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EMPIRE LINESThe Dhaba, Alia Syed (2025) (EMPIRE LINES Live at CCA Glasgow)In this special episode, filmmaker and contemporary artist Alia Syed joins EMPIRE LINES live, to weave together their works in moving image, photography, and oral history, and reflect on personal experiences of migration in South Asian diasporic communities in 1960s–1970s Glasgow, through their ongoing film series, The Dhaba (2025).Drawing inspiration from the tale of St. Mungo - the patron saint and founder of Glasgow - Alia Syed’s exhibition, The Ring in the Fish, is an intimate exploration of memory, cultural transmission, and identity in Scotland. In The Dhaba (2025), Alia gleans stories from a series of inte...
2025-07-2458 min
A brush with...A brush with... LinderThe first episode of 2025 of A brush with… features a conversation with Linder, who discusses her influences—from writers to musicians and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. Born Linda Mulvey in Liverpool in 1954, she is best known for her photomontages, made from images found in books and magazines across six decades. They bring together sex and sexual politics, glamour and grit, satire and seduction. Since emerging in the punk era of the late 1970s—a culture whose DIY approach and unflinching attitude to society her work embodies—Linder has reinvigora...
2025-02-051h 15
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirRhodri Davies, Response To Spirit Mirror, Track 2Rhodri Davies, Response To Spirit Mirror, Track 2 by Glynn Vivian Art Gallery - On Air
2022-03-1506 minGlynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirRhodri Davies, Response To Spirit Mirror, Track 1Rhodri Davies, Response To Spirit Mirror, Track 1 by Glynn Vivian Art Gallery - On Air
2022-03-1505 minGlynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirRhodri Davies And Joan Jones, William Blake's Prophecy In Spirit MirrorRhodri Davies And Joan Jones, William Blake's Prophecy In Spirit Mirror by Glynn Vivian Art Gallery - On Air
2022-03-1505 min
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirCurators Tour; Gilly Fox, Not Without My Ghosts - The Artist As MediumCurator Gilly Fox guides us around the Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition, 'Not Without My Ghosts, The Artist As Medium'. Fox talks about the varied work in the exhibition, ranging from the late 19th century to the present day, looking at how artists’ have engaged with séances, channelling, automatic writing and other paranormal investigations.
Gilly Fox, Assistant Curator at Hayward Gallery Touring. Fox lectures on fine art, curating and photography courses across the UK. In 2016, Gilly Fox was selected for the Clore Leadership programme and launched her independent art consultancy, advising clients on commissioning artists and work for built environment.
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2022-03-0229 min
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirGloomy Mayhill Walk by Joan JonesArtist Joan Jones performed ‘Gloomy Mayhill Walk’ as part of our Glynn Vivian Art Night: Supporting LGBT+ History Month in February 2020. Listen again to this captivating journey through the streets and pathways of Mayhill.
Perfformiodd yr artist Joan Jones 'Gloomy Mayhill Walk' fel rhan o Noson Gelf Glynn Vivian: Cefnogi Ms Hanes LGBT+ ym mis Chwefror 2020. Gwrandewch unwaith eto ar y daith hudolus hon drwy strydoedd a llwybrau Mayhill.
2021-02-0813 min
Arts & IdeasSeances, Science and Art - A Haunting, A Telepathy Experiment, and an Exhibition of Supernormal Art.How a Croydon housewife baffled a 1930s ghost hunter - the author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Kate Summerscale, talks to Matthew Sweet about her discovery of a dossier of interviews about a poltergeist "terrorising" Alma Fielding which made headlines in the 1938 Sunday Pictorial newspaper.30 artists interested in seances and spirituality are on show in an exhibition co-curated by Simon Grant and the Drawing Room Gallery in partnership with Hayward Touring.Plus we return to a radio experiment in telepathy and a 1920s on air seance with psychologist Richard Wiseman, author of Paranormality amongst...
2020-10-2049 min
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirDavid Turner - Disability and BlindnessThe Victorians viewed sight as the ‘sovereign’ of the senses and
considered its loss highly disabling. From the late eighteenth century onwards charitable institutions provided education and training for blind children. Wealthy philanthropists such as Richard Glynn Vivian supported blind people’s charities, but from the middle of the nineteenth century blind people became increasingly critical of charity and the attitudes of pity that underpinned it. This talk explores these arguments and their relevance to disability activism today. Glynn Vivian’s own sight declined in later life, and the talk also examines the experiences of people with visual impairments.
2017-05-2847 minGlynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirBob Gelsthorpe - In ConversationBob Gelsthorpe is an artist, writer and co-director at Bit Studios. Faith is the key driving force in his practice-based research, which includes drawing, performance, photography, sculpture and curatorial projects. The work dictates the medium, as opposed to a medium focussed practice. Bob recorded this talk while he was our Artist in Residence during November 2015.
2016-07-0823 minGlynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirAled Simons - In ConversationArtist, musician, collector, performer and designer Aled Simons joined Learning officer Tom Goddard to talk about his practice and time on his residency, recorded in July 2015.
2015-12-0820 minGlynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirTiff Oben, Old Masters - Community CafeIn this episode Lecturer and artist Tiff Oben presents the first in a series of three talks, searching for the Masters, overlooked makers, objects and the obscure, in a personal response to the Glynn Vivian Collection. Recorded in September 2014
2015-11-0940 minGlynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirEmma Gifford Mead - Artist TalkIn this episode, join Emma Gifford Mead as she discusses her curatorial practice including highlights from her time at Oriel Davies, Parasol Unit, and the British Council, leading up to curating the Jeremy Deller exhibition at the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2013. Recorded in March 2014
2015-10-1531 minGlynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirJoan Jones - In ConversationJoan Jones was our Artist in Residence from December to January 2015. In this episode, Joan and Learning officer Tom Goddard discuss Joan's influences, life and experiences during the residency.
2015-10-0930 minGlynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirClare Woods - In ConversationThis episode is an extract from Last year’s Wakelin award winner Clare Woods, who was recorded in September 2014 in conversation with Amanda Farr, director of Oriel Davies and selector of the award.
2015-09-0720 min
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirBarry Plumber, From the Sacred Mountain... - Community CafeIn Association with Swansea Remembers, Art historian and artist Barry Plummer, discussed the life of Augustus John, as part of a series of talks that looked at artists from the Glynn Vivian collection, and the complex relationship with War.
Recorded in July 2014.
2015-08-2838 minGlynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirRachel Trezise - In ConversationWriter Rachel Trezise discusses Cosmic Latte, her current collection of short fiction stories. Rachel won the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2006 and her first full length play, Tonypandemonium, was staged by National Theatre Wales in autumn 2013 and won ‘Best Production in the English Language’ at the Theatre Critics of Wales Awards in early 2014.
2015-07-3011 minGlynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirDr Ceri Thomas, Views From The Collection Part Three - Community CafeDr Ceri Thomas presents the concluding part in a trilogy of talks spanning one hundred years in the history of visual culture in South Wales from 1910. Part Three was recorded in April 2014.
2015-07-161h 14Glynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirAndreas Ruthi, When the object is the subject - Artist TalkSwiss painter Andreas Rüthi, gave a talk about his work and the European tradition of still life painting in relation to modernism and more recent critical writing on still life, recorded in May 2014.
2015-07-0939 min
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirDr Ceri Thomas, Views From The Collection Part Two - Community CafeDr Ceri Thomas presents the second in a trilogy of talks spanning one hundred years in the history of visual culture in South Wales from 1910. Part Two was recorded in March 2014.
2015-06-2956 minGlynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirZanne Andrea - Artist TalkThe Glynn Vivian Art Gallery ‘Artist in Residence’ programme is an opportunity for the community to interact, exchange and engage with an artist and to offer artists an opportunity for reflection, research and collaboration. Zanne studied Fine Art in UWE, Bristol, gaining a Masters Degree at Bath Spa in 2013. Zanne explores the relationship between power, politics, history and memory, and considers the role of illusion, authenticity and the manipulation of perception. Her work often takes the form of sculptural assemblages or installations where items are continuously arranged, layered and edited.
2015-03-3121 min
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirDr Ceri Thomas, Views From The Collection Part One - Community CafeDr Ceri Thomas presented a trilogy of talks spanning one hundred years in the history of visual culture in South Wales from 1910. Part One was recorded in January 2014.
2015-03-0246 min
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery - On AirOn Air IntroductionWelcome to Glynn Vivian Art Gallery's online audio channel "On Air". Over the coming months you will have the opportunity to listen to talks, discussions and conversations from the gallery's audio archive.
2015-02-2601 min