Afleveringen
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In this episode, British abstract artist and filmmaker Mark James talks about his tortuous route to securing a place at Goldsmith’s art college, how he witnessed the Freeze exhibition mounted by the so-called Young British Artists, YBAs, and how he made a subsequent film about it, the intrigue behind his first film about the American... Continue Reading →
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London-based Portuguese artist Nelson Ferreira has studied different painting and drawing styles throughout the world including Russian and Greek iconography, Indian miniatures and old Master Flemish techniques. His own art reflects many of these influences. He is also a teacher of art and in this episode is highly critical of current art school teachers accusing... Continue Reading →
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In this episode, much sought-after British photographer David Stewart talks about how he started taking pictures on Morecambe beach, how he learned the tricks of the trade as an assistant in London, how he developed an off-beat humorous style, how his 2015 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize-winning photograph was about disconnection in the modern world and... Continue Reading →
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Rosalind Robinson is an Academician at the Royal West of England Academy and a painter of portraits notable for their striking features and expressions, their symbolism, timelessness and art-historical references. In this episode, she talks about her early career as a scenic artist and muralist, why she drifted towards portraits featuring wild hair and headdresses,... Continue Reading →
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Kelvin Okafor is a renowned hyperrealist pencil artist whose portraits of both celebrities and ordinary people have appeared in sell-out solo shows and TV art programmes. Here, he talks about his upbringing on a north London council estate, the turning points in his career, his process that takes many hours of concentration working both from... Continue Reading →
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In this episode Laura talks about the large-scale sculptures she makes from willow with their muscular, energetic and often immersive forms. She describes how she began making as a child, how her artworks reflect the natural and historical environment of their settings, how one work inspired a classical music composition, and about her important forthcoming... Continue Reading →
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In this episode, Sharon talks about her Caribbean heritage, her early connection to race equality campaigners and inspirations Eric and Jessica Huntley, how her wide education has informed her practice, how her collages celebrate Black women and seek to redress the balance of under- representation in mainstream media and art history, how she has questioned... Continue Reading →
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In this episode, Gary Nicholls talks about steampunks, how he became one and the influence they have on his work, how he creates the images for his Imaginarium digital prints and book trilogy, the influence of Caravaggio, Dali and other Old Master painters on his images, the darker side of life for his themes, the... Continue Reading →
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In this episode, British documentary photographer Polly Braden talks about some of her long-term projects. They include photographing a worker in a shoe factory in China, a group of people with autism and learning difficulties, single mothers facing challenges in an age of austerity, a flying eye hospital in Africa, the City of London both... Continue Reading →
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In this episode, Brussels-based Polish sculptor Tatiana Wolska talks about the sculptures she makes from found or recycled materials, particularly wood. She describes herself as a “junk artist” who is commenting on the wastefulness of western society and breathing new life into redundant waste products. She talks about how her fabricated shelters are a plea... Continue Reading →
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In this episode, the remarkable Californian husband and wife team talk about assemblage art in which they make sculptures out of found and discarded objects. Spencer talks about how decades in the music business led him into this art form, Esther describes how her training as a psychotherapist has influenced some of her work. They... Continue Reading →
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In this episode, the London-based artist talks about living in Japan and its connection with her home country of New Zealand, why she chose to paint portraits and the responsibility this entails, the experience of coming out as a lesbian in her late twenties, how her paintings became largely autobiographical through painting others from the... Continue Reading →
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In this episode, London-based Nigerian photographer Elizabeth Okoh talks about how she first began photographing in her childhood, why she left Nigeria to attend university in the UK, her initial difficulties in culturally acclimatising, how lots of her series and her commercial work focus on female empowerment, and how her current exhibition Women on the... Continue Reading →
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In this episode, Attua talks about winning the Design Museum’s 2024 Ralph Saltzman Prize for design, how her work intersects design, craft and art, why she left Spain for the UK, the importance of sustainability in her process, her experiments in fusing borosilicate glass with clay to create sparkling ceramics, how a shelf-unit she made... Continue Reading →
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In this episode, Caroline Burraway talks about why and how she has given voice to those disenfranchised and displaced on the margins of society, how she has focused recently on refugees like Tarik and Eden whom she has met in refugee camps and of whom she has made large-scale prize-winning drawings, about her Ungrievable Lives... Continue Reading →
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In this episode, Romany talks about his upbringing during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, how he gave up practising as a lawyer to become an artist, how the death of a friend inspired his AIDS Memorial sculpture in Brighton, why he started painting, the influence of Francis Bacon, designing theatre sets and about his new... Continue Reading →
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In this episode, Jersey-based fine art photographer Connor Daly talks about how photography became his passion, his struggles at art school, the adventurous spirit he inherited from his mother, how his photographs responded to a serious illness, how a car park provided a career turning point, how his influences owe more to painters than photographers,... Continue Reading →
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In this episode, Kate talks about her passion for colour and what colour provides, how she discovered the Araash fresco practice during a trip to India as a teenager and how she subsequently went back to learn the process, the art objects she makes using it, her obsession with walls, the influence of Rothko’s use... Continue Reading →
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In this episode, British sculptor Rebecca Stevenson talks about her love of wax as a material, how studying anatomical dissection influenced her work, how she has updated Baroque Vanitas paintings for the 21st century, how feminism underpins her oeuvre and how a recent artist residency at the Victoria and Albert Museum has altered the perspective... Continue Reading →
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In this episode, James Mortimer talks about the reasons behind his works that depict strange, primeval and dramatic landscapes whose inhabitants have cast aside moral constraints and where humans and animals share equal status. James talks about how a dull, industrial town fed his imagination from early childhood, his travels in eastern Europe including Ukraine,... Continue Reading →
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