In this episode, British documentary photographer Polly Braden talks about some of her long-term projects. They include photographing a worker in a shoe factory in China, a group of people with autism and learning difficulties, single mothers facing challenges in an age of austerity, a flying eye hospital in Africa, the City of London both in and out of lockdown, about her current exhibition in which she follows a group of young women who have had to flee the war in Ukraine, and about her past experience of working in Gaza.

Polly Braden talking with Bob Chaundy

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Lucie

Jana and her children

Barbeline with her son, Elijah

Appold Street, City of London

All images are © Polly Braden

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

Leaving Ukraine is showing at the Foundling Museum until 1 Sept 2024

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In this episode, Brussels-based Polish sculptor Tatiana Wolska talks about the sculptures she makes from found or recycled materials, particularly wood. She describes herself as a “junk artist” who is commenting on the wastefulness of western society and breathing new life into redundant waste products. She talks about how her fabricated shelters are a plea for society to slow down and contemplate life in these difficult times, and how drawing and sculpting, without much planning, are central to her life.

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Sculpture from Biennale d’Architecture d’Orleans, France, 2019. Credit Martin Argyoglo

Shelter at Leisure as Resistance exhibition, Midlands Arts Centre

Sculpture made from red plastic water bottles, MAC exhibition

Drawing is central to Tatiana’s life

Leisure as Resistance is showing at Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham until 2nd June 2024

Exhibition installation photos courtesy Tegen Kimbley

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In this episode, the remarkable Californian husband and wife team talk about assemblage art in which they make sculptures out of found and discarded objects. Spencer talks about how decades in the music business led him into this art form, Esther describes how her training as a psychotherapist has influenced some of her work. They explain how they acquire found material, how they work together, and they discuss individual artworks including Tesla Man, a homage to the Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla.

Esther Siegel and Spencer Brewer talking with Bob Chaundy

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She Rose Within

Grey Matters

Piano Mandala Contentment

Barometaur

Walk Your Talk

Book Art Teapot

Acapella

Tesla Man

Esther and Spencer’s book

You can see more of Esther Siegel and Spencer Brewer’s work on their website Harmony Gaits

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In this episode, the London-based artist talks about living in Japan and its connection with her home country of New Zealand, why she chose to paint portraits and the responsibility this entails, the experience of coming out as a lesbian in her late twenties, how her paintings became largely autobiographical through painting others from the queer community, her obsession with shoes, and creating a mood in her works.

Sarah Jane Moon talking with Bob Chaundy

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Maybe Tomorrow

Peter Tatchell

Ursula Martinez

Sadie Lee and Roxana Halls

Lords and Ladies

All images are © Sarah Jane Moon

You can see more of Sarah Jane’s work on her website

A Room of their Own – Queer Interiors is showing at the W1A Gallery, Lewes, Sussex until 6th April 2024

In this episode, London-based Nigerian photographer Elizabeth Okoh talks about how she first began photographing in her childhood, why she left Nigeria to attend university in the UK, her initial difficulties in culturally acclimatising, how lots of her series and her commercial work focus on female empowerment, and how her current exhibition Women on the Frontlines celebrates the unsung heroes of the pandemic.

Elizabeth Okoh talking with Bob Chaundy

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Elizabeth Okoh’s debut novel

All images are © Elizabeth Okoh

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

Women on the Frontlines is showing at Buckle Street Studios by Locke, 21 Buckle St, London E1 8DB until 31 March 2024

In this episode, Attua talks about winning the Design Museum’s 2024 Ralph Saltzman Prize for design, how her work intersects design, craft and art, why she left Spain for the UK, the importance of sustainability in her process, her experiments in fusing borosilicate glass with clay to create sparkling ceramics, how a shelf-unit she made recalls memories of her childhood and how she is experimenting using ceramics with textiles.

Attua Aparicio talking with Bob Chaundy

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Wedgwood Plate with waste borosilicate glass (image credit: Sylvain Deleu)

Solaris de Esgueva bookshelf

Jardiniere

Sprout Bench

Digit Texture Vessel (image credit Jixiao Tong)

Neon Lights from AJ Series

Wall piece

All images are © Attua Aparicio

The Ralph Saltzman Prize exhibition is at the Design Museum until 15 April

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In this episode, Caroline Burraway talks about why and how she has given voice to those disenfranchised and displaced on the margins of society, how she has focused recently on refugees like Tarik and Eden whom she has met in refugee camps and of whom she has made large-scale prize-winning drawings, about her Ungrievable Lives project in which she made children’s dresses out of lifejackets and her installations derived from the current war in Ukraine.

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Tarik triptych at John Ruskin Prize

Kathleen from End of Days video still

The Grey Zone and it can’t be helped (crucifixion)

Children of Moria, St Luke’s

Ungrievable Lives, New College Chapel, Oxford. This exhibition, set to music by Charlotte Bray, has been performed in Europe and the United States and will be staged at Konzerthaus Berlin in November 2024.

Mother

Part of Soniashinyk (Sunflower)

Close-up of Tarik together with detail of red threads symbolising his journey from Syria to Europe

All images are © Caroline Burraway

Music is from Mid-Oceaned by Charlotte Bray, performed by Castilian Quartet

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In this episode, Romany talks about his upbringing during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, how he gave up practising as a lawyer to become an artist, how the death of a friend inspired his AIDS Memorial sculpture in Brighton, why he started painting, the influence of Francis Bacon, designing theatre sets and about his new monograph Sculpting Colour.

Romany Mark Bruce talking with Bob Chaundy

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‘Tay’ Brighton and Hove AIDS Memorial, New Steine Gardens.

Why does the wind?

Bremen

One Lens

Top photo credit: Edith Ackerman

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

Sculpting Colour, about Romany’s work, written by Alex Leith will be published in May 2024

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In this episode, Jersey-based fine art photographer Connor Daly talks about how photography became his passion, his struggles at art school, the adventurous spirit he inherited from his mother, how his photographs responded to a serious illness, how a car park provided a career turning point, how his influences owe more to painters than photographers, and how church hall stages became a series theme.

Connor Daly talking with Bob Chaundy

A Moment of Sufficient Lucidity and I Feel Like I am Vanishing, from Schwarzschild Radius series, 2021

Pink, Grey, Yellow and Black, and Blue, Orange and Green from Colour Field, 2022

Untitled II and Untitled XXI from Intersections, 2022

Stage IV and Stage X from Phantasmagoria, 2022

All images are © Connor Daly

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

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In this episode, Kate talks about her passion for colour and what colour provides, how she discovered the Araash fresco practice during a trip to India as a teenager and how she subsequently went back to learn the process, the art objects she makes using it, her obsession with walls, the influence of Rothko’s use of colour, the shapes and drawings she makes, and her use of concrete.

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Araash Quartet

Patchwork SV Road 2

Fresco Wall Flowers

Lingham Necklace

Lapis Lazuli Beginnings 1 and 2 and Etched Silver Feet

Inlay Araash Frescoes and Corrugated Concrete

All images are © Muirne Kate Dineen

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

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