In our latest podcast episode, performance artist Adelaide Damoah talks about her Ghanaian heritage, how the condition endometriosis indirectly led to her becoming an artist, how she gave up portrait painting for body art and her interest in colonialism, feminism and racial identity.

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All images are ©Adelaide Damoah.

You can see more on Adelaide Damoah’s website here

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In our latest podcast episode, Olivia Kemp talks about her large-scale pen and ink drawings of magical landscapes and interiors full of personal and art historical details. She tells how art has inspired her since childhood, why she prefers pen and ink to paint, her love of the playful in her work and how a residency at the Prado Museum in Madrid five years ago spawned her current solo exhibition in London.

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All images are © Olivia Kemp

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In our latest podcast episode, South African artist Deborah Bell talks about her early paintings about female objectification and entrapment, her discovery of the art of ancient civilisations, how her work became more spiritual and how her process is like a “dance between will and surrender”.

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All images are ©Deborah Bell

Top shot courtesy of Stella Olivier

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In our latest podcast episode, one of the world’s leading sculptors of animals, Hamish Mackie, talks about his upbringing on a farm in Cornwall, how a trip to southern Africa changed his life, and how his “loose” sculpting style helps create a sense of movement and character.

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All images are ©Hamish Mackie

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In our latest podcast episode, Iraqi-born London-based sculptor Ahuva Zeloof talks about how the lockdown spurred her art, her upbringing in Israel, her immersion into London’s art scene, how she discovered, at a late age, a passion for sculpting and how yoga has influenced her life and art.

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All images are ©Ahuva Zeloof. Her exhibition Imperfection is showing at Diba Art London from 20 August – 20 November 2020.

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In our latest podcast episode, UK-based French mixed media artist talks about life as a “pied noir”, the name given to those of European origin born in Algeria but who moved to France following independence. He talks about how this and living in South Africa, South America and Europe have had a profound influence on his life and art.

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You can view Patrick Altes’s virtual exhibition, Legacy, here

All images are ©Patrick Altes.

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In our latest podcast episode, British abstract artist Mark Surridge talks with Bob Chaundy about the Cornish art scene, his journey from graphic design to abstract art, the controversy over his picture Storm Glow, how landscape has inspired him to delve into his psyche and how a residency in New Zealand affected his work.

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All images are ©Mark Surridge

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In our latest podcast episode, British artist Alison Jackson talks about the use of lookalikes, why a mistrust of photography is at its root, the backlash she has received and the difficulties of making her humorous work.

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You can see more of Alison Jackson’s images on her website https://www.alison-jackson.co.uk

Join Alison Jackon on her riverside tour created for Kensington and Chelsea Art Weekend via the Go Jauntly app. Alternatively, step inside her world through KCAW’s initiative ‘Open Doors 360’ is an exciting run of 360 degree interviews with artists living or working in West London. Invited into their creative spaces, we can witness as they discuss their work and inspiration, gaining a rare glimpse into the reality of their lives and practices – and through the incredible 360 technology we can be fully immersed, as if in the room, standing right beside the artist and among their work.

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All images are ©Alison Jackson. The top portrait of Alison Jackson is by Corrado Amitrano.

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In our latest podcast episode, American multi-media artist James Stanford tells of the extraordinary experience that convinced him to become an artist, how his art is influenced by his Zen Buddhist beliefs and about his love for his hometown of Las Vegas.

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All images courtesy James Stanford

Top photo, courtesy Sampsel Preston

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British prize-winning photographer, Amelia Troubridge, talks candidly about how she fell in love with photography, how she got her break through a mixture of talent and bravado, her problems with burn-out, her successful commercial career and her photo-journalism including her new book revisiting her assignment documenting the Manchester music scene of the late 1990s.

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All images are courtesy Amelia Troubridge

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