Considering Art Podcast – Matthew Hilton, furniture designer and sculptor

In this episode, award-winning designer Matthew Hilton talks about how furniture became his chosen subject, how he set up his own studio at a time when design in the UK had little status, how he developed classic designs such as the Balzac chair and the Antelope and Cross Extending Tables and how he has now realised a long-standing desire to become a sculptor.

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September 11, 2023 0

Considering Art Podcast – Nick Hornby, sculptor

Nick Hornby is one of Britain’s leading sculptors of his generation, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors at the age of 34. In this episode, he talks about meeting Nick Hornby the novelist, why his early sculptures referenced important works from art history, why he began introducing personal elements into his oeuvre and about his three public sculptures that are soon to be unveiled in London.

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June 19, 2023 0

Considering Art Podcast – Alexander James Hamilton, photographer and environmental activist

Alexander Hamilton talks about how his art interconnects with his passion for protecting the environment, how his activism began as a teenager, how water is a constant theme in his art, the importance of Vanitas to him, how he is a geek for the latest scientific research and how he has founded a facility in the Maldives for recycling plastic waste funded by his artworks.

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May 15, 2023 0

Considering Art Podcast – Lorne McKean and Tanya Russell, sculptors

This mother and daughter duo discuss their renowned animal sculptures and how they create character in their work. Lorne talks about how she was taught to sculpt as a child by a friend of Rodin and how she added figures to her horse sculptures via polo players. This led to four royal commissions. Tanya explains why she set up the Art Academy in London and talks about her work with animal charities. The pair also describe their latest bronze sculptures unveiled at Chelsea Creek.

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May 8, 2023 0

Considering Art Podcast – Billy Lee, sculptor

In this episode, renowned sculptor Billy Lee talks about his Chinese heritage and family background in South Africa, how his interest in sculpture began, the influences on his early work and how his ideas changed following a trip to Japan, making abstract work in China, and his philosophy for teaching sculpture.

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April 17, 2023 6

Considering Art Podcast – Beth Carter, sculptor

In the latest of my series of audio interviews with contemporary artists, 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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December 12, 2022 0

Considering Art Podcast – Diane Maclean, sculptor

In this episode, British sculptor Diane Maclean talks about how studying modern languages helped her subsequent career, how she first achieved success as a portrait painter, how she began sculpting, why stainless steel became her preferred material and how themes of natural, earthly phenomena have become prevalent in her work.

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October 31, 2022 0

Considering Art Podcast – Pritika Chowdhry, installation artist and sculptor

In this episode, US-based Indian artist Pritika Chowdhry talks about her Partition Anti-Memorial Project which challenges, through art, official accounts of Partition in India and the way they have played down the plight of marginalised groups particularly women. She talks about the way she visualises how rape was used as a weapon in Partition and subsequent riots, and how she takes casts of memorials in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, and showing them together in a spirit of healing.

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September 26, 2022 0

Considering Art Podcast – Giles Walker, kinetic sculptor

In this episode, Giles talks about how he nearly brought down the Berlin Wall with the Mutoid Waste Company, why he first began using moving parts in his sculptures, how he developed a political edge in his works, how his installation The Last Supper posed questions about religious education and how the installation Monster depicted what he has called a national nervous breakdown.

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June 27, 2022 0

Considering Art Podcast – Luke Alen-Buckley, sculptor

In this episode, the young British Irish sculptor talks about his early experiences of art, how he changed degrees at university from art to physics, his love of Irish blue limestone rock, how Irish folklore has influenced his sculpture and how he has learned practices to minimise the environmental impact of his work.

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June 13, 2022 0