The Curator's Salon - The Art Podcast

My guest for this episode of the podcast is Rebecca Wilson, the head curator at Saatchi Art. Saatchi Art started life as a portfolio website before it became a retail platform and is no longer associated with the Saatchi Gallery in London. 

In this episode Rebecca talks about how the platform evolved, and the various aspects of her work including vetting submissions for the website and for The Other Art Fair, sourcing art for interiors projects, and marketing. She also shares advice for artists to improve their visibility on the platform, take a listen.

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Desha Peacock is the author of two books both around creating workspaces that inspire.

Alongside her books she is a coach to artists, makers, designers and stylists. In this episode she talks about the power of using your email list to grow an engaged audience and turning them into buying customers.

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I talk to Edinburgh based stone sculptor Alasdair Thomson about his  training in Italy working with artigiani and using the time in Italy to study the great masters of the Renaissance. We talk about how his art history background influences his contemporary work as stone sculpture is often considered to be a medium for memorialising, and his use of contemporary subjects to make his work relateable to different audiences. We discuss his preference for Carrara marble over local Scottish stones, and its connection to art history.

Alasdair has eschewed the gallery model in recent times, and now prefers to source his own clients who commission him on private projects and brand collaborations.

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Ryan Hughes, artistic director for the Coventry Biennial talks about starting the Biennial in 2017 and what he learned from that event to build on, and create a bigger international biennial for 2019.

He talks about the theme of The Twin for this years event, which explores duality, and encouraged collaborations and peer to peer artist relationships. The Biennial has over 100 artists showing this year with three quarters of them being UK based and the rest international. He discusses the established names that you can expect to see alongside some of the early and mid career artists showing their work.

We go behind the scenes and he talks about working with stakeholders in the West Midlands to access new exhibiting spaces that open out the city, and how artists were responding to place.

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Coventry Biennial takes places 4th October - 24th November 2019

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Alexandra Dillon is a wonderful artist based in LA who found her flow when she started painting portraits on hardware. I’m a big fan of her work so I was really excited to connect with her to record this episode.

In this episode she talks about her classical training and how that informs the work she makes, finding her flow, how she came to paint on hardware such as shovels, saws and brushes, and recent successes with gallery and museum shows.

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Roy Tyson returns to talk about the growth of Roys Art Fair now preparing for it’s fifth event in London taking place on 3-6 October 2019 at the Truman Brewery in East London.

Roy talks about what he has learned since doing the first fair which includes his own learning to delegate, and managing the growing number of artist participants.
He shares advice for artists who are looking to take part or are already scheduled to show at a fair, and how they can maximise the investment.

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Formerly known as the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings, the gallery on the beach has been rebranded as the Hastings Contemporary and moves from a gallery model with a collection to a Kunsthalle model.

In this episode I talk to Liz Gilmore, the director of the Hastings Contemporary about the new model for exhibitions, the focus on modern British and international painting and their outreach program.

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For this episode of the podcast, I met up with Kaia Charle s and Jemima Burrill - the curators at the Greenwich Peninsula site which includes the Now Gallery, to talk about their work commissioning art for the gallery and the public spaces on the estate.

In summer 2019 a new area of the development will open to the public and include riverside walks which include public art installations. Known as The Tide, there is an elevated walkway by the designers of the High Line in New York, a 27m picnic table with built in barbeque spots by Studio Morison, and sculptures by Allan Jones and Damien Hirst.

The festival opens 5-7 July and 12-14 July 2019 and it's going to be worth a visit

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Sarah Hamilton is my guest and she talks about the impact of Just a Card - a campaign that encourages people to buy from independent makers, artists, designers, shops and galleries. We discuss the poster campaign on London Underground, in association with Funding Circle, how she secured sitters for her posters from the world of stage and screen and working with a sponsor.

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Lori is an artist whose current body of work uses Catullus's poem 64 as a point of departure. She trained as a painter and uses photography and considers her work as performative.

Lori talks about the various places she has exhibited and how she uses each occasion to move her career forward, she shares valuable advice for artists looking for more exposure.

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