Fast Favourites: Jonathan Smart

Jonathan Smart knew artist Mark Braunias since 1988, the year Jonathan opened his gallery and Mark graduated from Ilam with a remarkable class of artists. Almost two year's after Mark's death, Gliff, the current show at Jonathan Smart Gallery, offers a glance across a career that began with Donald Duck in conversation with the Virgin Mary and ended in bright fluoro colour. Jonathan remembers Mark moving in for days to paint straight onto the gallery walls, knowing it would all be painted over when the show came down. For Fast Favourites, he's reading Richard Russo and heading to a West Coast campsite with his fishing rod. After an opening, he takes the crew to a Japanese diner where the chef decides what you eat. And Marlon Williams' latest album is what settles his granddaughters.