Considering Art Podcast

Miriam Escofet’s works have evolved over the years from still life, fantasy, architecture and portraiture. In this episode, she explains the trauma behind her family’s move from Spain to England when she was 12, the difficulties she experienced at art school, her early obsession with architecture and celestial charts, her love of process and making, how she builds atmosphere into her works, how winning the BP Portrait Award led to a commission to paint Queen Elizabeth II.

Miriam Escofet talking with Bob Chaundy

Accompanying images on consideringart.com

The Heavens

Oberon

The Witching Hour

An Angel at my Table

HM Queen Elizabeth II

What Will Survive Us

All images are © Miriam Escofet

Top shot courtesy Aliona Adrianova

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial

Molly Hatch is an American fine art ceramicist who has become internationally famous for her multi-plate art installations. In this episode, she speaks about how she studied drawing, painting and printmaking but fell in love with the process of working with clay. She talks about how she successfully built up her own designer brand on functional pottery while making stand alone artworks as well, and how these have developed into multiple plate installations.

Molly Hatch talking with Bob Chaundy

Accompanying images on consideringart.com

American Story from John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2009

Physic Garden, 2014

Repertoire, Newark Museum, NJ, 2017

Ducerre, Muséé des Beaux Arts, Montreal, 2022

Amalgam, Sarasota Art Museum, Fla, 2024

Amalgam is showing at the Sarasota Art Museum until 26 April 2026

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial

Saad Qureshi’s artworks range from painting, works on paper to sculpture. He is a multi prize-winner and has exhibited the world over. In this episode, he talks about memories of his childhood in Pakistan and the experience of moving to Bradford where he was later to witness riots. He speaks about how memory is a vital theme in his works, his emphasis on cultural unity, notions of Paradise and how he visualises these in sculptural tableaux he calls “mindscapes”.

Saad Qureshi talking with Bob Chaundy

Accompanying images on consideringart.com

A Handful of Paradise, 2024 (detail)

A Handful of Paradise, 2024

Valley of Mist, 2024

Tanabanas, 2023, Meeting the Unknown and New Arrival

Saad Qureshi: A Handful of Paradise is showing at I de V L’Etrangere 18 September – 14 December 2024

Gallery photos courtesy Hugh Pryor

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial

In this episode, Catarina Diaz talks about how memories of a childhood in the Portuguese colony of Angola are central to her collages, how a period of depression turned her from a successful career in education to becoming a full time artist, how her art emphasises the beauty of life and seeks to empower viewers to work on their creative selves by exploring their inner world, how her collages explore modern female identity, and how she has delved into fashion and collaborated with other artists, musicians and film directors.

Catarina Diaz talking with Bob Chaundy

Accompanying images on consideringart.com

I See

Mindfulness

Quintessence

Splendour

Set You Free

Life Illuminated

All images are © Catarina Diaz

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

Flux Exhibition is showing 25-28 July 2024

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial

In this episode, Matt Jacob talks about his artistic mission to capture different peoples and cultures across the world, how an illness in his youth focused his mind on life’s fragility, his journey towards becoming a professional photographer, some of the stories behind his series taken in often remote parts of the world, the technical equipment he uses to photograph his subjects, and about his MOOD Podcast in which he invites fellow photographers to ruminate on their profession.

Matt Jacob talking with Bob Chaundy

Accompanying images on consideringart.com

Woman in rice field, Bali, Indonesia

Liu Jun, cormorant fisherman, China

Ahori, Sadhu, Varanasi, India

Bedouin from the series Lost Tribes

Button Family, Utah, USA

All images are © Matt Jacob

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

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial

In this episode, Ben Edge talks about his paintings that document the extraordinary ancient customs and rituals that abound in Britain, how he was inspired by eccentric family members, how a trip to the Tower of London first fired his passion for folklore, some of the interesting characters he has come across, what old folk traditions provide for communities and how they act as a mirror to our history and connect us to our past.

Ben Edge talking with Bob Chaundy

Accompanying images on consideringart.com

The Animal Handler, 2009

Dress for the Party, 2019, portrait of Steve Edge

The Burryman, 2018

The Dorset Ooser, 2022

The Flaming Barrels of Ottery St Mary, 2020

In My Nature (Self-portrait as the Green Man), 2021

All images are © Ben Edge

Intro and outro music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial

Music clips: Lowry at the Door by Ben Edge and the Electric Pencils, and New Tradition by Ben Edge

Folklore Rising, published by Watkins Books is due out on 8 October 2024

In this episode, Laura talks about her childhood in a fairground family in Wales, the early influence of magical, other-worldly artists, how she was nearly thrown out of art school, representing Wales at the 2005 Venice Biennale, why her works can be bitter-sweet and wrapped in absurdist humour, and about some of the pieces in her new show called Under This Roof.

Laura Ford talking with Bob Chaundy

Accompanying images on consideringart.com

Watercolour of Girl with Devil on her Shoulder, 2014

Glory, Glory with Bronze Hat, 2005 Venice Biennale

Weeping Girl, 2009

Armoured Boys, 2014

Limited Penguins, 2012

In Remembrance 2, 1998

Giraffe, 2013

Fuel Injection, 2024

Chintz Girls, 1998

All images are © Laura Ford

Top photo courtesy Jesse Wild

Laura’s latest exhibition Under This Roof is showing at Bo Lee and Workman 6 July – 8 September 2024

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial

In this episode, Lottie talks about how she became interested in painting her signature period interiors and why people are absent from them, how she makes references to modern British mainly female artists, the importance of making work that’s visually appealing that bursts with symbolism and deeper meaning for those who want it, the influence of poetry and why portrayals of girls reading are a recurring feature in several of her paintings.

Lottie Cole talking with Bob Chaundy

Accompanying images on consideringart.com

Interior with Kathleen Guthrie Painting and Elisabeth Frink Head, 2017

Home of the Paleoethnobotanist

Y

Yeats Long-Legged Fly, 2024

AE Houseman The Loveliest of Trees, 2023

Interior with Young Girl Reading I, 2024

Stephen Spender From the Truly Great, 2024

TS Eliot Four Quartets, 2023

All images are © Lottie Cole

Lotties’s exhibition A Commonplace Exhibition of Paintings is showing at Long and Ryle 3 July – 9 August 2024

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial

Ros Burgin combines her love of sculpture with a compulsion to express her feelings about environmental causes. In this episode, she talks about how a previous career on sailing ships first gave her a direct experience of pollution and climate change, how sculpture for her is object and material based, how water emerged as a key area of her practice, the types of found materials she uses, the ingenuity behind recontextualising them, how female equality is another concern and how a recent trip to the Arctic icecap has inspired a future series of works.

Ros Burgin talking with Bob Chaundy

Accompanying images on consideringart.com

Lifelines

Another Country (with detail) made from fishing net rollers and cable ties

Migration, made from shuttlecocks

Away with Words, made from the “list of works” books for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Skylines, made from escalator handrails and containing the names of female pilots

All images are © Ros Burgin

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial

In this episode, British abstract artist and filmmaker Mark James talks about his tortuous route to securing a place at Goldsmith’s art college, how he witnessed the Freeze exhibition mounted by the so-called Young British Artists, YBAs, and how he made a subsequent film about it, the intrigue behind his first film about the American sculptor Carl Andre, how films about other artists both dead and alive re-awakened his desire to resume painting, how random shapes and forms inspire his abstract work and how he strives to create emotion in his paintings.

Mark James talking with Bob Chaundy

Accompanying images on consideringart.com

Come Fly with Me, 2024

Don’t Fence Me In, 2015

Dettaglio #4, 2023

One For My Baby, 2024

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

Mark’s exhibition Vivid is showing at Cris Contini Contemporary 14 June – 13 July

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial