Prima Donna Podcast
Nat Grant
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Sonic portraits of Australian artists, created by composer Nat Grant. Winner of the 2022 Community History Award for Oral History. https://prov.vic.gov.au/community/grants-and-awards/community-history-awards
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MAR 25, 2023
Wilma Tabacco
Wilma Tabacco was born in Italy, and lives in AustraliaWilma uses abstract iconography to refer to aspects of Italian cultural history, archaeological artefacts found in ancient ruins and she ‘maps’ ground plans of architectural spaces.She has presen...
26 MIN
MAR 25, 2023
Alma Quon
Jazz drummer and bandleader Alma Quon was born in 1911 and died in 2007. Her ensemble The Joybelles comprising women from a range of cultural backgrounds was active from the 1940s until the 1990s.
16 MIN
MAR 23, 2023
Julie Peters
Julie Peters grew up in the 1950s, way before trans was generally heard of, let alone understood. As a child she had difficulty working out why people insisted she was a boy when she knew she was a girl. She affirmed her gender in 1990. Julie has bee...
26 MIN
AUG 7, 2022
Jane Murphy
Jane Murphy considers herself to be an “Accidental Property Master”.She stumbled across a role in a film art department in the mid 1980’s in Sydney.Her love of stories & people, combined with a fascination of things, has proved the perfect marriage f...
23 MIN
AUG 7, 2022
Elizabeth Russell-Arnot
Elizabeth Russell-Arnot is an inquisitive adventurer with academic credentials across multiple arts disciplines. Her Churchill Fellowship and 2 Masters Degrees in the Arts have led to a focus on our endangered environment expressed through creativity...
25 MIN
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