An edited version of this episode is also a video which you can see here:



When I started this podcast in July 2016 with no knowledge of audio recording - let alone how to start a podcast - I never imagined that four years later I would have interviewed close to a hundred painters, as well as curators and authors, and have a YouTube channel with over 100 videos filmed on my iPhone.



Building up this podcast would not have been possible, though, without the encouragement of those close to me and the time and generosity of my guests as well as many others' support in the wonderful Australian arts community.



It has also been a privilege to get to know so many of you listeners either through messages, comments on social media or meeting you in person. Even if we haven't had any contact, you are the reason I keep doing the show so thank you for listening.



I couldn't think of a better place to celebrate the centenary episode than the Art Gallery of NSW where about a quarter of my podcast guests are finalists in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes. So I'd like to say a big thankyou to the Art Gallery of NSW who allowed me in with my selfie stick to film and speak in front of these works. 



You can listen to this episode as an audio guide if you are at the gallery (scroll down for a map of where the works are), watch the edited version as a video here or just listen as an audio episode - all the works are reproduced below.



Click here to see the map if you are looking at this on your podcast app.



Next to each artist's name is a time marking for each painting so you can skip forward or back.




https://youtu.be/C0DniKUU7Uo








The Sulman Prize



1. Joanna Braithwaite (3:12)



'Hoopla' oil on canvas 175 x 198.5 x 2 cm



2. Alan Jones (4:00)



Painting 266 (Mike Kenny Oval), acrylic on board, 144 x 157.5cm



3. Katherine Hattam (5:00)



'History and fiction', oil on linen, 152 x 152cm



4. Paul Ryan (5:57)



'Three imaginary boys', oil on linen, 138 x 153cm



5. Abdul Abdullah (7:04)



'We didn't start the fire', oil on linen, 198.5 x 163cm



6. Marikit Santiago (winner) (8:05)



'The divine', acrylic, oil, pen, pyrography and 18ct gold leaf on ply, 179.5 x 120.5cm



The Wynne Prize



7. Aida Tomescu (9:20)



'Silent spring', oil on linen, 200.5 x 307 x 6.5 cm



8. Del Kathryn Barton (10:30)



' I take it down to the flow', bronze, acrylic-painted MDF plinth 190 x 75 x 55 cm



9. Tim Storrier (11:35)



'The plague year (an itinerant's repose), acrylic on canvas, 107 x 300cm



10. Natasha Bieniek (12:30)



'Lalla', oil on gold mirror Dibond, 57 x 43.5cm



11. Luke Sciberras (13:20)



'White Christmas, Bell, NSW', oil on board, 160 x 244cm



12. Lucy Culliton (14:30)



'Gunningrah, Bottom Bullock', oil on canvas, 183 x 183cm



13. Hubert Pareroultja (winner) (15:15)



'Tjoritja (West MacDonnell Ranges, NT)', acrylic on canvas, 183 x 244cm



14. Guy Maestri (16:12)



'The rain song', oil on linen, 198 x 244cm



The Archibald



15. Dee Smart (17:50)



'I'm here', oil on birch wood board, 59 x 49cm



16. Marc Etherington (19:20)



'Sleeping beauty (portrait of Michael Reid OAM), acrylic on canvas, 221 x 191cm



17. Vincent Namatjira (20:15)



'Stand strong for who you are', acrylic on linen, 152 x 198cm



18. Blak Douglas (21:15)



'Writing in the sand', synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 250 x 250cm



19. Abdul Abdullah (22:20)



Untitled self-portrait, oil and aerosol on linen, 183 x 163cm



20. William Mackinnon (23:15)



'Sunshine and Lucky (life), acrylic and oil on linen, 220 x 160cm



21. Jonathan Dalton (24:15)



'Angela', oil on linen, 168 x 132.5cm



22. Nick Stathopoulos (25:05)



'Ngaiire', acrylic and oil on linen, 96.5 x 96.5cm



23. Wendy Sharpe (26:10)



'Magda Szubanski - comedy and tragedy', oil on linen, 183 x 147cm



24. Peter Wegner (26:55)



'Chef's coat, Graeme Doyle', oil on alumnium, 118.5 x 118.