Considering Art Podcast

By Bob ChaundyArts Visual Arts

Considering Art Podcast episodes

August 17, 2020 Considering Art Podcast – Ahuva Zeloof, stone sculptor
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.
Ahuva Zeloof talking with Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
Scarred
Fractured
Incomplete
Hope
New Movement
Evolution
Mountain Profile Glass
All images are ©Ahuva Zeloof. Her exhibition Imperfection is showing at Diba Art London from 20 August – 20 November 2020.
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25 min
August 10, 2020 Considering Art Podcast – Patrick Altes, mixed media artist of Algerian heritage
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.
Patrick Altes talking with Bob Chaundy about his life and work.
Accompanying images for consideringart.com
We Live in Uncertain Times, 2016
Symbol of Our Dreams, 2019
Re-writing History, 2020
Ad Infinitum, 2020
You can view Patrick Altes’s virtual exhibition, Legacy, here
All images are ©Patrick Altes.
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33 min
July 29, 2020 Considering Art Podcast – Mark Surridge, British abstract artist
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.
Mark Surridge talking with Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
Storm Glow, 2004
Water Course from Aerials series
Excavation 1 from Openings series
Ancient Path from Alignments series
Island Walk from The Shape of a Walk, New Zealand series
Map Walk 15 from The Shape of a Walk, UK series
All images are ©Mark Surridge
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30 min
July 20, 2020 Considering Art Podcast – Alison Jackson, photographer. Seeing is Deceiving
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.
Alison Jackson talking with Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
Diana, Dodi and Child
Trump with Miss Mexico
Trump with Ku Klux Klan
Queen on the Loo
Marilyn undressing for JFK
Kim in the Pool
The Queen at William Hill
The real Benedict Cumberbatch
The real Tom Hollander
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.
https://www.kcaw.co.uk/
All images are ©Alison Jackson. The top portrait of Alison Jackson is by Corrado Amitrano.
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40 min
July 13, 2020Considering Art Podcast – James Stanford, American multi-media artist
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.
James Stanford talking with Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
Details from From the Land Beyond mural
A Phalanx of Angels mural
Budding Buddha Lenticular Right
Downtown Collage
Ing Ing Lenticular
Fremont High
All images courtesy James Stanford
Top photo, courtesy Sampsel Preston
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34 min
July 06, 2020Considering Art Podcast – Amelia Troubridge, photographer
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.
Amelia Troubridge talking to Bob Chaundy
consideringart.com accompanying images
From Dublin’s Urban Cowboys,
Amelia 8a
Motorhead and Lemmy’s brief case
Terry Christian included in the book Manchester 1997-2001 published by Café Royal Books
From 24 Hour Party People
Actor, Adrien Brody
Justine Picardie, editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar UK
Iris Law and Izzy
All images are courtesy Amelia Troubridge
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34 min
June 29, 2020Considering Art Podcast – Aideen Barry, multi-media artist
Our latest episode features the internationally-renowned Irish multi-media artist, Aideen Barry. She talks to Bob Chaundy about her struggles with the lockdown, the humour that permeates her work and why artists are a breed apart.
Aideen Barry speaking with Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
Monocopsis Drawings 69 and 56
Monocopsis drawings 48, Earworms
Still from animation Swallowed Up
Meditations on Being Volcanic
Still from Heterotopic Glitch, a collaboration with Anne Ffrench. Photo John Allen
Yellow Costume, part of Kaunas 2022 project
All images are courtesy of Aideen Barry
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35 min
June 22, 2020Considering Art Podcast – WK Lyhne, painter
In our latest podcast episode, British artist WK Lyhne talks about the symbolic significance of animals in her work, how sex and death is at the root of art, why she gave up a career as an architect and a new prize she has initiated for the lockdown.
WK Lyhne talking to Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
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From Death and Desire: We Are All Animals
Hallowed Be Thy Name
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Mammal and Mammal 2
Three 1
Three 2 and Three 3
All images are ©WK Lyhne
You can read more about The Sequested Prize on www.sequestedprize.com
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34 min
June 15, 2020Considering Art Podcast – Sara Shamma, Syrian portrait painter
In our latest podcast episode, Syrian portrait artist Sara Shamma talks about how she incorporates the subconscious into her works, how she was forced to leave her country and how a deep sense of humanity pervades her pictures.
Sara Shamma talking to Bob Chaundy
Images on consideringart.com to accompany the podcast.
2004 Self-portrait that earned Sara Shamma 4th prize in the BP national Portrait Award
The Butcher. Sara studied anatomy which served her well for depicting the butchery of war

Children are a favourite subject for portrait
Incognito 1 and 3 from World Civil War series
In and Out and Eyes from Modern Slavery series
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31 min
June 08, 2020Considering Art Podcast – Ian Davenport, abstract artist and designer
In our latest podcast episode, abstract artist Ian Davenport discusses his early experience as a so-called YBA (Young British Artist), his love of experimenting with process and the development of his renowned colourful stripe and puddle paintings.
Ian Davenport talks to Bob Chaundy about his life and work
Untitled Matt Black, Gloss Back, Satin Black, 1990 and Untitled Circle Painting 9, 2005
Jelmoli department store, Zurich.
Puddle Painting: Blue Study (after van Gogh), 2011 and La Mer (after Bonnard) 2018
Giardini Colourfall, 2017 at the Swatch stand at the Venice Biennale
The Field, 2018
Swatch: Wide Acres of Time, 2017 and Lady Dior Evening Bag, 2016
All images are courtesy of the artist and Waddington Custot
Top photo courtesy Sue Arrowsmith
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You can see Ian Davenport’s latest exhibition here: NEW WORK: Ian Davenport
32 min