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What becomes visible when artists ask us to slow down and look more closely?

Fiona McIntosh transforms microscopic and cellular forms into intricate wool sculptures, using as many as 24 million needle stabs across an exhibition. She discusses the meditative labour behind her work, moving needle felting beyond kitsch and finding inspiration within the David Roche Collection.

Then choreographer Alix Kuijpers and performers Fern Mines and Caroline De Wan explore the quiet queer intimacies at the heart of i know the end. They discuss bringing private forms of love into public view, returning to the work after three years and building an immersive world through movement, sound and scent.

Two conversations about art making overlooked worlds tangible.

Hosted by James Murphy with Bronwin Patrickson.

Arts Garden airs Mondays from 6:30pm on Three D Radio, 93.7FM.

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A road-worn guitar, a coconut horse, Jane Austen compositions and a karaoke bar turned art gallery.

We open with folk artist Katie Milae, fresh off the Goodness Me Festival and deep into her Art of Wildflowering tour. From road train childhoods to van-life songwriting, she unpacks music as medicine, movement, and connection, plus a glimpse of her long-awaited debut album.

Then it’s full absurdist throttle with the cast of Spamalot from the Metropolitan Musical Theatre Company. Expect Monty Python chaos, coconut percussion, and a reminder that great ensemble work is the backbone of any show (even one involving shrubbery).

We shift gears into classical and literary territory with Gillian Dooley, who brings Jane Austen set to music back to life, blending scholarship, performance, and new compositions that reveal Austen’s wit in an entirely new register.

Finally, we head into Chinatown for On Site, a boundary-pushing OSCA project curated by Kim Munro, Yusuf Ali Hayat and Alice McCool transforming a karaoke bar into an immersive, multi-room art experience. Think experimental film, sound works, audience participation and a reimagining of what an arts space can be.

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From indie music resistance to immersive painting and politically urgent cinema, this episode moves through art that refuses to sit still.

We’re joined in-studio by San Dragan, unpacking a bold move away from Spotify and toward a grounded, community-driven music career; one built on live performance, connection, and creative autonomy.

Then, artist Grace Harper takes us inside her Berlin residency and intuitive painting practice, where abstraction, emotion, and flow state collide in a deeply personal visual language shaped by memory, movement, and conversation with the canvas.

We also hear from Nasser Shakour, co-founder of the Palestinian Film Festival, on the power of film to build empathy and humanise stories beyond headlines.

And finally, ASO clarinetist and drifter Dean Newcomb brings two worlds together: classical music and motor racing, in a new concerto that captures adrenaline, risk, and performance across disciplines.