In Talks With

By Danielle RadojcinArts Fashion & Beauty Visual Arts Design

In Talks With episodes

November 18, 2022 Vanessa Baird
In her first-ever podcast interview, Vanessa Baird, one of Norway's most pre-eminent artists, speaks to Danielle Radojcin about her life’s work. Taking inspiration from her daily routine at home with her family in Oslo, her drawings are at once darkly comic and profoundly relatable. Vanessa trained at the the Royal Academy in London under Quentin Blake, and is a winner of Norway’s most important art prize, the Lorck Schive Kunstpris. She also designed the Nobel Peace prize diploma. She speaks openly about her inspirations, overcoming challenges, and finding kinship through her work with Karl Ove Knausgaard.
31 min
November 17, 2022 Suzanne Clements
The former fashion designer, who has recently pivoted to art, talks to Danielle about the heady days of designing for Clements Ribeiro; why French women love Cacharel; and the special energy of Naomi Campbell.
32 min
November 15, 2022 Ghada Amer
“Always be upset. We can go backwards, we can lose rights. If you don’t fight for what you have, you will lose it.” The artist talks to Danielle about her upcoming retrospective at MUCEM in Marseille and how she uses feminism, politics and humour in her work.
29 min
October 21, 2022 Soheila Sokhanvari
Born in Iran, the artist Soheila Sokhanvari has lived in the UK since the 70s. Working first as a scientist, according to her family’s wishes, and then retraining as an artist in the 2010s, she became an ‘official’ exile from Iran in 2009. Now based in Cambridge, where she is a studio resident at Wysing Studios, she has her first Her Barbican exhibition, curated by Eleanor Nairne, two years in the planning and her first major institutional show. Called Rebel, Rebel (after the David Bowie song of the same name), it features a series of portraits of female Iranians working in the arts in Pre-Revolutionary Iran - actors, poets, dancers, singers, academics and intellectuals - who were forced into exile or otherwise persecuted after the Revolution in 1979. Based on found photographs, the portraits are both exquisite in their rich, patterned intricacy and profound in the underlying political message they impart. On the eve of the show’s opening, Danielle spoke to Soheila at the Barbican about her thoughts on the protests currently taking place across her country of birth, and how she hopes that, in her words, the show will “transport visitors to the pulse of life in pre-revolutionary Iran and to the women at the heart of that culture… who gave up everything to pursue their creativity.”
http://www.soheila-sokhanvari.com/
https://www.barbican.org.uk/
28 min
September 26, 2022 Catherine Sarr
Selected as one of the creatives in the Theaster Gates x Prada design programme, Catherine Sarr is a jewellery designer for our times. Her sustainable jewellery line, Almasika, was snapped up by Vogue and has adorned the likes of Michelle Obama and Reese Witherspoon; she is also co-founder of the Prix Sarr at Les Beaux-Arts Paris, which presents three awards annually to students for excellence in a body of artistic work. She speaks to Danielle about philanthropy and being a "vector of change".
31 min
July 15, 2022 Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa is an internationally celebrated artist, whose colossal sculptures enhance the landscape in locations from Japan to Germany, from the United States to Reunion. Born in Barcelona in 1955, he has become known for creating work that aims to build bridges and foster communication between people and nations, principally via his enormous portrait sculptures with closed eyes, which exude an air of peaceful meditation in contrast to their size, and his linguistically-playful pieces formed of letters from different world alphabets. As a new exhibition of his work opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in the North of the UK, Danielle talks with him to find out more about the lofty aims behind his work.
18 min
May 23, 2022 Laurie Simmons
“I feel like it’s going to be a tidal wave of appreciation.” The New York artist talks about her friend, the photographer Jimmy DeSana, and a major retrospective of his work she is planning this autumn. She also discusses the meaning of photography in the digital age and how she will always prefer the artificial to reality.
32 min
October 19, 2021 Kaat Debo at MoMu Antwerp
Kaat Debo is the director and chief curator at MoMu, the fashion museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Belgium is famous as a key fashion location, not just for producing contemporary star names such as Raf Simons and Glenn Martens, but also for the Antwerp Six, a group of designers who came to prominence in the 90s and became celebrated for their groundbreaking designs. In September this year, MoMu reopened after an expansive renovation which was begun in 2018. Danielle speaks to Kaat about what it’s like being at the forefront of progressive museum thinking - from experimenting with live and digital performances, to challenging the authority of the institution voice - and why it’s so hard to find diverse mannequins to exhibit clothes on.
36 min
May 17, 2021 Peter Hujar
The American photographer Peter Hujar came to recognition for his gritty, tough and glamorous black and white images of the downtown New York scene taken during the 1970s and 80s. Until his untimely death from AIDS in 1987, he was a key player in the group of artists, musicians, writers, and performers who made the city so compelling at this time, and he left behind a complex and profound body of work that has become posthumously celebrated. Ahead of a show of his work at Maureen Paley in London, Danielle speaks to gallery owner Maureen Paley and also to the writer and photography critic Vince Aletti, who was Peter’s close friend, neighbour, fellow-party goer, and portrait sitter.
Image: Peter Hujar
Fran Lebowitz (at Home in Morristown), 1974
© 1987 The Peter Hujar Archive LLC, courtesy Maureen Paley, London and The Peter Hujar Archive
27 min
April 21, 2021 Emma Talbot
The multidisciplinary British artist shares her journey, from juggling motherhood and work, to dealing with grief, to having her work broadcast at Piccadilly Circus and winning the Max Mara Art Prize for Women and major new shows at Whitechapel Gallery in London and Collezione Maramotti in Italy.
30 min