Considering Art Podcast

By Bob ChaundyArts Visual Arts

Considering Art Podcast episodes

July 12, 2021Considering Art Podcast – Hatty Buchanan, sculptor
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.
Hatty Buchanan talking with Bob Chaundy
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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
From Hatty’s latest series Hanging by a Thread (working title)
You can see more of Hatty Buchanan’s artworks on her website here
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
37 min
June 28, 2021Considering Art Podcast – Sarah Hardie, performance artist and filmmaker
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.
Sarah Hardie talking with Bob Chaundy
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Sarah Hardie’s opera, Before Sleep at the End of Love, 2016 was performed in a car park
Stills from Spring Sometimes Rises in Me, 2020, winner of the SohoHouse Art Prize 2021
You can view more of Sarah’s projects on her website here
All images are courtesy Sarah Hardie.
Top shot is by Maxwell Bamber
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
40 min
June 21, 2021Considering Art Podcast – My Dog Sighs, street artist
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.
Paul Stone, aka My Dog Sighs, talking with Bob Chaundy
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Can people, prominent in Free Art Friday
His Eye paintings are often large-scale
He painted 540 eyes on this hospital wall in Rome
An Everyman painting made from the pages of a found book and given away.
Preparing for Inside, the immersive installation in a derelict building in Portsmouth
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
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
37 min
June 14, 2021 Considering Art Podcast – Julie Held, painter
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.
Julie Held talking with Bob Chaundy
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The Shoe Shop
Celebration and Commemoration
Siesta
The Garden – Spring
Dark Descending
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
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
34 min
June 07, 2021Considering Art Podcast – Pinkie Maclure, stained glass artist
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.
Pinkie Maclure talking with Bob Chaundy
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Self-Portrait Dreaming of Portavadie, 2019 now in the National Museum of Scotland
Pills for Ills, Ills for Pills, 2018
Beauty Tricks, 2018
Details from Beauty Tricks
Fish and Chips, 2020
Detail from Fish and Chips
I Miss My Mum, 2020
Detail from I Miss My Mum
All images are ©Pinkie Maclure
You can see more of Pinkie Maclure’s work here
Music clip: The Smell of Trouble by Pumajaw
Opening and closing music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
35 min
May 31, 2021 Considering Art Podcast – Tatiana de Stempel, multi-disciplinary artist
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.
Tatiana de Stempel talking with Bob Chaundy
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Khali’s Revenge
Mrs Rochester’s Revenge
Tatiana de Stempel with Manoj Nair
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.
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
31 min
May 17, 2021Considering Art Podcast – Luke Jerram, installation artist
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.
Luke Jerram talking with Bob Chaundy
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Cindy Lauper joining in with Play Me I’m Yours in New York
Sky Orchestra over London in 2012
Glass Microbiology – left to right, E Coli, Avian Flu and Covid-19
Museum of the Moon, Latvia. Photo: Robert Sils
Gaia at the Natural History Museum, London
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
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
29 min
May 10, 2021Considering Art Podcast – Nicole Wassall, multi-media artist
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.
Nicole Wassall talking with Bob Chaundy
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And Somehow We Must Be Perfect No.1, 2019
Thank You, 2019
Thank You, 2019
You can see the compromising footage of Nicole’s social experiment here
All images are ©Nicole Wassall
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
38 min
May 03, 2021 Considering Art Podcast – Henry Jabbour, painter and sculptor
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.
Henry Jabbour speaking with Bob Chaundy
The Presence of You
Nostalgic Voices
You Are My Better (diptych)
All That I Owe You
Peeling
Head
All images are © Henry Jabbour
Henry Jabbour is currently showing at Pontone Gallery in London
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
38 min
April 26, 2021 Considering Art Podcast – Teresa Kutala Firmino, South African painter
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.
Teresa Kutala Firmino talking with Bob Chaundy
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A Band of Baboons from The War at Home series
Madonna Before Birth from The War at Home series
Power, from Manifestation of Wanting at Everard Read, London 28 April – 25 May 2021
In Moments of Happiness from Manifestation of Wanting
Kutala’s Blessing from Manifestation of Wanting
All images are ©Teresa Kutala Firmino
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
37 min