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South African artist Kimberley Gundle who has lived in London for nearly four decades, is known mainly for her bold and vibrantly coloured drawings, prints, and ceramic portraits. In this episode, she talks about her love of colour, sketching daily on the London Underground, studying ceramics, designing rugs, making art from visiting the Maasai people... Continue Reading →

Jaclyn Mednicov is an American artist based in Chicago who works mainly in painting, sculpture and installation. In this episode, she talks about how she first developed her love for making art, how nature became her focus, how she began incorporating plants physically into her works, her venture into ceramics and how residencies abroad taught... Continue Reading →

Rose Electra Harris is a young emerging artist who paints bright energetic works that focus on nature. In this episode she talks about how her printmaking training influences her painting style, how Covid changed her career, how travels and residencies abroad have influenced her and how her profile was raised by the London Art Fair... Continue Reading →

Sophie Perez is a British-born artist now living in Australia where she has exhibited widely and won prestigious awards. In this episode, she talks about her early art experiences, why she moved to Australia, how the Mornington Peninsula area south of Melbourne inspires her daily, and how she strives to make her landscapes an immersive... Continue Reading →

Agata Mayes is a Polish-born visual artist based in Melbourne, Australia. In this episode, she talks about growing up in Poland during the transition from Communism, the influence of her father’s photography hobby, the effect on her of having both parents as mathematicians, working in the aviation industry, how her move to Australia opened up... Continue Reading →

June Nelson paints and draws themes expressing narratives that shape women’s lives. In this episode, she talks about her upbringing in industrial south Wales, studying English before reverting to art, how she has adopted a feminist viewpoint in her work, the influence of both art history and literature in determining her motifs, drawing with smoke... Continue Reading →

In this episode, British artist Paul Hodgson explains how and why his practice is primarily concerned with reconstructing important moments in art history by deconstructing the process by which the artwork is made. He discusses the symbolism behind earlier paintings and the process of making them, and he talks about his latest exhibition entitled Zot... Continue Reading →

Joan Danziger is a 91-year-old American sculptor whose fantastical works have adorned many a museum and gallery across the United States. In this episode, she talks about how surrealism attracted her even as a child, how after graduating from Cornell University as an abstract painter, she joined the art scenes in Woodstock NY and New... Continue Reading →

Joanna Whittle is a multi-prize winning landscape artist regarded by some as the greatest painter of her generation. In this episode, she talks about the influences of a childhood spent abroad, her attraction to tents and fairground structures and what they mean conceptually and metaphorically, the dualities in her paintings, the lack of planning in... Continue Reading →

Narinder Sagoo’s visionary drawing skills have been instrumental in imagining architectural spaces in his role as Head of Design and Communication for Foster and Partners. In this episode, he talks about how drawing was a key part of his childhood in a family of makers, how he excelled at art in school despite being bullied,... Continue Reading →

Harold Offeh is a Ghana-born British artist and educator who uses a range of media to investigate the way we think about social, political, sexual and racial models. In this episode, he talks about how performance became a natural part of his work, his project on London’s longest artwork at Holborn Viaduct, how and why... Continue Reading →

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... Continue Reading →

In an interview taken from the Considering Art archive in 2022, eminent 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... Continue Reading →

Hardeep Pandhal creates fantasy worlds centred on drawing in which he tackles challenging contemporary issues with a slice of humour. In this episode, he talks about his family background in Birmingham as the son of two Sikh parents, the racial prejudice he suffered, the influence of video games and digital media on his art, collaborating... Continue Reading →

Steve Nayar has been a nine times finalist for the Wildlife Artist of the Year competition and focuses on portraying endangered species. In this episode, he talks about his family’s lineage, what he learnt during his career in design and advertising, how painting a domestic cat sparked a change in direction, how a way of... Continue Reading →