Filming art for the big screen, sewing my feminist muse and soulful bird portraits

British filmmaker Phil Grabsky runs Exhibition on Screen, responsible for a prolific number of documentaries about famous artists, often in collaboration with large museums like MoMa, the Rijksmuseum, the Hermitage or the Tate. So how did he find this niche movie market? And how does he decide which artists to focus on, the latest being Edward Hopper?

My Thing is… old clothes. Textile artist Julia Gutman describes her sewn tableaux as 'painting with fabric'. Her works riff on iconic female muses from across Western art history. But Julia’s models –her own friends–  give them a contemporary, authentic spin. Julia's work is featured in Primavera  2022: Young Australian Artists.

Photographer Leila Jeffreys sees into the souls of birds, and is arguably Australia's leading ‘bird portraitist’. Her latest series of works feature a range of exotic birds with red markings, which reminded Leila of wounds. The Wound is the Place Where the Light Enters started as a kind of elegy, a sad song to the wholesale loss of wildlife in the devastating 2019 bushfires… but it didn’t end that way.