Telling Art

For our 10th episode, we talked online with Theo Gould, him being in Lisbon, Telling Art in London.

The impact of Theo’s years studying Philosophy before he fell in love with his camera is always present in his photography. After leaving London, Theo lived in Medellín, Colombia where he began to teach himself photography. Theo later moved to Lisbon where he currently resides and works as a photographer specialising in fine-art documentary and portraiture. His personal philosophy in life is borne out of the premise that the greatest luxury in life is the luxury of simplicity - a theme clearly visible in his timeless black and white style. Through his photos he tells stories of the beauty of human diversity, yet bring us back to the core idea that we are all one.

You can find his work on instagram @ theogould and on his website www.theogould.com.

Thanks to Theo Gould for giving a chance to this episode to exist.

Thanks to Charlotte Brown for helping with the mastering of this episode.

For this episode, everyone is at home, Jacob in Brighton and your favourite podcaster in London.

Jacob Chandler is a visual & musical artist based in Brighton. Creating art for music and music for art in his band The Daylight. Jacob also runs a DIY record label called: Stay Happy® where he releases all the music he's involved with.

Worth to mention that Jacob is the creator of the Telling Art logo!

You can find his work on instagram @ adfailart , his band on instagram @ th3daylight, his record label on bandcamp https://stayhappyrecords.bandcamp.com/

For this episode, we sat on a bench on Primrose Hill with the singer/songwriter Odina.

To me, Odina is a deep gaze, daring you to join her in her colourful, ironic, staged and authentic universe. We remember this moment in our life when we had to say to a loved one « I don’t love you anymore, maybe I love myself » like she does in her song Nothing Makes Sense. It gave us Heartache, (another beautiful tune of hers); dressing up in our swimsuit wearing sunglasses to sit on a roof under the grey sky of London, while drinking Martinis, like she does in 1,2,3,4, sounded like the best answer to some desperate times. Odina is a young artist who has a lot to say, with a sugary but powerful voice. And Telling Art was very happy to speak with her about all that.

You can listen to her music here: https://linktr.ee/odinamusic, and follow her on instagram @ odinamusic

Thanks to Odina for giving a chance to this episode to exist.

Thanks to Charlotte Brown for helping with the mastering of this episode.

@odinamusic

For this episode, we sat by the sea with Alice Miller, in Sandbanks in Poole.

Alice is an oil painter and Loughborough University graduate specialising in small scale photorealism. Each piece is a direct translation of a single phone photograph or video still, taken by or depicting herself. Although always including those around her, the paintings aren’t portraits - the figures become characters and the viewer devises their own narrative. Photorealism shows the camera’s presence as opposed to reality — rich shadow lures the viewer in, yet ultimately obscures any truth seemingly held within the frame.

You can find her work on her instagram @ aliceemiller_, and on her website, www.aliceemiller.com

Thanks to Alice Miller for giving a chance to this episode to exist.

Thanks to Charlotte Brown for helping with the mastering of this episode.

For this episode, we took the bus 436 (pre-pandemic times) with Josh Wright.

Josh Wright (b.1993, High Wycombe) is a British artist living and working in London. Wright studied his BA (Sculpture) at Camberwell College of Art graduating in 2016. As well as his solo sculptural practice, Wright has an on-going collaboration with the artist Guillaume Vandame, operating as Wright & Vandame.

More details about the forthcoming exhibition mentioned by Josh:

Not In My Back Yard,

Contemporary Collaborations,

Robert Young Antiques,

68 Battersea Bridge Rd,

London, SW11 3AG

OPENS ON SATURDAY 10th October 2020

You can find his work on his website http://www.joshcwright.com/

And check the collective Wright & Vandame here too: http://www.wrightvandame.com/

Thanks to Josh Wright for giving a chance to this episode to exist.

Thanks to Thibaut Vandame for helping with the mastering of this episode.

Thanks to Charlotte Brown for her precious advice and help with the production.

SPECIAL EDINBURGH In this episode, we are meeting Frieda Ford, along the water of Portobello Beach, near Edinburgh.

« I work in film and performance, abstracting found beauty imagery and combining it with my own footage of private ritualised actions. I create surreal, uncomfortable landscapes that fragment the body and destabilise a passive acceptance of corporeal idealism. I focus on privatised beauty rituals as an activity that creates metaphor and enforces meaning. Every ritual act is performative and generates the possibility for shapeshifting, that is, for creating a new sense of self. Ritual and myth making can rework the past into new perceptions, new meanings and, in doing so, can destabilise and manipulate the real. »

You can find her work on her instagram @ friedafordart, and on her website, http://friedafordart.cargo.site/

Thanks to Frieda Ford for giving a chance to this episode to exist.

Thanks to Charlotte Brown for helping with the mastering of this episode.

In this episode, we are meeting Eleanor Sikorski, in the iconic shopping centre of Elephant & Castle.

Eleanor is a dancer and choreographer. Her solo work spans dance, comedy, cabaret, music, animation and film. In collaboration with fellow dancers Stephanie McMann and Flora Wellesley Wesley she runs Nora, together they invite choreographers to make work for them to perform. With her partner, dance artist Lewys Holt, she co-runs Roadhouse, a regular, UK-wide night of improvised performance and the podcast Making Shit Up: Getting Serious About Dance Improvisation.

You can find her work on her website, http://eleanorsikorski.com/. Check http://noramoves.com and

http://roadhousenights.com as well.

Thanks to Eleanor Sikorski for giving a chance to this episode to exist.

Thanks to Charlotte Brown for helping with the mastering of this episode.

In this episode, we are meeting Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski, along the Thames, near London Bridge.

Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski (b. 1992, Sweden) is a Swedish-Finnish artist working with her online presence, digital imagery, installation and durational performances. Her artistic practice has evolved from and is built around her smart phone camera, and now in large consists in photos and videos of her self as continuously submitted entries to a visual debate in social media, critically reflecting on a social game of contemporary photographic self representation - simultaneously as directly participating in it.

You can find her work on her website, https://www.jaanakristiina.se/.

Thanks to Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski for giving a chance to this episode to exist.

Thanks to Charlotte Brown for helping with the mastering of this episode.

In this episode, we are meeting Tiz Creel in her studio at Goldsmiths College.

« I come from the megalopolis of Mexico City, categorised by chaotic, surreal, unique. I recently moved to the UK to accomplish a masters degree in Fine Art. In the past years, my artistic practice has been influenced heavily by the concept of play, interactivity, and ludic experiences. The infinite world of possibilities and applications of play has been undermined not only in art and culture but also in the way we live and operate. »

You can find her work on Instagram, @ tizcreel and on her website, www.tizcreel.com.

Thanks to Tiz Creel for giving a chance to this episode to exist.

Thanks to Charlotte Brown for helping with the mastering of this episode.

In the very first episode of the Podcast, we are meeting Niki Kohandel, on a windy day, in front of Central Saint–Martins, where she was studying at the time.

Based in London and from Paris, she works with digital media (photography, digital print and video) and is « looking at ways of creating immersive experiences for people, which are often inspired by my Iranian background, but also by my views on mother/daughter relationships. »

You can find her work on Instagram, @ niki_rza.

Thanks to Niki Kohandel for giving a chance to this episode to exist.

Thanks to Maxime Graf for helping with the mastering of this episode.