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Prima Donna is a series of sonic portraits of Australian artists. Composer Nat Grant captures interviews with practitioners from all disciplines. The portraits comprise interview recordings collaged with Nat’s original compositions: telling these artists’ stories, in their own words. They are both oral history and sonic artwork.
The podcast episodes are available via podbean, Spotify and iTunes. |
Joyce McGrath OAMPortrait Painter. Churchill Fellow.
Arts Librarian at the State Library of Victoria. |
Robin LauriePerformance and circus artist. Circus Oz, Victorian Women's Circus, Soapbox Circus, The Pram Factory.
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Photo by Dagmara Gieysztor
Sandra ShotlanderFeminist playwright. The Plantagenets. Mime and Mumbles deaf theatre company.
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Jo Jo SmithSoul singer, songwriter. First woman to perform at Byron Bay Blues and Roots Festival.
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Shirley McKechnie OAM, AO, FAHADancer, choreographer, educator. Founded the first tertiary dance course in Australia.
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Photo by Sandy Edwards
Elizabeth DrakeFilm composer, pianist. First (and only) woman to win an AFI for screen composition.
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Percussionist, Board Member of the Victorian Women's Trust, Vice President Philanthropy Australia
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Artistic Director La Mama Theatre, Teacher, Actor
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Actor, director, writer, stand-up comedian
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First female lighting designer and stage manager in Australia. General Manager, Victorian Arts Centre. Artistic Director: Melbourne Festival, Adelaide Festival of the Arts.
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Folk singer. Performed at the first National Folk Festival. First Lifetime Achievement recipient at the inaugural Australian Women In Music Awards in 2018
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Documentary filmmaker. Indigenous rights activist. Made the first film on black deaths in custody. First Indigenous person on the Australian Film Council.
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Animator and educator Cath Murphy has a rich history in animation spanning more than 20 years and has won numerous awards in film for: Animation; Writing; Directing; Producing and Visual Effects.
A registered nurse with extensive experience in mental health, Cath’s approach to animation is about social inclusion and the impact it can have on working and emotional life. |
Lella Cariddi is a writer/researcher of community history, curator of contemporary art, documentary producer, installation artist, adult educator and Community Cultural Development Practitioner; committed to the advancement of literatures and the Arts as a vehicle for intergenerational social inclusion between mainstream Australian Society and immigrants & refugees.
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Jean Taylor is a lesbian feminist writer, publisher and activist who lives on Wurundjeri Woiwurrung country in Bulleke-bek Naarm. She has been a member of various feminist activist collectives in the Women's Liberation Movement since the early 1970s and was a founding member of the Performing Older Women's Circus (POW) for women over 40.
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Peta Murray
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Elizabeth Russell-Arnot
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Jane Murphy
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This project is supported by Creative Partnerships Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund. |
This project is supported by the Sustaining Creative Workers Initiative. |
