June 04, 2023

Environmental Lawyer, King's Counsel and Artist Stephen Tromans Discussing his Golgotha Series on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, His Practices of Law and Art, and Art's Role In Addressing Injustice

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Cover image by Stephen Tromans: Climate Innocence, 1957, oil on board, 20x24 inches

To view Stephen Tromans' work, please visit Mr. Tromans' website and Instagram as well as Ely Cathedral's feature of his Golgotha series, the Cambridge Drawing Society's discussion of his work and the Gallery Holt.

Show Notes:
1:30 Troman’s choice to go into law, specifically environmental law
2:45 Lord Denning
3:30 Troman’s work as a painter
4:30 Diploma in oil painting
5:00 Influenced by Turner, Caravaggio, Goya
5:30 Scotland’s Joan Eardley
5:40 Royal Academician Fred Cuming
6:30 mixed media and collage
6:50 Hong Kong urbanscapes
9:20 Golgotha series
12:00 Ely Cathedral
15:00 feedback from Golgotha series
15:45 Ukrainian children and their toys as a focus in Golgotha series
18:00 future cathedral venues for Golgotha series
18:45 current work
20:20 environmentally-related art
22:00 Climate Innocence, 1957 - acceptance of pollution
23:00 Troman’s process
24:00 art’s function to speak to social issues
26:00 compliments between legal and creative work
28:50 legacy
31:30 definition of justice
34:15 how Troman’s artwork speaks to justice
35:15 the power of Picasso’s Guernica

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Music by Toulme.

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