For two decades, Fanny Rush has been painting the portraits of high profile figures from the world of entertainment, business, politics and elsewhere. In our latest podcast episode, she tells why she gave up a successful career in the fashion and commercial film industries for painting, how she fell in love with portraiture, who influences her and how she goes about her work.

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All portraits are ©Fanny Rush

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British artist Andy Holden is a sculptor, animator, film-maker, painter, curator, author and musician. In our latest podcast episode, he gives his thoughts on irony and sincerity, the nature of nostalgia, how stealing a rock from an Egyptian pyramid inspired an acclaimed artwork and how he sees the world as a kind of cartoon.

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• Natural Selection Installation Newington Library

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In our latest podcast episode, Susie MacMurray explains why she gave up classical music for art, how she came to specialise in site-specific works, how these incorporate the history and stories of the venues, and how her choice of materials reflects bitter-sweet themes.

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Murmur is showing at Pangolin London, King’s Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG 21 October – 22 December 2020

All images are ©Susie MacMurray

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In our latest podcast episode, Emily Allchurch talks about her upbringing in Jersey, her switch from sculpture to photography and digital art, her passion for giving Old Master paintings and prints a contemporary rendering, how the pandemic has affected her work and her current focus on Asia.

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All images are ©Emily Allchurch

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In our latest podcast episode, British conceptual artist Alexandra Lethbridge talks about how she uses photography, appropriated imagery, installation and video to examine such themes as deception, illusion, misinformation and the way we process and use information in our world of all-consuming visual culture.

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From the series Other Ways of Knowing, 2016

From the series The Path of an Honest Man, 2017

• From the series The Archive of Gesture, 2020

All images are ©Alexandra Lethbridge

You can see more of Alexandra’s works on her website here

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In our latest podcast episode, Dr Jasmine Pradissitto talks about how her training in Quantum Physics has helped her develop as a visual artist, how the discovery of a certain polymer has enabled her to make art and help the environment at the same time, and how artists can offer imagination to aid scientists in their efforts to secure the future for humanity.

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All images are ©Jasmine Pradissitto

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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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