Considering Art Podcast

By Bob ChaundyArts Visual Arts

Considering Art Podcast episodes

October 17, 2022 Considering Art Podcast – Vincent Devine, painter
In this episode, Irish painter Vincent Devine talks about his unusual portraits in which he depicts both the visible and the invisible, how his works are loaded with symbolism and how his depictions of such as John Hume, Vincent van Gogh, Artemisia Gentileschi, Sir Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth II interpret personal aspects from a global perspective and following detailed research.
Vincent Devine talking with Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
Sir Winston Churchill
John Hume
Artemisia Gentileschi triptych
Jack B. Yeats triptych
Ellipsis triptych
All images are ©Vincent Devine
You can see more of Vincent’s works on his website
Ellipsis is currently showing at Reem Gallery, Soho until 22 October 2022
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
42 min
October 10, 2022 Considering Art Podcast – Hana Shahnavaz, painter
In this episode, London-based British-Iranian artist Hana Shahnavaz talks about her bi-cultural upbringing, how she makes her own paint from raw materials some of which she forages, the importance of reconnecting with nature, the influence of Persian miniatures on her work, her experience of violent protest in Iran and her contribution to The Old Man US TV series.
Hana Shahnavaz talking with Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
Shabdiz
A Spark in the Emerald Forest
Some of the raw materials Hana uses to make her paints
Magic of the Cypress Tree
Reconnecting
One of the images used in The Old Man TV series
You can see more of Hana’s work on her website
She will be showing work at the StART22 Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery, London 12 – 16 October 2022
All images are ©Hana Shahnavaz and used with her permission.
38 min
October 03, 2022 Considering Art Podcast – Jemma Powell, painter
In this episode, Jemma Powell talks about how she takes her inspiration from nature, her career as an actress, how she came to painting and the influences she draws upon, the importance of making mistakes, how she balances work and family life, and about her new solo exhibition Searching for Stillness.
Jemma Powell talking with Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
Childhood Memories
Umbrellas in the Market
Making Apple Crumble
Into the Blue
Boats in Sand III
Roses and Anemones in a Glass Vase
Sweet Peas in Sunlight
All images are ©Jemma Powell
Searching for Stillness is showing at Cricket Fine Art 5-21 October 2022
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
31 min
September 26, 2022 Considering Art Podcast – Pritika Chowdhry, installation artist and sculptor
In this episode, US-based Indian artist Pritika Chowdhry talks about her Partition Anti-Memorial Project which challenges, through art, official accounts of Partition in India and the way they have played down the plight of marginalised groups particularly women. She talks about the way she visualises how rape was used as a weapon in Partition and subsequent riots, and how she takes casts of memorials in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, and showing them together in a spirit of healing.
Pritika Chowdhry talking with Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
Queering Mother India
What the Body Remembers
Broken Column
Pritika Chowdhry taking a cast from the Jalladkhana Killingfield Museum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the scene of genocide by the Pakistan army in 1971.
Archive of 1919 featuring a well and spittoons
All images are ©Pritika Chowdhry and used with permission.
The Partition Anti-Memorial Project is currently showing as part of the Unbearable Memories, Unspeakable Histories exhibition at the South Asia Institute in Chicago until 10 December 2022.
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
38 min
September 19, 2022 Considering Art Podcast – Ken Currie, painter
In this episode, Scottish painter Ken Currie talks about how his tough background shaped his view that violence is part of the human condition, he tells the stories behind early works such as Glasgow Triptych and Scottish Mercenaries, about the nightmarish Krankenhaus, the rituals behind Bird People, the terror of his Down in the Woods Triptych, the ambiguity within his new series Black Boat, his occasional portraits, and he lists some of the paintings that continue to haunt him.
Ken Currie talking with Bob Chaundy
Part of Glasgow Triptych, 1986
Scottish Mercenaries, 1987
Krankenhaus, 2017
From Down in the Woods triptych, 2018
The Unknown Man, 2021
Three Oncologists, 2002
Black Boat triptych, 2022
Burnt Gorse, 2022
All images are © Ken Currie and courtesy Flowers Gallery
Ken Currie’s latest exhibition, Black Boat, is showing at Flowers Gallery East until 5 November 2022
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
56 min
September 12, 2022 Considering Art Podcast – Adrian Fisk, photojournalist
In this episode, Adrian Fisk talks about how a cyclone in Bangladesh changed his life, how he spent eight years photographing in India, and about his new book and exhibition entitled Until the Last Oak Falls in which he documents the extraordinary campaigns of British environmental protesters in the 1990s, most notably against the Newbury by-pass and the city-based Reclaim the Streets, looking at the issues, the tactics, the conditions and the after-effects.
Adrian Fisk talking with Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
“The village of Padmakesharpur is made up of predominantly snake charmers which means there are a lot of snakes milling about. The children are introduced to the snakes at a young age to enable them to overcome fear and for a bond to be created between the child and the reptiles. The scene I shot with the baby and snakes was not as unusual as you might think and was entirely natural.”
Afternoon prayers during a pro independence march in Srinagar, India – 2008 An estimated 350,000 Kashmiri’s marched to the Eidgha communal ground to protest at what they saw as India’s occupation of Kashmir. The movement for independence has seen more than 60,000 Kashmiri’s killed or disappeared over a twenty year period.
Newbury Bypass 1996 – The Sheriff of Newbury’s evicting climbers and police support are overwhelmed by a number of activists.
Newbury Bypass 1996 – 60 feet above the ground a man desperately attempts to hang on to the tree in order to protect it from being cut down whilst physically being pulled backwards by the Sheriff of Newbury’s eviction men.
Newbury Bypass 1996 – A woman called ‘Cake’ is left up a Silver Birch tree for 2.5 hrs in the cold winter wind after the Sheriff of Newbury’s men have cut the trees below her.
Reclaim the Streets. Trafalgar Square 1997 – Environmental protestors dance in front of the National Gallery during what became one of the largest illegal gatherings in the Square’s history.
Critical Mass London 1995 – After a foiled attempt to gain access to the motor show hundreds of cyclists raise their bicycles in an extraordinary moment of unity.
All images are ©Adrian Fisk and used with his permission. Top image is courtesy of Helen Abraham.
You can see more of Adrian’s images on his website here
The exhibition of the book, Until the Last Oak Falls is showing at the Islington Climate Centre until 15 September 2022.
35 min
July 18, 2022 Considering Art Podcast – Jeffery Becton, photographer
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.
Jeffery Becton talking with Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
Off Spirit Ledge, 2017
Blue Calm, 2014
The Pilot House, 2014
Waking Up, 2021
Soft Chine, 2014
Middle Passage, 2021
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
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
40 min
June 27, 2022 Considering Art Podcast – Giles Walker, kinetic sculptor
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.
Giles Walker talking with Bob Chaundy
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The Berlin Wall Ramming Machine was converted into this sculpture and pushed to the wall on these tracks. In the background is the first sculpture Giles Walker ever built.
Peep Show, 2008
Artist Giles Walker’s Last Supper Sculpture. Photographed in the Science Museum’s Virgin Media Studio, part of the Science Museum Media Space.
Scenes from Monster
You can see a film of Monster here
Commonwealth, a collage from Giles Walker now in the British Museum’s collection
All images are © Giles Walker
You can see more of Giles’s work on his website
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
36 min
June 13, 2022 Considering Art Podcast – Luke Alen-Buckley, sculptor
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.
Luke Alen-Buckley talking with Bob Chaundy
Memento Mori, A Conversation with Mortality
Luke Alen-Buckley with one of his Talisman series
Morrigan that takes its name from the pre-pagan Celtic triadic goddess
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
You can see more of Luke’s work on his website
29 min
June 06, 2022 Considering Art Podcast – Victoria Cantons, painter and photographer
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.
Victoria Cantons talking with Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
What is Thought and What is Unsaid
A New Landmark
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
A moment or Present, past and future
Bill Poster: We Are The Same
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
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
39 min