ART PODCASTS
In this episode, photo-realist painter Sarah Graham talks about the nostalgic appeal of her paintings that focus on childhood memories, her difficult early years, how she chose art over a psychology degree, how she endured major mental health issues that art helped her overcome, and how she goes about creating her hyper-realist works.
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London-based for more than 40 years, Jiro Osuga talks about his difficult childhood in Japan, how he loves observing the detail and absurdity of city life, his penchant for visual humour, his use of different canvas formats, his highly original interactive website and his fascination with airports that inspired his latest solo exhibition Departures.
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Maro Gorky, daughter of Abstract Expressionist Ashile Gorky, talks about how she was taught to paint as a child, the anger and guilt she felt over her father’s death, the influence of her tutors Jeffrey Camp and Frank Auerbach at the Slade, her move to Tuscany where she has lived a simple life for more than half a century and the way she interprets landscape with colours, shapes and symbols.
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In this episode, Australian artist Sharon Monagle talks about how her art counterbalances her demanding work as a GP, how her interest in mental health is reflected in her paintings along with other issues such as social justice, human rights and feminism, and how an upcoming exhibition will include works that question some of the values of Australian society.
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In this episode, Fred talks about his early career as an artist during the heyday of London’s Soho where he came across many of the famous characters of the time, the events that led him to becoming a landscape artist, how and why he became attracted to The Fens and, more recently, The Flow country in Scotland. He describes his artistic process, and talks about the politics of land and the precarious future that The Fens faces.
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In this episode, this young artist talks about the influence on her work of her British, Greek and Nigerian heritage, how Cuban printmakers were her early source of inspiration, how she experiments with monotypes and how her central focus is our unbalanced relationship with the natural world.
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In this episode, Scottish artist Clare Rennie talks about her background in silversmithing and jewellery design, how architecture has always been an influence, why she finds seaside piers interesting but unsettling, why she is drawn to buildings and objects of a bygone age, and how she produces her works from collages.
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In this episode, British artist Alice Browne talks about how art has always been her “happy place”, how it reflects a reality that is in constant flux, how thoughts, memories and individual identities all have a certain mystery that attracts her and informs her paintings, how we share a curious relationship to the natural world, the influence of Danté’s Divine Comedy on her work and how she’s drawn to chaos.
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In this episode, Liza Giles talks about her previous career as an art director and interior designer, how she always painted concurrently, how her use of colour transferred to her fine art practice, how the artist Sean Scully helped raise her profile, the influence of the urban skyline and architecture on her work, how she experiments with collage in preparation of her large-scale paintings and how she balances hard lines and edges with intuitive painterly mark making.
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In this episode, Steph Goodger talks about how childhood memories near the River Medway came to take on a symbolic significance, how social history, architecture and literature influence her works with particular reference to World War I, the Paris Commune and the sinking of the Lusitania. Steph talks about the tension between containment and release in both her subjects and her process and how researching historical archives is often the starting point for a project.
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