ARTiculate

Rebecca is an artist based in Essex and East London. Rebecca is known for work that draws on a mixture of slapstick and deadpan comedy and the absurd. She is interested in how awkwardness can invite empathy, and how a fallible, open subject could suggest a resistant position against powerful systems. Her work responds to landscapes, including wild, rural and urban, from a feminist perspective. She...

Hoa Dung Clerget is a French Vietnamese artist with a multi disciplinary practise. Transforming every day objects into vessels of memory, meaning and emotion, her work reflects a different temporal experience. Having grown up in France in a Vietnamese family, Hoa Dung uses the family traditions embodied in domestic objects to construct her artistic language. It allows her to speak about cultural t...

Episode 3 of Season 2 of ARTiculate. I continue to talk to remarkable artists who inspire me in their pursuit of finding their authentic voice within their practise. In a time when it is dangerous to touch our friends, the sensitive touch embodied in a good painting is a genuine gift. They embody something of the human intelligence that made them. They are the products of care embedded in a surfac...

Episode 2 of Season 2 of ARTiculate my podcast series sharing my conversations with artists from a variety of backgrounds and histories. It is a way of keeping myself engaged in these difficult times and I hope it can brighten up your day listening to some of these very interesting people. I have the pleasure of presenting the lovely Louisa Loakes a textile artist quietly doing some really beautif...

Nimmi is an artist and a Senior Cognitive Behaviour Therapist based in London who helps people suffering from anxiety stress and depression. Nimmi did her D Phil from Oxford university in the 80s after winning a Commonwealth Staff Fellowship while teaching in India. Nimmi then went on to do her masters in fine art form the Wimbledon college of art in 2019. Nimmi has exhibited widely with group and...

Episode 21 of ARTiculate presents Natasha Jeyasingh. Natasha is a Mumbai based art advisor and founder of Carpe Arte in India. It is a a platform that encourages people to engage with and support contemporary art. Through her projects, she hopes to take the contemporary art and design scene to a wider audience through pop-up exhibitions, interactive projects and dialogues around the subject. The p...

Ravista is a bilingual storyteller & visual communicator from New Delhi. She did her BFA in Graphic Design and Comparative Literature and Creative Writing from the Rhode Island School of Design. As a designer her practice lies in the interdisciplinary fields of graphic design, photography, filmmaking, writing & research. According to her design is one of the lenses that allows for clarifications i...

Laura Wilson is a multidisciplinary artist who’s practise sits in the intersection between archeology anthropology and history. She is interested in how history is carried through millennia through everyday materials, trades and craftsmanship. She works with specialists to develop sculptural and performative works that amplify the relationship between materiality, memory and knowledge. and her int...

In this episode I talk to the wonderful Almuth Tebbenhoff. Almuth is a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and was elected as its vice president last year. She has exhibited widely in Britain and Europe and in 2009 she created the ‘Star of London’ award for the British Film Institute Film Festival and in 2013 curated the annual sculpture exhibition at the University of Leicester among...

Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker. She has published two books Rayner Heppenstall: A Critical Study and Trans; A memoir. Trans: a memoir is a log of her experiences as a person growing up in a time and society that was hostile to even to question ones’s gender that is assigned at birth and her gender change surgery. This was made into a landmark series in the Guardian called ‘A transgender...

Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Sara Byers is a London based artist, musician and museum educator.  Her practice can best be described as based on the ‘truth to materials’ tenet of modern architecture, which holds that any material should be used where it is most appropriate and that its nature should not be hidden, disguised, or concealed.  From reclaimed and recycled material, to food...

In this episode I speak with young Khursheed Nariman who is an amazingly talented artist based in New Delhi. Khursheed started off as a student of political science and won many awards in her leadership roles in college but then moved to art and quickly made a mark again in Delhi’s art circles. She has apprenticed with well known artists and artisans across India and has been part of many shows in...

In today’s episode I will be talking with the lovely Louise Grundy. Louise is an artist entrepreneur social worker and educator all in one. She works primarily in sculpture, creating layered paper portraits inspired by archival material and family history. Louise explores words, records stories behind both famous and not-so-famous faces and is well known for her Ancestry Heads project, a series of...

In Episode 13 I speak with Jo Vickery who just completed her stint as the International director of Russian Art at Sotheby’s. Jo has been with Sotheby’s for over two decades and is on the cusp of starting her own Art Advisory venture which will launch in 2021. In this episode we talk about made Jo choose the art industry as a career after studying languages in her graduation. Her beginnings at Sot...

In this episode I speak with Jelili Atiku is one of Nigeria’s most well known and award winning performance artists who’s practise sits in the intersection between politics social justice and climate change. He is admired for his fantastically elaborate performances that are energetic full of imagery, costumes and movement that reflect Nigeria’s rich heritage and history. Through drawing, installa...

In this episode I speak with Liam Ashley Clark a multidimensional artist who works in drawing painting photography collage making and sculpture. Liam’s work has its roots in skateboarding, street art and folk art but is also influenced by contemporary and historic art practises. His works across mediums contain a combination of image and text , use of colour and pattern with an injection of irony...

Next episode I talk to Deepa Khanna Sobti, a Singapore based artist of Indian origin. She is renowned for her abstract expressionist works that are accompanied by original poems. Deepa paints solely with a palette knife to give her paintings a gestural feel that reminds us of Action Art. She has achieved international renown with multiple solo and group exhibitions and has won the Royal Arts Prize...

Next episode I talk to Nour Abdul Salam a textile designer from Lebanon. Nour talks about what made him gravitate towards textile designing from Interior Architecture, researching of ideas from the sublime to the mundane, his unique creations integrating sustainable initiatives, bringing his heritage and culture in his work and dealing with the quarantine with a one of a kind creation.

My next episode features Catherine Leo the intrepid young artist using art as a way of going into a trance and folding into herself. Catherine talks about her travels in India, her plans with art therapy and ends with promising to do another podcast to continue with her endless ideas about art and wellness.

Next episode I speak with Antonis Sideras a performance and video artist based in London. Antonis talks about his practise and art activism for gay and queer rights, his ambivalence towards gay pride, RuPaul, and his alter ego character Queero. ARTiculate is a podcast that aims to provide a platform for student artists to express themselves and ultimately build connections with other artists acros...

Next episode I talk to the ebullient Matrika Bhandari who is pursuing her MA in Textiles at the RCA. We talk about her experiences with making bespoke designs with master weavers in Rajasthan and her current project with sustainable fabrics and making designs for masks in the lockdown. ARTiculate is a podcast that aims to provide a platform for student artists to express themselves and ultimately...

Next episode I speak with Jeremy Ip an artist based in HongKong.

ARTiculate is a podcast that interviews art students from all across the world to build a connection through ideas, inspirations and experiences. Today I talk to Shameen Arshad who is based in Islamabad in Pakistan.

I talk to the truly inspiring Ania Sabet. Ania is a medical doctor working at the St Thomas hospital London in Accidents and Emergencies. She is also pursuing a full time Masters in Sculpture the Royal College of Art London. We talk about her straddling two careers, her mentors, her plans post lockdown. ARTiculate is a podcast that aims to provide a platform for student artists to express themselv...