For our first episode of season 4, the team is so excited to be speaking with two of the artists featured in KINGS current exhibition program. Ayah Zakout and Ebony Maurice-Wilmott joined us to share insights about their art practices and the works featured within their exhibitions. 
@ayahzakout.jpeg @ebony_maurice.wilmott @kingsartistrun

Season 4 of Art Smitten begins this Monday from 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia 📻 listen on the radio, online or the Community Radio Plus app. 

For our first episode of season 4, the team is so excited to be speaking with two of the artists featured in KINGS current exhibition program. Ayah Zakout and Ebony Maurice-Wilmott joined us to share insights about their art practices and the works featured within their exhibitions.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ayahzakout.jpeg/">@ayahzakout.jpeg</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ebony_maurice.wilmott/">@ebony_maurice.wilmott</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/kingsartistrun/">@kingsartistrun</a>
Season 4 of Art Smitten begins this Monday from 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm <a href="https://www.instagram.com/synmedia/">@synmedia</a> 📻 listen on the radio, online or the Community Radio Plus app.&nbsp;

Art Smitten is SYN's weekly guide to arts, culture and entertainment in Australia and around the world. With a focus on youth and emerging arts, we're here to showcase culture ahead of the curve. From our base in Naarm/Melbourne, contributors interview, review, and cover the very best of what the world’s second-most liveable city has to offer. Whether it's film, fashion, photography or Fauvism you're into, Art Smitten is the place! 

Art Smitten is SYN's weekly guide to arts, culture and entertainment in Australia and around the world. With a focus on youth and emerging arts, we're here to showcase culture ahead of the curve. From our base in Naarm/Melbourne, contributors interview, review, and cover the very best of what the world’s second-most liveable city has to offer. Whether it's film, fashion, photography or Fauvism you're into, Art Smitten is the place!

Art Smitten is SYN's weekly guide to arts, culture and entertainment in Australia and around the world.

Art Smitten

Art Smitten is SYN’s weekly guide to arts and culture based in Melbourne / Naarm.

With a focus on the contemporary art scene in Naarm / Melbourne, we’re here to showcase art and culture. Contributors and presenters interview, review, and cover current and upcoming exhibitions, practices and everything in between. Art Smitten is the place for expanding your knowledge of art!

Tune in Mondays from 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm for our live show.

Art Smitten is a SYN Media Podcast.

Art Smitten is SYN&rsquo;s weekly guide to arts and culture based in Melbourne / Naarm.
With a focus on the contemporary art scene in Naarm / Melbourne, we&rsquo;re here to showcase art and culture. Contributors and presenters interview, review, and cover current and upcoming exhibitions, practices and everything in between. Art Smitten is the place for expanding your knowledge of art!
Tune in Mondays from 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm for our live show.
Art Smitten is a SYN Media Podcast.

Ayah Zakout and Ebony Maurice-Wilmott with KINGS Artist-Run 

We are dishing up a real treat for you all 🍽️ this collaboration with our dear friends at Talk On Your Fork brings an episode focused on the intersection of food & art! To begin, Astra will be sharing their thoughts on the film ‘The Menu’ (2022) 🥣 PLUS for a real treat, we will be speaking to Gemma Leslie from @foodforeveryone.aus about her incredible project that pairs artists with chefs all to raise funds for those in need. We end with a discussion focused on the history Dutch Still Life paintings to wrap up the show.

Art Smitten airs on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia on Mondays 3-5pm. Also available on the Community Radio Plus app 📲 Be sure to listen to Talk On Your Fork! Wherever you get your podcasts. 

Image: Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, ‘Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes’, 1780. Courtesy of The Met Museum.

We are dishing up a real treat for you all 🍽️ this collaboration with our dear friends at <a href="https://www.syn.org.au/talk-on-your-fork">Talk On Your Fork </a>brings an episode focused on the intersection of food &amp; art! To begin, Astra will be sharing their thoughts on the film &lsquo;The Menu&rsquo; (2022) 🥣 PLUS for a real treat, we will be speaking to Gemma Leslie from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/foodforeveryone.aus/">@foodforeveryone.aus</a> about her incredible project that pairs artists with chefs all to raise funds for those in need. We end with a discussion focused on the history Dutch Still Life paintings to wrap up the show.
Art Smitten airs on SYN 90.7fm <a href="https://www.instagram.com/synmedia/">@synmedia</a> on Mondays 3-5pm. Also available on the Community Radio Plus app 📲 Be sure to listen to <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6RNlj4I3Lay6FsujxD4pPF?si=423919b1e4264473">Talk On Your Fork</a>! Wherever you get your podcasts.&nbsp;
Image: Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, &lsquo;Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes&rsquo;, 1780. Courtesy of The Met Museum.

TOYF x Art Smitten - Gemma from Food For Everyone

We are joined by photographer, artist and co-founder of the Pacific Centre for Photographic Arts Aishah Kenton in this episode of Art Smitten. Listen to hear all about the workshops and programs that PCPA facilitate along with Aishah’s own photographic art practice!

In the second half of the show, the team review films seen in the final weeks of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) for 2025. Movies covered include Sorry, Baby (dir. Eva Victor), Peter Hujar's Day (dir. Ira Sachs) and Urchin (dir. Harris Dickinson). 

Art Smitten airs on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia from 3-5pm on Mondays 🛰️ also available on the Community Radio Plus app 📲

Image: Nur Aishah Kenton, untitled (Salam)-- a self-portrait with my mother in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2024 

@aishah_k

@pacificphotoarts

We are joined by photographer, artist and co-founder of the Pacific Centre for Photographic Arts Aishah Kenton in this episode of Art Smitten. Listen to hear all about the workshops and programs that PCPA facilitate along with Aishah&rsquo;s own photographic art practice!
In the second half of the show, the team review films seen in the final weeks of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) for 2025. Movies covered include Sorry, Baby (dir. Eva Victor), Peter Hujar's Day (dir. Ira Sachs) and Urchin (dir. Harris Dickinson).&nbsp; Art Smitten airs on SYN 90.7fm&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/synmedia/">@synmedia</a>&nbsp;from 3-5pm on Mondays 🛰️ also available on the Community Radio Plus app 📲
Image: Nur Aishah Kenton, untitled (Salam)-- a self-portrait with my mother in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2024&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/aishah_k/">@aishah_k</a>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/pacificphotoarts/">@pacificphotoarts</a>

Artist Interview - Nur Aishah Kenton + MIFF 2025 Film Reviews

Listen to our conversation with Kate Barber, cofounder of Spring1883, an art fair hosted inside the iconic Hotel Windsor on Spring Street 🏩 ! 

Within their own reserved room, gallerists uniquely display works by artists they represent in the unconventional hotel suites instead of the typical 'white cube' model characteristic of typical art fairs. 


@spring1883
@synmedia

Listen on Art Smitten on Mondays via the Community Radio Plus app, online or tune into 90.7fm 🎧

Image: Daine Singer room, 2014. Photographer: Zan Wimberley. Courtesy of Spring1883.

Listen to our conversation with Kate Barber, cofounder of Spring1883, an art fair hosted inside the iconic Hotel Windsor on Spring Street 🏩 !&nbsp;
Within their own reserved room, gallerists uniquely display works by artists they represent in the unconventional hotel suites instead of the typical 'white cube' model characteristic of typical art fairs.&nbsp;
 <a href="https://www.instagram.com/spring1883/">@spring1883</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/synmedia/">@synmedia</a> Listen on Art Smitten on Mondays via the Community Radio Plus app, online or tune into 90.7fm 🎧 Image: Daine Singer room, 2014. Photographer: Zan Wimberley. Courtesy of Spring1883.

Ayah Zakout and Ebony Maurice-Wilmott with KINGS Artist-Run

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