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This series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. In this episode 'The Art of Teaching' we are joined by Shepherd Manyika, an artist and educator based in London. Shepherd graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communications and has since gone on to work and exhibit with Spike Island, Iniva, Camden Arts Centre and Tate. Shepherd joins me today to discuss teaching as an artistic practice. Freelands Foundation works to broaden access to art education and the visual arts across the UK. They work with teachers and educators to develop diverse and ambitious approaches to art education. Read the report Visualise report here. Executive producer and host Lou MensahShade Podcast InstagramShade Podcast WebsiteMusic King Henry IV original composition for Shade Podcast by Brian JacksonEdit & Mix by Tess DavidsonPodcast design Joel Antoine-WilkinsonShade Art Review Help support the work that goes into creating Shade Podcast. https://plus.acast.com/s/shadepodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

⁠A is for Architecture's 112th episode is with the British architect, Tony Fretton. Previously founder and principal of Tony Fretton Architects, and more recently acting as a design consultant, and previously Chair of Architecture and Interiors at TU Delft, Tony's work includes Westkaai, Residential Towers, Antwerp, The British Embassy, Warsaw, Art Museum, Fuglsang, Denmark, and the The Red House and the Camden Arts Centre, London. Speaking of his work on galleries, Tony says:  ‘I think it's much more subtle and much more interesting to make buildings which sometimes are impressive and visible, and sometimes […] very low visibility. That's much more interesting, much more intellectually satisfying. And how can you make somebody feel comfortable, without [them] even seeing you do it? That's the measure of a good host, a good person, that you let people see the work. […] In Furslang we made a series of rooms which are different in character: one is for temporary exhibitions, and the other for small scale works in gold frames, and then there was section on Danish Impressionism. But each of them shares a vocabulary but it's treated in slightly different ways so that as you go through the room, you see the art but in the periphery of your vision the room stimulates you'. Sums it up rather neatly. You can find Tony on Instagram, on at tonyfretton.com, too.   Thanks for listening. +  Music credits: ⁠Bruno Gillick

Hello and welcome to this special episode with a live audience and panel of great expert guests, recorded at Camden Arts Centre in London.It was a really fantastic opportunity to meet some of you, our wonderful listeners, hear your stories and connect over (copious!) olives. As well, of course, as hearing from a expert guest panel answering all your TFMR questions:Dr Brenda Kelly, Matrernal and Fetal Medicine ConsultantDagmar Tapon, Genetic CounsellorJane Fisher, Director of Antenatal Results and ChoicesA special thank you to ARC for organising and supporting the event.We hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR.Email is TalkTFMR@yahoo.comThis episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

Today's episode features world famous visual artist Zoë Buckman (b. 1985 Hackney, East London): a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, and photography, exploring themes of Feminism, mortality, and equality. We talk about her origins and the line she tows between soft and hard both as an artist and advocate. Zoë is an intersectional feminist and we talk about what that means as a Jewish woman in 2024. More about Zoë: Notable solo shows have included BLOODWORK at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery London, Nomi at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, No Bleach Thick Enough, at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, Heavy Rag at Fort Gansevoort Gallery New York, Let Her Rave at Gavlak Gallery Los Angeles, Imprison Her Soft Hand at Project for Empty Space, Newark; Every Curve at PAPILLION ART, Los Angeles; and Present Life at Garis & Hahn Gallery, New York. Group shows include those at SF Moma, The Broad Museum, The Museum of Art & Design, NYC, The Parish Art Museum, The Baltimore Museum of Art, MOCA Virginia, The Camden Arts Centre, London, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Children's Museum of the Arts, The Shirley Fitterman Center NY, MASSIMODECARLO Gallery Hong Kong, Mother Gallery, Beacon NY, Paul Kasmin Gallery NY, Goodman Gallery South Africa, Jack Shainman Gallery NY, Monique Meloche Chicago, NYU Florence Italy, Grunwald Art Gallery, Indiana University, and the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA and The National Museum of African-American History & Culture, Washington, DC Buckman studied at the International Center of Photography (ICP), was awarded an Art Matters Grant in 2017, The Art Change Maker Award 2019 at The New Jersey Visual Arts Center, and The Art and Social Impact Award 2020 at Baxter St NYC, and completed a residency at Mana Contemporary in 2017. Public works include MENDED: a Times Square Midnight Momenta, a mural, We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident, in collaboration with Natalie Frank at the Ford Foundation Gallery of New York & Live Arts in NYC, and various billboard projects with For Freedoms. In February 2018 Buckman unveiled her first Public Sculpture presented by Art Production Fund on Sunset Blv, Los Angeles, a large scale outdoor version of her neon sculpture Champ, which has been up for several years. Buckman's work is included in the permanent collections of The National Portrait Gallery, London, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, The Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, The Chrysler Museum Virginia, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. More @zoebuckman on Instagram and at ZoeBuckman.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet artist Phoebe Collings-James whose work often eludes linear retellings of stories. Instead, her works function as “emotional detritus”: they speak of knowledges of feelings, the debris of violence, language and desire which are inherent to living and surviving within hostile environments. Recent works have been dealing with the object as subject, giving life and tension to ceramic forms. As young nettle, a musical alias, she loves sound that totally envelopes her and is part of B.O.S.S., a QTIBIPOC sound system based in South London.Drawn to high octane sensual emotional sound, with heavy bass and wild lyrical flows, she creates sound design for original music productions. Including Sounds 4 Survival, an undulating live performance created with SERAFINE1369, which asks the question of what an anti-assimilationist practice can be. As the 2021 Freelands Ceramic Fellow she has an upcoming exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London, in autumn 2021. Collings-James's Mudbelly ceramics studio began as a personal practice and research outlet, but has since grown to encompass a shop and a teaching facility offering free ceramics courses for Black people in London, taught by Black ceramicists.Phoebe's new exhibition Bun Babylon; A Heretics Anthology, runs until 28 October 2023 at Arcadia Missa gallery, London.https://arcadiamissa.com/bun-babylon-a-heretics-anthology/Follow @PhoebeTheGorgon and @ArcadiaMissaVisit: https://www.phoebecollingsjames.com/and https://arcadiamissa.com/phoebe-collings-james/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode I'm joined by Alteronce Gumby. Alteronce Gumby is an artist and local of New York City. His artistic practice includes painting, ceramics, installation and performance. Gumby's work has been exhibited at galleries such as Hauser & Wirth, Gladstone Gallery and Camden Arts Centre. Gumby graduated from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in Painting and Printmaking in 2016.  Using shards of tempered glass, gemstones, resins, and other unconventional materials, Alteronce Gumby creates luminous paintings that operate at the intersection of abstraction and representation. In his work, Gumby employs color as both material and metaphor, deftly harnessing its subtle effects and rich tonal relationships while also exploring color's capacity to create and convey meaning. His prismatic fields add new perspectives to the history of abstract painting by proposing deliberate connections between color, society and the universe. Alteronce conducts extensive research on his materials, examining their historical uses, kinetic abilities and ocular qualities. Once coalesced, these materials form unpredictable surfaces, alluding to the greater forces at play in the universe.Let's dive into my latest episode with Alteronce Gumby. It's filled with lots of lots as we talk all things, traveling, hip hop and doing what we do so kids who look just like us are inspired to realize their creative ambitions. 

Join us for an insightful discussion with esteemed anthropologist Dr. Amy Hale, focusing on the historical usage and evolution of the term 'Celtic' and its intertwining with alternative spiritualities since the 17th century. In this video, Dr. Hale dissects the layers of 'Celtic', tracing its journey from a linguistic and ethnic identifier to a symbol often adopted within various spiritual paths. She explores how and why this ancient term has become a pivotal part of many alternative spiritual movements, particularly from the 17th century onwards. Through this academic lens, viewers will understand the historical shifts in the interpretation of 'Celtic' and its impact on contemporary spiritual and cultural landscapes. Dr. Hale's nuanced discussion emphasizes the importance of contextual understanding when engaging with this complex term. Ideal for scholars, students, and those interested in the intersections of history, culture, and spirituality, this video invites viewers to rethink their perceptions of 'Celtic' and its implications within alternative spiritual practices. CONNECT & SUPPORT

An exploration of race and politics via the dancefloor.Today my guest is the photographer and filmmaker Jermaine Francis. Jermaine and I discuss his recent film Lost in Music: A Post Industrial Dreamscape - an exploration of race and politics within a dancefloor context. This work was recently presented alongside a discussion with the writer Nathalie Olah and photographer Edward "Eddie" Otchere at Camden Arts Centre.His practice works within documentary & portraiture, in the format of personal driven photo projects & editorials, exploring the issues that arise from our interaction in the everyday environment. He has published two books, Something That Seems So Familiar and Rhythms from the Metroplex. Jermaine's work can be found in publications such as i-D, 10 Magazine and the Wall Street Journal, and in exhibitions at GaleriePCP in Paris and Saatchi Gallery.I loved talking with Jermaine and I hope that you enjoy his words on his rich creative life as much as I did.Thank you for listening and for supporting Shade - the award winning independent art show highlighting the work of Black art practitioners via Patreon and Ko-fiSee you next time!Shade Podcast is hosted and produced by Lou MensahMusic generously composed for Shade by Brian JacksonShade InstagramShade websiteJermaine Francis instagram Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/shadepodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Season 14 continues with VERY special episode with one of our all-time ART WORLD ICONS!!!! We meet the legendary gallerist MAUREEN PALEY. Inspiration to many of today's international contemporary galleries, Maureen was in fact the reason our co-host Robert Diament became inspired to change careers to work full-time in a gallery!We discover how she began her gallery programme in 1984 in a Victorian terraced house in London's East End. Initially named Interim Art, the gallery changed its name to Maureen Paley in 2004 as a celebration of its 20th anniversary. Since September 1999 the gallery has been situated in Bethnal Green, and in September 2020 relocated to Three Colts Lane. In July 2017 Maureen Paley opened a second space in Hove called Morena di Luna. In October 2020 a third space was opened in Shoreditch, London called Studio M. From its inception, the gallery's aim has remained consistent: to promote great and innovative artists in all media.-Maureen Paley was one of the first to present contemporary art in London's East End and has been a pioneer of the current scene, promoting and showing a diverse range of international artists. Gallery artists include Turner Prize winners Lawrence Abu Hamdan, 2019; Wolfgang Tillmans, 2000 and Gillian Wearing, 1997 as well as Turner Prize nominees Rebecca Warren, 2006; Liam Gillick, 2002; Jane and Louise Wilson, 1999 and Hannah Collins, 1993. Represented artists also include AA Bronson, Felipe Baeza, Tom Burr, Michaela Eichwald, Morgan Fisher, General Idea, Anne Hardy, Peter Hujar, Michael Krebber, Paulo Nimer Pjota, Olivia Plender, Stephen Prina, Maaike Schoorel, Hannah Starkey, Chioma Ebinama, Oscar Tuazon, and James Welling.Maureen Paley, the gallery's founder and director, was born in New York, studied at Sarah Lawrence College, and graduated from Brown University before coming to the UK in 1977 where she completed her Masters at The Royal College of Art from 1978–80.Together with running the gallery, Maureen Paley has also curated a number of large-scale public exhibitions. In 1994 she organised an exhibition of works by Felix Gonzales Torres, Joseph Kosuth and Ad Reinhardt at the Camden Arts Centre. In 1995 Wall to Wall was presented for the Arts Council GB National Touring Exhibitions and appeared at the Serpentine Gallery, London, Southampton City Art Gallery and Leeds City Art Gallery showing wall drawings by international artists including Daniel Buren, Michael Craig-Martin, Douglas Gordon, Barbara Kruger, Sol Lewitt, and Lawrence Weiner. Maureen Paley also selected an exhibition of work by young British artists in 1996 called The Cauldron featuring Christine Borland, Angela Bulloch, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Steven Pippin, Georgina Starr and Gillian Wearing for the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust which was installed in their Studio space in Dean Clough, Halifax.Follow @MaureenPaley on Instagram. Visit the gallery's official website at https://www.maureenpaley.com/Maureen Paley are exhibiting at Frieze London art fair next week in Regent's Park, Stand C9, 12th-16th October 2022. See works from her booth at Frieze's website: https://viewingroom.frieze.com/viewing-room/1750 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ep.118 features Alteronce Gumby. He is an artist and local of New York City. His artistic practice includes painting, ceramics, installation and performance. His work has been exhibited at galleries such as Hauser & Wirth, Gladston Gallery and Camden Arts Centre. His work will be shown in an upcoming solo exhibition with Nicola Vassell gallery titled, The Color of Everything, in September 2022. In his recent exhibition Cross Colours at Bode Projects in Berlin, the power of complementary colors is presented in works that reference color exercises in Joseph Albert's Interaction of Colour. Through Gumby's fluorescent and chromatic spectrum of iridescent color, the artist engages the viewer and expands the notions through which we perceive form and color, the subjectivity of identity and the materiality of earth and cosmic space.  Gumby graduated from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in Painting and Printmaking in 2016. He has won notable awards, such as the Austrian American Foundation /Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts and the Robert Reed Memorial Scholarship. Gumby has also participated in numerous international artist residencies, such as the Rauschenberg Residency (2019), London Summer Intensive (2016), Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria (2015), 6Base (2016) and was the 2016 recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship at the Fondation des Étas-Unis in Paris. His work has been featured in publications such as ARTnews, Artnet, Artsy, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, Cultured, DAZED, Freize, Surface & Vogue. Gumby has also curated exhibitions, such as his most recent and ongoing exhibition, Summer of Possibilities with Bode Projects in Berlin, To Dream Avante-Garde at Hammond Harkins Galleries and A Muffled Sound Under Water at Latchkey Gallery. Gumby published his first monograph, Color Is A Beautiful Thing, with Charles Moffett & False Flag in2021, outlining six years of his painting practice from 2014- 2020. Alteronce Gumby solo exhibition titled 'The Color of Everything' opens September 8, 2022 thru October 22nd at the Nicola Vassell Gallery in NYC.   Photo credit: Katharina Balgavy Artist https://www.alteroncegumby.com/ Nicola Vassel Gallery https://www.nicolavassell.com/ Surface Alteronce Gumby's Cosmic Meditations on Color, History, and Lightness – SURFACE(surfacemag.com) Artsy Alteronce Gumby's Otherworldly Abstractions Reenvision the Color Black | Artsy Brooklyn Rail Alteronce Gumby with Carrie Moyer – The Brooklyn Rail Dazed Alteronce Gumby's cosmic landscapes challenge the meaning of colour | Dazed(dazeddigital.com) Frieze Alteronce Gumby on His Cosmic Abstractions | Frieze Vogue The Atomic, Cosmic Art of Alteronce Gumby | Vogue Cultured Magazine Painter Alteronce Gumby Sees Color Differently (culturedmag.com) Artnet Studio Visit: Artist Alteronce Gumby on His Weekly MoMA Visits, and Why Seeing Great Art is Like a Reading a Book (artnet.com)

We meet leading artist Jonathan Baldock who works across multiple platforms including sculpture, installation and performance. With work often taking on a biographical form, Jonathan Baldock addresses the trauma, stress, sensuality, mortality and spirituality around our relationship to the body and the space it inhabits.Baldock's work is saturated with humour and wit, as well as an uncanny, macabre quality that channels his longstanding interest in myth and folklore. He has an ongoing focus on the contrast between the material qualities of ceramic and fabric in his work. Concerned with removing the functional aspects of the materials he uses, Baldock instead works in a performative way through his sculptural assemblages, bringing the viewer, the object and the space they simultaneously occupy into question as a theatrical or ritualistic act.Jonathan Baldock was born in 1980 in Kent, UK. He lives and works in London. He graduated from Winchester School of Art with a BA in Painting (2000-2003), followed by the Royal College of Art, London with an MA in Painting (2003-2005).In 2021 Baldock had solo exhibitions at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain and at Accelerator, Stockholm, Sweden. He participated in group shows in 2021 including ‘Threadbare' at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; ‘Human Conditions of Clay' at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales and ‘Right About Now' at No.9 Cork Street, London. Baldock's work was included in the inaugural Towner International biennial at Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK in October 2020. Baldock's first solo exhibition with Stephen Friedman Gallery opened in September 2019 and presented a series of ceramic masks featuring bright colours and outlandish expressions. This show coincided with the presentation of a large-scale, interactive sculpture by Baldock at Fitzrovia Chapel, London during Frieze week. In the spring of 2019, Baldock's solo exhibition ‘Facecrime' opened at Camden Arts Centre, London following a Freelands Lomax Ceramics Fellowship. The exhibition travelled to Tramway, Glasgow in August 2019 and Bluecoat, Liverpool in March 2020. Follow @Jonathan_Baldock on Instagram. Visit Stephen Friedman Gallery for more details: https://www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/25-jonathan-baldock/Plus Jonathan's own website: https://jonathan-baldock.com/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Born 1953 in Cardiff, Wales, Peter Fraser acquired his first camera at the age of 7 and after a false start studying Civil Engineering, at 18, began studying photography at Manchester Polytechnic the following year. In the summer of 1974 he lived in New York and worked at the Laurel Photography Bookstore at 32nd St and 6th Avenue which significantly expanded his sense of photography's expressive possibilities. He graduated in 1976 after repeating his 3rd year due to major illness crossing the Sahara, while photographing in West Africa.Peter lived in Holland and Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, before moving back to Manchester in 1981. He then began working with a Plaubel Makina camera in 1982 which led to an exhibition with William Eggleston at the Anolfini, Bristol in 1984, and a move to that city. In summer 1984 Peter travelled to Memphis, USA to spend nearly two months with Eggleston, which confirmed for him the desire to commit his life to working with colour photography.He then worked on several series of photographs, leading to a first publication, Two Blue Buckets which won the Bill BrandtPrize in London (the precursor of the CitiBank International Photography Prize), in 1988.He moved to London in 1990, subsequently publishing several new bodies of work,  including Ice and Water1993, Deep Blue 1997,Material 2002, and Peter Fraser (Nazraeli Press) 2006.In 2002, The Photographers' Gallery, London, staged a 20 year survey exhibition of Peter's work, and he was shortlisted for the Citigroup International Photography Prize in 2004. In 2006 he was invited to be an Artist in Residence at Oxford University, England and produced new work for permanent installation in their new Biochemistry building in 2008.In 2009 Peter was given a major commission by The Ffotogallery, Wales, to return to his country of birth, to make new work for a solo exhibition at the gallery, which opened in March 2010, with a new publication, Lost For Words.In 2008 Fraser began working on A City In The Mind a new series of photographs in London, which was shown at Brancolini Grimaldi Gallery, London in May 2012 accompanied by a Steidl Publication.From January to May 2013, Tate St Ives held a retrospective of Fraser's career, the first Tate Retrospective for a living British Photographer working in colour, and Tate published a major monograph on the whole of Fraser's career with a text by David Chandler. Tate purchased 10 works for their permanent collection from theTwo Blue Buckets series in 2014.In 2014 Peter was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society, UK.In spring 2017 Peperoni Books, Berlin, published a new ‘Director's Cut' of Fraser's 1988 publication Two Blue Bucketswith 19 missing images from the original, and a new essay by Gerry Badger and a discussion between Fraser and David Campany.In 2017 Peter's exhibition Mathematics was exhibited at the Real Jardin de Botanico, Madrid, part of PhotoEspana 17 and Skinnerboox, Italy, published Mathematics with 52 colour plates, and essays by Mark Durden, David Campany and an afterword by Peter. The first UK exhibition of Mathematicsopened at Camden Arts Centre, London on the 5th July, and ran to 16th September 2018. The accompanying File Note no 120 published by the gallery, featured a specially commissioned essay The Things That Count by Amy Sherlock, Deputy Editor of Frieze.In March 2021 Peter received a Pollock Krasner Foundation Award, to support the production of new work in the UK and across Europe in the time of Covid-19 ‘paying subtle attention to atmosphere and nuance, quietly reflecting on manifestations of our responses to the enormous changes taking place across the human landscape'. On episode 172, Peter discusses, among other things:The Pollock Krasner Foundation Award.Responses to Covid and his approach.Poetic truth vs. documentary truth.How he came to live in Hebden Bridge, Manchester.Seeing in colour, having made a B&W darkroom.His epiphany in the sahara desert.The influence of the film, Powers of Ten, which he saw at 15.His love of mathematics and how he came to explore it photographically.His Two Blue Buckets image and why it's significant.Staying with William Eggleston in the 80s and what he took away from it.His ‘lost decade', broke in London, printing for Martin Parr and other photographers. Referenced:Jackson PollackTed HughesAlbert Street Workshop - Ray Elliott and Jenny Beavan Martin ParrCharlie MeechamBrian GriffinPaul GrahamCharles and Ray Eames - Powers of TenMax TegmarkThe New Colour Photography by Sally EuclaireJem SouthamWilliam Eggleston Flannery O'connorVolker HelnzMarcus HansenChris Dorley BrownDafna TalmorWolfgang TillmansNick SerotaWilliam ScottDavid ChandlerWebsite | Instagram“I'm absolutely awestruck by the almost incomprehensible beauty and strangeness of everything that is around us. And that goes to the very heart of what I've spent 40 years trying to investigate.”

In episode 171 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on mentorship, teaching and the passing on of information. He also provides his final found rules for life. Plus this week photographer Peter Fraser on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Peter Fraser bought his first camera at the age of 7 and went to school in Wales until 1971, when he left to study Civil Engineering for three months at Hatfield Polytechnic, before deciding to study photography at Manchester Polytechnic between 1972 and 1976, repeating his final year due to becoming seriously ill crossing the Sahara Desert in early 1975. Fraserwas an early adopter of colour photography in the UK, and began exhibiting colour photographs in 1982. In 1984, he travelled to Memphis, USA to spend two months with William Eggleston, after meeting him at Eggleston's first UK exhibition opening the previous year. Between 1983 and 1986, Fraser made the exhibitions, Twelve Day Journey, The Valleys Project, Everyday Icons and Towards an Absolute Zero which led to his first publication Two Blue Buckets in 1988. This book won the Bill Brandt Award hosted by the Photographers' Gallery in 1989. In 1990 Fraser was invited to be the British Artist in Residence in Marseilles, which led to the subsequent exhibition and publication Ice and Water. He travelled widely in the early 1990s to scientific research establishments photographing machines at the cutting edge of technology, proposing a series of ‘Portraits' of machines shown and published as Deep Blue. While visiting nearly 60 scientific sites, he frequently photographed in scientific ‘Clean Rooms' where particles of dust above a certain size were not admitted. Subsequently, he decided to start photographing ‘dirt and other low status' material. Simultaneous to this work was a University of Strathclyde commission to make new Art in their Applied Physics Department. This led to two series being combined into a single new series of photographs, Material published in 2002. The same year The Photographers' Gallery showed a 20-year overview of Fraser's work, and in 2004 he was shortlisted alongside Robert Adams, David Goldblatt and Joel Sternfeld for the Citigroup International Photography Prize. In 2006 Fraser was invited to be an Artist in Residence at Oxford University to make photography for the Biochemistry Department. In 2009 he was commissioned by Ffotogallery, Wales, to make work across the country that resulted in the exhibition and publication Lost For Words. In 2012 Fraser exhibited A City in the Mind at the Brancolini Grimaldi Gallery, London. In 2013 Tate St Ives exhibited a selected retrospective of his work, and published a monograph containing photographs from all of Fraser's major series to date. In 2013 Fraser received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society. In 2017 his exhibition Mathematics was exhibited as part of PhotoEspana 17, and Skinnerboox, Italy, published Mathematics. The first UK exhibition of Mathematics opened at Camden Arts Centre, London in 2018. The accompanying File Notes no 120 published by the gallery, featured a specially commissioned essay The Things that Count by Amy Sherlock, deputy editor of Frieze. www.peterfraser.net Dr. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). © Grant Scott 2021

We talk with Gemma Wright, Head of Learning at Camden Arts Centre (CAC), about the learning programmes she creates to engage learners of all backgrounds. We also learn how CAC nurtures the next generation of artists through residencies and learning programmes.

Beth Collar's "Scatter Cushion" is a "live" recording documenting a night-time pilgrimage to the fork in a road near the “Domine Quo Vadis?” church (also known as Santa Maria in Palmis) during the last curfew in Rome, where the artist lived after spending a few months on a residency. Parting the Roman Empire's primary strategic road, the Via Appia Antica, and another, less legendary road the Via Ardeatina, the junction marks the spot where Jesus Christ appeared to Saint Peter as he made his way out of the city to escape persecution, prompting him to return and face his own martyrdom. With a melancholic anticipation of absent bodies permeating her thoughts after a day-trip to the Etruscan site of the Necropolis Banditaccia, she counters the epic fabric of history and ideology-serving, gendered notions of the chronicler or bard with too-personal comment, fragmented memory, incidental noises, alcohol and urine. Collar layers a sense of bodily tangibility onto the ghostly absences of the eternal city. Postproduction: Nadel Eins Studio Berlin Beth Collar (*1984) is an artist based in Berlin. She thinks through sculpture and performance, making objects, drawings, and installations. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and performances, amongst others at stadium, Berlin (2020); Camden Arts Centre, London (2020); Regatta 2, Düsseldorf (2020); Kunstverein Kesselhaus, Bamberg (2020); Matt's Gallery at Dilston Grove, London (2019); 427, Riga (2019); Bärenzwinger, Berlin (2019); Waldo at Mathew Gallery, New York (2018); Primary, Nottingham (2018); Cell Project Space, London (2018); Standpoint, London (2017); ICA, London (2015) and Serpentine Galleries, London (2015).

Phoebe Cummings is a Stafford-based artist working in clay. Importantly, she uses the material in its raw form – so unfired and unglazed – for sculptures that are usually site specific. Inspired by nature (either real or imagined), her pieces are ornate, fragile and, often, decay over time – giving them a wistful dynamism. The writer, Imogen Greenhalgh, has described them rather lyrically as ‘holding bays for her thoughts and ideas’. This is clay as performance art but, perhaps most importantly, in her hands, the material becomes extremely beautiful. Phoebe was the winner of the British Ceramics Biennial Award in 2011, picked up the Woman’s Hour Craft Prize in 2017 for a fountain entitled Triumph of the Immaterial, and was a finalist for the Arts Foundation 25th anniversary awards in 2018. She’s had exhibitions at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York, a solo show at the University of Hawaii and residencies at Camden Arts Centre and the V&A, among other places. In this episode we talk about: the relationship between clay and writing; finding solace in poetry during lockdown; her love of sci-fi and the importance of nature; how permanence is overrated; and why declaring herself bankrupt in her early twenties changed her work for the better. It’s quietly mesmerising stuff.Learn more about Phoebe's work hereAnd sign up to my newsletter hereSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/materialmatters?fan_landing=true)

Valeria Napoleone is an Italian collector, patron and philanthropist and lives in London with her family. Valeria studied in New York receiving a BA from New York University’s Journalism School and an MA in Art Gallery Administration at the Fashion Institute of Technology.Valeria has established a strong collection that focuses on female contemporary artists working internationally. Forming an exceptionally close bond with artists, she has provided pivotal support to the careers of many of today’s most critically acclaimed artists including Phyllida Barlow and Margarita Manzelli.In June 2015 Valeria launched ‘Valeria Napoleone XX’, an umbrella platform for projects and initiatives that work towards increasing the representation of female artists in major public institutions. Named to highlight both collaboration and the female chromosome, the platform launched with a partnership with the Contemporary Art Society. Their combined initiative is an on-going commitment to purchase and donate a significant work by a living female artist to a different UK museum each year. Valeria is a patron to a select number of arts organisations; as Head of the Development Committee at London based not for profit gallery Studio Voltaire; a Trustee of the Contemporary Art Society; she sits on the Boards of the Institute of Fine Arts in NYC; and an Advisory Board member of the Association of Women in the Arts. She has also been an avid supporter of many UK based institutions such as; Camden Arts Centre, Nottingham Contemporary, ICA London, Milton Keynes Gallery and Chisenhale Gallery.We met Valeria last summer as part of a guided tour of her home and collection with Sotheby’s Institute. She is an inspiration to us and we were thrilled to have spoken to her for this podcast.

Playwright Sabrina Mahfouz, sitting in for Michael Rosen, talks about the provocative language of protest slogans with artist Zoe Buckman and writer Siana Bangura. Image copyright : Greg Morrison Sabrina Mahfouz is a writer and performer, raised in London and Cairo. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) and resident writer at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Her most recent theatre show was A History of Water in the Middle East (Royal Court) and her most recent publications as editor include Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making it Happen (Saqi) and Poems From a Green and Blue Planet (Hachette Children's). Siana Bangura: sianabangura.com @Sianaarrgh Siana Bangura is a writer, producer, performer and community organiser hailing from South East London, now living, working, and creating between London and the West Midlands. Siana is the founder and former editor of Black British Feminist platform, No Fly on the WALL; she is the author of poetry collection, ‘Elephant’; and the producer of ‘1500 & Counting’, a documentary film investigating deaths in custody and police brutality in the UK. Siana works and campaigns on issues of race, class, and gender and their intersections and is currently working on projects focusing on climate change, the arms trade, and state violence. Her recent works include the short film 'Denim' and the play, 'Layila!'. Across her vast portfolio of work, Siana’s mission is to help move marginalised voices from the margins, to the centre. Zoe Buckman: zoebuckman.com Zoë Buckman (b. 1985 Hackney, East London) is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, and photography, exploring themes of Feminism, mortality, and equality. Notable solo shows have included No Bleach Thick Enough, at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, Heavy Rag at Fort Gansevoort Gallery New York, Let Her Rave at Gavlak Gallery Los Angeles, Imprison Her Soft Hand at Project for Empty Space, Newark; Every Curve at PAPILLION ART, Los Angeles; and Present Life at Garis & Hahn Gallery, New York. Group shows include those at The Museum of Art and Design NYC, MOCA Virginia, The Camden Arts Centre, London, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Children’s Museum of the Arts, Paul Kasmin Gallery NY, Goodman Gallery South Africa, Jack Shainman Gallery NY, Monique Meloche Chicago, NYU Florence Italy, Grunwald Art Gallery, Indiana University, and the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA and The National Museum of African-American History & Culture, Washington, DC Buckman studied at the International Center of Photography (ICP), was awarded an Art Matters Grant in 2017, The Art Change Maker Award 2019 at The New Jersey Visual Arts Center, and The Art and Social Impact Award 2020 at Baxter St NYC, and completed a residency at Mana Contemporary in 2017. Public works include a mural, We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident, in collaboration with Natalie Frank at the Ford Foundation Live Gallery of New York Live Arts in NYC. In February 2018 Buckman unveiled her first Public Sculpture presented by Art Production Fund on Sunset Blv, Los Angeles, a large scale outdoor version of her neon sculpture Champ, which has been up for three years. Buckman lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

In episode 100 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the past, present and future of photography. Plus this week Grant revisits a conversation he had in 2012 with legendary photographer and filmmaker Wolfgang 'Wolf' Susitsky at his Little Venice, London apartment when Susitsky was 100 years of age. Vienna born Wolfgang 'Wolf' Suschitzky, was a documentary photographer, as well and cinematographer perhaps best known for his collaboration with Paul Rotha in the 1940s and his work on the, classic 1971 film Get Carter. His sister was the photographer and spy Edith Tudor-Hart. Suschitzky's first love was zoology, but he realised he could not make a living in Austria as a zoologist, he studied photography at the School of Design and Graphic Arts in Vienna. The political climate in Austria was changing and being a Socialist and of Jewish origin, Suschitzky left for London in 1934 where his sister had already moved. Suschitzky married a Dutch woman, and they moved to the Netherlands where he photographed postcards for newsagents. His wife left him a year later, which he said was great luck because if he had stayed there, he wouldn't have survived the Nazi occupation. He returned to England in 1935, and began working as a film cameraman for Rotha, with whom he had a long working relationship. In 1940 he held his first exhibition – of animal pictures – in London and published his first book, the “how to” guide Photographing Children, which was followed by Photographing Animals a year later. Suschitzky became increasingly interested in themes prompted by Edward Steichen's The Family of Man exhibition in 1955, and set out to explore how “people are different the world over, and everywhere the same”. His work for Geographical magazine extended into series on the daily lives of people in Burma, Thailand, Yemen, Ethiopia and India. Photography Year Books printed annually in the 1950s and 60s frequently included his images and The World Exhibition of Photography included his work in What Is Man? (1964) and Woman (1968). By the 1980s, Suschitzky was also working in television commercials and was the cinematographer for the children's series Worzel Gummidge (1980-81). In the same decade he began to receive somewhat belated recognition for his photography, in the Art in Exile exhibition in the UK and exhibitions at the Photographers' Gallery, the Camden Arts Centre and Zelda Cheatle Gallery. More recent publications include the retrospective Wolf Suschitzky Photos (2006), and Wolf Suschitzky Films (2010). Seven Decades of Photography appeared in 2014, the same year he was granted an honorary doctorate at the University of Brighton.Suschitzky's photography enjoyed a renaissance this century, with his inclusion in a number of group shows, not least Another London: International Photographers Capture City Life 1930-80 at Tate Britain in 2012. Suschitzky died in October 2016 at the age of 104 in London. You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-lifeand Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019. The documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s. © Grant Scott 2020

Robert and Russell meet leading gallerist & ceramicist Tommaso Corvi-Mora. We discuss growing up in Italy, moving to Germany for a pivotal first summer job working with Alighiero Boetti for a Bonner Kunstverein show, becoming a gallery assistant with Esther Shipper in Cologne, his early love of artist Joseph Beuys, and his longterm passion for the late Cuban-American artist Félix González-Torres. We explore collecting art, how he started his gallery in South London in the same building as Greengrassi (owned by his partner Cornelia Grassi), his representation of leading artists including Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Alvaro Barrington, Jennifer Packer, Roger Hiorns and Adam Buick. Plus we learn about his own recent artistic career making ceramics, including a number of successful exhibitions curated by fashion designer Duro Olowu. See Tommaso’s new ceramics in Collect art fair at Somerset House with Made in Britaly. Plus he’s giving a ‘Lightning Talk’ at Collect on Saturday 29th February and will also be part of Camden Arts Centre’s ‘Ceramics Circle’ event on March 8th 2020. Follow @corvimora for the gallery’s Instagram and @tcmceramics for his ceramic work! If you've enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or email talkartpodcast@gmail.com as we love hearing your feedback! @talkart See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Russell & Robert meet artist Wong Ping at Camden Arts Centre, London for a special tour around his solo exhibition 'Heart Digger'. Wong Ping creates digital and sculptural works that reveal very human, often universal fantasies, through absurd narratives. Drawing from his own social encounters, he elaborates his stories into dark humorous tales that touch on political and cultural anxieties. Digitally rendered in a seductive technicolour language, they recall the modernism of Fernand Leger, the pop language of Tom Wesselman or Allen Jones, and the design aesthetic of The Memphis Group and early 1980s video games. These simple but seductive animations also disguise a deeper critique of technology.Wong Ping is the inaugural recipient of Camden Art Centre’s new Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze (2018). The Prize was established in collaboration with Frieze Art Fair, as part of Camden Arts Centre’s commitment to nurturing and celebrating the most innovative artists of the moment, who have yet to receive the recognition their work deserves. The annual prize awards an artist exhibiting in the Focus section of Frieze London with an exhibition at Camden Art Centre. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Monday 30th, Bloomsbury Hotel: Writing Gay Irish Lives with Mary Dorcey, Cherry Smyth, Jamie O’Neill and Barry McCrea, 7.30pm ‘Shoot The Breeze’, fortnight at Camden People’s Theatre brings: ‘The Bee Project’, ‘Fog Everywhere’, talks and walks and drag comedy, ‘Timberlina’ to relieve eco-anxiety. Wed 1st: Camden Arts Centre talk on the influence of Japanese ceramics on contemporary and clay artists. The London Korean Film Festival 2017 continues with multiple UK and International premieres, with a special focus on Korean Noir and including everything from Indie Firepower and Cinema Now to Women’s Voices & Classics. Saturday 5th: Learn computer skills and get individual support at Maiden Lane com centre 156 St Pauls Crescent, NW1 9XZ Tel: 020 7267 9586. Package by: Marian Larragy Maiden Lane Community centre :: Online skills for individuals Korean Film Festival London 2017 :: Writing Gay Irish Lives :: Camden Arts Centre :: Camden People's Theatre :: Shoot The Breeze Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (6:36 min / 6 MB)

Monday 30th, Bloomsbury Hotel: Writing Gay Irish Lives with Mary Dorcey, Cherry Smyth, Jamie O’Neill and Barry McCrea, 7.30pm ‘Shoot The Breeze’, fortnight at Camden People’s Theatre brings: ‘The Bee Project’, ‘Fog Everywhere’, talks and walks and drag comedy, ‘Timberlina’ to relieve eco-anxiety. Wed 1st: Camden Arts Centre talk on the influence of Japanese ceramics on contemporary and clay artists. The London Korean Film Festival 2017 continues with multiple UK and International premieres, with a special focus on Korean Noir and including everything from Indie Firepower and Cinema Now to Women’s Voices & Classics. Saturday 5th: Learn computer skills and get individual support at Maiden Lane com centre 156 St Pauls Crescent, NW1 9XZ Tel: 020 7267 9586. Package by: Marian Larragy Maiden Lane Community centre :: Online skills for individuals Korean Film Festival London 2017 :: Writing Gay Irish Lives :: Camden Arts Centre :: Camden People's Theatre :: Shoot The Breeze Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (6:36 min / 6 MB)

It's our first birthday! Rose and Alice went to the Camden Art Centre to see shows by Jennifer Tee and Daniel Richter. Both shows run until September 17th - more info at https://www.camdenartscentre.org/ Jennifer Tee's RESIST STACK OF BOOKS: James Baldwin, Go Tell It On The Mountain (1953) Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962) Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899) Cynthia Cruz, The Glimmering Room (2012) Joan Didion, The White Album (1979) Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850) Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak (1999) Han Kang, The Vegetarian (2007) Mary Karr, The Liars Club (1995) Bill Knot, I Am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems (2017) Lucas de Lima, Wetland (2014) Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn (1978) Maggie Nelson, Bluets (2009) Arthur Miller, The Crucible (1953) Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970) Adrienne Rich, Diving into the wreck (1973) Rebecca Skloot, The immortal life of Henrieta Lacks (2010) Dane Smith, [INSERT] BOY (2014) Mai Der Vang, Afterland (2017) Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982) Ronaldo Wilson, Poems of the Black Object (2009) Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (1985) Monica Youn, Blackacre (2016) Contact me via theexhibitionist.org, facebook.com/exhibitionistpod and exhibitionistpod@gmail.com - and, as always, leave a rating and review on iTunes. It helps new listeners find us, and makes me feel loved.

This week there’s news of Camden’s ever-increasing house prices; a chance to go see an exhibition by Danish artist Joachim Koester at the Camden Arts Centre; or why not visit the world-famous Acol Bridge Club on West End Lane? Package by: Jo, Viola, Ikaba, Freddy Camden Arts Centre :: Acol Bridge Club :: Back to homepage :: Follow us on Twitter :: File Download (2:26 min / 2 MB)

Leo Joseph is one of six artists from the Camden Arts Centre putting on a show in a pop-up space provided by the Camden Council. Leo came into the studio to discuss the exhibition and living as an artist in Camden. The show, Colour Assembly, looks at visual art’s most basic building block, colour, and also features work by London-based artists Beatriz Perez, Camilla Bliss, Emma Sywyj, Glynis Minors and Haydn Albrow. It runs from 11am-7pm Tuesday-Sunday at 18 Malden Road until the 21st of January. Package by: Violet Macdonald, Lacky Ahmed Colour Assembly Event :: Colour Assembly Twitter :: Camden Arts Centre :: Back to homepage :: Follow us on Twitter :: File Download (9:27 min / 10 MB)

Tricycle Theatre hosts String Quartet Concert on Sunday 18th December. It’s panto with two performances per day throughout the season at the Shaw Theatre with Snow White. On 22nd, Fitzrovia Youth serve a meal at the Indian YMCA as a fundraiser. To book a place call 0207 388 7399. The Royal College of Surgeons free lecture for young people is on skin! Book a place for 3pm on 22nd December. 02030752389. Swiss Cottage Gallery hosts Millie Rice’s imaginative and clever exhibition on King’s Cross. Walk off all that XMAS food with walks in Holborn and Grays’ Inn Road, call 07502563578. Family Winter Takeover at Camden Arts Centre on 30th December; Blackbox: ‘Obama and Me’ by Sylvia Arthur at the Etcetera on 4th and 5th January, 6.30pm Read by: Cale Hubble, Freddy Chick, Joe Hughes, Julia Gaulon, Marian Larragy & Zoe Stegosaurus Tricycle Theatre :: Shaw Theatre Panto :: Fitzrovia Youth Centre :: Royal College of Physicians :: Swiss Cottage Gallery :: Walks :: Camden Arts Centre :: Etcetera Theatre.com :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (7:25 min / 7 MB)

Camden In Bloom is open for entries, the borough’s yearly competition to find the best garden in Camden; see the new exhibition of art chosen by designer Duro Olowu at the Camden Arts Centre; or check out the Medical Research Festival at UCL. Package by: Freddy Chick, Joseph Hughes and Ruth Skinner Camden In Bloom :: Camden Arts Centre :: Medical Research Festival :: Back to homepage :: Follow us on Twitter :: File Download (3:21 min / 3 MB)

DD Guttenplan (writer, London); Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (Director, departure, Vienna); W.A.G.E (arts activist group, worldwide); Yu Yeon Kim (curator, New York & Seoul); Chaired by Jenny Lomax (Director, Camden Arts Centre, London) at Frieze London 2009

Plenty to keep you busy as May approaches: go to a screening of a film about the troubles of Iran’s LGBT community at Conway Hall, check out the latest exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre or enjoy a walk round Lincoln’s Inn. When the weekend comes, celebrate May Day with the pigs and sheep at Kentish Town City Farm. Finally, if you want to celebrate Prince’s life and works this week then there’s a party at the Bloomsbury Lanes to commemorate the end of his purple reign. Package by: Muna Afrah, Rosie Turner, Joseph Hughes, Danielle Manning, Freddy Chick Conway Hall - Iran's Sex Change Solution :: Kentish Town City Farm :: Camden Arts Centre :: Walk round Lincoln's Inn :: Bloomsbury Lanes :: Back to homepage :: Follow us on Twitter :: File Download (5:06 min / 5 MB)

Plenty to keep you going in the cold weather. Catch jazz at the Map Cafe with Andrea Pozza; punk at the Dublin Castle thanks to Proud City Fathers; coming up next weekend at Maiden Lane is another family fun day; two great exhibitions one at the Camden Arts Centre and one at Foundling Museum and a reminder about the Food Bank at Maiden Lane. Maiden Lane Community Centre :: The Dublin Castle :: Map Studio Cafe :: Foundling Museum :: Camden Arts Centre :: Back to homepage :: Follow us on Twitter :: File Download (6:16 min / 6 MB)

See a zine in the making at the Camden Arts Centre; follow on the trail of bees round King’s Cross and pythons (yes, pythons!) at Gospel Oak; eat insects and sample the delights of the Knowledge Quarter; check out a Venezuelan play at Theatro Technis; get ready for the Bank Holiday Weekend!!! Package by: Angela Routley, Joe Hughes, Freddy Chick Theatro Technis :: Ladies of the Press :: Camden Tour Guides :: Bee Trail in King's Cross :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (7:13 min / 10 MB)

Free swimming sessions, Library Reading Challenge, Kentish Town City Farm events, drawing workshops at the British Museum, Sir John Soane Museum candle light special and more Read by: Angela Routley, Danielle Manning, Freddy Chick, Joe Hughes, Marian Larragy, N.N.Dee Edited by: Danielle Manning Free Swimming in Camden :: Drawing at the British Museum :: Kentish Town City Farm :: Noah Angell at Camden Arts Centre :: Free Football Coaching for Kids :: Summer Reading Challenge :: Sir John Soane Museum :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow CCRadio on Twitter :: File Download (6:45 min / 6 MB)

Camden is in full summer swing! Get fit at fee outdoor gyms or discover artworks in the sunny streets with a London Art Trail. Have a party at Camden Lock Live or a more sedate time at the Camden Arts Centre. If you’re looking for a chance to volunteer for work experience or pleasure then go along to the Camden Volunteer Fair. It’s the last chance to experience the City of London Festival this week and there’s a new play on at the Tricycle. Package by: Angela Routley, Joseph Hughes, Freddy Chick London Art Trail - Cancer Research UK :: Volunteer Centre Camden :: Free Outdoor Gyms :: Lock Live Festival :: Hannah Collins: Camden Arts Centre :: City of London Festival :: Tricycle Theatre Production :: Back to homepage :: Follow us on Twitter :: File Download (4:49 min / 7 MB)

Things to get out and do in Camden in the next fortnight include: an evening of performances and installations exploring our relationship with Light, at the Wellcome Collection///a new show at the Camden Arts Centre of American minimalist Jo Baer///an evening for fans of Wild Swimming at the British Library///a guided walk of Camden’s religious landmarks with Mayor Lazzaro Pietragnoli///and watch the leaders general election this Tuesday on BBC2 at 9PM! Read by: Freddy Chick, Danielle Manning & Joseph Hughes On Light - Wellcome Collection :: Jo Baer - Camden Arts Centre :: Wild Swimming in the City - British Library :: Faith Walk :: Back to homepage :: Follow us on Twitter :: File Download (6:17 min / 9 MB)

Talk by Ellie Harrison for Artquest's Practice 360 programme at Camden Arts Centre exploring the relationship between her life choices and her work as an artist

Talk by Ellie Harrison for Artquest's Practice 360 programme at Camden Arts Centre exploring the relationship between her life choices and her work as an artist

There’s plenty going on in this cold January. You can research your family history at the Kentish Town Library or sample the delights of birdwatching on Hampstead Heath. If you fancy something to put a smile on your face then there’s a great comedy gig on at the Good Ship in Kilburn while families with young children can go along to the Camden Arts Centre for some creative classes. Camden Arts Centre :: Kentish Town Library :: Marylebone Birdwatching Society :: The Good Ship :: Back to homepage :: Follow us on Twitter :: File Download (0:00 min / 3.9 MB)

There’s plenty to chose from at the start of the new year. Michael Boyd’s hotly anticipated production of Orfeo is opening at the Roundhouse this week. Also at the Roundhouse classes for anyone aged 11-25 are starting back up, including a chance to learn Street Circus skills. At the Camden Arts Centre you can learn how to build an otter’s den with artist Ruth Ewan. Alternatively, you can visit a book launch at Housmans radical bookshop or drop by an exciting new art installation opening at the WAC building. Ready by: Joseph Hughes, Muhammad Hakim Edited by: Freddy Chick Orfeo at the Roundhouse :: Otter Den at Camden Arts Centre :: Street Circus at the Roundhouse :: Housmans Bookshop :: Light-Life Ignite :: Back to homepage :: Follow us on Twitter :: File Download (4:40 min / 7 MB)

Sunday morning sees the award winning Indian film ‘Fire in The Blood’ at Bolivar Hall, near Warren Street; Camden Arts Centre has ‘Call and Response’, paintings based on the Harlem Six, the first exhibition in a UK gallery of the celebrated American artist Glenn Ligon; National go online week offers session at Camden and Queen’s Crescent Libraries; Have your say spending cuts at St Pancras Community Centre on Wednesday, from 6.30pm; Cooking Session for 14 to 19 year olds at Maiden Lane Youth Club; Forge in Delancey Street is joining forces with the magazine ‘The Girls Are’ to present a weekend of top female musical talent Friday 17th to Sunday 19th Read by: Ann Carroll; Freddy Chick, Joe Hughes; Marian Larragy & Mel Williams Script By: Ann Carroll Recorded & Edited: Marian Larragy Fire In The Blood & Cricklewood Craic :: Camden Arts Centre :: Public Meeting on Cuts to Camden Budget :: Maiden Lane Young People :: Learn My Way :: Get Online Week :: Where The Girls Are :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (5:58 min / 6 MB)

London Fashion Week is here again and the Autumn Jazz season kicks off, with the Ferg Ireland Quintet at The Oxford in Kentish Town. Meanwhile, above the Oxford Arms in Camden High Street, at the Etcetera Theatre, ‘Fishcakes’ provides a slice of theatre and visual arts curator Vivien Lovell talks on Shelagh Wakely’s public artworks at Camden Arts Centre. The film ‘Pride’, just released to enthusiastic acclaim, is partly a Camden story. Read by: Freddy Chick, Tanya Geddes, Joseph Hughes & Marian Larragy Recorded by: Freddy Chick Edited by: Marian Larragy London Fashion Week :: Margaret Howell Catwalk Show :: Ferg Ireland Quintet at The Oxford :: Fishcakes at the Etcetera :: Vivien Lovell on Wakley :: Sheila Wakely - A View from A Window :: Pride Trailer on Youtube :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (4:18 min / 4 MB)

New Swimming Pool opens today at Pancras Square; Sheila Wakely’s new exhibition ‘A View From a Window’ opens on Sunday at Camden Arts Centre; Register for Adult 5-a-side Football Club by Thursday 17th, call Nigel on 020 7267 9586 or info@maidenlanecommunitycentre.org; Chris Collins – ex Blue Peter – on container gardening on Thursday for Camden in Bloom. The annual Camden New Town Community Festival is on on Saturday 19th (4.30pm-7.30) and Sunday 20th July (12 noon – 6.30pm) at Camden Square, NW1. Read by: Freddy Chick, Ann Carroll & Tanya Geddes Edited by: Marian Larragy New Centre at 5 Pancras Square :: A View from A Window :: Maiden Lane 5 a Side Football :: Container Garden Workshops :: Camden Square Festival :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (3:30 min / 3 MB)

There’s lots going on at the Camden Arts Centre right now: Moyra Davies ‘Life Without Sheets’, Philip Lai’s ‘Besides’, work by Caroline Archaintre, ‘How Can Art?’ offering young people a chance to develop new ideas and a drop-in session on Sundays. Elsewhere, at the Irish Centre there are classes in Irish music and dance coming up. The Jazz Cafe has some great gigs coming up including a tribute to Amy Winehouse plus a black metal band are coming to the Electric Ballroom. Read by: Freddy Chick DJ Rudeboy P.Tosh Atos Harber Recording: Stephanie Delestienne Camden Arts Centre :: Central St Martin's School of Art :: Tea dance & more at Irish Centre :: Electric Ballroom :: Jazz cafe gigs :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (3:28 min / 3 MB)

Find out how the Metropolitan Police are planning to use Tasers, meet the new Borough Commander and hear how crime and anti social behaviour are being reduced. Survivor of Institutional abuse in Ireland, Mary Lodato will be talking about the road to recovering her who self, at the Feminist Library on Sunday 19th May; The Festival of Asian Literature comes to a close at Asia House with a conversation between Maya Jaggi and Tan Twan Eng. ‘How Can Art?’ youth sessions are taking place at the Camden Arts Centre . Read by: Mainga Bhima, Marian Larragy & DJ P.Tosh Research & Editing: Mainga Bhima Feminist Library :: Camden Arts Centre :: Asia House :: Camden Community & Police Consultative Committee :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: File Download (6:18 min / 6 MB)

B-Better dance classes for all ages at Winchester Road; Amy Lamé is at the Camden People’s Theatre with ‘Unhappy Birthday’. Artist Adam Walker leads this summer’s Make and Do at Camden Arts Centre and will use aspects of the Dieter Roth exhibition ‘Diaries’ , which is currently being exhibited there. On 17th May, the British Library at Euston Road, opens a summer exhibition, ‘Propaganda: Power and Persuasion’, looking at how different states used propaganda in the 20th and 21st centuries. Read by: Lucy Waterhouse, Mainaga Bhima & DJ P.Tosh Edited by: Mainga Bhima & Lucy Waterhouse Be Better Dance Event :: Dance on Facebbo :: On Twitter :: Camden People's Theatre :: Camden Arts Centre :: Propaganda Exhibition at the British Library :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (4:11 min / 4 MB)

To make a splash swimming at Maria Fidelis school – all welcome – use the links below or call 0161 674 2223 or joe.doyle@totalswimming.co.uk; Join the 98th birthday party for Women’s League for Peace and Freedom at Housman’s Bookshop or the Yoruba Women’s Choir at the Jazz Cafe. There is folk from Tom Paxton at Union Chapel. Monkey Busuness Comedy Club is at the Richard Steele on Haverstock Hill, Supafine ssessions has an April gig and there is a free cabaret at Camden Arts Centre. Read By: Angela McManus Athos Harber DJ Rudeboy P.Tosh Mainga Bhima Marian Larragy Make A Splash :: SupaFine Sessions :: Union Chapel :: Camden Arts Centre :: Joyful Noise :: Monkey Business Comedy Club :: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom :: Housman's Bookshop :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: File Download (6:34 min / 6 MB)

‘The Secret Listeners’, a performance project based on the experiences of German and Austrian Jewish refugees who worked as Secret Listeners for the government during World War Two is on Sunday 20th January. Monday: comedy from the New Material Flash Mob at The Monarch. Tuesday is Guest night for Cecil Sharp Folk Club. The British Library has an evening of music and performance based around the history of stage hypnotism and hypnotherapy and Camden Arts Centre will be guiding young artists on a one-off trip to visit galleries London. Read by: Mainga Bhima & DJ Rudeboy P. Tosh Researched by: Mainga Bhima Recorded by: DJ Rudeboy P. Tosh Edited by: Marian Larragy Jewish Museum :: Monarch Bar :: Cecil Sharp Folk Club :: British Library :: Camden Arts Centre :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (4:45 min / 4 MB)

See the scroll of Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’; be entertained by Lolotics at 3 Greenland Place; hear live chamber music for parents, carers & babies; listen to the London Community Gospel Choir at the Jazz Club; laugh at ‘Traditional Jewish Christmas Comedy’: enjoy Winter Holiday Family Days; get out to New Year ‘Twisted Circus’ or the Hogmany Ceilidh; see ‘The Shortlist 5’ and the ‘First Four’ exhibit at Swiss Cottage Gallery and relax at Sunday Blues Jam at Camden Blues Kitchen. Read by: DJ Rudeboy P.Tosh, Mainga Bhima, Marian Larragy, Sarah O’Brien, Sophie Atkinson. Recording & Editing: Arsenio et al Research: Sophie and Mainga Bhima British Library :: Classical Babies :: Jazz Cafe :: Hampstead Comedy Club :: Camden Arts Centre :: Proud Camden :: Cecil Sharpe House :: Swiss Cottage Exhibitions :: Blues Kitchen :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twittter :: File Download (16:07 min / 15 MB)

Take a tour of Old St Pancras Churchyard, Gatehouse Upstairshas a tribute musical to Bette Middler, Camden Fringe Festival is off with lots to show, Peace Mash uP at the Roundhouse, Family events at Camden Arts Centre, A photography course at One Kings Cross. Script & research: Ann Carroll Read by: Ann Carroll, Denise O’Connor, DJ Rudeboy P. Tosh and Serena Britton. Old St Pancras Churchyard Tour :: Camden Fringe Festival :: Etcetera Theatre :: Gatehouse Upstairs :: One King's Cross :: Peace Mash up At Roundhouse :: Camden Arts Centre :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow CCRadio on Twitter :: File Download (7:31 min / 7 MB)

Turn the volume high! Olympic Torch in Camden, Jazz at the Forge, Camden in Bloom, Festival on Sunday, Breathing Trees & Bruce Lacey at Camden Arts Centre Read By: Ann Carroll, Andrew Thornton, Charlotte Briere Edney, Jack Hewes & Serena Britton Recorded and Edited: Ann Carroll Camden Arts Centre :: Camden New Town Festival :: Breathing Trees :: Olympic Torch in Camden :: Camden in Bloom :: The Forge :: Back to Camden Comunity Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (4:23 min / 4 MB)

Jenni Lomax, longtime Director of Camden Arts Centre, talks with Denise O’Connor about the Centre, its rich history and strong reputation and the range of impressive educational programs on offer, including a pioneering project where artists and children with learning difficulties work creatively together. The Spring exhibition, Zoe Leonard’s ‘Observation Point’ was a real hit with local kids as well as adults. Edited by: Denise O’Connor Camden Arts Centre :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter :: File Download (14:45 min / 14 MB)

Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road – Zoe Leonard’s spatially immersive experience and also artist in residence Rachael Champion: Camden Crawl this weekend – one tickets covers all: Cobb Gallery, Royal College Street celebrates Todd Lekyraciou who paints musicians as they play and is fresh from New York: ‘Black Men on The Couch’ is proving to be very popular and is next on at Royal College of Dramatic Arts on Saturday 12th May; Freud Museum brings hosts new textile as well as the ongoing ‘Louise Bourgeois exhibition. Titus Andronicus is at the Etcetera, Poetry reports the electric ‘Wasted’ with cheap tickets for under 25s. Read by: Tom Boyle, Denise O’Connor, Laurie Bolger & Luna Rodriguez. Produced by Ann Carroll Cobb Gallery :: Black Men on The Couch :: Camden Arts Centre :: Camden Crawl :: Freud Museum :: Etcetera Theatre :: Electric Wasted :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow CCRadio on Twitter :: File Download (7:08 min / 7 MB)

This week the Camden Community Radio team brings you some fun and interesting things to do and see during the Easter bank holiday weekend. There’s a special family orientated Easter event at Lauderdale House and various gigs at Koko and The Camden Jazz Café. In Art and Entertainment there’s an exhibition analysing the mind as matter at welcome collection and the Tricycle Theatre has a brand new Norwegian film called Headhunters from the producers of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Meanwhile throughout the Easter weekend Global Music Foundation present various Jazz workshops at Kings Place. Other highlights this week include Cirkus Cirkör at The Roundhouse, Sunday Live acoustic showcase at Bar Vinyl, Hangover lounge at The Lexington and Sunday sessions at the Camden head (formerly Liberties Bar). The Easter weekend doesn’t stop there as there’s a poetry reading at The Torriano Meeting House as well as loads of events throughout April at Keat’s House. Lastly there’s some Comedy at the Camden Head in Islington along with more laughs at the Etcetera Theatre. Edited and researched by Darryl McKay with contributions from Laurie Bolger Voiced by: Darryl McKay, Laurie Bolger, Marian Larragy, Jayson Mansaray, DJ Rudeboy Tosh and Aaron McCarter. Charli xcx at Koko :: Easter event at Lauderdale House :: Cirkus Cirkör: Undermän at The Roundhouse :: Lana Del Ray at The Camden Jazz Café :: Ben E King at The Camden Jazz Café :: Brains: The mind as matter exhibition at welcome collection :: Sunday Live acoustic showcase at Bar Vinyl :: Jazz workshops at Kings place :: Hangover lounge at The Lexington :: Camden open mic sessions at The Camden Head :: Rachel Stubbings at Etcetera Theatre :: Comedy every Saturday :: Taking Root Easter weekend at The Camden Arts Centre :: Keat's House :: Torriano poetry readings :: Wasted by Kate Tempest at Paines Plough Theatre :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: CCradio on Twitter :: File Download (16:13 min / 15 MB)

Camden Community brings you a selection of seasonal and contemplative events with something for everyone. he Tricycle have Bach, Beethoven and Ravel for 9-12 year olds; Lauderdale House have singing to listen to and singing to join in with; The British Library continues its free tours; London Canal Museum is open and well worth a visit; Jack and the Beanstalk is the seasonal panto at the Shaw Theatre with cast members from favourite TV soaps; London Community Gospel Choir is at the Jazz Cafe for two nights; Hampstead Theatre in Swiss Cottage offers both ‘Beast and Beauties’ and ‘Herding Cats’; Haroon Mirza exhibits at the Camden Arts Centre in Arkwright Road. Read by: Darryl McKay, Jayson Mansaray, Martin Lim; Sarah O’Brien & DJ Rudeboy P Tosh Recorded and Edited: Marian Larragy Research: DarrlyMcKay, Martin Lim & Marian Larragy Tricycle Theatre :: Lauderdale Theatre :: British Museum Tours :: London Canal Museum :: Jack and the Beanstalk at the Shaw :: London Community Gospel Chair at Jazz Cafe :: Trevor Nelson's New Year at Camden Centre :: Hampstead Theatre, Swiss Cottage :: Camden Arts Centre :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: File Download (7:34 min / 7 MB)