ART PODCASTS
In this episode, British artist Mandy Payne talks about how she gave up dentistry for art, how she is attracted to Brutalist architecture in particular the Grade II listed Park Hill estate in Sheffield, why she paints on concrete and what advice she’d give to others thinking of changing career to become an artist.
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In this episode, this internationally acclaimed British painter talks about his recent peripatetic life, why he favours painting bleak and barren landscapes, how his works are derived and evolved from personal memories and how his needing to make sense of the world through his work is a lonely but satisfying process.
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In this episode, British painter Jo Holdsworth tells how she developed her style of elongated, anonymous figures with long shadows, how she became a professional artist after a corporate career, how she achieves a psychological depth to her work and how commissions stretch her.
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In this episode, Marcus Jansen talks about his unusual upbringing in both New York and Mönchengladbach, the influence of street artists and German Expressionists on his work, how he joined the US Army in 1989 and took part in the first Gulf War, how art saved him when he developed PTSD and how the war changed his both his political viewpoint as well as his art.
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In this podcast, Robert Fitzmaurice talks about the art that excited him even as a young boy, how his father’s POW experience in World War II sowed the seed for his interest in family dynamics, how his practice was influenced by the Constructivist painter Adrian Heath, how themes of masculinity and militarism developed, and how lattices, grids and repeated motifs with expressive use of colour became his signature style and is informed by art from various cultures..
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In this episode, Anthony Daley talks about how he reacted to racism at school after arriving from Jamaica as a young boy, his attitude towards black arts movements, his dislike of strict artistic definitions, his relationship with colour, how Old Master painters influence his process, and his approach to teaching painting.
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In this episode, British artist Sally Loughridge talks about how her horizons were broadened at art school in Oxford, how she expressed the movement of ballet dancers after viewing them in rehearsals, her career in costume design in TV, film and theatre, and her love of printmaking.
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In this episode, Hughie O’Donoghue talks about how his father’s wartime experiences became a subject of his paintings, his rejection of conceptual art, how he was inspired by the landscape of County Mayo in Ireland, how a beached ship became a recurring motif in his work, how his paintings are multi-layered both physically and psychologically, how urban landscapes appear in his current exhibition for the first time and how the complexity of history informs his forthcoming show marking the centenary of the birth of the Irish state.
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In this podcast, Welsh painter Ceri Pritchard talks about being brought up by two artist parents, why he dropped sculpture for painting, how he came to live in Mexico, why creating unsettling works is more interesting to him than the comfortable and reassuring, his love of worlds within worlds in his paintings, his use of domestic mundane iconography and his goal to make his pictures attractive for the viewer.
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In our latest podcast, Nigerian artist Gbolohan Ayoola talks about the art scene in his hometown of Lagos, the state of the art market for Nigerians and Africans in general, the deficiencies of an art college education, the influences that drive him as an artist, his “blue woman” series, how current issues such as police brutality and global migration have shaped his work and how his latest works dream of a future African renaissance.
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