Considering Art Podcast

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

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial

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

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial

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

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial

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

In this episode, sculptor John Atkin talks about the influence on his work of the industrial and rural landscapes of his youth, how Henry Moore came to finance his MA, the inspiration of Wilfred Owen and other literary figures, his love of found objects, how he discovered garment patterns that alluded to the human form, and his landmark sculptures in China, the US, Canada and the UK.

All images are ©John Atkin

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

In this episode, British painter Victoria Crowe talks about how her paintings reflect both her external and inner life, how she was attracted to the landscape of the Pentland Hills in Scotland that she made her home, the influence of Russian icons, how she responded artistically to the death of her son, the inspiration of Venice, her portrait work and her collaborations with poets, musicians and tapestry weavers.

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All images are ©Victoria Crowe

Top image courtesy of Kenneth Gray

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

Her exhibition Resonance of Time is showing at Flowers Gallery until 21 May 2022

In this episode, Marie-Thérèse Ross talks about how her sculptural skills developed from collages, how she developed the idea for anthropomorphic furniture, how fragmentation expresses the sense of movement in her work, her fascination with birds and animals through which she can sometimes express anger and her recent collaboration with a composer.

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All images are ©Marie-Thérèse Ross

You can see more of her images on her website

In this episode, British artist Marcus Dove talks about how art saved him from a prison sentence, how he came to use explosives as his way of mark making in what he calls “creation through destruction”, how he adapted a missile launcher to blast paint on to his canvas, how his process once put him in hospital, how he used figurative narrative to examine human relationships and how he has recently tended towards complete abstraction.

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Two works from Marcus’s current exhibition, Raw Language at Karnik Gallery until 6 May 2022

All images are © Marcus Dove

You can see more of Marcus Dove’s work on his website