Sculptor, painter and photographer Philipp Humm tells how he became a business man having failed to get into art school, how he kept up his art during a glittering career in the high tech industry until the urge to become a full-time artist overcame him, and how he has updated and condensed Goethe’s Faust to address modern issues, in particular the concern that our seemingly insatiable desire for technological innovation, most notably in Artificial Intelligence (AI), threatens the very survival of the human race.
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In our latest podcast episode, photographer Jane Hilton talks about her passion for the American west and the extraordinary stories behind some of her award-winning series that have featured, among others, modern-day cowboys, rodeo riders, sex workers and drag queens.
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Beauty and what defines it is the overriding theme in this two-hander at the James Freeman Gallery. Both Anne von Freyburg and Nigel Grimmer, in their different ways, investigate the way beauty is both constructed and distorted, and both use textiles to help make the point.
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In our latest podcast episode, Russian-born America-based photographer Anastasia Samoylova talks about her studies in Russia, her move to America, the influence of Russian constructivism in her early work and how a move to Florida resulted in an ongoing project highlighting the dichotomy between a state that advertises the good life while experiencing the gradual but corrosive effect of climate change.
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In our latest podcast episode, British artist Claire Luxton talks about how her recent focus on photography grew from her grounding in painting and sculpture, how she uses self-portraiture as a means to express the strength and fragility of the individual that is mirrored in our environment, how her personal anxiety caught the zeitgeist of the current pandemic and how her work and accompanying poetry explores isolation, desire and uncertainty.
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In our latest podcast episode, French photographer Delphine Diallo talks about her upbringing in Paris, how she gave up a career in the French music industry to work as a photographer in New York, how she initially struggled for recognition and how she embarked upon a mission to change the way women of colour are portrayed in her profession.
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In our latest podcast episode, British artist Suzanne Moxhay talks about the influence of old film-making techniques on her work, her unusual resource material, and how she builds up intricate photomontages to create images that somehow fall between reality and invention.
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In our latest podcast episode, Emily Allchurch talks about her upbringing in Jersey, her switch from sculpture to photography and digital art, her passion for giving Old Master paintings and prints a contemporary rendering, how the pandemic has affected her work and her current focus on Asia.
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In our latest podcast episode, British conceptual artist Alexandra Lethbridge talks about how she uses photography, appropriated imagery, installation and video to examine such themes as deception, illusion, misinformation and the way we process and use information in our world of all-consuming visual culture.
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In our latest podcast episode, British artist Alison Jackson talks about the use of lookalikes, why a mistrust of photography is at its root, the backlash she has received and the difficulties of making her humorous work.
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