ART PODCASTS
In this episode, celebrated British abstract artist and Royal Academician Ian McKeever talks about how he first engaged with art, his travels and early landscapes, how he seeks to give his works a presence through the use of light and space, his views on portraiture and how his current exhibition is a love-letter to his wife.
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Roddy Maude-Roxby was a pioneer of British Pop art and improvisation in theatre. Now 93, he recalls childhood memories of World War II, his illustrious colleagues at the Royal College of Art, combining art and acting at the Royal Court Theatre, meeting Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Woody Allen, making masks and their psychological implications, painting and drawing on cardboard and in daily notebooks, his current work with digital software and his love of poetry.
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Mila Furstova creates magical, dreamlike works mostly through the medium of etching. Now UK-based, she talks about her childhood in the Czech Republic and how she spent two years working with Coldplay on the artwork for their Ghost Stories album and four subsequent singles. She explains the influence of motherhood on her work, her use of symbols and metaphor, how she has visually interpreted a famous Czech poem and about some of the celebrities who have collected her art.
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In this episode, British artist Kate Montgomery talks about the influences on her style including post-impressionism, architecture, medieval art and children’s book illustrations. Her themes include landscape and narratives inspired by personal memories and experience, and she mentions to her obsession with patterns.
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Nick Hornby is one of Britain’s leading sculptors of his generation, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors at the age of 34. In this episode, he talks about meeting Nick Hornby the novelist, why his early sculptures referenced important works from art history, why he began introducing personal elements into his oeuvre and about his three public sculptures that are soon to be unveiled in London.
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In this episode, David Remfry tells how a nude portrait helped him land a plush London studio, his attraction to painting dancers, his experiences of living at the Hotel Chelsea in New York City, how he came to paint dogs and their owners, his commission for Stella McCartney’s first fashion brand launch and his task of co-ordinating the Royal Academy’s 2023 Summer Exhibition.
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In this episode, South African artist Farook Mohammed talks about how is art aims to try to unite people at this time of great global division and how people should look on each other as human beings regardless of colour, race, politics or religion. He talks about his diverse background, gives his analysis of South Africa’s recent history and how he believes art can change the world by giving out a positive message towards humanity.
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In this episode, photo-realist painter Sarah Graham talks about the nostalgic appeal of her paintings that focus on childhood memories, her difficult early years, how she chose art over a psychology degree, how she endured major mental health issues that art helped her overcome, and how she goes about creating her hyper-realist works.
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London-based for more than 40 years, Jiro Osuga talks about his difficult childhood in Japan, how he loves observing the detail and absurdity of city life, his penchant for visual humour, his use of different canvas formats, his highly original interactive website and his fascination with airports that inspired his latest solo exhibition Departures.
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Alexander Hamilton talks about how his art interconnects with his passion for protecting the environment, how his activism began as a teenager, how water is a constant theme in his art, the importance of Vanitas to him, how he is a geek for the latest scientific research and how he has founded a facility in the Maldives for recycling plastic waste funded by his artworks.
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