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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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

Considering Art Podcast – Jonathan O’Dea, Sculptor

Jonathan O’Dea creates abstract sculptures out of waste material from construction sites. In so doing, he makes art in a sustainable way. In this episode, he talks about his Irish background in which he was making objects from an early age, how working on building sites as a young man inspired his future art, how he discovered sculpture after studying painting at Central St Martins, the kind of materials he takes from construction sites such as Crossrail and the Olympic Park, how he puts them to use in his sculptures and how his artworks offer a metaphor for the human condition.

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June 9, 2025 0

Considering Art Podcast – Fiona Campbell, sculptor

Fiona Campbell creates sculptures and installations that she reappropriates from found and discarded materials. In this episode, she talks about how her concern for the environment is at the heart of her practice, the types of materials she looks for, how she interprets environmental issues in a visual way, her upbringing in Kenya, the mixture of shock and allure that she seeks to achieve in many of her works and the influence of her home county of Somerset on her oeuvre.

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May 5, 2025 0

Considering Art Podcast – Ya La’Ford, multi-media artist

Ya La’Ford is an American of Jamaican heritage who makes paintings, murals, sculpture and installations designed to bring communities together. In this podcast she talks about her early engagement with art, the influence of Jamaica on her art and life, taking a law degree before an art one, the influence of abstract expressionism on her geometric designs, the importance of bridging communities and examples of her site-specific installations.

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February 3, 2025 0

Considering Art Podcast – Tom Waugh, sculptor

In this episode, sculptor Tom Waugh talks about how he got the idea for sculpting in stone everyday objects such as crumpled cardboard boxes, takeaway coffee lids, jerry cans and wheelie bins, how these serve as both amusing but also carry an environmental message, the techniques he uses to create the hyperreal effect, how some are offended by his works and how he chooses the type of stone to suit the subject.

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November 25, 2024 0