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Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Steph Goodger, expressionist painter
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.
Steph Goodger talking with Bob Chaundy
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The Motherland
The2023-02-0633 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Frances Bell, portrait and landscape painter
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.
Frances Bell talking with Bob Chaundy
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Gillian, winner of the Burke’s Peerage Foundation Award, 2022
Family Dress
2023-01-3037 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Leah Gordon, photographer and filmmaker
In this episode, Leah talks about her background in photography, her interest in the interconnectivity of folk traditions, the Enclosure Acts, the Industrial Revolution and the transatlantic slave trade. She recalls her time in a folk punk band, and discusses her passion for Haiti, a country she says has been unfairly demonised. In particular, she talks about decades photographing in the country and how and why she came to make her award-nominated documentary Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti in Six Chapters, in which the performers tell their version of their history and the difficulties and responsibilities this en...2023-01-1635 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Ross Gillespie and Tricia Malley aka broad daylight, photographers
In this latest episode, the two Scottish photographers discuss their creative partnership, and some of their photographic projects including As Others See Us in which celebrities such as actor Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Peter Howson and Nicola Benedetti are photographed after selecting their favourite Robert Burns poems, and Building Sights in which celebrities such as painter Alison Watt and Travis bassist Dougie Payne are photographed in their favourite Scottish locations. The pair discuss the thoughts behind the treatment and settings.
Ross Gillespie and Tricia Malley of broad daylight talking with Bob Chaundy
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Considering Art PodcastConsidering 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.
Beth Carter talking with Bob Chaundy
Fallen Minotaur
2022-12-1228 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Johan van Mullem, painter
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.
Johan van Mullem talking with Bob Chaundy
Untitled, 2015
2022-12-0538 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Annie Nicholson aka The Fandangoe Kid, multi-media artist
In this episode, Annie talks about how a family tragedy changed her life and her practice to create platforms for dialogue on mental health issues, how her public art installations became bright, brash and colourful, and how ice cream, a skip and dancing have all contributed to her aim of breaking the taboo around grief.
Annie Nicholson talking with Bob Chaundy
Hope Exchange, Southwark Street, Better Bankside
The Fandangoe Whip, image courtesy Tara Darby
2022-11-2830 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Jana Nicole, collage artist
In this episode, UK-based American artist Jana Nicole talks about her roots in the Hollywood film industry, how she studied art in the UK and took to collage after moving permanently, her winning of the prestigious Puvis de Chavannes Award by the Salon des Beaux Arts in Paris, her fascination with flora and fauna especially fungi, and her collage portraits of figures in the music business.
Jana Nicole talking with Bob Chaundy
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Jana’s prize-winning horror costume design
A-Z of swear words
2022-11-2133 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Eugene Palmer, painter
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.
Eugene Palmer talking with Bob Chaundy
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Wanting to Say I, The New Art Gallery Walsall;
2022-11-1436 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – David Koppel, photographer
In this episode, Dave Koppel relates some of the extraordinary capers he got up to while working as a paparazzo in the London of the 1980s and ’90s taking photos of the likes of Bowie, Brando, Jagger, Dylan, Cruise, Prince et al. He explains how he then bought a gallery and began photographing landscapes and portraits of ordinary people for his book Still Waters. Recently, he has been re-versioning some of his old work into what he calls Pap Art, and collaborating with other artists too.
David Koppel talking with Bob Chaundy
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Considering Art PodcastConsidering 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.
Diane Maclean talking with Bob Chaundy
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Seated Hands, 1995
Stranded Head, 1996
2022-10-3134 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Moyosore Martins, painter and multi-media artist
In this episode, the Nigerian abstract expressionist talks about his unusual family background, his peripatetic education, how he came to New York to stay out of trouble, the Yoruba influences in his work both cultural and philosophical, how art has become like a religion to him and how he has reacted to current issues such as Black Lives Matter.
Moyosore Martins talking with Bob Chaundy
Bad Friends
2022-10-2434 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Vincent Devine, painter
In this episode, Irish painter Vincent Devine talks about his unusual portraits in which he depicts both the visible and the invisible, how his works are loaded with symbolism and how his depictions of such as John Hume, Vincent van Gogh, Artemisia Gentileschi, Sir Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth II interpret personal aspects from a global perspective and following detailed research.
Vincent Devine talking with Bob Chaundy
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Sir Winston Churchill
John Hume
2022-10-1741 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Hana Shahnavaz, painter
In this episode, London-based British-Iranian artist Hana Shahnavaz talks about her bi-cultural upbringing, how she makes her own paint from raw materials some of which she forages, the importance of reconnecting with nature, the influence of Persian miniatures on her work, her experience of violent protest in Iran and her contribution to The Old Man US TV series.
Hana Shahnavaz talking with Bob Chaundy
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Shabdiz
2022-10-1037 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Jemma Powell, painter
In this episode, Jemma Powell talks about how she takes her inspiration from nature, her career as an actress, how she came to painting and the influences she draws upon, the importance of making mistakes, how she balances work and family life, and about her new solo exhibition Searching for Stillness.
Jemma Powell talking with Bob Chaundy
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Childhood Memories
Umbrellas in the Market
2022-10-0330 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering 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.
Pritika Chowdhry talking with Bob Chaundy
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Queering Mother India
2022-09-2637 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Ken Currie, painter
In this episode, Scottish painter Ken Currie talks about how his tough background shaped his view that violence is part of the human condition, he tells the stories behind early works such as Glasgow Triptych and Scottish Mercenaries, about the nightmarish Krankenhaus, the rituals behind Bird People, the terror of his Down in the Woods Triptych, the ambiguity within his new series Black Boat, his occasional portraits, and he lists some of the paintings that continue to haunt him.
Ken Currie talking with Bob Chaundy
Part of Glasgow Triptych, 1986
2022-09-1955 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Adrian Fisk, photojournalist
In this episode, Adrian Fisk talks about how a cyclone in Bangladesh changed his life, how he spent eight years photographing in India, and about his new book and exhibition entitled Until the Last Oak Falls in which he documents the extraordinary campaigns of British environmental protesters in the 1990s, most notably against the Newbury by-pass and the city-based Reclaim the Streets, looking at the issues, the tactics, the conditions and the after-effects.
Adrian Fisk talking with Bob Chaundy
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“The village of Padmakesharpur is made up of predominantly snake ch...2022-09-1234 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Jeffery Becton, photographer
In this episode, Jeffery Becton talks about his fascination with the ocean both in reality and symbolically, how he spurned the personal advice of Robert Motherwell, how his digital montage technique using Adobe Photoshop leads to photographs of altered realities creating an unsettling sense of emptiness, and ambiguity, and how rising sea levels pose a threat to our planet.
Jeffery Becton talking with Bob Chaundy
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Off Spirit Ledge, 2017
2022-07-1839 min
Work, ActuallyOBITUARY WRITER: Bob ChaundySend us a textI love the fact I get to speak to brilliant, interesting and passionate people as part of the podcast- each one inspires me in different ways. This week is no exception and even more special as I had the pleasure of interviewing my dad, Bob. Dad was a news journalist for most of his career and for many years specialised in the craft of obituary writing for BBC TV news, BBC Online, radio and then freelance at national newspapers. It’s a career that’s often very misunderstood - firstl...2022-07-0852 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering 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.
Giles Walker talking with Bob Chaundy
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The Berlin Wall Ramming Machine was converted into this sculpture and pushed to the wall on these tracks. In the...2022-06-2735 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering 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.
Luke Alen-Buckley talking with Bob Chaundy
Memento Mori, A Conversation with Mortality
Luke Alen-Buckley with one of his Talisman series
2022-06-1328 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Victoria Cantons, painter and photographer
In this episode, Victoria Cantons takes us through her troubled transgender history from childhood to her transitioning at the age of 39. She tells how photography became her first artistic expression before she opted for painting and fulfilled her long-held wish to go to art school. She also talks about learning technique from both contemporary artists as well as old masters and how her recent self-portraits express themes of power, identity and gender politics.
Victoria Cantons talking with Bob Chaundy
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What is Thought and What is Unsaid
2022-06-0638 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Michael F Rumsby, painter
In this episode, Michael talks about the importance of nature in his childhood, his love of landscapes and the process by which he paints them, his love of water and skies, how he has always travelled for inspiration, how he was living a life that was “inauthentic” and how his latest exhibition, Respair, reflects emotional responses within him released by the pandemic.
Michael F Rumsby talking with Bob Chaundy
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Citadel, 2019
Decons2022-05-3033 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – David Williams-Ellis, sculptor
In this episode, David Williams-Ellis talks about the primary influence of his art teacher at Stowe School, his experience of studying in Italy, how a chance sight of a sculpted female figure in Pietrasanta had a lasting influence on his work, his ability to create a sense of movement and poise in his sculptures, his commissions for memorials in Aberdeen and Normandy, and his continuing love for making art.
David Williams-Ellis talking with Bob Chaundy
Victoria II
2022-05-2334 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Benjamin Hannavy Cousen, painter
In this episode, British artist Benjamin Hannavy Cousen talks about how he converts books into visual artworks by mapping each colour mentioned in them with layers of acrylic paint applied with a syringe. He talks about how he creates “an archaeology of memory” and how his English Literature, History of Art and Cultural Memory studies have informed his work.
Benjamin Hannavy Cousen talking with Bob Chaundy
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The Sea the Sea (History)by Iris Murdoch, aerial and detail
2022-05-0931 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Kim Pace, multi-media artist
In this episode, British artist Kim Pace talks about the weird, hybrid creatures she paints and sculpts focusing on fluid identity, her upbringing with an artistic mother and eccentric father, her love of ceramics, the influence of Mexican folklore and female surrealists, the importance of drawing and her love of grotesques.
Kim Pace talking with Bob Chaundy
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Cultivar Horizontales, glazed ceramic, 2018
2022-04-2936 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – 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.
Beezy Bailey talking with Bob Chaundy
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Midnight Birds
2022-04-2532 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – John Atkin, sculptor
In this episode, sculptor John Atkin talks about the influence on his work of the industrial and rural landscapes of his youth, how Henry Moore came to finance his MA, the inspiration of Wilfred Owen and other literary figures, his love of found objects, how he discovered garment patterns that alluded to the human form, and his landmark sculptures in China, the US, Canada and the UK.
John Atkin talking with Bob Chaundy
Fallen Warrior
2022-04-1845 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Victoria Crowe, painter
In this episode, British painter Victoria Crowe talks about how her paintings reflect both her external and inner life, how she was attracted to the landscape of the Pentland Hills in Scotland that she made her home, the influence of Russian icons, how she responded artistically to the death of her son, the inspiration of Venice, her portrait work and her collaborations with poets, musicians and tapestry weavers.
Victoria Crowe talking with Bob Chaundy
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Sheep, Shepherdess and Harbour Craig
Large Tree Group
2022-04-1135 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Marie-Thérèse Ross, multi-media artist
In this episode, Marie-Thérèse Ross talks about how her sculptural skills developed from collages, how she developed the idea for anthropomorphic furniture, how fragmentation expresses the sense of movement in her work, her fascination with birds and animals through which she can sometimes express anger and her recent collaboration with a composer.
Marie-Thérèse Ross talking with Bob Chaundy
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My Father, Freud and Other Stories
2022-04-0434 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art podcast – Marcus Dove, pyrotechnic artist
In this episode, British artist Marcus Dove talks about how art saved him from a prison sentence, how he came to use explosives as his way of mark making in what he calls “creation through destruction”, how he adapted a missile launcher to blast paint on to his canvas, how his process once put him in hospital, how he used figurative narrative to examine human relationships and how he has recently tended towards complete abstraction.
Marcus Dove talking with Bob Chaundy
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Black Boy from the Urban Play series
Two Birds and the...2022-03-2832 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Andrea Tyrimos, painter
In this latest episode, prize-winning British painter Andrea Tyrimos talks about how art has been a way for channelling stress, how she began her career mixing street art with fine art, how public art has always been close to her heart, and how in solo exhibitions such as Bipolar Picasso and Resilient, she came to combine large-scale portraits with immersive audio recordings that focus on mental health.
Andrea Tyrimos talking with Bob Chaundy
Pillars of Pride
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Living Box2022-03-2145 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Mandy Payne, painter of Brutalist architecture
In this episode, British artist Mandy Payne talks about how she gave up dentistry for art, how she is attracted to Brutalist architecture in particular the Grade II listed Park Hill estate in Sheffield, why she paints on concrete and what advice she’d give to others thinking of changing career to become an artist.
Mandy Payne talking with Bob Chaundy
New Dawn Fades, spray paint and oil on concrete
Out of Time, spray paint and oil on glass-fibre reinforced concrete
2022-03-0731 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Deborah Kruger, textile artist
In this episode, American artist Deborah Kruger talks about her textile creations consisting of “feathers” made from recycled plastic in her studio in Mexico, how she learnt to use textiles growing up, how she is highlighting the extinction of bird species as well as the death of many of the world’s languages as she seeks to make work which is both decorative and thought-provoking.
Deborah Kruger talking with Bob Chaundy
Cambodia
Feather Basket
2022-02-2833 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Claire Morgan, multi-disciplinary artist
In this podcast, Northern Irish artist Claire Morgan talks about how an early trauma has had a profound impact on her life, how she was drawn to taxidermy for her installations, how concern for the environment is a key component of her works and how her art has been a journey of self-discovery.
Claire Morgan talking with Bob Chaundy
Fantastic Mr Fox
If you go down to the woods today
2022-02-2134 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Suchitra Mattai, multi-disciplinary artist
In this episode, Indo-Caribbean artist Suchitra Mattai talks about how her family history of indentured labour informs her art, how textiles are her main focus including saris that hold a symbolic significance, how her work gives a voice to those who have traditionally been silenced including labourers, migrants and those with mental illness, and how her personal experiences are reflected throughout.
Suchitra Mattai talking with Bob Chaundy
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Demerara Dreams
2022-02-0700 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Mark Thompson, painter
In this episode, this internationally acclaimed British painter talks about his recent peripatetic life, why he favours painting bleak and barren landscapes, how his works are derived and evolved from personal memories and how his needing to make sense of the world through his work is a lonely but satisfying process.
Mark Thompson talking with Bob Chaundy
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In Gratitude (for Aki Kosemura)
For Rivers to Run through the Wood and Concrete of Floors
2022-01-3129 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Jo Holdsworth, painter
In this episode, British painter Jo Holdsworth tells how she developed her style of elongated, anonymous figures with long shadows, how she became a professional artist after a corporate career, how she achieves a psychological depth to her work and how commissions stretch her.
Jo Holdsworth talking with Bob Chaundy
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Reflected City
Courage
2022-01-2434 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Marcus Jansen, American expressionist painter
In this episode, Marcus Jansen talks about his unusual upbringing in both New York and Mönchengladbach, the influence of street artists and German Expressionists on his work, how he joined the US Army in 1989 and took part in the first Gulf War, how art saved him when he developed PTSD and how the war changed his both his political viewpoint as well as his art.
Marcus Jansen talking with Bob Chaundy
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Spotlight
Behind Walls 1
2022-01-1734 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Robert Fitzmaurice, British painter
In this podcast, Robert Fitzmaurice talks about the art that excited him even as a young boy, how his father’s POW experience in World War II sowed the seed for his interest in family dynamics, how his practice was influenced by the Constructivist painter Adrian Heath, how themes of masculinity and militarism developed, and how lattices, grids and repeated motifs with expressive use of colour became his signature style and is informed by art from various cultures..
Robert Fitzmaurice talking with Bob Chaundy
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96 Bad Boys, 960 Hiroshimas, 2019
More Than Ever, 2020
2022-01-1034 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Anthony Daley, painter
In this episode, Anthony Daley talks about how he reacted to racism at school after arriving from Jamaica as a young boy, his attitude towards black arts movements, his dislike of strict artistic definitions, his relationship with colour, how Old Master painters influence his process, and his approach to teaching painting.
Anthony Daley talking with Bob Chaundy
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Fricted, from the early De-Fine series
Bigger Than from the Emerging from Within series
2022-01-0331 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Aoife van Linden Tol, explosive artist
In this podcast, Aoife van Linden Tol tells why she chose art initially over science, how her interest in explosives began, about some of her explosive artworks, how she became fascinated by cosmology, how her artist residency at the European Space Agency was “life changing”, and how her resultant ESA project Star Storm unfolded.
Aoife van Linden Tol talking with Bob Chaundy
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From Scorched
From Carbon
2021-12-2040 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Sally Loughridge, painter and printmaker
In this episode, British artist Sally Loughridge talks about how her horizons were broadened at art school in Oxford, how she expressed the movement of ballet dancers after viewing them in rehearsals, her career in costume design in TV, film and theatre, and her love of printmaking.
Sally Loughridge talking with Bob Chaundy
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Rhythms through Space -painting
2021-12-1331 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Hughie O’Donoghue RA, painter
In this episode, Hughie O’Donoghue talks about how his father’s wartime experiences became a subject of his paintings, his rejection of conceptual art, how he was inspired by the landscape of County Mayo in Ireland, how a beached ship became a recurring motif in his work, how his paintings are multi-layered both physically and psychologically, how urban landscapes appear in his current exhibition for the first time and how the complexity of history informs his forthcoming show marking the centenary of the birth of the Irish state.
Hughie O’Donoghue talking with Bob Chaundy
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Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Peter Layton, glassblower
In this podcast, octogenarian master glass artist Peter Layton talks about the excitement he still feels for working with glass, how he turned to the medium from ceramics, how he set up his London Glassblowing Company to keep alive the ancient tradition of glassblowing as an art form, emulating artists such as van Gogh and Klimt for some of his commissions, and the variety and versatility of the medium.
Peter Layton talking with Bob Chaundy
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London Glassblowing Company gallery including Peter Layton’s poppies on the back wall. Photo: Alick Cotterill
2021-11-2928 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Steve Gschmeissner, scientific photographer
In this episode, photographer and microscopist Steve Gschmeissner talks about his scientific background, how he uses a scanning electron microscope to photograph subjects not visible to the naked eye, how he creates beautiful pictures through skilful colouring and how he has been embraced by the art world for album covers, exhibitions, fashion and for the work of other artists.
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Covid-19 virus
Rhingia or hover fly
2021-11-2230 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Ceri Pritchard, painter
In this podcast, Welsh painter Ceri Pritchard talks about being brought up by two artist parents, why he dropped sculpture for painting, how he came to live in Mexico, why creating unsettling works is more interesting to him than the comfortable and reassuring, his love of worlds within worlds in his paintings, his use of domestic mundane iconography and his goal to make his pictures attractive for the viewer.
Ceri Pritchard talking with Bob Chaundy
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The Threat
Anthromorphic Afternoon I
2021-11-0834 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Gbolohan Ayoola, Nigerian painter and sculptor
In our latest podcast, Nigerian artist Gbolohan Ayoola talks about the art scene in his hometown of Lagos, the state of the art market for Nigerians and Africans in general, the deficiencies of an art college education, the influences that drive him as an artist, his “blue woman” series, how current issues such as police brutality and global migration have shaped his work and how his latest works dream of a future African renaissance.
Gbolohan Ayoola talking with Bob Chaundy
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Blue Woman with the Sun on her Head
Blue in Bliss
2021-11-0131 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Brett Murray, South African satirical artist
In this latest podcast, Brett Murray describes his upbringing as a white person in apartheid South Africa, how the 1976 Soweto riots changed his life, how he used his art to help in the struggle against the apartheid regime, his self-exile in London and his triumphant return when the African National Congress was unbanned, how he set up a sculpture department at Stellenbosch University, his satirical artwork criticising the corruption and greed within the now ruling ANC, The Spear controversy and his recent, softer work looking at family and the impact of global warming.
Brett Murray talking with Bob...2021-10-2534 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Thomas Allen, painter
In this podcast, Thomas Allen describes his current woodland life, how sociological theories inform his work, his opinion that human beings need to be “de-centred” from the natural world, how Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious inspired his so-called contemporary cave paintings, and the new work being prepared for his Mall Galleries exhibition next year.
Thomas Allen talking with Bob Chaundy
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Contemporary Cave Painting Fitzrovia (south wall) Watch the video here
An Imagined Loss, winner of the Seaward Prize, National Open Art Exhibition, 2013
2021-10-1832 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Nicola Hicks, sculptor
In this podcast, eminent UK sculptor and drawer Nicola Hicks talks about the privilege of having both parents as artists, her difficulties fitting in at school, the problems of early success, her raw sculpting style, the darkness of her subject matter, and how working on her latest exhibition, Dump Circus, helped her through the anxiety she felt during lockdown.
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Circus Horse, 2008
2021-10-1138 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Felicity Marshall, painter and illustrator
In this latest podcast, Australian painter and illustrator Felicity Marshall talks about how disaster struck her in the 1980s, how she is inspired by the nature in the Victorian coastal area in which she lives, how she trained in classical ballet in addition to studying Fine Art, how 17 years working in the film industry influenced her artistic style, and how she began illustrating and, subsequently, writing children’s books.
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Beach Girl in Moonahs
Air
2021-10-0432 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Philipp Humm, business mogul turned artist
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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MM...2021-09-2034 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Lisa Micklewright, landscape painter
In our latest podcast, Lisa Micklewright talks about her rich artistic family tradition, the influence of the Slade School of Fine Art on her oeuvre, the inspirations for her landscapes, her use of technology to find locations and her love of the aerial perspective.
Lisa Micklewright talking with Bob Chaundy
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Lisa’s grandfather’s illustrations while he was interned as a conscientious objector, and one of his subsequent pulp fiction covers
2021-09-1333 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Angela Heisch, abstract painter
In my latest podcast, American abstract artist Angela Heisch talks about her upbringing in New Zealand, her gradual progression into abstract art, her early influences and inspirations, and the development of her distinctive visual language which has brought her success in New York and now her first solo UK show in London.
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Tadpole and Checked Lashes from 2018
2021-09-0633 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Jane Hilton, photographer
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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Valley of the Gods, Utah, 2015
Shiprock, Jeremiah Karsten from Dead Eagle Trail, 2010
2021-08-3035 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Walking The Line with Megan Piper and Sophie Dutton
This summer, works by four notable artists have been added to The Line, London’s first public art walk founded six years ago by Megan Piper and Clive Dutton. Sculptures by Virginia Overton, Eva Rothschild, Tracey Emin and Madge Gill have been added to the northern section alongside the River Lea. The last is a little-known but important local artist with a classic story of triumph over adversity. Her work has been curated for this outdoor exhibition by Sophie Dutton, Clive’s daughter. In this podcast, Sophie and Megan (l to r above, by the bridge with Madge Gill desi...2021-08-1635 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Raksha Patel, painter and filmmaker
In this latest podcast, Raksha Patel talks about her upbringing in Leicester, how her art turned full circle from focusing on race and identity through surrealism, fantasy and dystopia and back again. Raksha also talks about her art education career, and the need for British artists of South Asian heritage to gain more recognition and representation.
Raksha Patel talking with Bob Chaundy
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In Between the Union Jack, 2021
The Outsider, 2018
2021-08-0935 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Piers Secunda, painter/sculptor
In our latest podcast, British artist Piers Secunda explains why he developed a technique to paint in a way that dispenses with the canvas, how 9/11 changed his life, how he documents the systematic destruction of cultural artefacts, statues and buildings through his paintings, and his dramatic and emotional experiences on trips to China, Afghanistan and Iraq to collect moulds of art desecration.
Piers Secunda talking with Bob Chaundy
A Decade of Rejected Works Re-configured as a One Metre Cube, 2012
2021-08-0244 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Eleanor Moreton, painter
In this podcast episode, painter Eleanor Moreton talks about how she sees the home as a place of dysfunction and repression, her use of history as a metaphor for the personal, her interest in murderers, how and why she has reversioned classic Pre-Raphaelite works, how folk traditions can be used as a method of control, and much, much more.
Eleanor Moreton talking with Bob Chaundy
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Hole, 2019
2021-07-2636 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Emma Coop, landscape artist
In my latest podcast episode, Emma Coop tells how flux in her personal life turned her from a conceptual artist into one focusing on landscape. She explains why she favours using chunky graphite sticks as her main medium, how she has an affinity with nature despite being a city dweller, and how she tries to recapture the emotion of an idea in her works while relishing ambiguity.
Emma Coop talking with Bob Chaundy
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Something Shifted from the Depths series, 2016
Let’s Just See What’s Happening from the Horizon series, 2015
2021-07-1927 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Hatty Buchanan, sculptor
In my latest podcast episode, London-born artist Hatty Buchanan tells how some of her conceptual sculptures are drawn from her experiences as a teenager in Soho where she came across all manner of exotic people active in the sub-culture of the club, music and fashion scene. She also talks about her work in theatre production management, the influence of her MA in Design Imagination on her subsequent work, and how she distills concepts such as the dynamics of power relationships and even self-portraits into her pieces.
Hatty Buchanan talking with Bob Chaundy
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Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Sarah Hardie, performance artist and filmmaker
In my latest podcast episode, Scots-Italian artist Sarah Hardie talks about how singing filled the family home, how she toyed with the idea of being a portrait painter, how she literally found her voice in her work, how psychoanalytical theories influence her, and about her current prize-winning work Spring Sometimes Rises in Me.
Sarah Hardie talking with Bob Chaundy
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Sarah Hardie’s opera, Before Sleep at the End of Love, 2016 was performed in a car park
2021-06-2839 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – My Dog Sighs, street artist
In my latest podcast, Paul Stone, aka My Dog Sighs, tells the extraordinary story of how a chance encounter with a stencilled rat unlocked a creative urge to make street art, how giving away art made from found items mushroomed into a worldwide phenomenon he named Free Art Friday, how this bolstered his reputation leading to exhibitions and commissions, and about his latest immersive installation in a four-storey derelict building in his hometown of Portsmouth.
Paul Stone, aka My Dog Sighs, talking with Bob Chaundy
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Can people, prominent in Free Art...2021-06-2136 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Julie Held, painter
In our latest podcast episode, Julie Held talks about how painting became a refuge as well as a joy, how seeing an Edvard Munch exhibition as a child changed her life, her obsessions with shoe shops and florists, the psychoanalytical edge to her work and her love of colour especially blue.
Julie Held talking with Bob Chaundy
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The Shoe Shop
Celebration and Commemoration
2021-06-1433 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Pinkie Maclure, stained glass artist
In my latest podcast episode, Scottish artist Pinkie Maclure talks about how she got into stained glass accidentally, how her ambition to go to art school was thwarted, her career as a singer and performer, how heroin ruined the lives of many friends, and how the allegorical power and symbolism of medieval stained glass windows inspired her to communicate her ideas on contemporary issues through that medium.
Pinkie Maclure talking with Bob Chaundy
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Self-Portrait Dreaming of Portavadie, 2019 now in the National Museum of Scotland
Pills for Ills, Ills for Pills, 2018
2021-06-0734 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Tatiana de Stempel, multi-disciplinary artist
British interdisciplinary artist Tatiana de Stempel talks about her work as an art director in film and in theatre design, her experience of residencies in China and India, her love of narrative in her painting, her role as director of Light More Light organising art events in London, her work with the late Indian arts journalist Manoj Nair and her curation of a large group show celebrating his life and work.
Tatiana de Stempel talking with Bob Chaundy
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Khali’s Revenge
Mrs Rochester’s Revenge
2021-05-3130 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Luke Jerram, installation artist
In our latest podcast episode, Luke Jerram talks about the ideas behind some of his spectacular and highly popular installations, sculptures and live events that have been shown around the world. These include Park and Slide, originally installed as a playful work in his native Bristol, Play Me I’m Yours in which his team installed some 2,000 street pianos for people to play in public spaces and which grew out of another work called Sky Orchestra. His Glass Microbiology series, giant glass versions of viruses, has been recently augmented by Covid-19, and his most popular installation, a replica of th...2021-05-1728 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Nicole Wassall, multi-media artist
In our latest podcast episode, British artist Nicole Wassall tells of how she gave up consultancy to realise her dream of becoming an artist, how her artistic approach has been inspired by neuroscientific research, her feelings of enlightenment when seeing certain works by Rothko and Bacon, how a “suffragette” coin inspired a feminist artwork and how a hidden camera above it provided surprising footage.
Nicole Wassall talking with Bob Chaundy
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2021-05-1037 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Henry Jabbour, painter and sculptor
In our latest podcast, UK-based artist Henry Jabbour talks about having to leave his native Lebanon because of constant war and political instability, how he gave up a highly successful career as a medical scientist to follow his passion for art, how he expresses emotion in his paintings through body gesture and rich colour, and his recent love for sculpture.
Henry Jabbour speaking with Bob Chaundy
The Presence of You
Nostalgic Voices
2021-05-0337 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Teresa Kutala Firmino, South African painter
In our latest podcast episode, South African artist Teresa Kutala Firmino describes the brutal and violent atmosphere that existed in her home town of Pomfret within the community of 32 Battalion, a special forces insurgency group that fought in the South African Border War between 1966 – 1989. She talks about how the colourful tableaux she creates include symbolic re-enactments of the trauma felt by the families within the military community and she describes her personal experiences of discrimination as a young woman in South Africa today.
Teresa Kutala Firmino talking with Bob Chaundy
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A Ba...2021-04-2636 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Abigail Fallis, sculptor with a social conscience
In our latest podcast episode, British sculptor Abigail Fallis talks about her training as a blacksmith and silversmith, her Cock-Eyed Jack men’s underpants work that first gave her public recognition, her DNA DL90 sculpture consisting of 22 shopping trolleys constructed in the shape of the DNA double helix, and her various pieces that offer often humorous takes on serious issues such as consumerism and environmentalism.
Abigail Fallis talking with Bob Chaundy
2021-04-1934 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Eleanor Johnson, painter
In our latest podcast episode, British painter Eleanor Johnson talks about how winning the Young Artist Award from the Society for Women Artists was a significant moment in her career. She also tells how she practises witchcraft, has a vivid dream life, has a love of the Baroque, champions the male nude and is influenced by Celtic mythology.
Eleanor Johnson talking with Bob Chaundy
Eleanor’s Young Artists Award-winning drawing, 2018
2021-04-0535 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Jason deCaires Taylor, underwater sculptor
Jason deCaires Taylor is a British sculptor who has created numerous spectacular underwater sculpture parks and museums around the world. His first one off the Caribbean island of Grenada has been listed as one of the top 25 Wonders of the World by National Geographic. In our latest podcast, he talks about how his idea developed, how his concrete installations develop into artificial reefs that foster the growth of marine life, how he has married his artistry with marine conservation and diving skills and how his series of sculptures offer a commentary on our relationship with the environment.
Jason...2021-03-2936 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Anastasia Samoylova, photographer
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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2021-03-2234 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Nigel Hall RA, sculptor and draughtsman
In our latest podcast episode, one of the UK’s most eminent sculptors Nigel Hall talks about how art is in his blood, how he subverted sculptural tradition at art school, how places and landscapes such as the Mojave desert influence his art, his love of geometric shapes, void and shadow, and how memory and loss are recurrent themes in his work.
Nigel Hall RA talking with Bob Chaundy
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Magnet, 1966
Soda Lake, the work inspired from his trip to the Mojave Desert
2021-03-1533 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Carol McNicoll, maverick ceramicist
In our latest podcast episode, ceramicist Carol McNicoll talks about her early beginnings making textiles for repertory theatre, how she was able to subvert the traditional idea of ceramics while at the Royal Academy of Art, how decoration, functionality and playfulness are essential features of her work, and how the 2003 Iraq War led to a more political and satirical aspect to her oeuvre.
Carol McNicoll talking with Bob Chaundy
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This cockerel-feathered boa made by Carol McNicoll for Brian Eno of Roxy Music is in the collection of the V & A
Axis...2021-03-0826 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Jamie Frost, sculptor and draughtsman
In our latest podcast, Yorkshire sculptor Jamie Frost talks about what persuaded him to become an artist, how he fell in love with wood as a sculptural medium, the sensitivity with which he draws and sculpts, how a serious illness brought a sense of vulnerability and his collaboration with live models to create poses and gestures that form the basis of his works..
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Thin on the Ground
Ascent
2021-03-0133 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Sam Gilbey, digital painter and illustrator
In our latest podcast, Sam Gilbey talks about how he echoed his hero David Hockney in moving from conventional fine art to digital painting. He talks about the advantages of digital, his successful work on popular culture artwork such as posters, book covers, podcast designs, fan art and film publicity, the way he composes his publicity art, his fine art parodies and the advice he’d give to young digital painters and designers.
Sam Gilbey talking with Bob Chaundy
Exclusive blu-ray steelbook wraparound cover art, commissioned by Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios (via The Poster Posse) for the ho...2021-02-2236 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Glen Baxter, artist of the absurd
Glen Baxter talks about the inspirations for his absurdist drawings whose captions offer incongruous intellectual observations on art and philosophy. He talks about his early obsession with comics and cowboys, how he was captivated by Surrealism at art school, how America and Europe first took to his brand of humour, his struggle as a stammerer and how lockdown has been a fertile ground for his oeuvre
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2021-02-1538 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Jann Haworth, pop artist.
Jann Haworth, one of the few women associated with the Pop Art movement, talks about growing up in Hollywood, how she found her move to England in 1962 “electrifying”, how and why she opted for soft sculpture while studying at the Slade, her contribution to the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album designed with her then husband Peter Blake, her time with the Brotherhood of Ruralists and her mural collaborations in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Jann Haworth talking with Bob Chaundy
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2021-02-0857 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Judy Millar, abstract painter
In our latest podcast episode, New Zealand artist Judy Millar talks about the dynamic abstract action paintings that she makes in her studio at a remote location outside Auckland, her exhibit at the 2009 prestigious Venice Biennale, her dislike of the word “gestural” as a description of her style, her “out of body” experiences when viewing certain works and her “site-antagonistic” public sculptures.
Judy Millar talking with Bob Chaundy
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Judy Millar at her studio home overlooking the Tasman Sea
From My Body Pressed
2021-02-0132 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Orlanda Broom, landscape and abstract painter
In our latest podcast episode, British painter Orlanda Broom talks about why her hyper-coloured landscapes are more than just decorative, how a stay in Portugal revived her passion for art, how her process for painting landscapes and abstracts differs widely and how she enjoys painting large-scale commissions.
Orlanda Broom talking with Bob Chaundy
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Secrets and Lies painted in Portugal
Lash Vine
2021-01-2530 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Claire Luxton, multidisciplinary artist
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.
Claire Luxton talking with Bob Chaundy
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The Nameless Hero
2021-01-1841 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Delphine Diallo, portrait photographer
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.
Delphine Diallo speaking with Bob Chaundy
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From the Highness series
One of a series of collages featuring a crown of braided hair
2021-01-1137 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Tony Bevan, painter
In our latest podcast episode, painter and Royal Academician Tony Bevan talks about his earliest experiences of art, his influences at art school, his reactions to the politics of the day, his linear style for the depiction of aspects of the human body such as heads, and his very personal process of painting.
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The Prophet, 1982
2020-12-2137 min
Considering Art PodcastConsidering Art Podcast – Paul de Monchaux, sculptor and Tess Jaray, painter
In our latest podcast episode, these two distinguished octogenarians talk about the common ground they’ve shared throughout their careers – their time studying together at the Slade School of Fine Art, the influence of architecture on their work, their love of Italy, public commissions, their artistic challenges, their experience of teaching and their email correspondences over many years highlighted in their shared exhibition at London’s Frestonian Gallery.
Paul de Monchaux and Tess Jaray talking with Bob Chaundy
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2020-12-1441 min