Considering Art Podcast

In this episode, renowned sculptor Billy Lee talks about his Chinese heritage and family background in South Africa, how his interest in sculpture began, the influences on his early work and how his ideas changed following a trip to Japan, making abstract work in China, and his philosophy for teaching sculpture.

Billy Lee talking with Bob Chaundy

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Wave

Bird and Flower Conversation

Reach for the Sky

Dancer

All images are © Billy Lee

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

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In this episode, photographer Linda Chapman talks about how she goes about capturing the way light plays upon urban windows to create the works for which she has become well known. She discusses the gender discrimination she faced in her early career, why she left a permanent job to freelance in the fashion, theatre and music industry, and how the advent of the digital era persuaded her to move into abstracted photography.

Linda Chapman talking with Bob Chaundy

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The Movement

Bubbles

Outside In

Jako

All images are © Linda Chapman

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In this episode, Fred talks about his early career as an artist during the heyday of London’s Soho where he came across many of the famous characters of the time, the events that led him to becoming a landscape artist, how and why he became attracted to The Fens and, more recently, The Flow country in Scotland. He describes his artistic process, and talks about the politics of land and the precarious future that The Fens faces.

Fred Ingrams talking with Bob Chaundy

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Middle Level, The Fens

Harvest Dusk, The Fens

Fishing Hut, The Fens

Skinandi, Flow Country

Wet Westerdale, Flow Country

Braemore, Flow Country

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

All images are © Fred Ingrams

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In this episode, Rosie talks about how she looks for the absurdities of life and how her performances often deliberately misunderstand the way we communicate with each other. She explains why she sexualises everyday items, how she creates a mixture of the comic and the serious through performances such as The New Me, Soft Girls and Planned Obsolescence, and how she hopes her future projects will develop.

Rosie Gibbens talking with Bob Chaundy

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From Auto Erotic Assimilation

From The New Me

From The New Me

From Soft Girls

From Planned Obsolescence

You can watch videos of Rosie’s performances on her website

Body Poetics is showing at the Giant Gallery, Bournemouth until 6 May 2023

Top photo courtesy Cengi Sen

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In this episode, this young artist talks about the influence on her work of her British, Greek and Nigerian heritage, how Cuban printmakers were her early source of inspiration, how she experiments with monotypes and how her central focus is our unbalanced relationship with the natural world.

Kemi Onabulé talking with Bob Chaundy

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Unprepared, 2020

Burning Boy, Burning Tree, 2022

Untitled Man 2 and 3, 2022

Third part of Tree of Life triptych, 2022

Time to Think and Self-Portrait as a Lunatic, 2023 courtesy Eva Herzog Photography

Embrace with the Full Moon, 2023 courtesy Eva Herzog Photography

All images are © Kemi Onabulé.

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

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In this episode, Scottish artist Clare Rennie talks about her background in silversmithing and jewellery design, how architecture has always been an influence, why she finds seaside piers interesting but unsettling, why she is drawn to buildings and objects of a bygone age, and how she produces her works from collages.

Clare Rennie talking with Bob Chaundy

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St Giles Cathedral

Glasshouse View

Jenners

Castle View II

All images are © Clare Rennie

You can see more of Clare’s works on her website

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In this episode, British artist Alice Browne talks about how art has always been her “happy place”, how it reflects a reality that is in constant flux, how thoughts, memories and individual identities all have a certain mystery that attracts her and informs her paintings, how we share a curious relationship to the natural world, the influence of Danté’s Divine Comedy on her work and how she’s drawn to chaos.

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WITH, 2023

Malebolge, 2016

Beneath, Before FeS2, 2018

Tele-Mimetico, 2019

Remote, 2020

All images are ©Alice Browne

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

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In this episode, Liza Giles talks about her previous career as an art director and interior designer, how she always painted concurrently, how her use of colour transferred to her fine art practice, how the artist Sean Scully helped raise her profile, the influence of the urban skyline and architecture on her work, how she experiments with collage in preparation of her large-scale paintings and how she balances hard lines and edges with intuitive painterly mark making.

Black Quadiptych (Composition IV)

Neutral and Orange maquette

Raw Sienna (Comp 3-22)

Green with Pink Flash

Blue Triptych

Grass Triptych (Composition 2)

All images © Liza Giles.

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

Liza’s current exhibition The Shape of Things is at Flowers Gallery, London

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In this episode, Steph Goodger talks about how childhood memories near the River Medway came to take on a symbolic significance, how social history, architecture and literature influence her works with particular reference to World War I, the Paris Commune and the sinking of the Lusitania. Steph talks about the tension between containment and release in both her subjects and her process and how researching historical archives is often the starting point for a project.

Steph Goodger talking with Bob Chaundy

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The Motherland

The Valley 1

Les Non-Réclamés 1

Lusitania 1 and 2

Hulk 2

The Twilight Kingdom IV

All images are © Steph Goodger.

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

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In this episode, this multi-award-winning artist talks about her classical training at the Charles H. Cecil School in Florence, how she creates atmosphere in her portraits, the importance of draftsmanship, how painting children requires different skills, the challenge of painting self-portraits and the joy of painting water.

Frances Bell talking with Bob Chaundy

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Gillian, winner of the Burke’s Peerage Foundation Award, 2022

Family Dress

Portrait of a young girl

Self-portrait and winner of the William Lock Portrait Prize 2021 and Portrait Society of America First Prize Painting

Mid-summer

All images are ©Frances Bell apart from the top shot of Frances Bell with Rumination which is courtesy Dillon Bryden

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