ART PODCASTS
In this episode, Australian artist Sharon Monagle talks about how her art counterbalances her demanding work as a GP, how her interest in mental health is reflected in her paintings along with other issues such as social justice, human rights and feminism, and how an upcoming exhibition will include works that question some of the values of Australian society.
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In this episode, renowned sculptor Billy Lee talks about his Chinese heritage and family background in South Africa, how his interest in sculpture began, the influences on his early work and how his ideas changed following a trip to Japan, making abstract work in China, and his philosophy for teaching sculpture.
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In this episode, photographer Linda Chapman talks about how she goes about capturing the way light plays upon urban windows to create the works for which she has become well known. She discusses the gender discrimination she faced in her early career, why she left a permanent job to freelance in the fashion, theatre and music industry, and how the advent of the digital era persuaded her to move into abstracted photography.
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In this episode, Fred talks about his early career as an artist during the heyday of London’s Soho where he came across many of the famous characters of the time, the events that led him to becoming a landscape artist, how and why he became attracted to The Fens and, more recently, The Flow country in Scotland. He describes his artistic process, and talks about the politics of land and the precarious future that The Fens faces.
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In this episode, Rosie talks about how she looks for the absurdities of life and how her performances often deliberately misunderstand the way we communicate with each other. She explains why she sexualises everyday items, how she creates a mixture of the comic and the serious through performances such as The New Me, Soft Girls and Planned Obsolescence, and how she hopes her future projects will develop.
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In this episode, this young artist talks about the influence on her work of her British, Greek and Nigerian heritage, how Cuban printmakers were her early source of inspiration, how she experiments with monotypes and how her central focus is our unbalanced relationship with the natural world.
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In this episode, Scottish artist Clare Rennie talks about her background in silversmithing and jewellery design, how architecture has always been an influence, why she finds seaside piers interesting but unsettling, why she is drawn to buildings and objects of a bygone age, and how she produces her works from collages.
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In this episode, British artist Alice Browne talks about how art has always been her “happy place”, how it reflects a reality that is in constant flux, how thoughts, memories and individual identities all have a certain mystery that attracts her and informs her paintings, how we share a curious relationship to the natural world, the influence of Danté’s Divine Comedy on her work and how she’s drawn to chaos.
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In this episode, Liza Giles talks about her previous career as an art director and interior designer, how she always painted concurrently, how her use of colour transferred to her fine art practice, how the artist Sean Scully helped raise her profile, the influence of the urban skyline and architecture on her work, how she experiments with collage in preparation of her large-scale paintings and how she balances hard lines and edges with intuitive painterly mark making.
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In this episode, Steph Goodger talks about how childhood memories near the River Medway came to take on a symbolic significance, how social history, architecture and literature influence her works with particular reference to World War I, the Paris Commune and the sinking of the Lusitania. Steph talks about the tension between containment and release in both her subjects and her process and how researching historical archives is often the starting point for a project.
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