Episode Summary:

Just before Christmas our co-founder Farah Piriye hosts a candid conversation with British artist and sculptor Piers Secunda, who’s intensive research based practice examines the deliberate targeting of culture in war time, by moulding damage from war zones and the sites of historic conflicts to make works. Discussing how art can be a social vehicle that shifts perceptions and conversations on diplomatic arena, Secunda shares with us why his latest body of work is built around the iconoclastic acts of the Islamic extremist group Isis and the destructions caused by Taliban in Afghanistan; and how he is detaching a painting from its traditional restraints as an extension of the Modernist painting practice, in artist's own words “taking a paint for a walk” and creating a work that reflects "upon the noise of the world outside the studio bubble”.

About the Speaker:

Piers Secunda was born in London in 1976 and studied painting at Chelsea College of Art in London. Secunda has developed a studio practice using paint in a sculptural manner, rejecting the limitations imposed by the canvas. His intensive research based practice examines the deliberate targeting of culture in war time, by moulding damage from war zones and the sites of historic conflicts to make works. And using crude oil as a printing medium, to examine energy history through post industrial revolution developments, both cultural and technological, which define our world today.

Host: Farah Piriye

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