brave Projects

Go behind the scenes at a catering shift from hell in a major cultural institution. Writer Tom Glover lifts the lid on his time as a waiter at a lavish dinner, where he almost fainted, encountered an outrageous guest, and passed judgement on the whole enterprise.

This brave diary is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

Laura González explores the changing landscape of the contemporary art world, discussing patronage, institutional models, and the responsibilities of supporting artists today. Looking across her career, she considers why new structures are needed, how meaningful relationships shape her work, and what it might take to build a more open, sustainable, and ambitious future for the arts.

Interviewed by ⁠Bella Bullen.⁠

This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

Writer and researcher Yasmin Alrabiei joins brave podcast host Lydia Higton to ask what neuroscience can tell us about the way we look at art.

Trained in neuroscience and now writing for Dazed, GQ and Atmos. Alrabiei and Higton cover the entropic brain and the richness found where two disciplines meet.

Guest: Yasmin Alrabiei

Podcast Host: Lydia Higton

Headline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts Club

Partner: Daler-Rowney

Nothing in Copenhagen's cultural press resonated with Rubén Palma, so in 2021 he built the alternative himself. Three hundred interviews later he calls Overstandard a set of written documentaries.

Interviewed by ⁠Bella Bullen.⁠

This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

Yehong Mao doesn't trust her memories, and counts that as the gift. Mao dissolves remembered places into colour and light, then builds her paintings to tell a story.

Interviewed by Bella Bullen.

This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

New York did not need another gallery, Margot Samel said when she opened hers in 2021, and she has not revised the view, what a city can always use is another perspective.

Interviewed by ⁠Bella Bullen.⁠

This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

Never do an unpaid internship unless you really want to. Guest Writer, Tom Glover reflects on his brief stint as an unpaid intern in a commercial gallery in Mayfair.

Weaving in other ex-interns experience and a rumination on privilege in the art world, 'King of the Interns' is discursive, witty, and attempting to make a serious point.

This brave diary is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

Jordan Rubio left medical school at 18 to paint. He backed himself with no support behind him, a rare conversation about self-determination, achievement and what being an artist actually takes.

Artist: Jordan Rubio

Podcast Host: Lydia Higton

Headline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts Club

Walk into any London rare bookshop and you'll find the same canon: an Araki, a Comme des Garçons, an old i-D. Somewhere in the last few years, the book became the coolest object in fashion and art. Even Dua Lipa opened a library.

As the founder of Library Mothership, artist Athena Mothership rides this new wave, but also keeps asking: how did we get here? A new piece for brave Projects on how books stopped being read and started being posted, how we aestheticise the thing once its function is hollowed out, and why cultivating a taste in books might be a small act of personal imperialism.

This brave diary is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

Inspiration, for Jonathan Schofield, is a word artists should never reach for, if you are properly awake to the world it is already in you, all of the time. What is left is the daily habit of looking, and the rule that a painting which holds no surprise for its own maker has not yet worked.

Interviewed by Bella Bullen.

This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.