Considering Art Podcast – Glen Baxter, artist of the absurd

Glen Baxter talks about the inspirations for his absurdist drawings whose captions offer incongruous intellectual observations on art and philosophy. He talks about his early obsession with comics and cowboys, how he was captivated by Surrealism at art school, how America and Europe first took to his brand of humour, his struggle as a stammerer and how lockdown has been a fertile ground for his oeuvre

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February 15, 2021 0

Considering Art Podcast – Jann Haworth, pop artist.

Jann Haworth, one of the few women associated with the Pop Art movement, talks about growing up in Hollywood, how she found her move to England in 1962 “electrifying”, how and why she opted for soft sculpture while studying at the Slade, her contribution to the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album designed with her then husband Peter Blake, her time with the Brotherhood of Ruralists and her mural collaborations in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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February 8, 2021 0

Considering Art Podcast – Judy Millar, abstract painter

In our latest podcast episode, New Zealand artist Judy Millar talks about the dynamic abstract action paintings that she makes in her studio at a remote location outside Auckland, her exhibit at the 2009 prestigious Venice Biennale, her dislike of the word “gestural” as a description of her style, her “out of body” experiences when viewing certain works and her “site-antagonistic” public sculptures.

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February 1, 2021 0

Considering Art Podcast – Orlanda Broom, landscape and abstract painter

In our latest podcast episode, British painter Orlanda Broom talks about why her hyper-coloured landscapes are more than just decorative, how a stay in Portugal revived her passion for art, how her process for painting landscapes and abstracts differs widely and how she enjoys painting large-scale commissions.

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January 25, 2021 0

Considering Art Podcast – Claire Luxton, multidisciplinary artist

In our latest podcast episode, British artist Claire Luxton talks about how her recent focus on photography grew from her grounding in painting and sculpture, how she uses self-portraiture as a means to express the strength and fragility of the individual that is mirrored in our environment, how her personal anxiety caught the zeitgeist of the current pandemic and how her work and accompanying poetry explores isolation, desire and uncertainty.

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January 18, 2021 0

Considering Art Podcast – Delphine Diallo, portrait photographer

In our latest podcast episode, French photographer Delphine Diallo talks about her upbringing in Paris, how she gave up a career in the French music industry to work as a photographer in New York, how she initially struggled for recognition and how she embarked upon a mission to change the way women of colour are portrayed in her profession.

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January 11, 2021 0

Considering Art Podcast – Saype, Land artist

In our latest podcast episode, young French artist Saype talks about his enormous grass frescoes, his care for nature, the philosophy behind his art, the practical difficulties of his process and his Beyond Walls project comprising interlocked hands that symbolise unity and universality.

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December 7, 2020 0

Considering Art Podcast – Suzanne Moxhay, photomontage creator

In our latest podcast episode, British artist Suzanne Moxhay talks about the influence of old film-making techniques on her work, her unusual resource material, and how she builds up intricate photomontages to create images that somehow fall between reality and invention.

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November 23, 2020 0

Considering Art Podcast – Nancy Cadogan, figurative painter

In our latest podcast episode, British/American painter Nancy Cadogan tells how art has been her destiny from an early age, how she began painting landscapes in Africa, the US and Europe, how she turned from the observational to painting from the imagination and how her experience of lockdown influenced her latest exhibition based on the final days of the romantic poet John Keats.

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November 16, 2020 1

Considering Art Podcast – Fanny Rush, portrait painter

For two decades, Fanny Rush has been painting the portraits of high profile figures from the world of entertainment, business, politics and elsewhere. In our latest podcast episode, she tells why she gave up a successful career in the fashion and commercial film industries for painting, how she fell in love with portraiture, who influences her and how she goes about her work.

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November 9, 2020 0