We reflect on the Art Destinations Lutruwita | Tasmania season in a wrap-up episode that draws links between the episodes and between season 1 Venice and season 2 Lutruwita | Tasmania.

We are in conversation with US-born photographic artist David Stephenson, who received an MFA from the University of New Mexico in 1982 before taking a teaching position at the University of Tasmania’s School of Art. His work has consistently explored the sublime, in relation to his transcendental experience of place.

With an ongoing interest in human interventions in the landscape, David arrived in Tasmania in the lead-up to the Franklin Dam blockade and continues to document Tasmania’s contested places. He also experiments with the different ways the photographic image, and different subject matters, can represent time.

In part two of our conversation with Raymond Arnold, he talks about his printmaking and painting practice, and how he shares his art practice with his community in Queenstown with the aim of revitalising the region.

In part one, painter and printmaker Raymond Arnold shares why Tasmania is such an important landscape and how it became an environmental batttleground.

Photographic artist Lisa Garland has been documenting her community on the North West Coast for more than 20 years. Lisa makes portraits of people so deeply connected to where they live that often the portrait of their place tells more about them than the people themselves. As a new generation is emerging and another passing, Lisa reflects on what she looks for in her subjects and how her focus is changing.

Pat Brassington is one of Australia’s most significant and influential artists. Over four decades, Brassington has captivated audiences with her ability to transform the familiar into the fantastical through her photomontages. We talk about her childhood in Hobart and how this may have influenced her practice.

Pakana writer Adam Thompson sources much of the inspiration for his stories from his experiences working across the archipelago of Furneaux islands between lutruwita and mainland Australia. These islands are not only the backdrop for his dark moral tales but they also hold his family history.

Ellen Dahl grew up in the Arctic North of Norway and is now living and working on Gadigal Country in Sydney. We talk about her recent work that questions whether the landscapes in lutruwita, Tasmania, and Svalbard, north of the Arctic Circle share something in common. Do the similarities and differences offer another way of understanding how we see and what  feel about the world?

Troy Ruffels, a photomedia artist drawing on the tradition of painting and drawing, makes works that are both immersive and atmospheric. Troy incorporates the elements of fire and water into his daily routine from pre-dawn ocean swims to evening fire pits, creating a discipline for his art practice.

Matthew Newton, an accomplished photojournalist, cinematographer and director, has spent 25 years capturing Tasmania's rich environmental landscapes. Matt discusses his unique career path, starting as a whitewater kayaker before delving into photography and filmmaking. He shares insights into his collaborative projects, including documenting Tasmania's wilderness and history, and how his work with writers, artists and conservationists has brought stories of the natural world to life.

We are thinking on thinking with one of the world leading philosophers on place Jeff Malpas. We question where and how one can do their best thinking, the roles of centre and periphery in the evolution of ideas, how the zeitgeist actually works, and the highly influential role our childhood has on how we think as adults.

Zoe Grey shares her unique perspective on what it was like growing up surrounded by the powerful forces of nature, from the relentless Southern Ocean waves to the isolation of rural life. She discusses how surfing has not only been a way of life but also a crucial part of her identity, deeply intertwined with her art. We also explore her recent residency in Svalbard, near the Arctic, comparing the raw, rugged environments of Tasmania and the far north.