In this episode, Marcus Jansen talks about his unusual upbringing in both New York and Mönchengladbach, the influence of street artists and German Expressionists on his work, how he joined the US Army in 1989 and took part in the first Gulf War, how art saved him when he developed PTSD and how the war changed his both his political viewpoint as well as his art.

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All images are © Marcus Jansen Studios – courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech, save for the top shot, that is courtesy Brian Tietz

You can see more of Marcus Jansen’s pictures on his website

His exhibition Victims and Victors at Almine Rech London continues until 19 February 2022

In this podcast, Robert Fitzmaurice talks about the art that excited him even as a young boy, how his father’s POW experience in World War II sowed the seed for his interest in family dynamics, how his practice was influenced by the Constructivist painter Adrian Heath, how themes of masculinity and militarism developed, and how lattices, grids and repeated motifs with expressive use of colour became his signature style and is informed by art from various cultures..

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All images are ©Robert Fitzmaurice

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

Robert’s current exhibition Relations, Stories, Magic is showing at Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery until 22 January 2022

In this episode, Anthony Daley talks about how he reacted to racism at school after arriving from Jamaica as a young boy, his attitude towards black arts movements, his dislike of strict artistic definitions, his relationship with colour, how Old Master painters influence his process, and his approach to teaching painting.

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All images are ©Anthony Daley

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In this podcast, Aoife van Linden Tol tells why she chose art initially over science, how her interest in explosives began, about some of her explosive artworks, how she became fascinated by cosmology, how her artist residency at the European Space Agency was “life changing”, and how her resultant ESA project Star Storm unfolded.

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All images are ©Aoife van Linden Tol

You can see more of Aoife’s works including videos on her website

Top image and Star Storm images courtesy of Sebastian Heriou

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In this episode, British artist Sally Loughridge talks about how her horizons were broadened at art school in Oxford, how she expressed the movement of ballet dancers after viewing them in rehearsals, her career in costume design in TV, film and theatre, and her love of printmaking.

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All images are ©Sally Loughridge

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In this episode, Hughie O’Donoghue talks about how his father’s wartime experiences became a subject of his paintings, his rejection of conceptual art, how he was inspired by the landscape of County Mayo in Ireland, how a beached ship became a recurring motif in his work, how his paintings are multi-layered both physically and psychologically, how urban landscapes appear in his current exhibition for the first time and how the complexity of history informs his forthcoming show marking the centenary of the birth of the Irish state.

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All images are ©Hughie O’Donoghue. Top shot credit: Nicholas Sinclair

Hughie O’Donoghue’s current show, Deep Water and the Architecture of Memory is showing at Marlborough London until 15 January 2022

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In this podcast, octogenarian master glass artist Peter Layton talks about the excitement he still feels for working with glass, how he turned to the medium from ceramics, how he set up his London Glassblowing Company to keep alive the ancient tradition of glassblowing as an art form, emulating artists such as van Gogh and Klimt for some of his commissions, and the variety and versatility of the medium.

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You can see more of Peter Layton images on the London Glassblowing website

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In this episode, photographer and microscopist Steve Gschmeissner talks about his scientific background, how he uses a scanning electron microscope to photograph subjects not visible to the naked eye, how he creates beautiful pictures through skilful colouring and how he has been embraced by the art world for album covers, exhibitions, fashion and for the work of other artists.

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All images are © S. Gschmeissner

You can see more of Steve’s images on his website here

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In this podcast, Welsh painter Ceri Pritchard talks about being brought up by two artist parents, why he dropped sculpture for painting, how he came to live in Mexico, why creating unsettling works is more interesting to him than the comfortable and reassuring, his love of worlds within worlds in his paintings, his use of domestic mundane iconography and his goal to make his pictures attractive for the viewer.

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All images are ©Ceri Pritchard

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

His exhibition Paradoxes is showing at MOMA, Machynlleth until 13 November 2021

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In our latest podcast, Nigerian artist Gbolohan Ayoola talks about the art scene in his hometown of Lagos, the state of the art market for Nigerians and Africans in general, the deficiencies of an art college education, the influences that drive him as an artist, his “blue woman” series, how current issues such as police brutality and global migration have shaped his work and how his latest works dream of a future African renaissance.

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All images are © Gbolohan Ayoola

We are Reagents is presented by the London-based curatorial and advisory service Kanbi Projects and is showing at The Federal Palace, Lagos November 4 -7.

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