Considering Art Podcast

In this episode, the London-based artist talks about living in Japan and its connection with her home country of New Zealand, why she chose to paint portraits and the responsibility this entails, the experience of coming out as a lesbian in her late twenties, how her paintings became largely autobiographical through painting others from the queer community, her obsession with shoes, and creating a mood in her works.

Sarah Jane Moon talking with Bob Chaundy

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Maybe Tomorrow

Peter Tatchell

Ursula Martinez

Sadie Lee and Roxana Halls

Lords and Ladies

All images are © Sarah Jane Moon

You can see more of Sarah Jane’s work on her website

A Room of their Own – Queer Interiors is showing at the W1A Gallery, Lewes, Sussex until 6th April 2024

In this episode, London-based Nigerian photographer Elizabeth Okoh talks about how she first began photographing in her childhood, why she left Nigeria to attend university in the UK, her initial difficulties in culturally acclimatising, how lots of her series and her commercial work focus on female empowerment, and how her current exhibition Women on the Frontlines celebrates the unsung heroes of the pandemic.

Elizabeth Okoh talking with Bob Chaundy

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Elizabeth Okoh’s debut novel

All images are © Elizabeth Okoh

You can see more of Elizabeth’s work on her website

Women on the Frontlines is showing at Buckle Street Studios by Locke, 21 Buckle St, London E1 8DB until 31 March 2024

In this episode, Attua talks about winning the Design Museum’s 2024 Ralph Saltzman Prize for design, how her work intersects design, craft and art, why she left Spain for the UK, the importance of sustainability in her process, her experiments in fusing borosilicate glass with clay to create sparkling ceramics, how a shelf-unit she made recalls memories of her childhood and how she is experimenting using ceramics with textiles.

Attua Aparicio talking with Bob Chaundy

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Wedgwood Plate with waste borosilicate glass (image credit: Sylvain Deleu)

Solaris de Esgueva bookshelf

Jardiniere

Sprout Bench

Digit Texture Vessel (image credit Jixiao Tong)

Neon Lights from AJ Series

Wall piece

All images are © Attua Aparicio

The Ralph Saltzman Prize exhibition is at the Design Museum until 15 April

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In this episode, Caroline Burraway talks about why and how she has given voice to those disenfranchised and displaced on the margins of society, how she has focused recently on refugees like Tarik and Eden whom she has met in refugee camps and of whom she has made large-scale prize-winning drawings, about her Ungrievable Lives project in which she made children’s dresses out of lifejackets and her installations derived from the current war in Ukraine.

Caroline Burraway talking with Bob Chaundy

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Tarik triptych at John Ruskin Prize

Kathleen from End of Days video still

The Grey Zone and it can’t be helped (crucifixion)

Children of Moria, St Luke’s

Ungrievable Lives, New College Chapel, Oxford. This exhibition, set to music by Charlotte Bray, has been performed in Europe and the United States and will be staged at Konzerthaus Berlin in November 2024.

Mother

Part of Soniashinyk (Sunflower)

Close-up of Tarik together with detail of red threads symbolising his journey from Syria to Europe

All images are © Caroline Burraway

Music is from Mid-Oceaned by Charlotte Bray, performed by Castilian Quartet

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In this episode, Romany talks about his upbringing during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, how he gave up practising as a lawyer to become an artist, how the death of a friend inspired his AIDS Memorial sculpture in Brighton, why he started painting, the influence of Francis Bacon, designing theatre sets and about his new monograph Sculpting Colour.

Romany Mark Bruce talking with Bob Chaundy

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‘Tay’ Brighton and Hove AIDS Memorial, New Steine Gardens.

Why does the wind?

Bremen

One Lens

Top photo credit: Edith Ackerman

You can see more of Romany’s work on his website

Sculpting Colour, about Romany’s work, written by Alex Leith will be published in May 2024

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In this episode, Jersey-based fine art photographer Connor Daly talks about how photography became his passion, his struggles at art school, the adventurous spirit he inherited from his mother, how his photographs responded to a serious illness, how a car park provided a career turning point, how his influences owe more to painters than photographers, and how church hall stages became a series theme.

Connor Daly talking with Bob Chaundy

A Moment of Sufficient Lucidity and I Feel Like I am Vanishing, from Schwarzschild Radius series, 2021

Pink, Grey, Yellow and Black, and Blue, Orange and Green from Colour Field, 2022

Untitled II and Untitled XXI from Intersections, 2022

Stage IV and Stage X from Phantasmagoria, 2022

All images are © Connor Daly

You can see more of Connor’s work on his website

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In this episode, Kate talks about her passion for colour and what colour provides, how she discovered the Araash fresco practice during a trip to India as a teenager and how she subsequently went back to learn the process, the art objects she makes using it, her obsession with walls, the influence of Rothko’s use of colour, the shapes and drawings she makes, and her use of concrete.

Muirne Kate Dineen talking with Bob Chaundy

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Araash Quartet

Patchwork SV Road 2

Fresco Wall Flowers

Lingham Necklace

Lapis Lazuli Beginnings 1 and 2 and Etched Silver Feet

Inlay Araash Frescoes and Corrugated Concrete

All images are © Muirne Kate Dineen

You can see more of Kate’s work on her website

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In this episode, British sculptor Rebecca Stevenson talks about her love of wax as a material, how studying anatomical dissection influenced her work, how she has updated Baroque Vanitas paintings for the 21st century, how feminism underpins her oeuvre and how a recent artist residency at the Victoria and Albert Museum has altered the perspective of herself as an artist.

Rebecca Stevenson talking with Bob Chaundy

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Heathen, 2019

Melancholia, 2020 with detail

Objects for a Wunderkammer No. 6, 2019

Rapture, 2018

Trumpettes, 2023

Goliath, 2023

All images are © Rebecca Stevenson

You can see more of Rebecca’s work on her website

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In this episode, James Mortimer talks about the reasons behind his works that depict strange, primeval and dramatic landscapes whose inhabitants have cast aside moral constraints and where humans and animals share equal status. James talks about how a dull, industrial town fed his imagination from early childhood, his travels in eastern Europe including Ukraine, the importance of humour in art, his elaborate process and how his influences range from Renaissance paintings to children’s books.

James Mortimer talking with Bob Chaundy

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Mountains Island, 2023

Wrestlers, 2022

Crocodile Head, 2018

Volcano Crocodile, 2020

Shark Garden, 2018

Garden of Eden, 2016

All images are © James Mortimer.

You can see more of James’s work on his website

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One of Britain’s leading stone sculptors, Paul Vanstone talks about his fascination with stone and how he loves the openness and risk-taking involved in carving it, the feeling of vibrancy that it gives him in particular marble for its variety of colours and texture, how he honed his carving skills in Italy and India, the challenge that AI robots are beginning to pose for sculptors and the influences both classical and modern that one can see in his heads, torsos and reclining figures.

Paul Vanstone talking with Bob Chaundy

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Bolivian Blue Head

Crouched Figure, Portuguese marble

Giant Carrara Head and Back to Black (Belgian marble)

Folding Torso, Vietnamese marble

Pale Green Onyx Head

All images are © Paul Vanstone

You can see more of Paul’s images on his website

Paul will be exhibiting two works at the London Art Fair this week on the Thompson Gallery stand G23