Art Cast

Art Cast Series 3 Episode 3: Ryan Gander   Art Cast is a podcast series of informal discussions with professional artists and designers, presented by Matt Gee, Programme Area Manager of Fine Art, joined by students from Morley College London - Chelsea Centre.   For this episode Matt is joined by artist, Ryan Gander who identifies as "a sort of neo-conceptualist, Proper-'Gander'-ist, amateur philos...

Art Cast Series 3 Episode 2: Martin Parr   Welcome to Art Cast Season 3. Art Cast is presented by Matt Gee, Programme Area Manager of Fine Art, at the Chelsea Centre at Morley College London.   In this episode Matt and students are joined by British documentary photographer and photojournalist Martin Parr.   Martin Parr’s photography intimately documents modern life, in particular the social class...

Welcome to Art Cast Season 3. Art Cast is presented by Matt Gee, Programme Area Manager of Fine Art, at the Chelsea Centre at Morley College London. We are very excited to welcome Polly Morgan to open our third series. I am joined by students Inigo Farah from our Fashion Diploma and Evelina Yakoleva, from our HE Access to Creative Industries and we delve in to a wide range of topics including taxi...

The guest for this episode is David Shrigley . David works across drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, animation, and print. He publishes books, produces music, occasionally designs tattoos and creates all manner of other paraphernalia. David is one of those unique artists, like Andy Warhol or Keith Haring, who is recognised within the art world but whose reach extends far beyo...

The guest for this episode is street artist Hera. Born in Germany, Jasmin Siddiqui is known in the street art world as Hera, and is one part of the collaborative pair, Herakut.    Hera creates mixed media work on huge murals entwined with poetic text that is poignant and distinct in terms of the graffiti writing style. She looks into themes such as political injustice and social awareness. The wor...

The guest for this episode is Chris Cawkwell. Chris work explores consumer culture within a capitalist framework; utilising contemporary technologies, performative and interactive elements to critique the social systems and processes which operate around us, and highlight the rate at which products are consumed and commodified.   Cawkwell graduated with a masters in Fine Art from Wimbledon College...

The guest for this episode is Soraya Maquez, otherwise known in the world of street art and graffiti writing as Indie 184.   Indie was originally born in Puerto Rico and is of Dominican descent before being raised in New York. An American street artist who has been active for two decades who is coming to us from New York. She predominantly focuses on feminine icons mixed with various signifiers su...

Art Cast is a podcast usually presented by Matt Gee, artist and Subject Leader for Fine Art at the Chelsea Centre, Morley College. But today it will be presented by HNC Fine Art student Phoebe Ingleby and Fine Art Foundation student Barbara Cserny.   The guest for this podcast is Jeremy Deller. Jeremy is a conceptual artist who works across mediums with a huge emphasis on collaboration. In 1997, h...

The guest for this episode is Peter Kennard. Peter is currently professor of Political Art at the Royal College of Art. He is most renowned for his iconic photomontages comprising of various motifs such as missiles, gas masks,  bombs and images of earth. He created work for the posters used by the Campain for Nuclear Disarment (otherwise known as the CND) used on campaigns in the 1970s and 80s. Th...

For this episode Matt is delighted to welcome Morley College London alumni Hannah Uzor, who completed her studies last year.  Hannah is currently studying her MA at the Slade in London after winning the Milein Cosman scholarship for drawing.  Hannah was born in Zambia but spent a few years in the UK while her father was studying in the UK and then moved back to Zambia to complete her Primary and S...

The guest for this episode is Helen Kirkum , a London based designer who makes handmade one-off bespoke trainers from waste material. The pieces are tactile and sculptural, and very distinct with their individual features that show an aesthetic of cut n paste or a mash up where logos and specific forms are teased out from the surface.   Helen went to the Royal College of Art where she studied MA f...

The guest for this episode is Barry Reigate. Barry is predominantly a painter, but also makes sculptures. There are various themes explored including desire and horror. He combines Graphic Design techniques with looser and more expressionistic styles, encompassing a range of Modern Art and Cartoon motives mashed up in to one image, which are sometimes presented on three metre canvases.   Reigate h...

This episode was recorded in  October 2021 before the untimely passing of Morley Radio's close friend and highly respected artist Mira Calix.  Mira Calix was a multi award winning artist and composer signed to Warp Records, where she released her latest LP (absent origin) on November 5th, 2021.   Mira was known for producing predominantly electronic music, but over the past two decades incorporate...

The guest for this episode is Russell Shaw Higgs. Russell was born in Oswestry Army Camp. Based predominantly in London, Russell has a long history as being an artist but also a political activist. In the late 80’s he was engaged as a frontline civil disobedience activist with campaigns such as ACT-UP and Outrage. Act up was a political group working together to end the AIDS pandemic, and continue...

The guest of this episode is Andy Holden. Andy is a mixed media artist. Works are formed using video, ceramics, printmaking, painting, animation, and most notably, installations encompassing all of the above. He came to national attention with his exhibition ‘Art Now: Andy Holden’ (2010) at TATE Britain, for which he exhibited ‘Pyramid Piece’, an enormous knitted boulder based on piece of pyramid...

The last guest for this series is Susan Collis, alumni of Morley College London, Chelsea Centre for the Creative Industries (formerly known as Kensington and Chelsea College). Susan studied under Peter Stanley.   Susan creates extremely carefully crafted objects. These objects consist of a wide range of valuable and seductive materials. They tend to imitate the mundane and everyday spillages, drip...

The guest for this episode is Goldie. Goldie initially gain exposure as a graffiti artist in the UK and New York before going on to be one of the pioneers of drum and bass, co-founding the label Metalheadz. He currently curates the Aurum Gallery of contemporary, urban and street art.

The guest for this episode is street artist Fin DAC. Through his work Fin DAC explores themes related to female emancipation and empowerment, while revealing their sensuality and sensitivity at the same time. The artist’s artwork aims to tackle racial and sexual stereotypes that surround women while readjusting the male gaze and former colonialist attitudes surrounding the Eastern experience.   Fi...

The guest for this episode is Miami-based muralist Douglas Hoekzema, aka Hoxxoh. Hoxxoh attempts to show us a different way of viewing time through a means of exploring its natural fabric. His work creates a new foundation and approach to evaluating and appreciating time. The oscillation of the pendulum paints time through gravity’s natural pull. Expressing how we can be pulled in one direction, w...

The guest for this episode is Anne Ryan . Anne will be talking to our Fine art students at Morley College London. Anne recently had a solo show open last year at Hastings Contemporary.   To quote from Hastings Contemporary, “For Earthly Delites, Ryan created a new installation occupying the entirety of Hasting Contemporary’s main ground floor gallery space. Taking inspiration from Hieronymous Bosc...

The guest for this episode is Matthew Burrows MBE. Matthew will be talking to our HE students about his work. Matthew has run several artist support initiatives over the years including an artist mentor scheme.

The guest for this first episode is Susie Olczak, renowned artist and educator who has been commissioned for numerous public sculpture projects. Susie also provides exciting and engaging workshops on utilising materials around the house to create sophisticated sculptures and prints with minimal means.