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ARTiculateFragments Folds and Frays show at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery - featuring Emmanuel Boateng, Divya Sharma and Patrick Tagoe-Turkson
2023-08-1430 min
ARTiculateJul 3, 2022 Rebecca Moss Artist and activistRebecca is an artist based in Essex and East London. Rebecca is known for work that draws on a mixture of slapstick and deadpan comedy and the absurd. She is interested in how awkwardness can invite empathy, and how a fallible, open subject could suggest a resistant position against powerful systems. Her work responds to landscapes, including wild, rural and urban, from a feminist perspective. She is especially interested in how humorous interventions can speak to power.
Rebecca has a BA in Painting from Camberwell College of Art and an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art. She a...
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ARTiculateHoa Dung Clerget French-Vietnamese artistHoa Dung Clerget is a French Vietnamese artist with a multi disciplinary practise. Transforming every day objects into vessels of memory, meaning and emotion, her work reflects a different temporal experience. Having grown up in France in a Vietnamese family, Hoa Dung uses the family traditions embodied in domestic objects to construct her artistic language. It allows her to speak about cultural tensions that the diaspora encounters. Hoa Dung’s family’s unwritten history is passed down orally and through everyday objects. These domestic objects tell the stories of immigrant women who through their gestures build the link between two diff...
2022-01-1940 minARTiculateJai Chuhan Artist, teacher, collaboratorEpisode 3 of Season 2 of ARTiculate. I continue to talk to remarkable artists who inspire me in their pursuit of finding their authentic voice within their practise. In a time when it is dangerous to touch our friends, the sensitive touch embodied in a good painting is a genuine gift. They embody something of the human intelligence that made them. They are the products of care embedded in a surface through touch. They speak to us as physical bodies, and remind us of how that physicality connects us to the people around us and to the larger world. I had the...
2021-02-0458 minARTiculateSeason 2 : Louisa Loakes - Textile artist based in LondonEpisode 2 of Season 2 of ARTiculate my podcast series sharing my conversations with artists from a variety of backgrounds and histories. It is a way of keeping myself engaged in these difficult times and I hope it can brighten up your day listening to some of these very interesting people.
I have the pleasure of presenting the lovely Louisa Loakes a textile artist quietly doing some really beautiful and unique block printed textiles for furnishings, and home ware.
Having studied painting in her graduation from the Wimbledon college of art Louisa approaches textile printing with the same rigour. As a self-taught...
2021-01-0335 minARTiculateSeries 2 Episode 1: Conversation with Dr Nimmi Hutnik, Artist and Cognitive Behaviour TherapistNimmi is an artist and a Senior Cognitive Behaviour Therapist based in London who helps people suffering from anxiety stress and depression. Nimmi did her D Phil from Oxford university in the 80s after winning a Commonwealth Staff Fellowship while teaching in India. Nimmi then went on to do her masters in fine art form the Wimbledon college of art in 2019.
Nimmi has exhibited widely with group and solo shows and her tryptich ‘
drawing ‘Burnout’ was selected and exhibited by the Bloomberg new contemporaries exhibition this year. In this podcast we talk about her dual practis...
2020-10-1144 minARTiculateNatasha Jeyasingh Founder of Carpe Arte India and Art AdvisorEpisode 21 of ARTiculate presents Natasha Jeyasingh. Natasha is a Mumbai based art advisor and founder of Carpe Arte in India. It is a a platform that encourages people to engage with and support contemporary art. Through her projects, she hopes to take the contemporary art and design scene to a wider audience through pop-up exhibitions, interactive projects and dialogues around the subject. The platform has gone on to help sell works of a huge number of artists and also raise funds for Indian artists to experience residencies and internships abroad.
Natasha has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Govt...
2020-09-011h 14ARTiculateRavista Mehra Graphic designer and Conceptual ArtistRavista is a bilingual storyteller & visual communicator from New Delhi. She did her BFA in Graphic Design and Comparative Literature and Creative Writing from the Rhode Island School of Design. As a designer her practice lies in the interdisciplinary fields of graphic design, photography, filmmaking, writing & research. According to her design is one of the lenses that allows for clarifications in a world that is built around misconceptions.. so relevant now more than ever! She tells complex multilingual stories of individuals in the hope that those smaller stories will tell larger tales of nations whose voices have not been heard...
2020-08-151h 14ARTiculateAug 2, 2020 00:30 Laura Wilson Multidisciplinary artistLaura Wilson is a multidisciplinary artist who’s practise sits in the intersection between archeology anthropology and history. She is interested in how history is carried through millennia through everyday materials, trades and craftsmanship. She works with specialists to develop sculptural and performative works that amplify the relationship between materiality, memory and knowledge. and her interdisciplinary and research-based works have been exhibited widely.
Laura’s project Trained on Veda, a malted loaf and evolving artwork was initiated during her residency at Delfina Foundation in 2016 is currently being developed in partnership with TACO, Grand Union, Site Gallery and MIMA, supported by Arts...
2020-08-0255 minARTiculateAlmuth Tebbenhoff VP Royal Society of Sculptors Jul 26, 2020 15:42In this episode I talk to the wonderful Almuth Tebbenhoff. Almuth is a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and was elected as its vice president last year. She has exhibited widely in Britain and Europe and in 2009 she created the ‘Star of London’ award for the British Film Institute Film Festival and in 2013 curated the annual sculpture exhibition at the University of Leicester among her numerous other accomplishments.
We talk about her beginnings in her career in London, her commitment to her practise, to learning and going out of her comfort zone to work with new materials, expe...
2020-07-2657 minARTiculateJul 18, 2020 17:12 Juliet Jacques Art critic and WriterJuliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker. She has published two books Rayner Heppenstall: A Critical Study and Trans; A memoir. Trans: a memoir is a log of her experiences as a person growing up in a time and society that was hostile to even to question ones’s gender that is assigned at birth and her gender change surgery. This was made into a landmark series in the Guardian called ‘A transgender journey’ from 2010 to 2012. the column was longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2011.
Juliet also writes short fiction, essays and critical appraisals on literature, film, art, music, politics, gender...
2020-07-181h 04ARTiculateJun 29, 2020 21:30 Sara Byers Artist / MusicianToday I have the pleasure of speaking with Sara Byers is a London based artist, musician and museum educator. Her practice can best be described as based on the ‘truth to materials’ tenet of modern architecture, which holds that any material should be used where it is most appropriate and that its nature should not be hidden, disguised, or concealed. From reclaimed and recycled material, to food products, metal, wood, plastics, resins and textiles, Sara’s practice creates the fantastical from the mundane while addressing wider issues of empire, class and accessibility.
Sara holds a BA from Camberwell and an MA from t...
2020-07-0554 minARTiculateJun 20, 2020 14:39 Khursheed Nariman sculptor based in New DelhiIn this episode I speak with young Khursheed Nariman who is an amazingly talented artist based in New Delhi. Khursheed started off as a student of political science and won many awards in her leadership roles in college but then moved to art and quickly made a mark again in Delhi’s art circles. She has apprenticed with well known artists and artisans across India and has been part of many shows in India and abroad. Khursheed has also started a novel initiative called ‘Art and Artisans
‘ that connects artisans and master craftspeople from villages and towns with secondary and A leve...
2020-06-251h 01ARTiculateJun 15, 2020 16:53 Louise Grundy
In today’s episode I will be talking with the lovely Louise Grundy. Louise is an artist entrepreneur social worker and educator all in one.
She works primarily in sculpture, creating layered paper portraits inspired by archival material and family history. Louise explores words, records stories behind both famous and not-so-famous faces and is well known for her Ancestry Heads project, a series of sculptural heads drawing on the themes of history and memory. The Ancestry Heads project started in 2016 and she has since created over 30 sculptural portraits for exhibitions and private commissions. In our conversation Louise talks affectionately about he...
2020-06-1651 minARTiculateJun 9, 2020 09:58 Jo VickeryIn Episode 13 I speak with Jo Vickery who just completed her stint as the International director of Russian Art at Sotheby’s. Jo has been with Sotheby’s for over two decades and is on the cusp of starting her own Art Advisory venture which will launch in 2021. In this episode we talk about made Jo choose the art industry as a career after studying languages in her graduation. Her beginnings at Sotheby’s and her love for the Russian language and culture that extended on to learning and helping artists in Russia connect with collectors worldwide.
2020-06-0948 minARTiculateJun 4, 2020 16:20 Nigerian Performance artist Jelili AtikuIn this episode I speak with Jelili Atiku is one of Nigeria’s most well known and award winning performance artists who’s practise sits in the intersection between politics social justice and climate change. He is admired for his fantastically elaborate performances that are energetic full of imagery, costumes and movement that reflect Nigeria’s rich heritage and history. Through drawing, installation sculpture and live art Jelili Atiku brings social and political issues facing Nigeria and its post colonial identity into prominence. He was the recipient of the prestigious Prince Claus Laureate award in 2015.
We speak about his deep pride...
2020-06-051h 12ARTiculateMay 25, 2020 16:29 Liam Ashley ClarkIn this episode I speak with Liam Ashley Clark a multidimensional artist who works in drawing painting photography collage making and sculpture. Liam’s work has its roots in skateboarding, street art and folk art but is also influenced by contemporary and historic art practises. His works across mediums contain a combination of image and text , use of colour and pattern with an injection of irony and humour! Liam was one of the artists selected in the prestigious Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2019 with his works shown in Leeds and in London.
2020-05-2836 minARTiculateMay 21, 2020 12:34 Deepa SobtiNext episode I talk to Deepa Khanna Sobti, a Singapore based artist of Indian origin. She is renowned for her abstract expressionist works that are accompanied by original poems. Deepa paints solely with a palette knife to give her paintings a gestural feel that reminds us of Action Art. She has achieved international renown with multiple solo and group exhibitions and has won the Royal Arts Prize in 2016. Deepa’s works are featured in a book published by the International Confederation of Art critiques.
2020-05-2147 minARTiculateMay 13, 2020 12:34 Nour Abdul SalamNext episode I talk to Nour Abdul Salam a textile designer from Lebanon. Nour talks about what made him gravitate towards textile designing from Interior Architecture, researching of ideas from the sublime to the mundane, his unique creations integrating sustainable initiatives, bringing his heritage and culture in his work and dealing with the quarantine with a one of a kind creation.
2020-05-1535 minARTiculateMay 9, 2020 18:05 Catherine Leo Art therapy and mysticismMy next episode features Catherine Leo the intrepid young artist using art as a way of going into a trance and folding into herself. Catherine talks about her travels in India, her plans with art therapy and ends with promising to do another podcast to continue with her endless ideas about art and wellness.
2020-05-1154 minARTiculateMay 6, 2020 18:51 Antonis Sideras Performance and Video artistNext episode I speak with Antonis Sideras a performance and video artist based in London. Antonis talks about his practise and art activism for gay and queer rights, his ambivalence towards gay pride, RuPaul, and his alter ego character Queero.
ARTiculate is a podcast that aims to provide a platform for student artists to express themselves and ultimately build connections with other artists across the world.
2020-05-0847 minARTiculateMay 2, 2020 13:04 Matrika BhandariNext episode I talk to the ebullient Matrika Bhandari who is pursuing her MA in Textiles at the RCA. We talk about her experiences with making bespoke designs with master weavers in Rajasthan and her current project with sustainable fabrics and making designs for masks in the lockdown.
ARTiculate is a podcast that aims to provide a platform for student artists to express themselves and ultimately build connections with other artists across the world.
2020-05-0439 minARTiculateApr 30, 2020 15:43 Jeremy IpNext episode I speak with Jeremy Ip an artist based in HongKong.
2020-05-0431 minARTiculateARTiculate - Shameen ArshadARTiculate is a podcast that interviews art students from all across the world to build a connection through ideas, inspirations and experiences. Today I talk to Shameen Arshad who is based in Islamabad in Pakistan.
2020-05-0436 minARTiculateMay 1, 2020 15:01 Ania SabetI talk to the truly inspiring Ania Sabet. Ania is a medical doctor working at the St Thomas hospital London in Accidents and Emergencies. She is also pursuing a full time Masters in Sculpture the Royal College of Art London. We talk about her straddling two careers, her mentors, her plans post lockdown.
ARTiculate is a podcast that aims to provide a platform for student artists to express themselves and ultimately build connections with other artists across the world.
2020-05-0137 min
ARTiculateApr 30, 2020 13:46 Vanatanvi
This episode features VanaTanvi an art practitioner / PhD student and Associate professor at Kala Bhavan which is part of Shanti Niketan. Kala Bhavana (Institute of Fine Arts) is the fine arts faculty of Visva-Bharati University, in Shantiniketan, India. It is an institution of education and research in visual arts, founded in 1919, it was established by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. VanaTanvi has BA/ MA in Fine Art specialising in Textile Fibre Art and is currently pursuing her doctoral thesis on the philosophical basis of art. She is also researching on the relationship between sound and painting through the study of Ragamala...
2020-05-0140 minARTiculateARTiculate - Laura TillotsonARTiculate is a podcast that connects art students from across the world through their ideas, inspirations and experiences. Today I talk to Laura Tillotson who is an Masters student studying in Manchester.
2020-04-2732 min