Art Cast

Art Cast
Series 4 Episode 1: Sarah Morris

Art Cast is a podcast series of informal discussions with professional artists and designers, presented by Matt Gee, Programme Area Manager of Fine Art, joined by students from Morley College London - Chelsea Centre. For this episode, Matt is joined by Sarah Morris.

Sarah Morris is an accomplished artist whose work spans the mediums of painting and film. Born in Sevenoaks, Kent, in south-east England, Morris has established herself as a prominent figure in the art world.

Morris's educational journey took her to prestigious institutions such as Brown University, Cambridge University, and the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her dedication to her craft was recognised when she became a Berlin Prize fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and received the Joan Mitchell Foundation painting award.

Blending her passion for painting and film, Morris sees these two art forms as interconnected. Throughout her career, she has explored various styles and techniques. In her earlier works, she experimented with geometric Modernist grid designs, utilising flat planes of colour. Another notable series focused on glass-faced skyscrapers, incorporating geometric landscape designs reflected in their facades. Additionally, Morris delved into screen-prints, word-paintings, and even painted representations of shoes.

In her films, Morris captures the essence of both individuals and cities, delving into their psychology and essence. Whether it's depicting urban scenes in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, and Rio or providing an individual's perspective on significant events or industries, Morris's films provide unique insights into the architecture, politics, industry, and leisure that define a particular place.

Sarah Morris's artistic prowess has been recognized worldwide, with solo exhibitions held in renowned institutions such as Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Fondation Beyeler in Basel and Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt.

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Series 3 Episode 7: Cey Adams

Art Cast is a podcast series of informal discussions with professional artists and designers, presented by Matt Gee, Programme Area Manager of Fine Art, joined by students from Morley College London - Chelsea Centre.  For this episode Matt is joined by graffiti artist Cey Adams from New York and student Emma Allan from Morley College London's Chelsea Centre HNC in Fine Art.

Cey Adams is a graffiti artist who began from the late 70s to the early 80s. He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, and his work was exhibited alongside Jean Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. In 1982, he was featured in the PBS documentary Style Wars about subway graffiti in New York. In 1983, he formed a close relationship with the Beastie Boys and designed their 12" single cover for Cooky Puss. He also worked with Russell Simmons' Rush Artist Management to create logos, tour merchandising, and advertising campaigns for rap artists. In the late 80s, Adams and his partner Steve Carr co-founded The Drawing Board, an in-house visual design firm for Def Jam Recordings that oversaw the visual style of their artists. Adams went on to create corporate advertising campaigns for companies such as Levi's, Nike, HBO, Coca-Cola, Burton Snowboards, Moët & Chandon, Comedy Central, HBO, and Warner Bros.

Cey Adams has had a long, successful career as a designer and artist, creating logos and branding for many different companies and music artists including the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Jay Z and Mary J Blige. He was the founding Creative Director of Def Jam Records.

Having previously designed clothes for Run DMC for Adidas, in 2006 he was commissioned to design his own custom track suits and sneakers featuring Beastie Boys. He was also commissioned to do a mural for the National Urban League conference and the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, and collaborated with Brooklyn Arts Council in 2015. He also did a project with photographer Janette Beckman and created a limited edition run of 500 clothing pieces for the launch of Levi's new store in Times Square. His work is known for its themes of pop culture, race and gender relations, and cultural and community issues.

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Series 3 Episode 6: Laure Prouvost

Art Cast is a podcast series of informal discussions with professional artists and designers, presented by Matt Gee, Programme Area Manager of Fine Art, joined by students from Morley College London - Chelsea Centre.

For this episode Matt is joined by Turner Prize Winner Laure Prouvost and students Liz Thomas and Steve Harrison from Morley College London's Chelsea Centre HNC in Fine Art.

In 2013 Laure won the Turner Prize with an installation titled Wantee and in 2019 she represented France at the Venice Bienalle with a piece called The Deep Blue Sea Surrounding you. The exhibition was based on the decentralised nervous system of an octopus. Various sculptures, sounds, dances, performances and lighting are connected throughout the pavilion in a tentacle-like fashion. A diverse group of performers from all over the world, such as a magician, singer, rapper and karate practitioner, are part of a film that follows a road trip from Grigny (a suburb of Paris) to Venice. The film is described by Prouvost as "the head of the octopus" as the performers take the audience through the canals of Venice.

She has previously exhibited at the Tate Modern and the Institute for Contemporary Arts. In 2011 in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery she was awarded the MaxMara Art Prize for Women. 

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Series 3 Episode 5: Matthew Stone

Art Cast is a podcast series of informal discussions with professional artists and designers, presented by Matt Gee, Programme Area Manager of Fine Art, joined by students from Morley College London - Chelsea Centre.

For this episode Matt is joined by artists Matthew Stone and students Laura Leon Batista from Morley College London's Chelsea Centre Access to HE in Art and Design. 

Matthew Stone graduated from Camberwell College of Arts, London in 2004. He currently stages performances and films. In 2007, his first solo show, entitled "Futurehindsight", took place at UNION in London. In November 2009, Stone topped the arts section in a "Power players Under 30" list compiled by the Sunday Times.

His most recent show was at Union London in 2022, the show included a combination of artworks on linen, sculptures created with 3D printing, and handmade wooden furniture. His work incorporated the use of AI for the first time and explored how the repeating of images across different forms can create a unique visual language. Drawing inspiration from artists like Henri Matisse and Roy Lichtenstein, Stone had inserted representations of his own existing artworks into his works. He had also taken this concept a step further by including depictions of his AI-assisted paintings in three large scale linen canvases, and has also made physical versions of these AI paintings to display in the gallery.

Stone frequently collaborates with FKA Twigs and created the album artwork for 2019's Magdalene. This is one of my favourite LPs’ at home and I have to say that the artwork is re-produced beautifully with ultra high definition print quality.

Check out his work at Matthewstone.co.uk

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Series 3 Episode 4: Faile

Art Cast is a podcast series of informal discussions with professional artists and designers, presented by Matt Gee, Programme Area Manager of Fine Art, joined by students from Morley College London - Chelsea Centre.

For this episode Matt is joined by collaborative pair Faile; Patrick Mcneil and Patrick Miller. Student Karen Mulville from the Access to HE in Art and Design will also joining the conversation.

Faile’s work consists predominantly of painting and printmaking, and they show a range of work from sculpture, paintings to large scale murals, stencils and even prayer wheels. They work on the street and within museums and galleries, using culturally driven iconography and critique on Capitalism and Consumerism.  

 
Notable exhibitions include at the Tate Modern in 2008 a massive 240-square-foot image of a Native American in full regalia amidst a shredded collage of pulp images and found signage affixed to the Tate's exterior. Temple in 2010, which was a full scale church in ruins in Lisbon,Tower of Faile, a 40 foot tower of wooden blocks combined with screenprints and painted imagery - a collaboration with the New York Ballet School, which was displayed at the Lincoln Centre for Performing Arts.

A 2015 major retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum which featured a return of the Temple from Lisbon. combined with large scale marble sculptures. Wishing on you in 2015, a seven foot high kinetic sculpture in New York's Time Square. 

You can find art courses at Morley College London's Chelsea Centre here

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Series 3 Episode 3: Ryan Gander

Art Cast is a podcast series of informal discussions with professional artists and designers, presented by Matt Gee, Programme Area Manager of Fine Art, joined by students from Morley College London - Chelsea Centre.

For this episode Matt is joined by artist, Ryan Gander who identifies as "a sort of neo-conceptualist, Proper-'Gander'-ist, amateur philosopher". Emma Allen and Steve Harrison, both current students on our HNC in Fine Art, are also joining the conversation.

Gander's artwork is not confined to any particular style or medium. He prefers to explore ideas through a multitude of materials and methods, often challenging how art and design can be approached. He has investigated various topics, such as modernist design, creativity, education, and utopian/dystopian worlds. Examples of his work include "It Came out of Nowhere, he said staring at an empty space", a document wallet made in collaboration with Jonathan Monk; "Device #5", a series of non-functional devices; and "A lamp made by the artist for his wife", a series of ad hoc lamps.

Gander wants to work outside of the traditional ways of producing art, so he has collaborated with his daughters and has used different pseudonyms. He hopes his work is expansive and has more end points than starting points, like in a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book. These books were published in the 1970s and were marketed to 10-14 year olds. In these books, the reader is presented with a decision at the end of each page and depending on the choice, the narrative splits.

Ryan was awarded an OBE in 2017 and has been elected Royal Academician in the category of Sculpture. In 2005 he won the Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel.

You can find art courses at Morley College London's Chelsea Centre here

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Series 3 Episode 2: Martin Parr

Welcome to Art Cast Season 3. Art Cast is presented by Matt Gee, Programme Area Manager of Fine Art, at the Chelsea Centre at Morley College London.

In this episode Matt and students are joined by British documentary photographer and photojournalist Martin Parr.

Martin Parr’s photography intimately documents modern life, in particular the social classes of England and the wealth of the Western World. His most notable projects have been The Last Resort (1983–1985), The Cost of Living (1987–1989), Small World (1987–1994) and Common Sense (1995–1999). Since 1994, Parr has been a member of Magnum Photos. He has had around 40 solo photobooks published, and has featured in around 80 exhibitions worldwide including the international touring exhibition ParrWorld , and a retrospective at the Barbican Arts Centre, London, in 2002. The Martin Parr Foundation was registered as a charity in 2015 and opened premises in his hometown of Bristol in 2017. It houses his own archive and a gallery.

The students featured on this episode:

• Karen Mulville from our HE Access to Art and Design
• Nick Gardner from our BA Hons in Photography
• Emma Allen from our HNC in Fine Art
• John Pettitt from our HNC in Photography

You can find art courses held at Morley College London's Chelsea Centre here

Welcome to Art Cast Season 3. Art Cast is presented by Matt Gee, Programme Area Manager of Fine Art, at the Chelsea Centre at Morley College London.

We are very excited to welcome Polly Morgan to open our third series. I am joined by students Inigo Farah from our Fashion Diploma and Evelina Yakoleva, from our HE Access to Creative Industries and we delve in to a wide range of topics including taxidermy, casting, being a professional artist and managing income.

Polly Morgan is a British artist living and working in London. Self-taught with no formal education in art, Polly works in taxidermy, concrete and polyurethane. She is interested in creating deceptions, with sculptural facsimiles made from painted casts and skin, as a way of exploring false narratives in our increasingly polarised and digitised society.

You can now listen to the previous two series on streaming platforms such as Apple and Spotify, just search Art Cast Morley Radio.

The guest for this episode is David Shrigley. David works across drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, animation, and print. He publishes books, produces music, occasionally designs tattoos and creates all manner of other paraphernalia. David is one of those unique artists, like Andy Warhol or Keith Haring, who is recognised within the art world but whose reach extends far beyond to impact our wider culture.

He has received international critical acclaim for his work and in 2020 was awarded an OBE for Services to Visual Arts. In 2016, he was awarded the Fourth Plinth Commission for sculpture in Trafalgar Square and was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize Award in 2013.

David Shrigley has had solo exhibitions in museum worldwide and his works are found in prominent collections, including Museum of Modern Art (New York), Tate Britain (London), the National Gallery of Denmark (Copenhagen), amongst many others.

He has a shop based in Copehagen called Shrig shop.

Student Co-Host: Kathryn MCgeary, Morley College’s Photography student.

The guest for this episode is street artist Hera. Born in Germany, Jasmin Siddiqui is known in the street art world as Hera, and is one part of the collaborative pair, Herakut. 
 
Hera creates mixed media work on huge murals entwined with poetic text that is poignant and distinct in terms of the graffiti writing style. She looks into themes such as political injustice and social awareness. The work is hugely ambitious. One collaborative piece in Berlin measures in at a huge 42 by 16 Metres. The aim of this piece was to remind Berliners about the closeness to nature the city possess by portraying a woman in a hoodie standing holding animals in her palm, symbolically enjoying the beauty and diversity of nature.
 
The work symbolises an escape from homeland to a foreign nation, the path from the familiar to the unknown, with the mantra being ‘home is where you take it’.