In this episode, Jeffery Becton talks about his fascination with the ocean both in reality and symbolically, how he spurned the personal advice of Robert Motherwell, how his digital montage technique using Adobe Photoshop leads to photographs of altered realities creating an unsettling sense of emptiness, and ambiguity, and how rising sea levels pose a threat to our planet.

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All images are ©Jeffery Becton

The top shot shows Jeffery Becton in front of his photograph The Approaches

The exhibition Between Two Worlds with Andrea Hamilton is showing at AH Studio 68 Kinnerton Street, London SW1X 8ER until 31 August 2022

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

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In this episode, Giles talks about how he nearly brought down the Berlin Wall with the Mutoid Waste Company, why he first began using moving parts in his sculptures, how he developed a political edge in his works, how his installation The Last Supper posed questions about religious education and how the installation Monster depicted what he has called a national nervous breakdown.

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Scenes from Monster

You can see a film of Monster here

All images are © Giles Walker

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

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In this episode, the young British Irish sculptor talks about his early experiences of art, how he changed degrees at university from art to physics, his love of Irish blue limestone rock, how Irish folklore has influenced his sculpture and how he has learned practices to minimise the environmental impact of his work.

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

In this episode, Victoria Cantons takes us through her troubled transgender history from childhood to her transitioning at the age of 39. She tells how photography became her first artistic expression before she opted for painting and fulfilled her long-held wish to go to art school. She also talks about learning technique from both contemporary artists as well as old masters and how her recent self-portraits express themes of power, identity and gender politics.

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Three self-portraits – Transgender Woman Nos. 7, 8 and 9

I Have Always Believed Unicorns are Real and If you could Choose only One Thing: concept Victoria Cantons and Xu Yang, photography Victoria Cantons

You can see more of Victoria Canton’s work on her website

Her exhibition People Trust People who Look Like Them is showing at Flowers Gallery East, London until 2 July 2022

Top photo: Xu Yang

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In this episode, Michael talks about the importance of nature in his childhood, his love of landscapes and the process by which he paints them, his love of water and skies, how he has always travelled for inspiration, how he was living a life that was “inauthentic” and how his latest exhibition, Respair, reflects emotional responses within him released by the pandemic.

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Two paintings made of Dubai that verge on abstract, 2015

Red Tint Landscape, 2018

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

Respair is showing at Clarendon Fine Art, Mayfair, London until 2nd June 2022

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In this episode, David Williams-Ellis talks about the primary influence of his art teacher at Stowe School, his experience of studying in Italy, how a chance sight of a sculpted female figure in Pietrasanta had a lasting influence on his work, his ability to create a sense of movement and poise in his sculptures, his commissions for memorials in Aberdeen and Normandy, and his continuing love for making art.

You can see more of David Williams-Ellis’s work on his website

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In this episode, Francisca talks about how publicising the plight of her country, which has seen six million of its inhabitants leaving this beleaguered state, has become the main focus of her artistic practice. She talks about her childhood, leaving for the United States and then the UK for her art education, her Million Bag Project, her public letters about her relationship with Venezuela, and how she expresses her feelings in her paintings and installations.

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You can read more about Francisca Sosa Lopez on her website

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In this episode, British artist Benjamin Hannavy Cousen talks about how he converts books into visual artworks by mapping each colour mentioned in them with layers of acrylic paint applied with a syringe. He talks about how he creates “an archaeology of memory” and how his English Literature, History of Art and Cultural Memory studies have informed his work.

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The Sea the Sea (History)by Iris Murdoch, aerial and detail

Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger, aerial and detail

1984 by George Orwell, aerial and detail

All images are ©Benjamin Hannavy Cousen. Photos courtesy Prudence Cuming Associates

The Rings of Saturn & Other Objects exhibition is at Merville Galleries, 8 Duke St. St James’s, London SW1Y 6BN from 10 – 21 May 2022

You can see more of Benjamin Hannavy Cousen’s work on his website

In this episode, British artist Kim Pace talks about the weird, hybrid creatures she paints and sculpts focusing on fluid identity, her upbringing with an artistic mother and eccentric father, her love of ceramics, the influence of Mexican folklore and female surrealists, the importance of drawing and her love of grotesques.

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Two exhibits from Kindred showing at Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh until 21st May 2022

All images are © Kim Pace

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

In this episode, South African artist Beezy Bailey talks about his family roots, his time in New York with the likes of Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, his Fine Art degree in London, his collaborations with rock stars David Bowie, Dave Matthews and Brian Eno, his alter ego Joyce Ntobe and his response to exhibiting in an English stately home.

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Two Beezy Bailey sculptures on view at Boughton House

Two paintings from the Let There Be Light exhibition featuring prints from the Boughton House collection

Top shot courtesy Dan Weill Photography

Let There Be Light exhibitions:

Boughton House, Kettering 16 April – 22 May 2022

Everard Read Gallery, London 27 April – 1 June 2022