anything else we chatted about:
- https://www.timshiel.com/
- https://www.timshiel.com/spirit-level
- https://timshiel.bandcamp.com/
- Tim’s Substack ‘Shiel Feels’
- Everything else ‘Tim Shiel’ here
- Always in Tim’s pantry is his special ingredient Shichi-mi tōgarashi
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Charlotte Alldis on blue pasta, purple pancakes and the playful art of deep nourishment
What Artists Eat
05/08/24 • 56 min
In the vast tapestry of human experience, there are those who traverse the realms of imagination with paintbrushes in hand, and others who concoct culinary masterpieces with a dash of creativity and a pinch of tenderness. Yet, nestled within this intricate mosaic lies the story of Charlotte Alldis—a multifaceted creator, a fierce lover, and a loyal protector of those in her orbit. Meet the artist, maker, storyteller, and mum to Buster the bulldog, whose life's journey has been as colorful and captivating as the worlds she paints.
Childhood, for Charlotte, was a self made kaleidoscope of wonder and whimsy. Art wasn't the initial muse; instead, it was the enchanting realm of storytelling that captured her imagination. Raised by parents who were educators deeply immersed in the realms of play, writing, and literature, she was steeped in a culture of creativity from an early age.
The focus wasn’t fine art—it was playfulness, experimentation, and joy. As a child, Charlotte transformed mundane meals into fantastical feasts, crafting blue pancakes, purple pasta, and dyed vegetables with unabashed delight. Cooking wasn't about following recipes; it was about embracing the magic of the moment and relishing in the act of creation.
You can find Charlotte's recipe on our website!
Find us @whatartistseat on Instagram and our website www.whatartistseat.com.au
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From Iran to Kings Cross with Artist Leili Tehrani Walker
What Artists Eat
03/29/23 • 57 min
Nowadays, Leili Tehrani Walker believes that their Persian background has only done good things for their relationship to art and food, though they didn’t always believe this was the case. Growing up, it was complicated.
From the start, it seemed for Leili that art, culture, identity and politics were related. Early memories of seeing a distinctive mural in Kings Cross about the AIDS crisis made a huge impression on them when they were young. Interestingly the mural had similarities to political graffiti in their ancestral home in Shiraz, Iran.
Growing up in red-light district ‘The Cross’ (Eora Sydney) with a mother who escaped from Iran during the Iran Iraq war, Leili found that they were living between two worlds. Like many children of the Iranian diaspora, they didn’t feel like they fit in at their white anglo school but also didn’t have a large Iranian community to connect with.
Listen out for Leili incriminating a family member’s ingenious knack for producing enormous Persian feasts in the blink of an eye. We find out their favourite artist is painter Iman Raad (who creates Iranian miniature style paintings that you can get deliciously lost in). Their favourite kitchen sound is completely original and their favourite smell is definitely not what we were expecting! For a kitchen disaster story that involves a dinner party and cat food, plus the best tip for taking the bite out of red onion you’ll have to tune in.
** This episode contains themes around mental health and depression. If you're struggling, help is available via LIFELINE, BEYOND BLUE, TRANSCEND, GENDER CENTRE and TRANSHUB **
Find us @whatartistseat on Instagram and our website www.whatartistseat.com.au
Links to Leili's work and anything else we chatted about:
- LEILI’S WEBSITE
- LEILI’S INSTAGRAM
- COYOTE PARK WEBSITE
- BACKWOODS GALLERY 2022 EXHIBITION
- LINDSAY MAGAZINE ARTICLE
- EVERLASTING MEAL COOKBOOK
- PINK EMBER STUDIO
- FRANCES CANNON
- GERM FLACK
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04/26/23 • 59 min
Lorna Crane is the real deal. She’s a mixed media artist who has been exhibiting for 40 years and has been a practising artist her entire life, whilst working in between. Fibre has been a big part of her work for a long time and “even in my earlier paintings I would collage in a piece of jute or hessian or a bit of cloth as well, because for me, cloth holds a memory, it’s something that, when we’re born, we get snuggled into a piece of cloth and it comforts us...”.
Lorna started making her own brushes after a residency in Venice with Allison B. Cooke, and then became known as “the brush maker”. The urge to make brushes goes back to her art school days, when she saw a documentary on Arthur Boyd’s work and processes. She was inspired by his huge canvases and that he was using his own handmade brushes - the splashing motions being particularly inspiring.
As her career progressed, Lorna found that artist residencies became increasingly crucial to her, with her preference being self funded residencies, where there is more freedom and autonomy.
If you take anything from our chat with Lorna, we hope it’s the inspiration to colour outside the lines and absolutely break the rules.
Find us @whatartistseat on Instagram and our website www.whatartistseat.com.au
Links to Lorna's work and anything else we chatted about:
- LORNA’S WEBSITE
- LORNA’S INSTAGRAM
- LORNA’S COURSE
- THE CHURCHILL TRUST
- BUNDANON RESIDENCY
- SHIELA HICKS ARTIST
- ALLISON B COOKE ARTIST
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What Artists Eat
01/30/23 • 1 min
Long ago, artist Claire Lefebvre went on a date. After splitting the bill, her date tossed 70c across the table at her with a sly grin, “Here you go, for the ‘Starving Artist’”. Surprisingly, it didn’t work out.
That wasn’t the first time she’d heard it, and it wouldn’t be the last, but something really stuck that night when she heard “STARVING ARTIST” yet again (it stuck the way a poppyseed sticks between your two front teeth).
Claire continued to chew on the Starving Artist archetype, bringing her partner, sound artist Zoltan Fecso into the conversation. They both love art and food and found that plenty of their fellow artists had a lot to say about these topics too.
So Claire and Zoltan got their mates over for a meal and a chat to find out What Artists Eat!
If you love art and food, if you’ve always wanted to know what goes on behind the studio and kitchen doors, we have plenty for you to nibble on. Listeners will get inside info on the realities of the creative industries and what it often takes to be able to feed yourself as an artist. Tune in each week as we serve up juicy, funny and heartfelt interviews with leading professional artists. Make room for recipes, tips, tricks and hilarious kitchen disaster stories.
Sounds yummy right?
Join our table from March 3rd to find out What Artists Eat.
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Artist Kayleigh Heydon believes everyone can be an artist, but most people can't make a good cup of tea
What Artists Eat
06/21/23 • 56 min
With beginnings in sculpture and conceptual art in the UK, Kayleigh Heydon moved to Melbourne ten years ago and has since incorporated painting, ceramics and music into her practice.
Don't be offended, but you're probably making your humble cup of tea wrong. When we investigate the subtleties of tea making with Manchester born and raised Kayleigh, it gets heated pretty quick. She's from the North and she needs it strong. Whilst apparently no one wants to be "The Tea Master" in Britain (too much pressure to be the person making everyone's cuppa), they certainly have an opinion on how each one should be made. According to Kayleigh, it can get very political (depending on where you're from).
Something that struck us when we began unpacking the Starving Artist myth were the realities of being an artist in Australia in contrast to the UK. She's very aware of how the myth can be used to "other" people in conversations or interactions and finds it an awful way of devaluing someone who is a professional creative. We all agree that it can be an easy way to create a quick and unbalanced hierarchy where the artist is always at the bottom.
We discuss the elephant in the industry - the gender divide between representation and support of male artists and female / non binary artists.
When it comes to her favourite places in the city of Melbourne, the Preston Market is in her all time top five destinations. You already know how much we love the Preston Market, and it was wonderful to chat about specifics - Kayleigh loves chatting to her favourite butcher and asking for tips and recipe-specific cuts of meat. It's such a crucial community meeting place and we share a collective moment of respect and alarm at the current situation regarding the proposed destruction of the market.
Grab a meticulously made cup of tea and join us as Kayleigh shares her green mango and prawn salad, her kitchen super power and the most epic kitchen disaster story that it left us speechless...
Find us @whatartistseat on Instagram and our website www.whatartistseat.com.au
Links to Kayleigh's work and anything else we chatted about:
- Kayleigh's website
- Kayleigh's instagram
- Artist Brendan Huntly
- Favourite cook - Clare Scrine
- Deuce - Wild Type
- https://www.savetheprestonmarket.com/
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Musician Giuliano Ferla on the power of passata
What Artists Eat
05/10/23 • 58 min
When we asked Giuliano Ferla of FERLA to describe himself and his practice, he had an interesting way of explaining his craft. He's definitely a musician and a lyricist, but in the past he wasn't sure if he could call himself a poet. For Giuls, it's the combo of putting poetry to music that's important to him. He feels that "there's a gravitas to the title of poet that doesn't fit..." but he seeks to redefine it. He's settled on being a reluctant, flippant and flamboyant poet.
If you know the band FERLA, you'll probably know FERLA PASSATA, the most wonderful band merch on God's green earth.
The romantic ideal of the suffering and 'Starving Artist" was something that Giuls was swept up in as a younger man. The idea that struggling was a rite of passage was part of his narrative, and he was warmed by the nostalgia. Whilst the romance for suffering for one's art has cooled, he still believes that as an artist "you need to sacrifice an element of security" to be able to commit to your craft.
For Giuls, cooking is nourishment for the soul and he is still so moved by the meals that sustained him as a young boy. Our chat with him was too short, as always, but we felt deeply nourished afterwards, and upon listening, we hope you do too.
Find us @whatartistseat on Instagram and our website www.whatartistseat.com.au
Links to Giuls' work and anything else we chatted about:
- FERLA Website
- FERLA Instagram
- FERLA Bandcamp
- FERLA Spotify
- Musician Cate le Bon
- Salt Fat Acid Heat
- Brenta Meats for pork and fennel sausage
- Mukka Indian restaurant on Brunswick Street (Giuls loves their Butter Chicken)
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Musician Nick Reid believes every wooden spoon tells a story
What Artists Eat
03/15/23 • 58 min
It’s no big surprise that a kitchen utensil that looks pretty similar to a drum stick would be Nick Reid’s favourite. It is, however, pretty interesting that he derives just as much pleasure from ‘reading the history’ of the humble wooden spoon, as he does plunging it into an intuitively created curry that happens to be spicier than the deepest depths of hell.
Musician Nick Reid hasn’t been calling himself an artist for very long, despite being the drummer for the Australian indie-rock outfit Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird for over 5 years. It wasn’t until starting his solo project Kitsch Kitchen and diving deep into it thanks to the pandemic cancelling his band’s US South X SouthWest tour in 2020 that he began to really lean in.
**Language warning - a few spicy words are thrown around during our conversation**
Find Nick's 'Lovers Curry' recipe and more at www.whatartistseat.com.au
Follow Nick on Instagram @kitschkitchenmusic
Links to anything else we chatted about:
- KITSCH KITCHEN BANDCAMP https://kitschkitchen.bandcamp.com/
- COUSIN TONY’S BRAND NEW FIREBIRD https://cousintonys.bandcamp.com/
- SHANNON MARTINEZ https://www.instagram.com/shannon_martinez/?hl=en
- HETTY MCKINNON http://hettymckinnon.com/
- ARTIST BEC SMITH https://becsmith.net/
- COMPOSER PETER CORRIGAN https://www.instagram.com/petercorriganmusic/?hl=en
Find us @whatartistseat on Instagram and our website www.whatartistseat.com.au
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Musician Yeo wants to build a hotel out of a Malaysian dessert
What Artists Eat
04/12/23 • 53 min
You’d be forgiven for thinking that someone with a social media handle @snackswithyeo was some kind of famous chef. Whilst Yeo is pretty brilliant in the kitchen, as you’ll find as we go along, it’s music that captured him early on and remains his true love. Internationally recognised Yeo has been releasing music for over a decade, with his craft taking him across Australia and as far from home as Ecuador, the US, Canada and Singapore.
You’ll find throughout the interview that Yeo is big on DIY - in music and food. This man absolutely loves learning how to do new things and problem-solving. “My attitude is if it’s already broken, there’s no harm in breaking it further to try to make it try to work again”.
Yeo reminds us that being able to cook is a privilege, especially for those who are time poor and exhausted. He recommends the “Time to Eat” series by Nadiya Hussain on Netflix that features super quick recipes. As for his own recipes, we cannot WAIT to make his steamed fish dish and took particular note of his advice to be meticulous when you julienne the ginger and spring onions.
Yeo’s kitchen superpower is a power that we at What Artists Eat would like a LOT more of and his kitchen disaster story is a romantic pyrotechnic drama for the ages.
Find us @whatartistseat on Instagram and our website www.whatartistseat.com.au
Links to Yeo's work and anything else we chatted about:
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06/20/24 • 41 min
Jess Ribeiro is a lover of many things, including creation myths, deep sea creatures and fancy European service stations.
Jess’ upbringing in a small country town, steeped in the energy of Chinese restaurant kitchens, provided a unique backdrop for her artistic and culinary evolution. Her Hong Kong-born father found solace in these kitchens, where Cantonese was more than a language—it was a connection to his roots in a place far from home. This blend of cultures and cuisines laid the foundation for Jess's appreciation of diverse narratives and flavours.
During our chat, Jess challenges the stereotype of the starving artist, emphasising the richness of spirit that creative pursuits bring. In her own words, "We are communicators. We feed the soul of human beings." This ethos underscores her belief in the profound impact of art—be it a poignant song or a captivating painting—to inspire, provoke thought, and ignite new possibilities.
Her album ‘Summer of Love’, made during one of Victoria’s numerous lockdowns whilst staying solo at the Point Lonsdale Guesthouse is out now.
You can find Jess's recipe on our website!
Find us @whatartistseat on Instagram and our website www.whatartistseat.com.au
Support What Artists Eat on Patreon!
Links to Jess's work and anything else we chatted about:
- Website
- Youtube
- Bandcamp
- Merch
- Spotify
- Apple Music
- Tour
- Leah Senior
- Amy Chaplin: macrobiotic chef in NYC
- “The UK’s best service station”
- The Point Lonsdale Guest House
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FAQ
How many episodes does What Artists Eat have?
What Artists Eat currently has 25 episodes available.
What topics does What Artists Eat cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Art, Artists, Podcasts, Arts, Artist Interview and Food.
What is the most popular episode on What Artists Eat?
The episode title 'Smells Like Community Spirit - Tim Shiel on transparency and connection' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on What Artists Eat?
The average episode length on What Artists Eat is 49 minutes.
How often are episodes of What Artists Eat released?
Episodes of What Artists Eat are typically released every 14 days, 3 hours.
When was the first episode of What Artists Eat?
The first episode of What Artists Eat was released on Jan 30, 2023.
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