ART PODCASTS
In our latest podcast episode, painter and Royal Academician Tony Bevan talks about his earliest experiences of art, his influences at art school, his reactions to the politics of the day, his linear style for the depiction of aspects of the human body such as heads, and his very personal process of painting.
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In our latest podcast episode, these two distinguished octogenarians talk about the common ground they’ve shared throughout their careers – their time studying together at the Slade School of Fine Art, the influence of architecture on their work, their love of Italy, public commissions, their artistic challenges, their experience of teaching and their email correspondences over many years highlighted in their shared exhibition at London’s Frestonian Gallery.
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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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In our latest podcast episode, Lee Cavaliere talks about the philosophy behind VOMA – the Virtual Online Museum of Art, the advantages and challenges of running this first online museum, the conversations he initiates as head curator over time and place, and about his educational charity the Sixteen Trust.
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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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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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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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British artist Andy Holden is a sculptor, animator, film-maker, painter, curator, author and musician. In our latest podcast episode, he gives his thoughts on irony and sincerity, the nature of nostalgia, how stealing a rock from an Egyptian pyramid inspired an acclaimed artwork and how he sees the world as a kind of cartoon.
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If you weren’t familiar with the work of the American artist Jim Shaw, it wouldn’t take you long to figure out who he won’t be voting for in next week’s Presidential election. His monochrome silkscreen print, above, is entitled Donald and Melania Trump descending the escalator into the 9th circle of hell reserved for traitors frozen in a sea of ice. It’s what it says on the tin, typical of the biting wit that Shaw unleashes in this marvellous exhibition of new works at London’s Simon Lee Gallery, his first here for four years.
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British artist Nick Smith has a unique process. A former interior designer of 11 years, he was used to working with swatches, those thousands of colour variations each with their own name that you find in expensive design books or even as paint charts in your local DIY store. Back in 2011, a friend challenged him to make an artwork from them. He accepted and hasn’t looked back since and that’s only half the story.
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