Considering Art Podcast

In this latest episode, prize-winning British painter Andrea Tyrimos talks about how art has been a way for channelling stress, how she began her career mixing street art with fine art, how public art has always been close to her heart, and how in solo exhibitions such as Bipolar Picasso and Resilient, she came to combine large-scale portraits with immersive audio recordings that focus on mental health.

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All images are © Andrea Tyrimos

You can see more of Andrea’s works on her website

Andrea’s current exhibition, Resilient, is showing at ING, 8-10 Moorgate, London EC2R 6DA until 31 March 2022

In this episode, British artist Mandy Payne talks about how she gave up dentistry for art, how she is attracted to Brutalist architecture in particular the Grade II listed Park Hill estate in Sheffield, why she paints on concrete and what advice she’d give to others thinking of changing career to become an artist.

Top image courtesy Isy+Leigh Anderson

All other images are ©Mandy Payne

Mandy is currently part of the exhibition Where We Live, showing at Millennium Gallery, Sheffield until 5th June 2022

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In this episode, American artist Deborah Kruger talks about her textile creations consisting of “feathers” made from recycled plastic in her studio in Mexico, how she learnt to use textiles growing up, how she is highlighting the extinction of bird species as well as the death of many of the world’s languages as she seeks to make work which is both decorative and thought-provoking.

You can see more of Deborah Kruger’s works on her website

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In this podcast, Northern Irish artist Claire Morgan talks about how an early trauma has had a profound impact on her life, how she was drawn to taxidermy for her installations, how concern for the environment is a key component of her works and how her art has been a journey of self-discovery.

Top photo by Nicolas Brasseur

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

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In this episode, Indo-Caribbean artist Suchitra Mattai talks about how her family history of indentured labour informs her art, how textiles are her main focus including saris that hold a symbolic significance, how her work gives a voice to those who have traditionally been silenced including labourers, migrants and those with mental illness, and how her personal experiences are reflected throughout.

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All images are © Suchitra Mattai

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

Her current exhibition, Monster is showing at Unit London until 12 February 2022

In this episode, this internationally acclaimed British painter talks about his recent peripatetic life, why he favours painting bleak and barren landscapes, how his works are derived and evolved from personal memories and how his needing to make sense of the world through his work is a lonely but satisfying process.

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All images are © Mark Thompson

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In this episode, British painter Jo Holdsworth tells how she developed her style of elongated, anonymous figures with long shadows, how she became a professional artist after a corporate career, how she achieves a psychological depth to her work and how commissions stretch her.

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All images are ©Jo Holdsworth

You can see more of Jo’s works on her website

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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

You can see more of Anthony’s works on his website

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