Considering Art Podcast – Kimberley Gundle, multi-media

South African artist Kimberley Gundle who has lived in London for nearly four decades, is known mainly for her bold and vibrantly coloured drawings, prints, and ceramic portraits. In this episode, she talks about her love of colour, sketching daily on the London Underground, studying ceramics, designing rugs, making art from visiting the Maasai people in East Africa, how Covid induced community-related projects, and about her various exhibitions including her latest in London.

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Considering Art Podcast – Jaclyn Mednicov – multi-media

Jaclyn Mednicov is an American artist based in Chicago who works mainly in painting, sculpture and installation. In this episode, she talks about how she first developed her love for making art, how nature became her focus, how she began incorporating plants physically into her works, her venture into ceramics and how residencies abroad taught her new techniques.

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Considering Art Podcast – Rose Electra Harris, painter and printmaker

Rose Electra Harris is a young emerging artist who paints bright energetic works that focus on nature. In this episode she talks about how her printmaking training influences her painting style, how Covid changed her career, how travels and residencies abroad have influenced her and how her profile was raised by the London Art Fair 2026.

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Considering Art Podcast – Sophie Perez, landscape painter

Sophie Perez is a British-born artist now living in Australia where she has exhibited widely and won prestigious awards. In this episode, she talks about her early art experiences, why she moved to Australia, how the Mornington Peninsula area south of Melbourne inspires her daily, and how she strives to make her landscapes an immersive experience for the viewer.

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Considering Art Podcast – June Nelson, multi-media

June Nelson paints and draws themes expressing narratives that shape women’s lives. In this episode, she talks about her upbringing in industrial south Wales, studying English before reverting to art, how she has adopted a feminist viewpoint in her work, the influence of both art history and literature in determining her motifs, drawing with smoke for which she has twice been a finalist for the Trinity Buoy Wharf drawing prize, her drawings of egg climmers, her installations on the subjects of flooding and grief, making impossible objects, and the benefits of the Turps Offsite mentoring course.

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Considering Art Podcast – Paul Hodgson, multi-media

In this episode, British artist Paul Hodgson explains how and why his practice is primarily concerned with reconstructing important moments in art history by deconstructing the process by which the artwork is made. He discusses the symbolism behind earlier paintings and the process of making them, and he talks about his latest exhibition entitled Zot in which he combines sculpture, painting, photography and digital media.

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Considering Art Podcast – Joan Danziger, sculptor

Joan Danziger is a 91-year-old American sculptor whose fantastical works have adorned many a museum and gallery across the United States. In this episode, she talks about how surrealism attracted her even as a child, how after graduating from Cornell University as an abstract painter, she joined the art scenes in Woodstock NY and New York City, how she first started sculpting, her love of mythological figures, the importance of animals to humans, the influence of foreign religions and cultures, how she developed her sculptures of horses, beetles and ravens, and about her first retrospective in Washington DC.

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Considering Art Podcast – Joanna Whittle, landscape artist

Joanna Whittle is a multi-prize winning landscape artist regarded by some as the greatest painter of her generation. In this episode, she talks about the influences of a childhood spent abroad, her attraction to tents and fairground structures and what they mean conceptually and metaphorically, the dualities in her paintings, the lack of planning in her process, the uncanny nature of her work, her love of loneliness as an artist, her attraction to shrines, why she paints small-scale, and about the Heavy Water Collective she co-founded.

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Considering Art Podcast Reprise – Beezy Bailey, multi-media artist

In this episode, South African artist Beezy Bailey talks about his family roots, his time in New York with the likes of Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, his Fine Art degree in London, his collaborations with rock stars David Bowie, Dave Matthews and Brian Eno, his alter ego Joyce Ntobe, and his response to exhibiting in an English stately home.

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Considering Art Podcast – Steve Nayar, wildlife painter

Steve Nayar has been a nine times finalist for the Wildlife Artist of the Year competition and focuses on portraying endangered species. In this episode, he talks about his family’s lineage, what he learnt during his career in design and advertising, how painting a domestic cat sparked a change in direction, how a way of seeing is the key to his paintings, how horrified he was at the knowledge that so much of our wildlife is endangered, how photography aids his process, how he aims to paint the soul of his subjects and how his paintings can in some ways act as mirrors.

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