Podcasts about Whitechapel Gallery

Since the late 1980s, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has made work in response to conflict and political violence, drawing on the testimonies of victims to create metaphorical sculptures and installations about trauma, loss and survival. She is now recognised as one of the most important living artists, with work shown in museums and galleries around the world, including in the turbine hall of Tate Modern in 2007. Doris Salcedo is the 2025 recipient of the Whitechapel Gallery's prestigious Art Icon award, in recognition of her ‘profound contribution to the artistic landscape'. She talks to John Wilson about the first time she saw Goya's painting The Third of May 1808, also known as The Executions of the Third of May. The painting depicts the brutal aftermath of the Dos de Mayo Uprising in Madrid, during the Peninsular War, in which Spanish civilians were executed by French soldiers. Salcedo recalls how this painting showed her what a work of art could accomplish. It was seeing this painting that inspired her artistic purpose of trying to reveal the true cost of war in her work. Salcedo also explains how the poetry of Paul Celan, the French-Romanian poet and Holocaust survivor has been a significant influence on her and her art , and how the testimonies of the Colombian victims of violence have defined her work.Producer: Edwina PitmanArchive used: Paul Celan, Psalm, read by Robert Rietty

Chloe Abrahams is a Sri Lankan British artist and filmmaker. Using methods drawn from both documentary and fiction practices, she investigates the therapeutic potential of the confessional, culminating in visceral work spanning moving image, sound, writing and performance. Chloe's debut non-fiction film, The Taste of Mango, premiered at True/False 2023 where it was named the #1 film by Sight & Sound. The film went on to win the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the BFI London Film Festival, followed by the BIFA for Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary.​In 2020 Chloe was awarded the John Brabourne Award and has three times been shortlisted for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2018, 2019, 2022). She had her first solo exhibition at OVADA (2014), and has since been selected for exhibitions worldwide, including The London Open at the Whitechapel Gallery 2022. Previously, Chloe worked as the Marketing Coordinator for documentary distributor Dogwoof, responsible for the execution of all UK theatrical campaigns, and recently completed a Master's in Moving Image at the Royal College of Art where she was nominated for the HIGH Prize for Excellence.Follow Chloe on instagram @chloeabr

Hoxton Live with The Preshaah, same sound, less style back with a bleep for twenty twenty five.A calm casual selection of indie - ambient - electronic rocking sounds for a chilly East London and a budding Big Apple.Broadcasting live from Mama Shelter in Bethnal Green and The Face Radio in Brooklyn NYC, we cross continents with a cool selection of sounds and bits for globe trotters alike.With news on new openings at the Whitechapel Gallery, daytime line up changes at BBC London - Manchester and 6 music plus Ben Smith from London The Inside looking at gym deals in January.For more info and tracklisting, visit: https://thefaceradio.com/hoxton-live/Tune into new broadcasts of Hoxton Live, LIVE, Fridays from 7 - 9 AM EST / Midday - 2PM GMT.//Dig this show? Please consider supporting The Face Radio: http://support.thefaceradio.com Support The Face Radio with PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thefaceradio. Join the family at https://plus.acast.com/s/thefaceradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Es ist Londons absolute In-Gegend: das East End östlich des Stadtzentrums. Was sich hier lohnt, was dieses Viertel so besonders macht und welche Geschichte das East End hat: Das erzählen dir die beiden Hosts dieses Podcasts, die plazy-Gründerinnen Kathrin Sander und Inka Schmeling, in dieser Episode. In unter 10 Minuten geht's zu den wichtigsten places to go auf der Brick Lane und am Broadway Market, die beiden führen dich in die berühmte Whitechapel Gallery und in den Victoria Park. Testaccio hat,

Welcome to Episode 16 of Pattern Portraits!Lauren Godfrey chats with artist Zadie Xa, about alchemy and conjuring through pattern, oddness over evenness and Korean Folklore.Zadie Xa is an artist working across painting, sculpture and performance with recent presentations at Thaddeus Ropac in Paris, Hauser and Wirth in LA and The Whitechapel Gallery in London. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Zadie explores notions of homeland and diaspora through the metaphor of water and interspecies communication. Zadie has an MA in painting from The Royal College of Art and a BFA from The Emily Carr Institute of Design in Vancouver.Her work often takes the form of textile constructions resembling garments or kimonos, heavily worked with quilting, appliqué and complex structural elements featuring recurring motifs such as the conch shell, the Yin Yang symbol, knives and kimchi. Performances have featured huge Orca whales and costumes sewn from bleach dyed denim in aqueous patterns of undulating water.I am totally entranced by Zadie's work and the way that pattern weaves its way into every element whether it's a vast patchwork shelter, housing delicately rendered paintings or a gown hanging from the ceiling, poised with a pair of platform shoes resembling cabbages.Zadie has chosen a vibrant patchwork of patterns including a Korean Bojagi wrapping (date unknown), Sonia Delaunay's ‘Simultaneous Dress' from 1913, a pattern of her own - Kimchi Rites and Kitchen Rituals, 2022, a Christopher Kane flower stamped dress from Spring/Summer 2012 and a Mori Yuzan wave drawing circa 1903.You can see all of Zadie's patterns and more on instagram @patternportraitspodcast‘Magic Motif' - The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Zadie's interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.ukImage of Zadie Xa by Benedict JohnsonReferences:Gee's Bend Quilt MakersLegacy Russell The New Bend Exhibition at Hauser and Wirth Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

El silencio es parte indispensable de la música, aunque se trate terminológicamente hablando de “la ausencia total de sonido”, y está presente en mayor o menor medida en cualquier composición musical. El silencio también es el punto de confluencia de músicos como los del colectivo Wandelweiser._____Has escuchadoDedekind Duos (2003) / Antoine Beuger. Carl Ludwig Hübsch, tuba; Pierre-Yves Martel, viola da gamba. Inexhaustible Editions (2020)Empty Rooms (2016) / Raf Mur Ros. DRAMA! Grabación sonora realizada en directo en la sala de conciertos de la Fundación Juan March, el 7 de diciembre de 2016Fields Have Ears (2019) / Michael Pisaro. Cristián Alvear, guitarra (e-guitar). Autoedición (2020)I Listened to the Wind Again (2017) / Jürg Frey. Hélène Fauchère, soprano; Carol Robinson, clarinete; Nathalie Chabot, violín; Agnès Vesterman, violonchelo; Garth Knox, viola; Sylvain Lemêtre, percusión. Louth Contemporary Music Society (2021)Abgemalt (2009) / Eva-Maria Houben. R. Andrew Lee, piano. Irritable Hedgehog (2013)_____Selección bibliográficaBURNARD, Pamela, et al., “Identifying New Parameters Informing the Relationship Between Silence and Sound in diverse musical performance practices and perception”. IJMSTA, vol. 3, n.º 1 (2021), pp. 7-17*DEAVILLE, James, “The Well-Mannered Auditor: Zones of Attention and the Imposition of Silence in the Salon of the Nineteenth Century”. En: The Oxford Handbook of Music Listening in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Editado por Christian Thorau y Hansjakob Ziemer. Oxford University Press, 2019*DENZLER, Bertrand y Jean-Luc Guionnet (eds.), The Practice of Musical Improvisation: Dialogues with Contemporary Musical Improvisers. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020*ENGELHARDT, Jeffers, “Vibrating, and Silent: Listening to the Material Acoustics of Tintinnabulation”. En: Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred. Editado por Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt y Robert Saler. Fordham University Press, 2020EPSTEIN, Nomi, “Musical Fragility: A Phenomenological Examination”. Tempo, vol. 71, n.º 281 (2017), pp. 39-52*GOTTSCHALK, Jennie, Experimental Music Since 1970. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016*HAINGE, Greg, “Sound is Silence”. En: The Oxford Handbook of Sound Art. Editado por Jane Grant, John Matthias y David Prior. Oxford University Press, 2021*JUDKINS, Jennifer, “Silence, Sound, Noise and Music”. En: The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music. Editado por Theodore Gracyk, Andrew Kania, et al. Routledge, 2011*KAHN, Douglas, “John Cage: Silence and Silencing”. The Musical Quarterly, vol. 81, n.º 4 (1997), pp. 556-598*KELLY, Caleb, Sound. Whitechapel Gallery; MIT Press, 2011*MARGULIS, Elizabeth Hellmuth, “Moved by Nothing: Listening to Musical Silence”. Journal of Music Theory, vol. 51, n.º 2 (2007), pp. 245-276*MCKINNON, Dugal, “Dead Silence: Ecological Silencing and Environmentally Engaged Sound Art”. Leonardo Music Journal, vol. 23 (2013), pp. 71-74*METZER, David, “Modern Silence”. The Journal of Musicology, vol. 23, n.º 3 (2006), pp. 331-374*OCHOA, Ana María, “Silence”. En: Keywords in Sound. Editado por David Novak y Matt Sakakeeny. Duke University Press, 2015*ROSS, Alex, “The Composers of Quiet: The Wandelweiser Collective Makes Music between Sound and Silence”. The New Yorker, 29 de agosto 2016, consultado el 20 de junio de 2023: [Web]TOOP, David, Inflamed Invisible: Collected Writings on Art and Sound, 1976-2018. Goldsmiths Press, 2019*VOEGELIN, Salomé, Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art. Continuum, 2010* *Documento disponible para su consulta en la Sala de Nuevas Músicas de la Biblioteca y Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación de la Fundación Juan March

Sonia Boyce talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. Boyce, a recent Golden Lion-winner at the Venice Biennale, was born in London in 1962 and first made an impact through her figurative drawings before shifting to what she calls a “multi-sensory” practice. Over the past three decades, her art has been a social experience, as she has worked with individual and collective collaborators to create performances, video pieces and installations. They reflect on a wealth of subjects, from personal and collective memory, to sound as a conveyor of subjective feeling and cultural experience, to the dynamics and meanings of space and environment, and to questions of value and power and who bestows and holds them. Sonia's art is about people but also formed by them—people are her raw materials. She talks about her interest in power and authorship and the shift in her career, away from drawing to relational and social practice. She discusses the transformative experiences of seeing work by the Fenix feminist art collective, Frida Kahlo and visiting the 1981 exhibition in Wolverhampton, Black Art an' Done. She reflects on William Morris's wallpaper designs and the different ways in which they have manifested in her work. She discusses the connections between Dada and jazz music, and the influence of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, and much more. Plus, she gives insight into her life in the studio, and answers our usual questions, including the ultimate, “What is art for?”Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation and Lygia Clark: The I and the You, Whitechapel Gallery, London, until 12 January; Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way, Toronto Biennial, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, until 6 April 2025; AMONG THE INVISIBLE JOINS: Works from the Enea Righi Collection, MUSEION—Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, until 2 March 2025.Listen to Sonia Boyce talking about Feeling Her Way, in the episode of The Week in Art podcast from 22 April 2022, Venice Biennale Special. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Paris 2024 Olympics start this evening with the opening ceremony. It's the first time an equal number of men and women will compete in a summer Games. To discuss the sportswomen you should keep an eye out for, Anita Rani is joined by Jeanette Kwakye, a former Olympian herself and now BBC pundit, and also BBC Sport reporter Laura Scott.A new film, The Commandant's Shadow, follows Hans Jürgen Höss, the 87-year-old son of Rudolf Höss, the camp commandant of Auschwitz who masterminded the murder of more than a million Jews. While Hans enjoyed a happy childhood playing with many toys in the family villa, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch played cello in the orchestra to survive the notorious concentration camp. Eight decades later, the two come face-to-face, together with their children, Kai Höss and Maya Lasker-Wallfisch. Anita and Maya join Nuala to tell their story.Zara Sehar recently won the audience vote at the Roundhouse Poetry Slam competition, and joins Anita to talk about her work and perform from one of her poems, (Hon)our Killings. In it she mentions spoons in knickers, a tactic suggested to young girls being taken out of the country who are at airports and at risk of forced marriage. Natasha Rattu, Executive Director at Karma Nirvana explains why they give this advice to British-Asian girls.The sculptor Dominique White has a new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. It is four large sculptures made of iron, driftwood and detritus from the sea, lit in such a way to suggest that you are submerged, or looking at a shipwreck on the seabed. It was created during Dominique's six-month residency in Italy, the time granted to her when she won the Max Mara art prize for women in 2023.Former refugee lawyer turned comedian Sashi Perera joins Nuala to discuss who we choose as our emergency contacts and her new stand-up show, Boundaries.When is it socially acceptable to bring your partner to hang out with your friends? According to academic and writer Kate Lister the answer is never. In her recent i Paper column, Kate explains that the presence of a partner alters the dynamic, and that friendships ought to be safe havens from romantic relationships. While some couples prefer to socialise together, Kate argues that time and effort should be invested into individual friendships. Kate joins Nuala for a frank discussion on the murky friendship politics of bringing your partner to lunch.Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Annette Wells Editor: Rebecca Myatt

President Biden has bowed to pressure and made the decision to drop out of the US presidential race. He's endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the potential Democrat Party nominee to run against Donald Trump – but is America ready for another female presidential nominee? Nuala McGovern is joined by Kelly Dittmar, Director of Research at the non-partisan Center for American Women and Politics and Kimberly Peeler- Allen, co-founder of Higher Heights, an organisation that works to mobilise black women voters, and which endorsed the Vice President yesterday.The Paris Olympics starts on Friday and it looks like they will be the first Games ever to have equal numbers of male and female athletes – but not of coaches. The figure for female coaches at the last Olympics in Tokyo, was just 13%. So what's happening to try and shift that dial? Nuala speaks to Dr Elizabeth Pike from Hertfordshire University who leads the Women in Sport High Performance pathway, and Emily Handyside, Head Coach for Wales Netball, and Coaching Performance Pathway Manager at UK Coaching.Nine months since the current Israel-Gaza war began, we look at pregnancy and giving birth in a war zone. Nuala hears from a mum in Gaza who recently gave birth, and also from a midwife trying to deliver care under constant bombing. We also speak to Hiba Al Hejazi from CARE International UK about the humanitarian support available for women in Gaza. Plus, Nuala is joined by Washington Post Middle East correspondent Louisa Loveluck to talk about the wider situation, including the worries of some of the Israeli hostages' families about the passing of nine months since their loved ones were abducted.The sculptor Dominique White has a new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. It is four large sculptures made of iron, driftwood and detritus from the sea, lit in such a way to suggest that you are submerged, or looking at a shipwreck on the seabed. It was created during Dominique's six-month residency in Italy, the time granted to her when she won the Max Mara art prize for women in 2023.Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Maryam Maruf Studio manager: Sue Maillot

Donald Rodney (b. 1961, West Bromwich; d. 1998, London) worked across sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, and digital media, experimenting with new materials and technologies throughout his life. His work is known for being incisive, acerbic, and evocative in its analysis of the prejudices and injustices surrounding racial identity, Black masculinity, chronic illness, and Britain's colonial past. Rodney was also co-founding member of the BLK Art Group: an association of young Black artists formed in Wolverhampton in 1982.Visceral Canker is the major survey of the artist's work at Spike Island, bringing together all of Rodney's surviving works. This includes large-scale oil pastels on X-rays, kinetic and animatronic sculptures, and restaged installations, as well as sketchbooks and rare archive materials, spanning 1982 to 1997. Also on display is Autoicon (1997–2000), an interactive digital artwork initiated by Rodney and finalised by a group of his close friends after he died from sickle cell anaemia in 1998. The exhibition is curated by Robert Leckie, Spike Island's former Director, and Nicole Yip - the gallery's new director. Today, I am joined by both Nicole and Robert, to discuss the life and work of Donald Rodney, the ambitions of the exhibition and the complexities involved in interpreting an artist's work once they are no longer with us. The exhibition will tour at Nottingham Contemporary from 28 September 2024 to 5 January 2025 and at Whitechapel Gallery from 12 February to 18 May 2025.Please support our independent podcast by donating £5 hereRead Shade Art Review Shade Art Review Series 11 | 20% discount codeShade Podcast InstagramShade Podcast WebsiteShade Podcast is Executive produced and hosted by Lou MensahMusic King Henry IV for Shade Podcast by Brian JacksonEdit & Mix by Mae-Li EvansEditorial support from Anne Kimunguyi 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.

Artist Zineb Sedira records cultural and postcolonial connections between Algeria, France, Italy, and the UK from the 1960s, featuring films, rugs, and radical magazines from her personal archive. Dreams Have No Titles (2022) is Zineb Sedira's love letter to cinema, the classic films of her childhood in Paris, coming of age in Brixton in London, and ‘return' to Algiers - three cities between which the artist lives and practices. Born in 1963, the year after Algeria achieved independence from French colonial rule, her and her family's diasporic story is central to her practice. Zineb recalls her first encounters with 'militant cinema', and international co-productions like the Golden Lion-winning The Battle of Algiers (1966). She shares her decision to represent France at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, controversial reactions from French media and society, and solidarity from her radical contemporaries and women, like Françoise Vergès, Sonia Boyce, Latifa Echakhch, Alberta Whittle, and Gilane Tawadros. We discuss the legacy of her work in the selection of Julien Creuzet, the first person of Caribbean descent and from the French overseas territories to represent France at the Venice Biennale in 2024. Zineb shares how personal histories contribute to collective memory, subverting ideas of ‘collection', and using museum and gallery spaces to make archives more accessible. With orientalist tapestries and textiles - her ‘feminist awakening' - we discuss how culture can both perpetuate political and colonial hierarchies, and provide the possibility to ‘decolonise oneself'. From her academic research in the diaspora, Zineb suggests how she carried much knowledge in her body as lived experience, detailing her interest in oral histories (and podcasts!), as living archives. With Nina Simone, Miriam Makebe, and Archie Shepp, performers at the Pan-African Festival in Algiers (1969), she shows her love of jazz and rock music, played with her community of squatters and fellow students from Central Saint Martins. Finally, we see how the meaning of her participatory works change as they travel and migrate between global audiences, and institutions and funding in Algiers today, via aria, her research residency for artists. Zineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles runs at the Whitechapel Gallery in London until 12 May 2024. A free Artist and Curator Talk (with some of Zineb's ‘tribe') takes place at the Gallery on 11 April 2024. and the film version of the work shows at Tate Britain in London until September 2024. Zineb Sedira: Let's Go On Singing! ran at the Goodman Gallery in London until 16 March 2024. Part of EMPIRE LINES at Venice, a series of episodes leading to Foreigners Everywhere (Stranieri Ovunque), the 60th Venice Biennale or International Art Exhibition in Italy, in April 2024. For more about Souffles, Tricontinental, and the Casablanca Art School (1962-1987), listen to curator Morad Montazami at Tate St Ives in Cornwall. For more about Baya, read into: Baya: Icon of Algerian Painting at the Arab World Institute, Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), in Paris. Kawkaba: Highlights from the Barjeel Art Foundation, part of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World. at Christie's London. And for another artist inspired by the port city of Venice, tune in to Nusra Latif Qureshi's 2009 work, Did You Come Here To Find History?, with curator Hammad Nasar. WITH: Zineb Sedira, Paris and London-based artist, who also works in Algeria. Working between the media of photography, film, installation and performance, she was shortlisted for the 2021 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. Dreams Have No Titles was first commissioned for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠ And Twitter: ⁠twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936⁠ Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠patreon.com/empirelines

Joy Gregory (b. 1959. Bicester, UK). Born in the UK to Jamaican parents, Joy Gregory's work explores the impact of colonialism on global perceptions of beauty, memory, botany, health and traditional knowledge. As a photographer, Gregory has worked over decades in various media, including video, digital and analogue photography, film installation, Victorian print processes and more recently textiles; exploring photography as technology and as mode of artistic expression. She is interested in understanding how individuals and communities remember and interpret their history, particularly in relation to their connection to the land.Joy & Lou discuss the themes of process and practice as they have developed throughout the artist's four decade career. In June, Art on the Underground will unveil a new series of Joy's artworks at Heathrow Terminal 4 Underground station - envisaging Heathrow as a portal of entry and exit. I spoke with Joy in February, as she embarked on her partnership with Hillingdon-based charity Refugees in Effective and Active Partnership (REAP) facilitating a series of photographic workshops with asylum seekers living in hotels in the Heathrow area, as well as a community group for Afghan women in Hayes and Harlington. These workshops will inform the creation of her artwork for Heathrow Terminal 4, giving space to the stories of newly arrived Londoners, displaced people whose realities are increasingly maligned and misrepresented. The work will offer an indelible trace of the cultures, languages and hopes which coalesce in London. In the Autumn of 2025, Whitechapel Gallery will stage Joy's first monographic exhibition, surveying a four-decade practice.Thanks for listening to this independent podcast. You can support this work by reviewing and sharing the podcast or becoming a Shade Art Review subscriber (follow the link below for details).Read Shade Art Review Shade Art Review Series 10 | 20% discount codeShade Podcast InstagramShade Podcast is Executive produced and hosted by Lou MensahMusic King Henry IV for Shade Podcast by Brian JacksonEditing and mixing by Tess DavidsonEditorial support from Anne Kimunguyi 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.

Andrew quite rightly features on The Standard's 2024 New Art Power List and hailed by The Telegraph as an artist saving public galleries. Today, he talks about creating a space through sonic and visual art for the viewer to think and find new ideas. His current exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery is a love letter to one of London's most diverse neighbourhoods. It's also praised by TimeOut. This episode is a moment of celebration for the way we all experience art and what it means for the world.  Andrew earned his MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2019) and BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts (2017). He's also an Associate Lecturer at The Royal College of Art's MA Painting programme. On top of that, he's won the ArtAngel 'Thinking Time' Award (2020) and Tiffany & Co. x Outset Studiomakers Prize (2019). Check out Whitechapel Gallery ⁠here⁠.  For more art, head to ⁠sanclemente.co.uk⁠, catch up on previous episodes or get ready for more this week.

Andrew quite rightly features on The Standard's 2024 New Art Power List and hailed by The Telegraph as an artist saving public galleries. Today, he talks about creating a space through sonic and visual art for the viewer to think and find new ideas. His current exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery is a love letter to one of London's most diverse neighbourhoods. It's also praised by TimeOut. This episode is a moment of celebration for the way we all experience art and what it means for the world.  Andrew earned his MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2019) and BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts (2017). He's also an Associate Lecturer at The Royal College of Art's MA Painting programme. On top of that, he's won the ArtAngel 'Thinking Time' Award (2020) and Tiffany & Co. x Outset Studiomakers Prize (2019). Check out Whitechapel Gallery ⁠here⁠.  For more art, head to ⁠sanclemente.co.uk⁠, catch up on previous episodes or get ready for more this week.

Andrew quite rightly features on The Standard's 2024 New Art Power List and hailed by The Telegraph as an artist saving public galleries. Today, he talks about creating a space through sonic and visual art for the viewer to think and find new ideas. His current exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery is a love letter to one of London's most diverse neighbourhoods. It's also praised by TimeOut. This episode is a moment of celebration for the way we all experience art and what it means for the world. Andrew earned his MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2019) and BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts (2017). He's also an Associate Lecturer at The Royal College of Art's MA Painting programme. On top of that, he's won the ArtAngel 'Thinking Time' Award (2020) and Tiffany & Co. x Outset Studiomakers Prize (2019). Check out Whitechapel Gallery here. For more art, head to sanclemente.co.uk, catch up on previous episodes or get ready for more this week. [Note: the intro has been edited to correct Royal Academy to Royal College x] 

Zineb Sedira talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. Sedira, born in Paris in 1963 to Algerian parents and based in London since 1986, uses film, photography, installation, sculpture and other media to reflect on memory, from the personal to the collective and historical. She explores representation, language and family, intimately informed by her French, Algerian and British identity. By mining her singular autobiography and its connection with colonial histories and their contemporary legacies, Sedira has created a body of work that is at once politically nuanced, emotionally complex and visually rich. She discusses her early interest in Mary Kelly, her enduring engagement with the art of JMW Turner, and her admiration for the Algerian painter Baya. She reflects on her fascination with the Pan-African Festival in Algiers in 1969, the subject of a body of work. And she talks about her love of jazz and ska, the influence of postcolonial writers, among much else. Plus, she gives insight into her studio life and answers our usual questions, including the ultimate: “what is art for?”Zineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 15 February-12 May; the film version of the work is on display at Tate Britain until September 2024; Dreams Have No Titles, Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi , UAE, 3 October-28 January 2025; Let's go on singing!, Goodman Gallery, London, until 16 March; Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal, 19 June 2025-22 September 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Martin O'Brien (@martinobrienart)Martin O'Brien is an artist and zombie. He works across performance, writing and video art. His work uses long durational actions, short speculative texts and critical rants, and performance processes in order to explore death and dying, what it means to be born with a life shortening disease, and the philosophical implications of living longer than expected. He has shown work throughout the UK; Europe; USA; and Canada, and is well known for his solo performances and collaborations with the legendary LA artist and dominatrix Sheree Rose.Martin is currently Writer in in Residence 2023, Whitechapel GalleryHe is winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Visual and Performing Arts 2022. He will be writer in residence at Whitechapel Gallery throughout 2023. Martin has cystic fibrosis and all of his work and writing draws upon this experience. In 2018, the book ‘Survival of the Sickest: The Art of Martin O'Brien' was published by Live Art Development Agency. His work has been featured on BBC radio and Sky Arts television. He is currently senior lecturer in Live Art at Queen Mary University of London.​For more information on the work of Martin O'Brien go tohttp://www.martinobrienart.co.ukThanks to @abstraktpublicity for making this connectionTo Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofartsFor full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.ministryofarts.orgEmail: ministryofartsorg@gmail.comSocial Media: @ministryofartsorg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A brand new concert hall The Lark, with a brand new choir the IIMS Chamber Choir; talking on the concert stage with Patrick Rafter at his Marble City Music Festival, and Orit Gat on a retrospective of painter and sculptor, Nicole Eisenman at London's Whitechapel Gallery.

Welcome to season 4 of Art from the Outside! This episode we are thrilled to kick off the season with the artist Zadie Xa. Born in Vancouver in 1983 and now based in London, Zadie has developed an expansive practice that addresses the nature of diasporic identities, global histories, familial legacies and interspecies communication. Working across painting, sculpture, textile production, and performance, she draws upon her Korean heritage as she seeks to elevate narratives that have been erased or repressed by the West and occupying powers. Her work has been presented at venues around the world, such as the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada and Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland. In 2019, Zadie was invited to contribute to the performance program at the 58th Venice Biennale, which was also curated by Ralph Rugoff and Aaron Cezar - another Art from the Outside guest. In July Zadie opened the exhibition Nine Tailed Tall Tales: Trickster, Mongrel, Beast at Space K Seoul, South Korea. Some artists discussed in this episode: Benito Mayor Vallejo Ice Cube Mykki Blanco Azealia Banks For images, artworks, and more behind the scenes goodness, follow @artfromtheoutsidepodcast on Instagram. Enjoy! https://www.instagram.com/artfromtheoutsidepodcast/

We meet artist Rafał Zajko (b.1988, Białystok, Poland). Zajko's work deals with issues around the industrial past, exploring its environmental impact in relation to working class heritage and queer identities. His sculptural practice incorporates diverse materials and processes including ceramics, ventilation systems, prosthetics and performance as a means to examine folklore, science fiction and queer technoscience, placing an emphasis on the industrial materials and processes that resonate with his heritage. Zajko is currently working on a public commission with Wysing Arts Centre and St. Peters School in Cambridge, performance commission ‘Techno Harvest' for Deptford X festival and a new sculptural commission for Kunsthalle Vienna in autumn 2023. He studied for an an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art, London, UK. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Amber Waves II', Galeria Fran Reus, Palma, Mallorca, SP (2022), ‘Song to the Siren', Cooke Latham Gallery, London, UK (2022), ‘Amber Waves', Public Gallery, London, UK (2021), ‘Resuscitation', Castor Projects, London, UK (2020), ‘We Were Here/My Tu Bylismy', Galeria Im. Slendzinskich, Białystok, PL (2019) and ‘Unputdownable', White Cubicle, London, UK (2018). Selected group exhibitions include ‘Support Structures', Gathering, London (2023), ‘Swiat nie wierzy lzom', Galeria Arsenal, Białystok, Poland (2022), ‘London Open 2022', Whitechapel Gallery, London Uk (2022), ‘New Contemporaries 2021', South London Gallery, London, UK (2021), ‘26 Degrees East', Wiels Annex, Brussels, Belgium (2020), ‘Age of Ephemerality', X Museum, Beijing, CN (2020), 'Clay TM', TJ Boulting, London, UK (2020) and ‘Bold Tendencies 2020', London, UK (2020). In 2020 Zajko was the recipient of the Bow Graduation Studio Award.Visit: RAFAŁ ZAJKO CLOCKING OFF open now and runs until 26th November 2023: https://queercircle.org/rafal/Nearest tube: North Greenwich. Free entry.Follow @Rafal_Zajko and @QueerCircleRafal's website is: https://www.rafal-zajko.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I am so excited to say that my guest is one of the most renowned painters working in the world right now, Christina Quarles. A painter of bodies that stretch, condense, tangle, and meld into shapes that range from fleshy to stringy, Quarles is globally hailed for transposing this warm-blooded vessel onto a flat surface with ambiguity and effervescence. Her paintings make us feel, viscerally react both physically and emotionally with their fluorescent colouring, limbs that dismantle from the body, faces devoid of detail that exist between reality and surreality, all while echoing the constantly in flux body that we all live within. Born in 1985 in Chicago, and based in Los Angeles, Quarles emphasises through paint her and our multitudinous positions in the world. Working with acrylic paint and programmes such as adobe illustrator for the background and structures that surround the figures, her process, like her chosen subject, is full of dichotomies, between the historic and contemporary, absence and presence, night and day, in locations that exist in water and on land, in bodies that are both shadow and the full figure. A graduate of Hampshire College, for which she completed dual BA degrees in Philosophy and Studio Art, an MFA graduate of Yale School of Art and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Quarles in the past few years has exhibited across the globe in some of the most prestigious institutions and group exhibitions, from the landmark Radical Figures at Whitechapel Gallery to last year's Venice Biennale, and has had solo exhibitions at the Hepworth Wakefield and Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, but today we meet her in Menorca, at Hauser & Wirth, for her newly opened exhibition Come In From An Endless Place, which I can't wait to find out more about. THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY OCULA: https://ocula.com/ ENJOY!!! Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Mikaela Carmichael Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

In episode three we talk to Jerome, a British artist raised in London to a Grenadian family, who is interested in the language of inner-city London. Jerome has chosen the 2018 song and video Praise the Lord (Da Shine) by American rapper ASAP Rocky featuring vocals and sole production from English rapper Skepta, as his biography related, cultural artefact. We chat to Jerome about community, hip hop, poker, showing his work at the Whitechapel Gallery, the EMA and much more...

Over the past five decades, American artist Jenny Holzer has been engaging in thought-provoking interventions into public space that unflinchingly address politics, power, violence, and vulnerability. The New York-based artist investigates language as both content and form, and she works with unconventional mediums to do this including street signage, T-shirts, and light projections, but also sculptures and painting. Her poetic and often minimalist works are extremely impactful, creating a tension between knowledge and truth and emotion. Last year, Holzer curated an acclaimed exhibition of the work of Louise Bourgeois at the Kunstmuseum Basel. More recently, she received Whitechapel Gallery's prestigious Art Icon award. She's also the subject of a major solo exhibition on view until August 6 at a preeminent institution in Germany, the K21 in Dusseldorf. On the occasion of the show, which includes many key works spanning her career, Artnet's Europe editor Kate Brown caught up with Holzer, one of the foremost artists of her generation.

Over the past five decades, American artist Jenny Holzer has been engaging in thought-provoking interventions into public space that unflinchingly address politics, power, violence, and vulnerability. The New York-based artist investigates language as both content and form, and she works with unconventional mediums to do this including street signage, T-shirts, and light projections, but also sculptures and painting. Her poetic and often minimalist works are extremely impactful, creating a tension between knowledge and truth and emotion. Last year, Holzer curated an acclaimed exhibition of the work of Louise Bourgeois at the Kunstmuseum Basel. More recently, she received Whitechapel Gallery's prestigious Art Icon award. She's also the subject of a major solo exhibition on view until August 6 at a preeminent institution in Germany, the K21 in Dusseldorf. On the occasion of the show, which includes many key works spanning her career, Artnet's Europe editor Kate Brown caught up with Holzer, one of the foremost artists of her generation.

Enjoy this bonus episode of my conversation with the curators of Tracing Absence, a Whitechapel Gallery exhibition opening at the Kistefos Museum in Norway on April 29th, 2023. The MA student curators of Tracing Absence re-imagine the show to respond to the local context. Episode 18 of Whitechapel Gallery's Hear, Now podcast series was published in October 2022. It delves deeper into the themes that underpin the exhibition Tracing Absence. Students graduating from the MA Curating Art and Public Programmes course, run by Whitechapel Gallery and London South Bank University, had the opportunity to curate this exhibition as part of their course, which confronts the different ways in which absence manifests in the world.Tracing Absence features new sound art pieces by Joseph Sergi and Yiskāh (alias Jessica Beechy) and works from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation. Student Cathy O ‘Sullivan presents and introduces fellow student Ada Egg Koskilouma who talks with Sunil Shah and Lou Mensah, to explore what absence means to them.Sunil Shah is an artist and curator based in Oxford, UK. He is interested in the politics of photographic representation and conceptual post-documentary practices with relation to history, memory and identity.Lou Mensah is a London based writer, photographer and the founder of Shade Podcast, a platform which hosts conversations with creative and radical thinkers on the politics of race and representation within the arts.Please follow this link to view the publication that accompanies the exhibition and listen to the sound art works by Joseph Sergi and Yiskāh: https://linktr.ee/tracingabsenceFor more information: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/tracing-absence/ Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/shadepodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Liminal Gallery Podcast host, Louise Fitzjohn, speaks with contemporary artist Flora Bradwell, who has artwork in our current group exhibition 'Try a little...Tenderness' which opened on 4th February in our Margate-based Gallery. A compulsion towards the carnivalesque and a vibrant trashy aesthetic are key to Flora Bradwell's playful practice. Encompassing painting, sculpture, video and performance Flora's work revels in the generously grotesque. Compositions of frescoes, cult manifestoes and nursery rhymes are squeezed through a fantastical filter to create dimly recognisable imagined worlds. Camp and theatrics are employed to demonstrate the ridiculousness of patriarchal systems and gossip fuels visual flights of fancy as the props of daily life are put on a pedestal.​Bradwell completed her BA in Painting at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2009 and her MFA at The Slade School of Fine Art in 2021. While at the Slade Bradwell received the The Felix Slade Award, The Jeanne Szego Prize and Sarabande Emerging Artist Bursary.Bradwell is a recipient of the Gilbert Bayes Award 2023 and artist in Residence at Van Gogh Huis in April 2023. Bradwell's work has been exhibited, screened and performed internationally including at the Whitechapel Gallery, Nunnery Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, The Royal Academy of Arts in London, at Future DMND, LA, Zaratan, Lisbon and at the European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck. Bradwell has completed residencies at Elephant Lab, London(2022), Cyprus College of Art, Paphos, SIM, Reykjavik (2021) and Colart, London (2019). Bradwell also curates art events, exhibitions and happenings across the UK and is Co-Director of Bad Art.Tender moments, tender flesh, tender touch, tender thoughts, tender heart, tender mind; try a little tenderness. A tender moment is encapsulated in an act of thoughtfulness; a cup of tea at the end of the day, a gift of flowers, a display of love. Tenderness is to give up one's time, attention, precious moments devoted to another. Tenderness is also pain, a moment of fragility, of weakness. It evokes skin which expands, shrinks, multiplies, and shivers to the touch. Skin which is a dying organism, for surely that is what we all are. A tender morsel of meat, deliciously melts in the mouth. Exploring these themes in contrasting ways ‘Try a little Tenderness' brings together the works of Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Flora Bradwell and Damien Flood whose practice is unified in the attempt to capture these fleeting moments. Read the full press release here:https://www.liminal-gallery.com/try-a-little-tendernessContact us: info@liminal-gallery.comFollow us on Instagram: @liminal_galleryWith original music by Lorenzo Bonari. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Manu speaks with London based artist Katya Kan... Katya was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Her father being North Korean and her mother Russian. Having caught a glimpse of the ex-USSR, she has a conflicting perception of political and cultural systems. Unable to fully assimilate into her own culture, she finds herself as an outsider with an eclectic artistic taste. The concepts, which she explores in her work, include globalization, surveillance, nostalgia, utopia and eroticism. She has exhibited at ICA London, Whitechapel Gallery, Royal Watercolor Society, NYC Untitled Space, the New York Art Expo as well as the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.

Frieze Masters presents this conversation with Zadie Xa & Vivien Zhang in partnership with Whitechapel Gallery (@whitechapelgallery). Their conversation explores Xa's new exhibition at Whitechapel as they reflect on ideas of cultural identity, the appropriation and gentrification of symbols, and disparities between static and performance art.  "[The Yin Yang] feels like a very Korean or Asian thing. This is an authentic image that I can kind of attach meaning to, but then of course, it's something that has been so heavily commodified by the West and in skate and surfboard culture in Vancouver...So I thought, right, it's also devoid of meaning. And it's something that depending on where the symbol sits, has lots of meanings." – Zadie Xa  Zadie Xa (@zadiexa) was born in Vancouver, Canada and lives and works in London, UK. Working across textile, painting, installation, live performance, sound, and moving image, Xa's practice is an exploration of familial legacies, histories of migration, and how different species communicate with one another. Vivien Zhang (@vivienzhang_) is a London-based artist and an Associate Lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts.  About the Frieze Masters Podcast  Exploring themes of identity, originality, geopolitics and Blackness through a historical lens, the new Frieze Masters Podcast is now available. Bringing together some of today's most celebrated artists, art historians and curators, the podcast launches with the Talks programme from the 2022 edition of Frieze Masters – one of the world's leading art fairs – and offers compelling insight into the influence of historical art on contemporary perspectives and creativity.     www.frieze.com  @friezeofficial

Ben Luke talks to the Canadian-Korean artist Zadie Xa about her influences—from the worlds of literature, film, music and, of course, art—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. Xa was born in 1983 in Vancouver, Canada, and is now based in London. She explores folklore and speculative fiction, familial and collective histories, diasporic identity and the climate emergency through painting, sculpture, film and performance, often brought together in fantastical installations. She talks about artists from Hieronymus Bosch to Kara Walker; her interest in Korean folk art and folk tales; how she returns to the science fiction novels of Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia E. Butler; and the early and ongoing influence of hip hop and rappers like Cam'ron. Plus, she gives insight into her life in the studio and answers our usual questions, including the ultimate: what is art for?Zadie Xa: House Gods, Animal Guides and Five Ways 2 Forgiveness, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 20 September-May 2023; Hospital Rooms: Like there is hope and I can dream of another world, Hauser & Wirth, London, 19 August-14 September; Wonder Women, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, 3 September-22 October; Soy Dreams of Milk, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, from 10 September; The New Bend, curated by Legacy Russell, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, 27 October-30 December; The Horror Show: a Twisted Tale of Modern Britain, Somerset House Studios, London, 27 October-19 February 2023; Jeju Biennale, Jeju Island, South Korea, 16 November-12 February 2023 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ben Luke talks to Emma Talbot about her influences, including writers, film-makers, musicians, and, of course, other artists, and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. Talbot (born in Stourbridge, UK, in 1969) brings together drawing, painting, text, sculpture and animation in installations that fuse a personal response to her internal emotional world with societal and geopolitical issues, from feminism to capitalism and climate change. She talks about her love of the Sienese early Renaissance artist Sassetta; her troubled response to Gustav Klimt's Three Ages of Woman (1905) and how she has used it as the basis for a new body of work made for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women; how she returns to the novels of George Orwell and Edna O'Brien; and the profound effect of Federico Fellini's films, including Satyricon (1969). Plus, she answers our regular questions about her studio life, the art she would most like to live with, and, ultimately, what art is for.Emma Talbot: The Age/L'Età, Max Mara Art Prize for Women, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 30 June-4 September; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 23 October-19 February 2023. Emma Talbot's work is included in The Milk of Dreams at the 59th Venice Biennale, until 27 November 2022. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“I think to pursue mystery and beauty, these things are a bit subjective, so you can't really tell people exactly what it shouldn't be about. And also I have to preserve these things for myself. I primarily make the work for myself, so if I don't have some questions that are unanswered, even for me, then there's not really an interest to like keep going otherwise. So it's also sort of protection and a preservation mindset that I have about leaving things really open for other people and for myself.”Petra Cortright is a Los Angeles-based digital artist known for her elaborate paintings, videography, and digital media. Crafted from massive digital files on Photoshop, her paintings are often composed of physical and digital images, simulated brushstrokes, and marks that blend both abstract and figurative elements. Petra has exhibited at the Walker Art Center, Whitechapel Gallery, and the Hammer Museum, in addition to solo exhibitions around the world. Her work is featured in permanent collections at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Miami's Péréz Museum, and the Moderna Museeit in Stockholm–amongst many others.· www.petracortright.com· Show at Societé in Berlin: BALEAF GYS AKADEMIKS MAAMGIC BROKIG: https://societeberlin.com/exhibitions/baleaf-gys-akademiks-maamgic-brokig/· Show at Foxy production at the beginning of this year: https://www.foxyproduction.com/exhibitions/1756Petra CortrightBENGAL TIGER_beurteilungsschreiben Better Homes and Gardens, 2021Digital painting on anodized aluminum149.9 x 215.9 x 3 cm59 1/2 x 85 x 1 1/2 in· www.creativeprocess.info · www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Petra Cortright is a Los Angeles-based digital artist known for her elaborate paintings, videography, and digital media. Crafted from massive digital files on Photoshop, her paintings are often composed of physical and digital images, simulated brushstrokes, and marks that blend both abstract and figurative elements. Petra has exhibited at the Walker Art Center, Whitechapel Gallery, and the Hammer Museum, in addition to solo exhibitions around the world. Her work is featured in permanent collections at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Miami's Péréz Museum, and the Moderna Museeit in Stockholm–amongst many others. “I think to pursue mystery and beauty, these things are a bit subjective, so you can't really tell people exactly what it shouldn't be about. And also I have to preserve these things for myself. I primarily make the work for myself, so if I don't have some questions that are unanswered, even for me, then there's not really an interest to like keep going otherwise. So it's also sort of protection and a preservation mindset that I have about leaving things really open for other people and for myself.”· www.petracortright.com· Show at Societé in Berlin: BALEAF GYS AKADEMIKS MAAMGIC BROKIG: https://societeberlin.com/exhibitions/baleaf-gys-akademiks-maamgic-brokig/· Show at Foxy production at the beginning of this year: https://www.foxyproduction.com/exhibitions/1756Photo by Stefan Simchowitz· www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

“I think to pursue mystery and beauty, these things are a bit subjective, so you can't really tell people exactly what it shouldn't be about. And also I have to preserve these things for myself. I primarily make the work for myself, so if I don't have some questions that are unanswered, even for me, then there's not really an interest to like keep going otherwise. So it's also sort of protection and a preservation mindset that I have about leaving things really open for other people and for myself.”Petra Cortright is a Los Angeles-based digital artist known for her elaborate paintings, videography, and digital media. Crafted from massive digital files on Photoshop, her paintings are often composed of physical and digital images, simulated brushstrokes, and marks that blend both abstract and figurative elements. Petra has exhibited at the Walker Art Center, Whitechapel Gallery, and the Hammer Museum, in addition to solo exhibitions around the world. Her work is featured in permanent collections at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Miami's Péréz Museum, and the Moderna Museeit in Stockholm–amongst many others.· www.petracortright.com· Show at Societé in Berlin: BALEAF GYS AKADEMIKS MAAMGIC BROKIG: https://societeberlin.com/exhibitions/baleaf-gys-akademiks-maamgic-brokig/· Show at Foxy production at the beginning of this year: https://www.foxyproduction.com/exhibitions/1756Petra CortrightBENGAL TIGER_beurteilungsschreiben Better Homes and Gardens, 2021Digital painting on anodized aluminum149.9 x 215.9 x 3 cm59 1/2 x 85 x 1 1/2 in· www.creativeprocess.info · www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Petra Cortright is a Los Angeles-based digital artist known for her elaborate paintings, videography, and digital media. Crafted from massive digital files on Photoshop, her paintings are often composed of physical and digital images, simulated brushstrokes, and marks that blend both abstract and figurative elements. Petra has exhibited at the Walker Art Center, Whitechapel Gallery, and the Hammer Museum, in addition to solo exhibitions around the world. Her work is featured in permanent collections at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Miami's Péréz Museum, and the Moderna Museeit in Stockholm–amongst many others. “I think to pursue mystery and beauty, these things are a bit subjective, so you can't really tell people exactly what it shouldn't be about. And also I have to preserve these things for myself. I primarily make the work for myself, so if I don't have some questions that are unanswered, even for me, then there's not really an interest to like keep going otherwise. So it's also sort of protection and a preservation mindset that I have about leaving things really open for other people and for myself.”· www.petracortright.com· Show at Societé in Berlin: BALEAF GYS AKADEMIKS MAAMGIC BROKIG: https://societeberlin.com/exhibitions/baleaf-gys-akademiks-maamgic-brokig/· Show at Foxy production at the beginning of this year: https://www.foxyproduction.com/exhibitions/1756Photo by Stefan Simchowitz· www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

“I think to pursue mystery and beauty, these things are a bit subjective, so you can't really tell people exactly what it shouldn't be about. And also I have to preserve these things for myself. I primarily make the work for myself, so if I don't have some questions that are unanswered, even for me, then there's not really an interest to like keep going otherwise. So it's also sort of protection and a preservation mindset that I have about leaving things really open for other people and for myself.”Petra Cortright is a Los Angeles-based digital artist known for her elaborate paintings, videography, and digital media. Crafted from massive digital files on Photoshop, her paintings are often composed of physical and digital images, simulated brushstrokes, and marks that blend both abstract and figurative elements. Petra has exhibited at the Walker Art Center, Whitechapel Gallery, and the Hammer Museum, in addition to solo exhibitions around the world. Her work is featured in permanent collections at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Miami's Péréz Museum, and the Moderna Museeit in Stockholm–amongst many others.· www.petracortright.com· Show at Societé in Berlin: BALEAF GYS AKADEMIKS MAAMGIC BROKIG: https://societeberlin.com/exhibitions/baleaf-gys-akademiks-maamgic-brokig/· Show at Foxy production at the beginning of this year: https://www.foxyproduction.com/exhibitions/1756Petra CortrightBENGAL TIGER_beurteilungsschreiben Better Homes and Gardens, 2021Digital painting on anodized aluminum149.9 x 215.9 x 3 cm59 1/2 x 85 x 1 1/2 in· www.creativeprocess.info · www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Petra Cortright is a Los Angeles-based digital artist known for her elaborate paintings, videography, and digital media. Crafted from massive digital files on Photoshop, her paintings are often composed of physical and digital images, simulated brushstrokes, and marks that blend both abstract and figurative elements. Petra has exhibited at the Walker Art Center, Whitechapel Gallery, and the Hammer Museum, in addition to solo exhibitions around the world. Her work is featured in permanent collections at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Miami's Péréz Museum, and the Moderna Museeit in Stockholm–amongst many others. "I really didn't see the NFT thing coming. For sure, crypto. I remember when internet artists were getting into that years ago and that always seemed like it was going to develop into something substantial, but in terms of the NFTs, I've just been very surprised and charmed by people all of a sudden caring about digital images because I spent so many years literally trying to figure out a way to print them out. It just wasn't seen as serious as an oil painting or something like that.I think I tried every single platform that there is to try. I released hundreds of them, which was fun because my practice can allow that. The gallery system is very – I have to hold back so much – and also when you're making physical things, the physical paintings they're quite expensive to produce.We can't make endless. It's labor-intensive, and it's expensive to make physical things, but with the NFTs, it just was kind of a way to show the range and the scale that is possible with my practice."· www.petracortright.com· Show at Societé in Berlin: BALEAF GYS AKADEMIKS MAAMGIC BROKIG: https://societeberlin.com/exhibitions/baleaf-gys-akademiks-maamgic-brokig/· Show at Foxy production at the beginning of this year: https://www.foxyproduction.com/exhibitions/1756Photo by Stefan Simchowitz· www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

"I really didn't see the NFT thing coming. For sure, crypto. I remember when internet artists were getting into that years ago and that always seemed like it was going to develop into something substantial, but in terms of the NFTs, I've just been very surprised and charmed by people all of a sudden caring about digital images because I spent so many years literally trying to figure out a way to print them out. It just wasn't seen as serious as an oil painting or something like that.I think I tried every single platform that there is to try. I released hundreds of them, which was fun because my practice can allow that. The gallery system is very – I have to hold back so much – and also when you're making physical things, the physical paintings they're quite expensive to produce.We can't make endless. It's labor-intensive, and it's expensive to make physical things, but with the NFTs, it just was kind of a way to show the range and the scale that is possible with my practice."Petra Cortright is a Los Angeles-based digital artist known for her elaborate paintings, videography, and digital media. Crafted from massive digital files on Photoshop, her paintings are often composed of physical and digital images, simulated brushstrokes, and marks that blend both abstract and figurative elements. Petra has exhibited at the Walker Art Center, Whitechapel Gallery, and the Hammer Museum, in addition to solo exhibitions around the world. Her work is featured in permanent collections at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Miami's Péréz Museum, and the Moderna Museeit in Stockholm–amongst many others.· www.petracortright.com· Show at Societé in Berlin: BALEAF GYS AKADEMIKS MAAMGIC BROKIG: https://societeberlin.com/exhibitions/baleaf-gys-akademiks-maamgic-brokig/· Show at Foxy production at the beginning of this year: https://www.foxyproduction.com/exhibitions/1756Petra CortrightBENGAL TIGER_beurteilungsschreiben Better Homes and Gardens, 2021Digital painting on anodized aluminum149.9 x 215.9 x 3 cm59 1/2 x 85 x 1 1/2 in· www.creativeprocess.info · www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Fiona Reilly, 2021 INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTSince 2017, artist and researcher Kelly Lloyd has interviewed people in the arts about their livelihoods, documenting diverse stories of artists as workers. Join her discussion with the artist and writer Morgan Quaintance and critic Zarina Muhammad, part of writing duo The White Pube, on the issues and inequalities surrounding artistic labour.The White Pube is the collaborative identity of Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad under which they publish reviews and essays about art, video games and food. Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer. His moving image work has been shown and exhibited widely at festivals and institutions including: MOMA, New York; Mcevoy Foundaton for the Arts, San Francisco; Konsthall C, Sweden; David Dale, Glasgow; European Media Art Festival, Germany; Alchemy Film and Arts Festival, Scotland; Images Festival, Toronto; International Film Festival Rotterdam; and Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami.SHOW NOTESzarinamuhammad.co.ukthewhitepube.co.ukroughtradebooks.com/products/ideas-for-a-new-art-world-the-white-pubemorganquaintance.comwhitechapelgallery.org/events/this-thing-we-call-artwhitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/a-century-of-the-artists-studio-1920-2020

Towards the end of the 19th century Iain Sinclair's great-grandfather Arthur made an accident-prone and largely disastrous colonial expedition to Peru. In his latest book, accompanied by his daughter, Iain Sinclair abandons his familiar London territory to follow in his ancestor's footsteps, perhaps also hoping to eclipse his shadow. What he finds makes harrowing but essential reading in a story of exploitation, colonialism and environmental devastation. Sinclair was in conversation about his journey with Gareth Evans, curator of film at the Whitechapel Gallery. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Towards the end of the 19th century Iain Sinclair's great-grandfather Arthur made an accident-prone and largely disastrous colonial expedition to Peru. In his latest book, accompanied by his daughter, Iain Sinclair abandons his familiar London territory to follow in his ancestor's footsteps, perhaps also hoping to eclipse his shadow. What he finds makes harrowing but essential reading in a story of exploitation, colonialism and environmental devastation. Sinclair was in conversation about his journey with Gareth Evans, curator of film at the Whitechapel Gallery. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

'She did cause a bit of a revolution in the Royal Academy, which has been only to the good,' Anne Desmet, R.A. Gertrude Hermes was one of the most experimental sculptors of the twentieth century. She also changed the way women artists were treated at the Royal Academy forever – a story which had been overlooked until recently. Representing Britain at the Paris World Fair of 1937, selected for the British Pavilion at the 1939 Venice Biennale and the subject of a solo retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1967, Hermes' reputation fell into obscurity and her reforming activism forgotten. In the 1920s she was part of a group of artists including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Eileen Agar who were invigorating traditional techniques with a modernist approach. Working not only across sculpture and printmaking, but a variety of decorative and architectural forms such as door knockers and fountains, Hermes imbued her work with a vital energy that often focused on the elemental forces of nature. This episode takes listeners to where she lived and worked along the Thames tracing her friendships and patrons, her art school networks and studios; and the work that remains around us. We speak to people who knew Hermes, worked with her, as well as contemporary artists who explain the allure of an artist they describe as a 'goddess'. Image: Gertrude Hermes carving Diver at St Peter's Square, 1937. Digital image courtesy of Leeds Museums and Galleries © Archive of Sculptors Papers, Leeds Museums _ Galleries Bridgeman Images,

Hello Autumn! We are so ready for you. It's been a disappointing summer weather-wise here in the UK, so we are very excited for a September full of art and exhibitions. New exhibitions include Doron Lamberg at Victoria Miro, Helen Frankenthaler at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Tacita Dean at Frith Street Gallery and Surrealist Female Artists at the Whitechapel. Our main story focuses on Poland, and a controversial ‘anti-cancel culture' art exhibition that was set to open at Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art. We discuss some of the 30 artists included, and the protests surrounding it from Poland's anti-fascist league and various LGBTQ+ and Jewish organizers. We also look back on the lives of two artists who passed away recently: Dame Elizabeth Blackadder and Chuck Close, before turning to our Artist Focus: Cindy Sherman. Sherman is an American artist whose work consists primarily photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters. We try to dig down to the ‘real' Cindy Sherman, if that's possible!SHOW NOTES: Charleston: https://www.charleston.org.uk/ A South London Makers Market: https://asouthlondonmakersmarket.co.uk/ Kate Emma Lee Ceramics: https://kateemmalee.com/ Mimi Dickson Paintings: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/mimidickson Harriet Shaw Rugs: https://www.instagram.com/harrietsayshi/?hl=en Doron Lamberg ‘Give Me Love' at Victoria Miro until 6 November 2021: https://online.victoria-miro.com/doron-langberg-london-2021/ Helen Frankenthaler ‘Radical Beauty' at Dulwich Picture Gallery from 15 September 2021 - 18 April 2022: https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2021/may/helen-frankenthaler-radical-beauty/ ‘Mixing it up: Painting Today' at Hayward Gallery from 9 September to 12 December 2021: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/art-exhibitions/mixing-it-painting-today Tacita Dean at Frith Street Gallery from 17 September to 30 October 2021: https://www.frithstreetgallery.com/exhibitions/tacita-dean-4 Phantoms of Surrealism at the Whitechapel Gallery, until 12 December 2021: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/phantoms-of-surrealism/ Ben Crase: https://www.instagram.com/_gummy_beats_/?hl=en Jenna Gribbon: https://www.instagram.com/jennagribbon/?hl=en Ania Hobson: https://www.aniahobson.com/ 100 Contemporary Female Artists You Need to Know: https://www.marylynnbuchanan.com/blog/100-contemporary-female-artists-you-need-to-know-2021 Dame Elizabeth Blackadder: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/aug/25/dame-elizabeth-blackadder-obituaryChuck Close: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/aug/20/chuck-close-obituary Polish State Museum has put on an anti-cancel culture exhibition: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/warsaw-polish-islamophobic-swedish-jews-b1909742.htmlhttps://news.artnet.com/art-world/ujazdowski-castle-exhibition-2003364 Beyoncé and Jay-Z Pose with Long-Unseen Basquiat in Tiffany Campaign: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/beyonce-jay-z-tiffany-basquiat-1234602125/ Cindy Sherman: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/jan/15/cindy-sherman-interview https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/08/cindy-sherman-interview-exhibition-national-portrait-gallery

Wells Fray-Smith is Assistant Curator: Special Projects at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Before that, she held similar positions Pace Gallery and the Barbican Art Gallery, as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is responsible for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women at Whitechapel Gallery, where her projects include Helen Cammock: Che si puó fare, Sense Sound Sound Sense (2019) and The London Open 2021. She was research assistant for Basquiat: Boom For Real at the Barbican Art Gallery (2017) and has contributed catalogue essays on artists Fabienne Verdier (2020) and Prabhavathi Meppayil (2020). Join us to discover how she built her career and what are the challenges when it comes to achieving equality for women in the arts. ----- I LIKE NETWORKING is the mentoring and networking platform for women and non-binary people in the creative industries. Stay in touch with us on Instagram and subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the loop and access many perks. You can also join our community or our supporter's circle. ----- This episode was sponsored by DAYE - a women-led business revolutionizing women's health. Their tampons are the most absorbent Organic tampon on the market, sanitized to eliminate the risk of TSS, and wrapped in truly sustainable packaging. Clinically- validated, cramp-soothing CBD tampons delivered straight to your door. To get £5 off your first box of tampons or proviotics, head over to yourdaye.com and use code Networking5

We discussed: - How she finds new artists - Using social media as a shop window - her queer curatorial approach - her broad definition of queer - the history of the Munch Museum - physical exhibitions versus virtual exhibitions - NFT art - government support of the arts in Norway - our concerns of post pandemic support for the arts - museum storage and conservation - legacy planning - how to archive curatorial practices - stay strong     People + Places mentioned: Whitechapel Gallery - https://www.whitechapelgallery.org MK Gallery - https://www.mkgallery.org Anthony Spira Hariton Pushwagner - https://www.pushwagner.no Kirsten Astrup & Maria Bordorff - http://astrup-bordorff.com Trollkrem - https://www.instagram.com/trollkrem Tor Erik Bøe - https://www.instagram.com/deprimertjulatre Sam Hultin - http://www.samhultin.com Arthur Jafa 'Love is the Message, The Message is Death' - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/jafa-love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death-l04284/love-message-message-death   3 artist she is looking at: Camille Henrot - https://www.camillehenrot.fr Sandra Mujinga - https://www.sandramujinga.com Cory Arcangel - https://coryarcangel.com   https://www.munchmuseet.no   Hosted by Matthew Dols http://www.matthewdols.com   Supported in part by: EEA Grants from Iceland, Liechtenstein + Norway https://eeagrants.org             and we appreciate the assistance of our partners in this project: Hunt Kastner - https://huntkastner.com Kunstsentrene i Norge - https://www.kunstsentrene.no               Transcript available here: https://wisefoolpod.com/transcript-for-episode-171-senior-curator-of-contemporary-art-at-the-munch-museum-tominga-odonnell-oslo-norway/

Episode 1: Radical Figures at The Whitechapel Gallery, discussed by Laura Lennard, Caz Murray and Vikki KosmalskaThe Whitechapel Gallery is looking to overturn art criticism's 1980s declaration that ‘painting is dead'.The gallery has presented a case for painting's ‘radical' relevance within the contemporary art canon, showcasing the work of 10 painters of varied nationalities and styles to make their point.But did our intrepid reviewers, Caz and Vikki, buy either painting's relevance or it's radicalism?The exhibition got us questioning: what does it truly mean to be radical? What can painting as a medium bring the contemporary viewer that other mediums of art cannot? Is it even appropriate to suggest painting is dead in the first place?In other news we share a cautionary tale about getting too close to artworks (largely for Vikki's benefit) and keen readers will have already clocked that the Artcast team is a trio once more.Join Vikki, Caz and Laura to hear this week's review and if you like what you hear please rate, review and subscribe!If you want to email us, we would love to hear from you: helloartcast@gmail.com And you can follow us on instagram: @theartcast Our wonderful editor Jonny Lennard has also launched his own podcast The Old Boys Book Club. It's not about art, but we highly recommend you give it a listen. Available on all major podcast platforms and you can find them on insta here: @theoldboysbookclub.  Last but not least - thank you to the incredible Nat Witts for our jazzy jingle and Jonny for his amazing editing. 

An entire disused swimming pool has been built on the ground floor of the Whitechapel Gallery in London for the new exhibition from the Scandinavian duo Elmgreen & Dragset. The artists discuss how they have been inspired by the work of David Hockney and Ed Ruscha. Then film critic Mark Eccleston art critic Jacky Klein and artist and former Canadian national competitive swimmer Leanne Shapton reflect on the swimming pool in the arts. Kwame Kwei-Armah opens his first season as the Artistic Director of London's Young Vic with a musical adaptation of Twelfth Night. This reworking of Shakespeare's comedy, which includes soul music and show tunes from songwriter Shaina Taub, has already impressed audiences in New York. Theatre critic Sam Marlowe gives her verdict.Green Noise is the title of poet Jean Sprackland's new collection which encapsulates her concerns with the natural world on which she focuses minutely, as well as the sounds of the street, the wind, and resonating history. She reads her work and talks about writing poems that listen to the green noise of life.Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Edwina Pitman

Two exhibitions for the price of one, and a free display! I went to Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing and Vanessa Winship: And Time Folds at the Barbican, and Killed Negatives: Unseen Images of 1930s America at the Whitechapel Gallery. So much documentary photography. All highly recommended. Lange and Winship run until 2.09.2018 - information and tickets (£13.50/£9 students) here https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/event/dorothea-lange-vanessa-winship Killed Negatives (admission free) runs until 26.08.2018 http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/killed-negatives-unseen-images-1930s-america/ Contact me via theexhibitionist.org, facebook.com/exhibitionistpod and exhibitionistpod@gmail.com, or on twitter @aaprocter to let me know what shows you'd like to see me review - and, as always, please leave a rating and review on iTunes. It helps new listeners find me, and makes me feel loved.

American artist, Mark Dion has a new exhibition on in London: Theatre of the Natural World . Dion is exhilarated by the natural world but tells Anne McElvoy why his art is about how we classify it and what that says about us. Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings opens at Tate St Ives so Anne McElvoy finds out how questions about colour perception and insect behaviour in turn inspired the writer. Literary scholars Claudia Tobin and Rachel Murray discuss. Evolutionary biologists, Menno Schiltuizen and Suzanne Williams, tell Anne about how colour and invertebrate studies in ecosystems old and new are refining our understanding of evolution. Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World at Whitechapel Gallery, London until May 13th Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings at Tate St Ives continues until April 29th. Menno Schiltuizen 'Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution' is out now. Suzanne Williams, Researcher and Head of Invertebrate Division, Natural History Museum, London. Claudia Tobin is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge Rachel Murray, School of Humanities, University of BristolPresenter: Anne McElvoy

Dubbed the "godfather of British pop art", Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) is the subject of an exhibition at London's Whitechapel Gallery. Philip Dodd and his guests art historians Richard Cork and Judith Collins, philosopher Barry Smith and writer Iain Sinclair discuss Paolozzi's legacy. Plus an interview with American philosopher Professor Daniel Dennett Co-Director Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. Eduardo Paolozzi runs at the Whitechapel Gallery in London from 16 February – 14 May 2017Daniel Dennett's latest book is called From Bacteria to Bach and Back.Producer Torquil MacLeod

Does art have to reflect politics and history in South Africa? Is it harder to make art now than it was in the past? As major exhibitions of South African art open in London and Edinburgh Philip Dodd discusses the challenges of creating a visual language for a country with the artists William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland and Gavin Jantjes. Joining them is Professor Stephen Chan from London University's School of Oriental and African Studies, an expert on the country's recent history. South Africa: the art of a nation runs at the British Museum from October 27th - 26th Feb 2017 William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland: Conversations in letters and lines runs at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery 19 November 2016 – 19 February 2017 Vivienne Koorland's Soft Heart is at the Leyden gallery November 2nd -November 26 William Kentridge: Thick Time is at the Whitechapel Gallery in London 21 September 2016 – 15 January 2017 William Kentridge's production of Lulu is on at English National Opera from November 9th - 19th and is being broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in the New Year. Producer: Zahid Warley.