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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February 16, 2026 0

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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February 9, 2026 0

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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January 12, 2026 0

Considering Art Podcast Reprise – Beth Carter, sculptor

In an interview taken from the Considering Art archive in 2022, eminent sculptor Beth Carter talks about the symbolic significance of her bronze sculptures of animals and hybrid animals, how the minotaur became an obsessive subject of her work as she explores ideas of power, vulnerability, and grief, how the theme of duality in her sculptures references part of the human condition, and how one particular charcoal drawing became a way to help process a dark incident in her past.

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January 5, 2026 0

Considering Art Podcast – Caro Williams, sculptor

Caro Williams has earned a worldwide reputation for sculptures that are transformations into solid form of lines from books and poems as well as sound, particularly birdsong. In this episode, she talks about her fascinating family background involving Wales, France, China, Hong Kong and England, her school days in Hong Kong, her career in the British travel industry, her art education in England and New Zealand, how she began transforming text and sounds into solid sculptures, excerpts from poems that have inspired her, her process of making, and her plans to introduce Cantonese characters into her work.

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December 1, 2025 0

Considering Art Podcast – Esther Neslen, multi-disciplinary

Esther Neslen is a sculptor, ceramicist and educator in London who works both figuratively and in abstraction. In this episode, she talks about how art was a way of easing anxiety as a child, her early fascination with the human form, how sculpture and clay didn’t mix at art college, working as a graphic designer and then as an animator before returning to sculpture, how she placed human form sculptures in public places in London, her depiction of human relationships in abstract forms and how she has turned national and global events that have affected her personally into her art.

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November 17, 2025 1

Considering Art Podcast – Annemarieke Kloosterhof, multi-media

Annemarieke Kloosterhof is a London-based Dutch artist who works in painting, collage, design and particularly in all things paper including single or multi-layered paper-cut illustrations, paper props, film sets and large-scale installations. In this episode, she talks about how her passion for paper first began, how nostalgia has been a theme in her work, the importance of experimentation, how she made a spectacular paper installation for the Bridgerton TV series, making three West-end theatres from paper, her use of recycled paper, how her paintings deal with issues such as female sexuality and how she has made paper versions of classic furniture for London’s Leighton House museum.

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October 27, 2025 0

Considering Art Podcast – Reena Saini Kallat, multi-media

Reena Saini Kallat is an Indian artist who has gained international recognition for works that focus on aspects of global conflicts, injustices, inequalities, and climate catastrophes. In this episode, she talks about her family story of Partition and the legacy of it that remains in her home city of Mumbai, how she expresses the issue of global boundaries and frontiers that cause dissension, how the inter-dependence of species inspires her, how she uses legal documents in her work to represent ideas of responsibility and freedom, how people who have disappeared are another source of influence, and about her current sculpture at Frieze London that features the bird calls of extinct species.

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October 20, 2025 0

Considering Art Podcast – Alice Sheppard Fidler, sculptor

Alice Sheppard Fidler’s work spans sculpture, installation and performance. In this episode, she talks about her early career in design within the film, TV and fashion industries, being a founder member of Studio Voltaire Gallery in London, moving to the Cotswolds and working with a circus, why she took an MA in Fine Art, the creative inspirations for some of her sculptures that embody thought, narrative, history and the contradictions of human experience, and how performance and collaboration are important elements of her practice.

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September 15, 2025 0

Considering Art Podcast – Natalia Millman, multi-media conceptual artist

Natalia Millman was born in Ukraine and came to England in her twenties. Her father’s dementia and subsequent death had a profound effect on her both personally and artistically. In this episode she talks about her Ukrainian background, how she pursued an art career after moving to the UK, how her father’s demise led to a refocus of her art towards expressing grief and life’s fragility, how research and experimentation became a key part of her practice, how she invited people to share their experience of personal loss through sending her letters, some examples of moving expressions of grief, and how she developed the idea into a multi-media and sensory exhibition entitled Letters to Forever.

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July 21, 2025 0