Creative Types with Virginia Trioli on ABC and ABC iview S2E2 – Virginia Trioli is back in 2025 with a new season of CREATIVE TYPES WITH VIRGINIA TRIOLI, travelling the country and being invited into the very heart of the creative process of some of our most distinctive and prolific artists and performers.
Over six half hour episodes, Virginia meets the true visionary, director George Miller, and learns how his creative process has established him as the most revered action movie director of modern times; singer Kate Ceberano reveals the many forms that her artistry now takes; musician Richard Tognetti takes Virginia behind the scenes to reveal his restless spirit of collaboration; performer Tim Minchin tells Virginia that his life of being just the funny guy is over – he’s looking for something deeper.
Visual artist Tony Albert reveals the pain behind his brilliant and provocative works that connect all of us to a troubled time in Australia’s history; and in what she says will be her last interview, Jenny Kee, takes Virginia deep into her important archive and reveals why she is divesting and preparing for the end of her life.
The unique visions and intentions of these quintessentially Australian artists define our rich and lively culture, as they reveal to Virginia their vulnerabilities, their triumphs and what continues to drive them on.
Episode two: Kate Ceberano
Kate Ceberano meets us on St Kilda Beach, in the shadow of the mighty Palais Theatre, where she will be singing later that night to a sold-out crowd. She’s been singing in this musical neighbourhood since she was a teenager, and filling a hall like this with her incredible voice still feels like an act of love, she says. Singer-songwriter Delta Goodrem describes her as the best of the best.
At her home, Kate takes us through her incredible archive and personal history: she left school at 15, gigging four nights a week. She hit the charts at 17 with the era-defining band, I’m Talking. They had five top ten singles in one year but two lead singers created tension, and Kate left exploring jazz and realising she needed to start writing for herself, and life as an award-winning, superstar solo artist began. Kate has recorded 25 albums, 11 of the platinum, including a top album recorded with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Kate takes Virginia into her “woman cave”, the studio where her other creative impulses are realised: painting, drawing, decorating guitars and creating quilts and textiles made with Islander embroiderers – the one place she says she doesn’t need an audience.
Back at the Palais, Kate’s greatest creation her daughter Gypsy, is opening the event, before Kate takes to the stage with rock god Jon Stevens and the crowd is on its feet, that voice more powerful than ever. Kate says she’s been living to become the artist she is today.
Production credit: An ABC Production. Presenter/Writer: Virginia Trioli. Executive Producer/Writer: Jaya Balendra
Creative Types with Virginia Trioli on ABC and ABC iview – Tuesday 8 April at 8.30pm
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Creative Types with Virginia Trioli on ABC and ABC iview S2E2
