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Creativity may be innate, but adulthood can teach us to mistrust it, hide it or call it something else.

In this episode of The Arts Garden, three conversations trace creativity across a lifetime. Patch Theatre’s Geoff Cobham explains why children meet abstract art with instinct, openness and play through Me and My Shadow. Visual artist Jane Skeer reflects on beginning art school at 47 and realising that the creative life she was searching for had been present all along. As she puts it, “Everything I’ve done all my life has been art. I didn’t know it had a name.”

Artist Matthew Quick and Monkey Stack’s Troy Bellchambers then take us inside Deaf in One Eye, where handmade paintings become an immersive digital work without losing the artist’s hand. Matthew also shares how a cancer diagnosis made time feel finite and turned painting from another possible career into something essential.

Together, these stories move from childhood imagination to midlife discovery and art made urgent by mortality. Creativity may not disappear as we grow older. It may simply wait for us to recognise it.

These interviews first aired on The Arts Garden on Three D Radio 93.7FM in Adelaide.

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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.