ART PODCASTS
In our latest podcast episode, Bob Chaundy talks to “light artist” Chris Levine about his spectacular, immersive light installations, his portraits of The Queen and the Dalai Lama, and the spiritual dimension to his life and work.
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In our latest podcast, Stuart Semple talks about his influences, seminal events in his life, how art can be a catalyst for social change and how art should be accessible to everyone.
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In our latest podcast episode, British sculptor Michael Sandle talks about his life and his work including controversial views on contemporary art and his forthright expressions of disgust at hypocrisy.
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In this latest podcast, Bob Chaundy interviews Liane Lang who talks, among other things, about her innovative and subversive “interventions” in public statues.
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In this latest podcast episode, Bob Chaundy talks to Arabella Dorman, portrait painter and war artist.
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In this latest podcast episode, Bob Chaundy talks to American-born sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld about her life and the work that has earned her nearly 100 public commissions for public sculptures.
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In the first of a series of podcasts, this one done just before the lockdown, Bob Chaundy interviews renowned Australian portrait photographer, Rod McNicol whose self-portrait is above.
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Every major world crisis, be it war, financial meltdown or as now, global pandemic, is interpreted through the lens of artists of all genres. It can be graphic depiction, symbolic, allegoric or whatever but all capturing in some way the zeitgeist. Among the first painters out of the blocks to give expression to their immediate feelings about the current Coronavirus crisis is David Downes who has just released a series dedicated to it.
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For the art lover frustrated by the closure of galleries and museums during these fraught virus-infected times, there exists some possible respite with a new socially distancing-friendly exhibition by that maestro of public sculpture, Helaine Blumenfeld.
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Every picture tells a story goes the saying. For Georgian artist Toma Stenko, narrative abounds in her paintings, driven by colour and figurative symbols. Her first London solo exhibition, as the title says, is about love in all its guises, seen from a female perspective. It’s not all sweetness and light since her works are intensely autobiographical, reflecting a fascinating but troubled childhood.
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