There’s a lot of heart in Art + Soul

Hetti Perkins takes us into the lives and homes of our nation's leading Indigenous artists in a new series to hit ABC1.
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Hetti Perkins with Christian Thompson’s photographs. Photo Gina Fairley.

Screening Tuesday evenings on ABC1, this major three-part television series takes a very different look at what drives our leading contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to make their art.

It is hosted by Hetti Perkins, daughter of leading activist Charles Perkins and former curator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales for 13 years, who told ArtsHub:A lot of people may be surprised how some of the artists make these quite strident, quite politically activated works but then they are very softly spoken; they are intimate conversations.’

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina