In my latest podcast episode, London-born artist Hatty Buchanan tells how some of her conceptual sculptures are drawn from her experiences as a teenager in Soho where she came across all manner of exotic people active in the sub-culture of the club, music and fashion scene. She also talks about her work in theatre production management, the influence of her MA in Design Imagination on her subsequent work, and how she distills concepts such as the dynamics of power relationships and even self-portraits into her pieces.

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From the 2020 series Soho Girls – Maureen, Sylvia, Madam O and Doreen.

From the 2020 series Frenemies 1, 2 and 3

You can see more of Hatty Buchanan’s artworks on her website here

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In my latest podcast episode, Scots-Italian artist Sarah Hardie talks about how singing filled the family home, how she toyed with the idea of being a portrait painter, how she literally found her voice in her work, how psychoanalytical theories influence her, and about her current prize-winning work Spring Sometimes Rises in Me.

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You can view more of Sarah’s projects on her website here

All images are courtesy Sarah Hardie.

Top shot is by Maxwell Bamber

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In my latest podcast, Paul Stone, aka My Dog Sighs, tells the extraordinary story of how a chance encounter with a stencilled rat unlocked a creative urge to make street art, how giving away art made from found items mushroomed into a worldwide phenomenon he named Free Art Friday, how this bolstered his reputation leading to exhibitions and commissions, and about his latest immersive installation in a four-storey derelict building in his hometown of Portsmouth.

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He painted 540 eyes on this hospital wall in Rome

All images courtesy of the artist.

For more information and to buy tickets to Inside (16 July – 1 August) go to www.mydogsighs.co.uk 

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In our latest podcast episode, Julie Held talks about how painting became a refuge as well as a joy, how seeing an Edvard Munch exhibition as a child changed her life, her obsessions with shoe shops and florists, the psychoanalytical edge to her work and her love of colour especially blue.

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All images are ©Julie Held

Julie’s current group online exhibition with Crean and Company entitled Up the Garden Path, Over the Wall and Into the Sunshine can be found here

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In my latest podcast episode, Scottish artist Pinkie Maclure talks about how she got into stained glass accidentally, how her ambition to go to art school was thwarted, her career as a singer and performer, how heroin ruined the lives of many friends, and how the allegorical power and symbolism of medieval stained glass windows inspired her to communicate her ideas on contemporary issues through that medium.

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All images are ©Pinkie Maclure

You can see more of Pinkie Maclure’s work here

Music clip: The Smell of Trouble by Pumajaw

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British interdisciplinary artist Tatiana de Stempel talks about her work as an art director in film and in theatre design, her experience of residencies in China and India, her love of narrative in her painting, her role as director of Light More Light organising art events in London, her work with the late Indian arts journalist Manoj Nair and her curation of a large group show celebrating his life and work.

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The group show, Fantasy of having a trailer wagon all to myself, is showing at Gallery 46 Whitechapel, London 3 – 18 June 2021. You can see more details at www.Fantasyofatrailerwagon.org

The images are ©Tatiana de Stempel.

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In our latest podcast episode, Luke Jerram talks about the ideas behind some of his spectacular and highly popular installations, sculptures and live events that have been shown around the world. These include Park and Slide, originally installed as a playful work in his native Bristol, Play Me I’m Yours in which his team installed some 2,000 street pianos for people to play in public spaces and which grew out of another work called Sky Orchestra. His Glass Microbiology series, giant glass versions of viruses, has been recently augmented by Covid-19, and his most popular installation, a replica of the moon entitled Museum of the Moon, has been viewed by millions the world over.

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You can see more of Luke Jerram’s works on lukejerram.com

The top shot of Luke Jerram at the 2021 Visual Art Centre is ©Mark Bickerdike

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In our latest podcast episode, British artist Nicole Wassall tells of how she gave up consultancy to realise her dream of becoming an artist, how her artistic approach has been inspired by neuroscientific research, her feelings of enlightenment when seeing certain works by Rothko and Bacon, how a “suffragette” coin inspired a feminist artwork and how a hidden camera above it provided surprising footage.

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You can see the compromising footage of Nicole’s social experiment here

All images are ©Nicole Wassall

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In our latest podcast, UK-based artist Henry Jabbour talks about having to leave his native Lebanon because of constant war and political instability, how he gave up a highly successful career as a medical scientist to follow his passion for art, how he expresses emotion in his paintings through body gesture and rich colour, and his recent love for sculpture.

All images are © Henry Jabbour

Henry Jabbour is currently showing at Pontone Gallery in London

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In our latest podcast episode, South African artist Teresa Kutala Firmino describes the brutal and violent atmosphere that existed in her home town of Pomfret within the community of 32 Battalion, a special forces insurgency group that fought in the South African Border War between 1966 – 1989. She talks about how the colourful tableaux she creates include symbolic re-enactments of the trauma felt by the families within the military community and she describes her personal experiences of discrimination as a young woman in South Africa today.

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All images are ©Teresa Kutala Firmino

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