Amelia Skelton, recipient of the 2026 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), talks with Matt and Aiden about sculpture, drawing, textiles, trash and returning to NAS as a teacher.
Neha Kale joins Matt and Aiden on the couch for a conversation centred on her new book, Foreign Return: on Art and Inhabitation.
Daniel Mudie Cunningham, director of Wollongong Art Gallery and former Director of Programs at Carriageworks, talks death, legacy, lost media and funeral songs with Matt and Aiden.
Jason Phu joins Matt and Aiden on the couch to talk about his process, prizes, teaching art in 2026 and negotiating business opportunities in China.
Calli Comical returns to talk with Matt and Aiden about her creative process, embellishment, moving to London, burning out and making costumes for big stars.
Poet Toby Fitch talks with Matt and Aiden about their book Or: an Autobiography, the poetic voice, gender, puns, calligrams and images versus words.
We sat down with one half of Nova Milne, Steph Nova Milne, Printmaking Lecturer at National art School.
Tattoo artist @pattys_toybox talks with Matt and Aiden about getting started, tattooing yourself and others with care, fine lines and hierarchies of materials.
Erin Murphy, 2025 Sulman Prize finalist, talks with Matt and Aiden about painting animals, science objects, regional galleries and really really pointless paintings.
Tango Conway joins Matt and Aiden for a wide-ranging conversation about drawing, her Snooze Portraits, scared students and first-year ego death.
Madi Feist talks with Matt and Aiden about Romulus and Remus, staying tasteful with found-object art and Hermès artisans.
We chat with Jess Lord, founder of PUSH magazine and the event series Dogs Run Free.
Sophie Penkethman-Young joins Matt and Aiden for a conversation about her work, and weeping in the Apple Store.
In January, Harrison and Seb and their friend Emma started a gallery on Kellett street in Potts Point.
Gus McGrath talks with Matt and Aiden about Gus's projects, including Homer Simpson AI cover songs.
This week the lads talk the talk with Joseph Botica, a local shoemaker.
Peter Van Hoesen and Haydn Green join Matt and Aiden to talk about their work, including Peter's early releases.
Gayathiri Manoharan of Table at Gaya's talks with Matt and Aiden about how to run a pop-up kitchen, plus Gaya's favourite places to eat around Sydney.
Emily Hunt talks with Matt and Aiden about the puppet show at AGNSW, augury, omens, oracles, ornament and numinous things.
Kalanjay Dhir talks with Matt and Aiden about the Sydney Sound, the changing sound of Sydney hip hop, puppetry and the old days at SCA.
Clare Wigney joins Matt and Aiden to talk about Clare's show at the LV store, how much art-making fashion houses really do, romanticising bad jobs, and the group show It's Raining at China Heights.
Ella Mosley, aka Hubcaps, joins Matt and Aiden to talk Arthur Russell, the sound of GarageBand, luxury communism and Matt's bánh mì picks.
Jake Starr joins Matt and Aiden to talk bad video art and what place does to it, Dispossessed at the MCA, relational aesthetics and K-Pax.
Sam Hodge joins Matt and Aiden to talk art school anxiety, paintings in casinos, Michael Reid Art Bar, Sydney art spaces of years past and how to be a good art teacher.
Matt and Aiden cover National Art School management shutting down a student bake sale for Palestine, and the meeting with students that followed.
In the last episode of 2023, Matt and Aiden split up to cover the SCA and NAS grad shows, which opened on the same night, comparing the art, artists, teachers and grounds of each school.
Lottie World joins Matt and Aiden to talk paintings that shift between objects and ideas, saunas, William Kentridge, ornamentation culture in PNG, cyclical time and the music industry.
A catch-up call with Tun, now studying at VCA, on art and fashion photography, modelling, League of Legends and the story behind the username childsoldierr.
Artist Drew Connor Holland joins Matt and Aiden for a conversation about their work.
A quick news round-up and hang-out episode with Matt and Aiden.
Max Easton (Barely Human, Romance, The Magpie Wing, Wests Magpies the actual football club) sat down with us to discuss his 2021 book The Magpie Wing.
Roma Lopes joins Matt and Aiden to talk Private 51, beach carts, ironic DJs, campus culture at NAS, combat sports and graffiti.
We Discuss Dan’s poetry and work as editor of No More Poetry, Long meandering chat about art, poetry, audience, cinema, TNs (again).
Matt and Aiden kick off season 4 with Gummo, The Gleaners and I, anti-work and more, moving from specific works onto bigger themes around art and life.
A bonus episode where Matt and Aiden review listener art submissions live.
Matt and Aiden decide art critics are allowed to be mean sometimes, and pick favourites from the NAS postgrad show including Nina Radonja, Tommy Carman, Amelia Skelton and Sarah Furness.
Matt and Aiden cover Sydney Contemporary, ranking every bar at the fair and talking about artists including Vincent Namatjira.
Matt and Aiden head to Michael Reid Art Bar at the casino and find an immersive show including work by Samuel Hodge.
Matt and Aiden see the survey of Gordon Hookey's work at UNSW Galleries, talking the violent power of language, humour, re-imagined histories and truthiness.
Matt and Aiden take a food journey across Eora (Sydney) and the world.
Hung up weighs in on Western Syd with help from our dear friend Adam (2759).
Matt and Aiden visit Who Are You Wearing at Fairfield City Museum & Gallery and go deeper on work by Chainmail the Label and Nicole Oliveria, talking Western Sydney, tolerance versus love and anti-alienation.
Seamstress and screen printer Indigo joins Matt and Aiden to talk about looking at clothes without judgement, who got paid at Sydney Fashion Week and getting started in a creative industry.
Matt and Aiden visit Tiles in Lewisham and The Kitchen studios in Marrickville to talk DIY spaces, anti-white-cube galleries and how galleries fit into their neighbourhoods.
A mini episode at Prop Gallery for Incubation, a Kudos off-site show, with Matt and Aiden's on-the-spot reactions and Othy Willis talking through the process behind the work.
We catch up with Alex Xerri (@prehistorytv) to talk about crits, her studio practice, pop culture, movies over philosophy as thesis material.
Matt and Aiden analyse Jackass via a Sean J Patrick Carney article, visit a house party art show run by Tun and Mika, and Matt predicts the King-Street-ification of Parramatta Road.
Meant to be about the Firstdraft opening and the first show at Prop Gallery, this episode turns into Matt and Aiden ranking every kind of pizza shop in Sydney.
Corey Black joins Matt and Aiden to talk art practice, recent reading and the social nature of insects.
Matt and Aiden pick favourites from the NAS post grad show on its last day, including works by Corey Black, Luca Blasonato, Clare Wigney, Madeleine Feist and Joseph Christie Evans.
Matt and Aiden give triple-A gaming a going-over, from bad scripts to de_dust, plus an interview with Billie Robertson at the NAS post grad show.
Matt and Aiden show and tell the art they've collected over the history of the show, featuring Lucy Bird, Matt Gorgula, Alvin Willy, Casey Chen, Jackie De Lacy and EJ Son.
More fashion talk, then Matt and Aiden discuss In the fibre of her being at Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, the invisible labour of weavers, and Linda Sok's Mending Fragments of a Memory.
A fit check turns into an argument about the most important part of an outfit, then Matt and Aiden talk the Tabi shoe and Roslyn Orlando's Evasion Score from the online show Soft Power at Firstdraft.
Matt and Aiden ask why poetry is boring, dissect a boring poem, read poems aloud and take aim at neon words in galleries, with artist of the week Daphne Nguyen.
Curator, producer, director and actor Dino Dimitriadis, founder of Apocalypse Theatre Company, joins Matt and Aiden to talk performance, from theatre and immersive work to Chaturbate and Trump's tweeting.
Matt and Aiden talk privilege, money and the inner west with reference to a White Pube article, and read a poem from Inside My Mother by artist of the week Ali Cobby Eckermann.
Matt and Aiden on photography: the truths and lies of the camera, the selective process and photographic overabundance, with artist of the week Kai Wasikowski.
Matt and Aiden on personal art histories, gallery architecture, vulnerable art experiences and Campbelltown Arts Centre, plus the best gallery sofa they've found yet, with artist of the week Kazuya Yoshino.
Matt and Aiden ask why arty people hate sport, covering high school sport, sporty versus arty bodies, Pari's Sports Show and sporty streetwear.
Matt and Aiden open season 2 with a more relaxed format, covering vapes, air quality and the value of art, John Cage on YouTube, and artists Richie Htet, EJ Son, Matthew Gorgula and Zarni.
In the season 1 finale, Matt and Aiden visit 16 Albermarle in Newtown for Fighting Fear, made with Myanm/art in Yangon, talking about the feed, provenance and how art amplifies political imagery.
Matt and Aiden visit Artspace in Woolloomooloo for The Pleasurable, the Illegible, the Multiple, the Mundane, curated by Talia Linz, the gallery's last show before closing for a year.
Matt and Aiden visit Station Gallery in Kings Cross for Nadia Hernández's show Con la punta de los dedos (With the tips of your fingers), on gesture, colour and how artists create worlds.
Matt and Aiden see The Way We Eat at the Art Gallery of NSW, talking propaganda babies, forks versus chopsticks and sweets.
Matt and Aiden explore AIRspace Projects in Marrickville, with works by Maya Kilic, Dani Southcombe, Bea Buckland-Willis, Sarah Catania, April Phillips and Tiarna Herczeg.
From Matt's room, Matt and Aiden look at Louise Ashcroft on Instagram: online personas, #trashimation, selfies with your mum and hand-stitched memes.
Matt and Aiden visit Sarah Cottier Gallery in Paddington to see Brendan Van Hek, talking hostile versus safe architecture, facilitating hangs and skating.
Matt and Aiden visit Galerie Pompom in Chippendale for art by Matthew Harris and Genevieve Felix Reynolds, from gay skeletons to internet aesthetics.
Matt and Aiden visit Firstdraft for A Call to Rise, curated by Eleanor Zurowski, with works by Laura Wilson, Francesca Zak, Maike Hemmers, Vistaria Nakamarra Ross and Rebecca Hall.
Matt and Aiden visit Boomalli in Leichhardt for works by Ella Noah Bancroft, Luke Close and Kyra Kum-Sing, from ugly-as-beautiful to the interplay between ancient and modern practices.
Matt and Aiden visit Pari in Parramatta for Mixed Business 2, talking about works by Samuel Kirby, Nathan Wratten, EJ Son and Fei Gao.
Matt and Aiden visit Gallery 76 in Concord West for the Festival of Lace.
In the first episode of Hung Up, Matt and Aiden visit Incinerator Art Space in Willoughby for Precious Treasures.