Art's Trojan Horse

Send a text Rupert Loydell is a writer, publisher and artist, and here with Russell Kirk is a musician. This 1986 original was featured on a cassette album 'Playing Music to an Empty Room' and released by Zeal SS tapes. Rupert's publishing can be accessed via Stride Magazine and Stride Books.

Send a text Another short poem, exploring my home made boom tube.

Send a text As teenagers in the late 1960s we'd dare ourselves to enter this abandoned farm house: table set for breakfast, shirt on the ironing board and the door open...

Send a text This podcast is a rededication to my creative output. Here is a short poem accompanied by auto-harp. Alongside a back catalogue, there will be new work too.  Rupert Mallin

Send a text A shorter podcast this week as I search for the answer to the question: what is poetry? I think I've found the answer, but will you agree? 

Send a text This twenty minute podcast features a reading of the opening of a long poem, Zero, while Rupert also tries to define poetry in his piece, What is Poetry? (Part 2)

Send a text Here are eight short poems, covered in flowers. And we ask: What is Poetry? Starting out with prosody (but what on earth is that?)

Send a text A walk up Magdalen Street, Norwich Suffolk childhood memories Art from nothing

Send a text We're going weekly! Every Tuesday evening at 8pm there will be a new podcast on Art and Life. In this first Tuesday edition: Against AI in Art, The Black Box Experimental Theatre 1965-71 and the first of several art school recollections.

Send a text Helen Wells is a prolific performance artist. Her exhibitions and performances in Norwich and beyond attract large audiences. We spoke in St Mary's Works in May where her latest work 'Fast SLOOOOW Fashion' was on display - performance, films, clothes, paintings, prints and props!

Send a text This is a shortened edition as there's been a virus in the family! This months podcast focuses on two exhibitions in Norwich this month. Normal service will be resumed in June!

Send a text This month's edition features the music of Mark C. Sargeant and the art/music improvisation group Plank.

Send a text Welcome to the March edition of the Collective’s Podcast.  This month we feature an interview with artist Alexander Costello, whose exhibition ‘It’s not about the thing, It’s about all of it’ is on at the Outpost Gallery, Norwich, until March 16. A discussion around the theme of Alexander’s exhibition ensued at the Art Depot, which led Nicola to reflect on  Ai Weiwei's ‘Sunflower...

Send a text Featured artist Paul Levy – an interview on this forthcoming exhibition and reflections on his art practice. Meanwhile, Mary Littlefield reviews an important book on 1930s Art, pertinent in today’s world. And amidst the sounds of the collective drawing, a walrus pops up! Do join us for our March 1 podcast. Like nature the artists will be in bloom!

Send a text Welcome and a happy new year to one and all. In this holiday edition we kick off with a review of Martin Battye’s ‘Small Paintings,’ the Beer Mat Series, PrimeYarc, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth. Then there’s Paul Levy who introduces Tiny Scores; followed by an interview with David Lester about his forthcoming dramatic production at The Garage in January; Mary Littlefield enthuses about...

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Send a text Welcome to the first Collective Podcast The Art Depot NR3, Norwich featuring ‘the sound of art’ This is a pilot for a monthly podcast to be broadcast on the first day of each month at midday. Running time of this episode is just over 18 minutes, though we aim to build up a magazine of 30 to 40 minutes per month. This episode features artist Dave Cassell talking about his first solo exh...

Send a text A search for a riotous exhibition or its spirit took me to Gustave Courbet in the 19th Century and a little publicised show of kinetic art in Amsterdam in 1961.

Send a text This first of seven talks on the arts looks at the rise and demise of Community Arts,

Send a text Half scripted, half improvised, the poet faces interrogation at the local cop shop. Was his poem in Pix 6 stolen and did anyone read Pix 6? Are all the poet's poems stolen anyway? And if he has stolen them, did he not then murder them? This is a Crime Busters fly-on-the-wall interrogation, not for the faint hearted.

Send a text The picture restorer’s invoice Under honeysuckle sprays, a cinder path  runs up to the barn and around its brick footings to a thick archway of clipped privet, through which  lies the picture restorer’s door. He stands mixing  pigments with linseed oil, cleans brushes with turps and stares intently at the painting before him. A woman in rags looks up from the canvas  to feet she has te...

Send a text Stable Press, Haverhill Poetry Group, Ipswich Poetry Workshop and the Jubilee... with a poem, The Corn Dolly dole queue blues,' to round it off.

Send a text From skimming the pit in the meat factory to riding the Lansing Bagnall across the factory floor, while trying to hang on to a dream.

Send a text Back from Liverpool I returned to education, briefly, but was I born to tip my cap or was I a fire raiser after all?

Send a text Called back to Liverpool from Clare, Suffolk, to help make a film. Here too is 'Something in the Air,' the Woodside Ferry and the reality of poverty in the city.