Grace and Shan
We discuss exhibitions, performances and the artistic movements shaping our city. Through conversations, interviews and fresh perspectives, we connect art, culture and community in a way that’s vibrant, relevant and gives you a great insight to Melbourne’s Arts Scene.
Fortnightly, starting Thursday 3 September 9:30-10am
Coming up on What the Art?
For our next show, we will be speaking with Holly Goodridge:
Holly Goodridge is a neurodivergent artist working across hand-knitted garments, large-scale crochet installations, and participatory practice. Her work explores neurodivergent embodiment, sensory politics, and collective care. Through the display of hand-knitted sweaters and installations that audiences are invited to touch she creates spaces that encourage a slowing down, and shared connection.
Holly currently has two shows on. Her first exhibition, I Can Hear The Lights, displays a range of hand-knitted sweaters with embroidered text and imagery drawn from the lived experience of autism and chronic illness. Each garment is a visible form of labour within neurodivergent survival, with embroidered phrases from medical encounters, sensory overwhelm, and masking that act to disrupt the knitted surfaces just as these experiences disrupt her daily life. I Can Hear The Lights is on at the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre until the 1st of October.
Holly’s second exhibition is part of a group show entitled Unfamiliar for Craft’s 2026 Fresh! Fellowship, which is a program designed to foster the creative potential of recent graduates working in fine art, craft, and design disciplines with 10 months of professional mentorship. The exhibition showcases the artists through a range of mediums, such as jewellery, ceramics, textiles, glass, furniture and object design, they respond to a dichotomy between traditional and unconventional practices. Unfamiliar is on at Craft until September 26th.
Links:
I Can Hear The Lights EXHIBITION — Queen Victoria Women's Centre
Are you keen to improve your podcast skills, or have an idea and need help to establish your podcast? Next month we’ll be running our final podcast course for the year on Sunday 11 October, and Sunday 18 October at our studios in Fitzroy, Melbourne. Registrations are now open, but places are limited. 3CR has decades of podcast experience - and we're keen to share! The 2-day (10-hour) course is a great way to learn, to meet fellow podcasters and get the support you need to create great podcasts. Get more information online here. Pictured, nici stott, podcast trainer.
Congratulations to Sally Goldner, presenter of Out of the Pan, on her award for Outstanding Contribution to Media at the Victorian Pride Awards on Saturday 15 August. 'This is a first', Sally said accepting the award, 'A queer media award to someone who plays music of all the non-binary kinds, country, western, and classic rock. Oh yeah!'
'I want to thank 3CR in its 50th year for being a leader in Melbourne and the broader not-for-profit and amazing community radio sectors for their 21-year support of Out of the Pan. They’ve been so well placed to be a proactive media leader standing with trans and gender diverse people, and for their support of me personally.'
'Stay difficult. And stay happy. Stay proudly queer. And that’s the bottom line, because Sal Goldner said so!'
Get along to The Boite’s annual fundraiser for 3CR THIS Sunday 2 August, featuring community choirs who generously donate their songs in a fabulous concert at Church of All Nations, Carlton. Join an enthusiastic audience as part of the ongoing celebrations of the station’s 50th year! Featuring Gorani, men’s vocal ensemble, Sonidos del Alma, sounds of the soul, directed by Colombian singer, composer and artist, Iaki Vallejo, Mixed Drinks directed by Therese Virtue, and Footscray Hotel Choir, directed by Lloyd O’Hanlon. Grab your tickets now and we’ll see you there! And be sure to tune into The Boite’s weekly program Music Sans Frontieres.
