Considering Art Podcast

Sophie Perez is a British-born artist now living in Australia where she has exhibited widely and won prestigious awards. In this episode, she talks about her early art experiences, why she moved to Australia, how the Mornington Peninsula area south of Melbourne inspires her daily, and how she strives to make her landscapes an immersive experience for the viewer.

Sophie Perez talking with Bob Chaundy

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Between Two Worlds

Language of Trees (diptych)

The Joy and Weight of Motherhood

Morninglight

Currumbin Valley

When I’m Among the Trees

All images are © Sophie Perez

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

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Agata Mayes is a Polish-born visual artist based in Melbourne, Australia. In this episode, she talks about growing up in Poland during the transition from Communism, the influence of her father’s photography hobby, the effect on her of having both parents as mathematicians, working in the aviation industry, how her move to Australia opened up opportunities in photography, the embrace of emerging technology and using projection mapping for her installations, how her work incorporates elements of psychology, philosophy and self-identity, and her views on AI.

Agata Mayes talking with Bob Chaundy

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Still from The Artist

From the series Compositions

Still from Architecture of Inner Space

Still from The Essence

All images are © Amata Mayes.

You can see the video installations mentioned above on her website

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June Nelson paints and draws themes expressing narratives that shape women’s lives. In this episode, she talks about her upbringing in industrial south Wales, studying English before reverting to art, how she has adopted a feminist viewpoint in her work, the influence of both art history and literature in determining her motifs, drawing with smoke for which she has twice been a finalist for the Trinity Buoy Wharf drawing prize, her drawings of egg climmers, her installations on the subjects of flooding and grief, making impossible objects, and the benefits of the Turps Offsite mentoring course.

June Nelson talking with Bob Chaundy

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Red Gloves

Coming to my Senses

Twitch

Whitsun Gloves

Elder Egg Climmer

All images are © June Nelson

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

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In this episode, British artist Paul Hodgson explains how and why his practice is primarily concerned with reconstructing important moments in art history by deconstructing the process by which the artwork is made. He discusses the symbolism behind earlier paintings and the process of making them, and he talks about his latest exhibition entitled Zot in which he combines sculpture, painting, photography and digital media.

Paul Hodgson talking with Bob Chaundy

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Masquerade, 2001

Dormant Figure, 2008/9

All images are © Paul Hodgson

You can see more of Paul’s work on his website

His exhibition, Zot, is showing at Varvara Roza Galleries, 27 Feb-27 March 2026

Joan Danziger is a 91-year-old American sculptor whose fantastical works have adorned many a museum and gallery across the United States. In this episode, she talks about how surrealism attracted her even as a child, how after graduating from Cornell University as an abstract painter, she joined the art scenes in Woodstock NY and New York City, how she first started sculpting, her love of mythological figures, the importance of animals to humans, the influence of foreign religions and cultures, how she developed her sculptures of horses, beetles and ravens, and about her first retrospective in Washington DC.

Joan Danziger talking with Bob Chaundy

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Owl Mother and Into the Magic

Sunshine Girl’s Love Band

Aerial Conjunction

Sapphire Raven

Red Beetle

Majestic Triad

All images courtesy of the artist except for top photo of Joan courtesy Neil Greentree

The Magical World of Joan Danziger is showing at the American University Museum, Washington DC Feb 7 – May 17 2026.

It’s curated by Jack Rasmussen.

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Joanna Whittle is a multi-prize winning landscape artist regarded by some as the greatest painter of her generation. In this episode, she talks about the influences of a childhood spent abroad, her attraction to tents and fairground structures and what they mean conceptually and metaphorically, the dualities in her paintings, the lack of planning in her process, the uncanny nature of her work, her love of loneliness as an artist, her attraction to shrines, why she paints small-scale, and about the Heavy Water Collective she co-founded.

Joanna Whittle talking with Bob Chaundy

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Rain Tent

Glow Slump

Darkened Heart ( a fugitive and wanderer on the earth)

All Day It Has Rained and Unsheltered Rain Desert (not here)

Forest Shrine (mouth)

The Machine

All images are © Joanna Whittle

Top photo courtesy Jashan Walton

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

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Narinder Sagoo’s visionary drawing skills have been instrumental in imagining architectural spaces in his role as Head of Design and Communication for Foster and Partners. In this episode, he talks about how drawing was a key part of his childhood in a family of makers, how he excelled at art in school despite being bullied, how he learned important skills at the Bartlett School of Architecture, how he used these skills to design a zoo for which he spent time with animals there, his work with the charity Life Project for Youth, and his artwork representing the more than 10,000 young people who have benefitted from the charity.

Narinder Sagoo MBE talking with Bob Chaundy

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Memories of my Father’s Workshop

Sketch made in St Peter’s Square, Rome

Aerial Vision for London

10,310 beneficiaries of Life Project 4 Youth drawn and digitised for the exhibition and auction Together We Art at The National Army Museum on January 29-30 2026.

All images are © Narinder Sagoo

Harold Offeh is a Ghana-born British artist and educator who uses a range of media to investigate the way we think about social, political, sexual and racial models. In this episode, he talks about how performance became a natural part of his work, his project on London’s longest artwork at Holborn Viaduct, how and why he uses his own body in much of his art, how he mimics black female actors and singers to highlight racial stereotyping, his tongue-in-cheek look at our wellness culture, projects arising from residencies in Japan and Canada, and why he believes art is undervalued by policy-makers in Britain.

Harold Offeh talking with Bob Chaundy

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Selfie Choreography

Betty Davis from Covers series

Graceful

Lounging

Nuit Blanche

Harold’s current exhibition, Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could be Sweet is showing at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge until 1 March 2026

You can see more of Harold’s work on his website

In this episode, South African artist Beezy Bailey talks about his family roots, his time in New York with the likes of Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, his Fine Art degree in London, his collaborations with rock stars David Bowie, Dave Matthews and Brian Eno, his alter ego Joyce Ntobe, and his response to exhibiting in an English stately home.

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Two Beezy Bailey sculptures exhibited at Boughton House

Two paintings from the Let There Be Light exhibition featuring prints from the Boughton House collection

Top shot courtesy Dan Weill Photography

Let There Be Light exhibitions:

Boughton House, Kettering 16 April – 22 May 2022

Everard Read Gallery, London 27 April – 1 June 2022

In an interview taken from the Considering Art archive in 2022, eminent sculptor Beth Carter talks about the symbolic significance of her bronze sculptures of animals and hybrid animals, how the minotaur became an obsessive subject of her work as she explores ideas of power, vulnerability, and grief, how the theme of duality in her sculptures references part of the human condition, and how one particular charcoal drawing became a way to help process a dark incident in her past.

Beth Carter talking with Bob Chaundy

Fallen Minotaur

Giant Minotaur Reading and Minotaur with Moth

Hollow King

Monkey and Hare, Fox and Pheasant, Wolf with Deer

The Long Way Home

Fighting Clowns III

Bacchus

All images are © Beth Carter

Watch Beth drawing Minotaur and Bird in a time-lapse recording here

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

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