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John Akomfrah at the Venice Biennale + mentors in art and life + Zeno Sworder

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John Akomfrah (British Council); Zeno Sworder, detail from My Strange Shrinking Parents (Thames and Hudson); Jan Griffiths (NGV).

Daniel meets the British filmmaker and artist Sir John Akomfrah, who is representing the UK at the Venice Biennale with his work Listening All Night to Rain.

Mentors can have many guises. For Miriwoong artist Jan Griffiths, Tiwi artist Johnathon World Peace Bush and Gomeroi Yinarr  artist Sophie Honess, they each chose someone who could offer them artistic guidance as well as cultural knowledge. The resulting works were commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria for a show called My Country.

Producer Stacy Gougoulis visits the home studio of children's book illustrator Zeno Sworder, whose book My Strange Shrinking Parents was a hit of 2023.

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Visual Art, Books (Literature), Contemporary Art, Indigenous Culture
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