ART PODCASTS
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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In this episode, this multi-award-winning artist talks about her classical training at the Charles H. Cecil School in Florence, how she creates atmosphere in her portraits, the importance of draftsmanship, how painting children requires different skills, the challenge of painting self-portraits and the joy of painting water.
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In this episode, Belgian artist Johan van Mullem talks about his haunting, introspective faces created with etching ink, his peripatetic childhood, how his art has evolved to being more about humanity and less introspective, how his colour palette has widened, and how lockdown opened up new horizons.
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One of Britain’s leading black artists, Eugene Palmer, talks about his childhood in Jamaica, how a school teacher inspired him to become an artist, how he evolved from abstract to figuration, the influence of black history and politics on his work, his innovative series of placing black figures in rural landscapes and his recent works of repeated images and portraits of family members that pose questions about race and identity.
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