ART PODCASTS
In our latest podcast episode, Syrian portrait artist Sara Shamma talks about how she incorporates the subconscious into her works, how she was forced to leave her country and how a deep sense of humanity pervades her pictures.
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One of the effects of this current pandemic is that many of us are wondering what changes the virus will have wrought upon our society after it goes away (if it ever does go away!).
In a broader sense, this zeitgeist has been taken up by Kovet.Art, a new arts organisation designed to help collectors discover the best emerging talent in the UK and to harness and mentor that talent. Its inaugural online exhibition, Delineating Dreams, invites eight of its artists to delve into a dream world expressing visually both the conscious and the subconscious. It’s a surrealism-heavy show just as our current plight has many such characteristics.
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In our latest podcast episode, abstract artist Ian Davenport discusses his early experience as a so-called YBA (Young British Artist), his love of experimenting with process and the development of his renowned colourful stripe and puddle paintings.
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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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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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