Considering Art Podcast – Ros Burgin, sculptor

Ros Burgin combines her love of sculpture with a compulsion to express her feelings about environmental causes. In this episode, she talks about how a previous career on sailing ships first gave her a direct experience of pollution and climate change, how sculpture for her is object and material based, how water emerged as a key area of her practice, the types of found materials she uses, the ingenuity behind recontextualising them, how female equality is another concern and how a recent trip to the Arctic icecap has inspired a future series of works.

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June 17, 2024 0

Considering Art Podcast – Mark James, painter and filmmaker

In this episode, British abstract artist and filmmaker Mark James talks about his tortuous route to securing a place at Goldsmith’s art college, how he witnessed the Freeze exhibition mounted by the so-called Young British Artists, YBAs, and how he made a subsequent film about it, the intrigue behind his first film about the American sculptor Carl Andre, how films about other artists both dead and alive re-awakened his desire to resume painting, how random shapes and forms inspire his abstract work and how he strives to create emotion in his paintings.

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June 10, 2024 0

Considering Art Podcast – Nelson Ferreira, painter

London-based Portuguese artist Nelson Ferreira has studied different painting and drawing styles throughout the world including Russian and Greek iconography, Indian miniatures and old Master Flemish techniques. His own art reflects many of these influences. He is also a teacher of art and in this episode is highly critical of current art school teachers accusing them of “murdering” craftsmanship. He claims too that contemporary art died decades ago.

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June 3, 2024 0

Considering Art Podcast – Rosalind Robinson, painter

Rosalind Robinson is an Academician at the Royal West of England Academy and a painter of portraits notable for their striking features and expressions, their symbolism, timelessness and art-historical references. In this episode, she talks about her early career as a scenic artist and muralist, why she drifted towards portraits featuring wild hair and headdresses, the importance of looking at each other especially in the age of the smartphone, and her latest project on the Silk Road.

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May 20, 2024 0

Considering Art Podcast – Laura Ellen Bacon, willow sculptor

In this episode Laura talks about the large-scale sculptures she makes from willow with their muscular, energetic and often immersive forms. She describes how she began making as a child, how her artworks reflect the natural and historical environment of their settings, how one work inspired a classical music composition, and about her important forthcoming exhibitions.

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May 6, 2024 0

Considering Art Podcast – Sharon Walters, collage artist

In this episode, Sharon talks about her Caribbean heritage, her early connection to race equality campaigners and inspirations Eric and Jessica Huntley, how her wide education has informed her practice, how her collages celebrate Black women and seek to redress the balance of under- representation in mainstream media and art history, how she has questioned museums’ object descriptions, why she chose collage as her main means of artistic expression, and about her long-running series Seeing Ourselves.

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April 29, 2024 1

Considering Art Podcast – Polly Braden, photographer

In this episode, British documentary photographer Polly Braden talks about some of her long-term projects. They include photographing a worker in a shoe factory in China, a group of people with autism and learning difficulties, single mothers facing challenges in an age of austerity, a flying eye hospital in Africa, the City of London both in and out of lockdown, about her current exhibition in which she follows a group of young women who have had to flee the war in Ukraine, and about her past experience of working in Gaza.

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April 15, 2024 0

Considering Art Podcast – Tatiana Wolska, sculptor

In this episode, Brussels-based Polish sculptor Tatiana Wolska talks about the sculptures she makes from found or recycled materials, particularly wood. She describes herself as a “junk artist” who is commenting on the wastefulness of western society and breathing new life into redundant waste products. She talks about how her fabricated shelters are a plea for society to slow down and contemplate life in these difficult times, and how drawing and sculpting, without much planning, are central to her life.

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April 8, 2024 0

Considering Art Podcast – Esther Siegel and Spencer Brewer, assemblage artists

In this episode, the remarkable Californian husband and wife team talk about assemblage art in which they make sculptures out of found and discarded objects. Spencer talks about how decades in the music business led him into this art form, Esther describes how her training as a psychotherapist has influenced some of her work. They explain how they acquire found material, how they work together, and they discuss individual artworks including Tesla Man, a homage to the Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla.

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March 25, 2024 0

Considering Art Podcast – Sarah Jane Moon, painter

In this episode, the London-based artist talks about living in Japan and its connection with her home country of New Zealand, why she chose to paint portraits and the responsibility this entails, the experience of coming out as a lesbian in her late twenties, how her paintings became largely autobiographical through painting others from the queer community, her obsession with shoes, and creating a mood in her works.

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March 18, 2024 0