Half a teaspoon of delusion, a shot of courage and a quart of creativity to chase...

We chat with Dr Sunshine Wong, artworker, researcher and co-director (programme) of Bloc Projects in Sheffield.

We chatted about artist-led practice, what that means, how artists can dive into this world whilst taking care of themselves, where are the challenges and where is the joy, and we round it all off with a cocktail recipe to boot!

So, search BANG ON in your streaming app to listen, like, follow, and subscribe. Don’t forget to leave us a review! It really helps the show (and gives us a fuzzy feeling, too)

About the show:

BANG ON is a knowledge sharing podcast, breaking down some of the steps we’ve picked up along the way as an organisation and as artists in building a successful arts career. It’s for emerging artists, packaging tips and tricks on some of the topics we’ve often been asked about over the years. In Season 1 we took you through all the steps of putting an exhibition together. In Season 2, we take you through the broader arts cultural landscape, plotting the uncharted waters of opportunities, education, artist-led activity, identity, rejection, mental health and MORE!

Short Supply is an artist-led organisation established in 2019 by Mollie Balshaw and Rebekah Beasley, with a goal to support emerging artists.

Follow us on all social media ⁠⁠⁠@shortsupplymcr⁠⁠⁠

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Check our website at ⁠⁠⁠www.shortsupply.org⁠⁠⁠

About Sunshine Wong and Bloc Projects:

https://www.blocprojects.co.uk/about

Painting... but knitted!?

We chat all things painting with winner of the John Moores Painting Prize Lady Grantchester Award 2023, Emma Roche.

We chatted about stereotypes, trying to fit into other people's expectations of your career path, alternative education, worklife balance, being an artist and a parent - this episode is absolutely stacked with goodness!!

So, search BANG ON in your streaming app to listen, like, follow, and subscribe. Don’t forget to leave us a review! It really helps the show (and gives us a fuzzy feeling, too)

About the show:

BANG ON is a knowledge sharing podcast, breaking down some of the steps we’ve picked up along the way as an organisation and as artists in building a successful arts career. It’s for emerging artists, packaging tips and tricks on some of the topics we’ve often been asked about over the years. In Season 1 we took you through all the steps of putting an exhibition together. In Season 2, we take you through the broader arts cultural landscape, plotting the uncharted waters of opportunities, education, artist-led activity, identity, rejection, mental health and MORE!

Short Supply is an artist-led organisation established in 2019 by Mollie Balshaw and Rebekah Beasley, with a goal to support emerging artists.

Follow us on all social media ⁠⁠@shortsupplymcr⁠⁠

For all requests email [email protected]

Check our website at ⁠⁠www.shortsupply.org⁠⁠

About Emma Roche:

https://www.rocheemma.ie/

Rejection, the least talked about thing in the art world.

We'd better get on with it and have a chat then, eh?

Welcome back to BANG ON! This is Season 2, and we're kicking it off with the thing we get requests to talk about the most - rejection! It's something we all face, and yet stigma and shame often keep us from finding our way through it and supporting eachother. Let's go!

So, search BANG ON in your streaming app to listen, like, follow, and subscribe. Don’t forget to leave us a review! It really helps the show (and gives us a fuzzy feeling, too)
BANG ON is a knowledge sharing podcast, breaking down some of the steps we’ve picked up along the way as an organisation and as artists in building a successful arts career. It’s for emerging artists, packaging tips and tricks on some of the topics we’ve often been asked about over the years.

In Season 1 we took you through all the steps of putting an exhibition together. In Season 2, we take you through the broader arts cultural landscape, plotting the uncharted waters of opportunities, education, artist-led activity, identity, rejection, mental health and MORE!

Short Supply is an artist-led organisation established in 2019 by Mollie Balshaw and Rebekah Beasley, with a goal to support emerging artists.

Follow us on all social media ⁠@shortsupplymcr⁠

For all requests email [email protected]

Check our website at ⁠www.shortsupply.org⁠

SEASON 2 BABY!

They let us back in the studio, and there is no messin' about this season. Well, maybe a little bit...

Expect BIGGER QUESTIONS, BIGGER ANSWERS, BIGGER GUESTS and BIGGER SHENANIGANS!

Search BANG ON in your streaming app to listen, like, follow, and subscribe. You can also check us out on social media @shortsupplymcr. Like what you heard today? Leave us a review! It really helps the show (and gives us a fuzzy feeling, too)

See you soon!

There's a wurm at the bottom of the garden and we got wiggly at the largest sculpture park in Europe. We chat about bodies, bums and bloody tomfoolery at one of our favourite places to see art AND one of our favourite artists. Aren't we lucky baby duckies. Enjoy!

Here's the craic, make some time to visit this, it's ace:

Sat 10 Jun 2023 – Sun 28 Apr 2024

Underground Gallery, Outdoors

Trap of the Truth features more than 100 works, including 55 sculptures indoors, 19 sculptures in the landscape, paintings, photographs, videos and drawings created over 30 years of the artist’s career. Several works are being shown for the first time.

Erwin Wurm (b.1954) is one of Austria’s most prominent artists, highly regarded for his 2017 Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Over three decades he has challenged the rules of sculpture, the limitations of the human body, and its relationship to the spaces we inhabit. His work disrupts perceptions of the familiar and sensible and in a process that abounds with humour and experimentation, he frequently reimagines commonplace objects by giving them human characteristics. Wurm ponders what sculpture is and what it can be, stretching its boundaries, and calling into question the value and importance we place on everyday objects. He is both playful and political, using ludicrous scenarios to create work that addresses how we conform to society’s demands and how sculpture can upend cultural beliefs.

🎙 We’re Short Supply and this is BANG ON THE MOVE - the series for our podcast BANG ON where we visit a show and invite you to the pub chat afterwards.

In this series, we are out of the studio, visiting exhibitions and events across the UK, and letting you know what we make of them.

Yep, you might say this podcast is BANG ON - let's get stuck in!!!

Follow us on all social media @shortsupplymcr

For all requests email [email protected]

Join us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/shortsupply

Check out our at www.shortsupply.org

Lifting stress and learning those slick tricks - it's time to put the art in a room!

Episode 4 - We're building some momentum now, it's about time we started thinking about how the art is going to look in the room! This episode we talk to Ann Bukantas, former Head of Fine Art at National Museums Liverpool, former Curator of Ferens Art Gallery in Hull and Curator of many modern and contemporary art exhibitions at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool including exhibitions by Ben Johnson, Wolfgang Tillmans, John Kirby, Robyn Woolston, David Hockney, Catherine Opie, Lubaina Himid and Sean Scully. Curation, what's it all about? Listen on!

Tune in every Friday for the next step in our guide, tips and tricks to bring your creative idea to life and to learn about the industry from some of the best!

🎙 This is BANG ON - the podcast to help kickstart your career in creativity!

Short Supply is an artist-led organisation established in 2019 by Mollie Balshaw and Rebekah Beasley, with a goal to support emerging artists. BANG ON is our step by step guide for artists who want to turn their creativity into a career, but don't know where to start.

In this podcast we share the skills we've learnt and speak to talented creators across the UK to discuss, demystify and delight!

Yep, you might say this podcast is BANG ON - let's get stuck in!!!

Follow us on all social media @shortsupplymcr

For all requests email [email protected]

Join us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/shortsupply

Check out our at www.shortsupply.org

We have now entered a period of non-time. The norms of the before or future time do not apply here. Nobody knows what day it is, what’s expected of them, what life was like before. There’s only now, and who honestly wants to hear about yet another exhibition?

So, we took ourselves to the most wholesome bookshop and give you something to listen to while cosied up by the fireplace, whether IRL or via Netflix’s show “Fireplace for your Home” 🔥

Here's the lowdown:

Barter Books is a second-hand bookshop in the historic English market town of Alnwick, Northumberland, owned and run by Stuart and Mary Manley. It has over 350,000 visitors a year, 40% of whom are from outside the area, and is one of the largest second-hand bookshops in Europe. It is considered a local tourist attraction and has been described as "the British Library of second-hand bookshops."

🎙 We’re Short Supply and this is BANG ON THE MOVE - the series for our podcast BANG ON where we visit a show and invite you to the pub chat afterwards.

In this series, we are out of the studio, visiting exhibitions and events across the UK, and letting you know what we make of them.

Yep, you might say this podcast is BANG ON - let's get stuck in!!!

Follow us on all social media ⁠⁠@shortsupplymcr⁠⁠

For all requests email [email protected]

Join us on Patreon at ⁠⁠www.patreon.com/shortsupply⁠⁠

Check out our at ⁠⁠www.shortsupply.org⁠

This week we are SICK. Coughing, spluttering, the works.

So, as we're not on top form, we've whipped up a blooper reel for you, remembering when our voices were fresh ~

Enjoy and we can't wait to get back to the next exhibition pub chat soon!

🎙 We’re Short Supply and this is BANG ON THE MOVE - the series for our podcast BANG ON where we visit a show and invite you to the pub chat afterwards.

In this series, we are out of the studio, visiting exhibitions and events across the UK, and letting you know what we make of them.

Yep, you might say this podcast is BANG ON - let's get stuck in!!!

Follow us on all social media ⁠⁠@shortsupplymcr⁠⁠

For all requests email [email protected]

Join us on Patreon at ⁠⁠www.patreon.com/shortsupply⁠⁠

Check out our at ⁠⁠www.shortsupply.org

FREEZE! We head down to the 20th anniversary exhibition of Frieze Art Fair and buy them out of quiche lorraines. Chaos and hot takes ensued. Enjoy!

Here's the lowdown:

Frieze Art Fair is an annual contemporary art fair first held in 2003 in London's Regent's Park. Developed by the founders of the contemporary art magazine Frieze, the fair has since expanded to include editions in four cities, in addition to acquiring several other art fairs.

🎙 We’re Short Supply and this is BANG ON THE MOVE - the series for our podcast BANG ON where we visit a show and invite you to the pub chat afterwards.

In this series, we are out of the studio, visiting exhibitions and events across the UK, and letting you know what we make of them.

Yep, you might say this podcast is BANG ON - let's get stuck in!!!

Follow us on all social media ⁠@shortsupplymcr⁠

For all requests email [email protected]

Join us on Patreon at ⁠www.patreon.com/shortsupply⁠

Check out our at ⁠www.shortsupply.org⁠

Properly weird performance at Southbank Centre and we loved every second. Peeling potatoes, chucking nails, melting ice, cutting plasterboard, the works. We chat meeting the big M herself and what we found in the nooks and crannies of the Southbank. Bellissimo! 

Here's what we saw:

Marina Abramović Institute Takeover

The entire Queen Elizabeth Hall – backstage and all – transforms into the set for enthralling durational performances, curated by conceptual artist Marina Abramović and MAI.

The performances use the entirety of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and is self-led, letting you explore all parts of the building, including the auditorium, Purcell Room, backstage dressing rooms, green rooms, technical spaces and foyer.

The artists have all been invited to make site-specific, long-durational work. They engage with endurance, presence and participation, creating an infinite possibility of encounters between visitors and artists.

The artists featured are Collective Absentia, Carla Adra, Cassils, Paula Garcia, Miles Greenberg, Sandra Johnston, Carlos Martiel, Yiannis Pappas, Paul Setúbal, Aleksandar Timotic and Despina Zacharopoulou.

🎙 We’re Short Supply and this is BANG ON THE MOVE - the series for our podcast BANG ON where we visit a show and invite you to the pub chat afterwards.

In this series, we are out of the studio, visiting exhibitions and events across the UK, and letting you know what we make of them.

Yep, you might say this podcast is BANG ON - let's get stuck in!!!

Follow us on all social media @shortsupplymcr

For all requests email [email protected]

Join us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/shortsupply

Check out our at www.shortsupply.org