How does being a teacher affect your art practice? How can an artist successfully engage with an institution’s collection? How do we create our own opportunities and categories? What does it mean to trust your gut?

For this final episode of the second series, Tai Snaith and Meredith Turnbull discuss a broad range of topics around what it means to have a multifaceted, self-driven and supported practice. They share their love and importance of championing OTHER artists — what it means to not be a curator but to keep curatorial skills as part of your practice. Once again the notions of collapsing the boundaries between traditional notions of craft, ornament and art are highlighted and celebrated. Meredith praises the approachability of jewellery and the way it acts as a continuation of dialogue around ideas of genre, discipline and material values.

Together they question what ‘achieving’ and ‘professionalism’ really mean. Finally, the importance of looking back, taking stock of our practices; recognising what we have overcome and achieved and really asking which direction we want to take next.

Additional resources:Meredith’s website: http://meredithturnbull.com/ 'Closer' at the Ian Potter Museum of Art: http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/exhibitions/future-exhibitions/exhib-date/2018-03-27/exhib/meredith-turnbull-closer John Nixon’s pottery collection at Deakin University Art Gallery: https://thedesignfiles.net/news/john-nixon-studio-pottery-collection-melbourne/ Very Good Advice from Alice in Wonderland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srn0xkXTSgs Shakespeare Grove studios: http://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/art_spaces.htm QAGOMA’s Children’s Arts Centre: https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/whats-on/kids