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In a BANG ON very special episode, we chat with Gina Warburton, Curator at The Whitaker Museum, straight from the STASHED exhibition space. STASHED presents the personal art collection of Short Supply. As long as they’ve been artists, they’ve been collectors. Open: 15th November - 23rd February 2025 (Wed - Sun 10am - 4pm, Thurs 10am - 8pm) The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery Whitaker Park, Hasli...

Episode 12 - Our Season 2 finale. We speak to Hetain Patel, a prolific full-time artist with a diverse 20 year career. We chat about his experiences over the last 20 years, what motivated him to just keep making... and it would be criminal if we didn't talk a litte bit about Spiderman. Motivational, uplifting and always real, we hope you enjoy this bumper finale episode of BANG ON! Hetain Patel is...

Research and development, what the hell is all that about? We chat about the art of research, remembering our time at uni and what research means for us now. Whether you went to uni or not yourself, we explore how to make it easy, how to pick it up again when you feel lost and all the bits in between! So, search BANG ON in your streaming app to listen, like, follow, and subscribe. Don’t forget to...

A crucial pillar of the art world… a good. old. moan.  This week we discuss complaining…Where does it help, and where does it hurt us in developing an art career? Are the memes all right? Can the solidarity of a good moan create the changes we want to see? This and more! So, search BANG ON in your streaming app to listen, like, follow, and subscribe. Don’t forget to leave us a review! It really he...

*Currently pepping myself up to write the copy for today's episode* Let writing into your life... We chat with Laura Robertson, a working-class art critic, writer, editor and award-winning lecturer based in Liverpool, represented by United Agents, London.  She co-founded  The Double Negative  online arts magazine with Mike Pinnington in 2011, and has been commissioning and platforming under-th...

We came, we went, we got the t-shirt... this week is all about arts education! Taking a step back from the deep of the art world, we have a think about our journey before we got there, and discuss education. The good, the bad, the ugly. What were our favourite moments, what are we frustrated that we didn't learn, and what do we want future students to take from our experience? This and more! S...

What is participatory art really about? We chat with Grace Collins (they/them), an artist and artworker. They create art with other people, support creative activity, ask lots of questions and listen to people’s answers. With a bit of luck this means creating spaces for justice, challenging and expanding learned ideas of what the world is allowed to look like. Grace tells us about their practice,...

When opportunity knocks, bloody well open the door! This week is all about networking and opportunities, and in this chat, we don't think you will have heard it all before! These are two intertwinign topics that are easily the second most things we get asked about at events and online. If finding opportunities and harnessing the power of a network to kick your career into surprising action has...

Rejection, the least talked about thing in the art world. We'd better get on with it and have a chat then, eh? Welcome back to BANG ON! This is Season 2, and we're kicking it off with the thing we get requests to talk about the most - rejection! It's something we all face, and yet stigma and shame often keep us from finding our way through it and supporting eachother. Let's go! So,...

Painting... but knitted!? We chat all things painting with winner of the John Moores Painting Prize Lady Grantchester Award 2023, Emma Roche. We chatted about stereotypes, trying to fit into other people's expectations of your career path, alternative education, worklife balance, being an artist and a parent - this episode is absolutely stacked with goodness!! So, search BANG ON in your stream...

Half a teaspoon of delusion, a shot of courage and a quart of creativity to chase... We chat with Dr Sunshine Wong, artworker, researcher and co-director (programme) of Bloc Projects in Sheffield. We chatted about artist-led practice, what that means, how artists can dive into this world whilst taking care of themselves, where are the challenges and where is the joy, and we round it all off with a...

You might say that this artist is presenting a new generation of Pop Art... We chat with Jan Erichsen, a Norwegian contemporary artist most well-known for his "destruction videos" online. The videos most commonly depict elaborate methods of popping balloons, but other recurring themes include crushing dry pasta and taco shells, destroying household items, and wearing bizarre "hats&q...

Don't they say an artist by any other name would smell as sweet? Either way, what does it mean to have an artistic identity? Can you be considered a professional without your practice having a 'recognisable' image? How much can we push the 'rules' that exist around making art to sell, and developing a career in the industry? This and more to come! So, search BANG ON in your str...

SEASON 2 BABY! We're back! Did you miss us? They let us back in the studio, and there is no messin' about this season. Well, maybe a little bit... Expect BIGGER QUESTIONS, BIGGER ANSWERS, BIGGER GUESTS and BIGGER SHENANIGANS! Search BANG ON in your streaming app to listen, like, follow, and subscribe. You can also check us out on social media @shortsupplymcr. Like what you heard today? Lea...

There's a wurm at the bottom of the garden and we got wiggly at the largest sculpture park in Europe. We chat about bodies, bums and bloody tomfoolery at one of our favourite places to see art AND one of our favourite artists. Aren't we lucky baby duckies. Enjoy! Here's the craic, make some time to visit this, it's ace: Erwin Wurm: Trap of the Truth Sat 10 Jun 2023 – Sun 28 Apr 202...

Lifting stress and learning those slick tricks - it's time to put the art in a room! Episode 4 - We're building some momentum now, it's about time we started thinking about how the art is going to look in the room! This episode we talk to Ann Bukantas, former Head of Fine Art at National Museums Liverpool, former Curator of Ferens Art Gallery in Hull and Curator of many modern and cont...

We have now entered a period of non-time. The norms of the before or future time do not apply here. Nobody knows what day it is, what’s expected of them, what life was like before. There’s only now, and who honestly wants to hear about yet another exhibition? So, we took ourselves to the most wholesome bookshop and give you something to listen to while cosied up by the fireplace, whether IRL or vi...

This week we are SICK. Coughing, spluttering, the works. So, as we're not on top form, we've whipped up a blooper reel for you, remembering when our voices were fresh ~ Enjoy and we can't wait to get back to the next exhibition pub chat soon! 🎙 We’re Short Supply and this is BANG ON THE MOVE - the series for our podcast BANG ON where we visit a show and invite you to the pub chat after...

FREEZE! We head down to the 20th anniversary exhibition of Frieze Art Fair and buy them out of quiche lorraines. Chaos and hot takes ensued. Enjoy! Here's the lowdown: Frieze Art Fair   is an annual  contemporary   art fair  first held in 2003 in  London 's  Regent's Park . Developed by the founders of the contemporary art magazine  Frieze , the fair has since expanded to include editi...

Properly weird performance at Southbank Centre and we loved every second. Peeling potatoes, chucking nails, melting ice, cutting plasterboard, the works. We chat meeting the big M herself and what we found in the nooks and crannies of the Southbank. Bellissimo!  Here's what we saw: Marina Abramović Institute Takeover The entire Queen Elizabeth Hall – backstage and all – transforms into the set...

We've got more fringe love in this episode than Elvis Presley's keks. We share our thoughts on some of the shows we managed to see, the good the bad and the bonkers! Here's all the productions we saw! 99 Red Hot Kitties & A Cockatoo - https://www.facebook.com/redhotkitty/ Did you eat? - https://www.seoulfulproductions.org/ Cara Connors: Straight for Pay - https://caraconnors.com/ B...

We're back! Did you miss us? This is a quick update to let you know the good news, BANG ON Season 2 is coming! AND to tide you over, we're starting a new series called BANG ON THE MOVE! In this series, we are out of the studio, visiting exhibitions and events across the UK, and inviting you to the pub chat afterwards, letting you know what we make of them! We'll be dropping a new episo...

You will be successful and you will be rejected. It's time to talk cold hard cash! Episode 6 - Our Season 1 finale. We've had the idea, made the art, found a space to show it, made it look fantastic in the room and found an audience for it, now - how do we get paid? We wrap the season with Julie Lomax, CEO of a-n The Artists Information Company. Julie was previously Director of Development...

What's in a name? That which we call a sluice by any other name would smell just as sweet... Episode 5 - So, it seems we’ve got a show - who's coming to have a look then? We chat with Karl England, an artist, curator, organiser and co-founder of Sluice, a hybrid platform which has been an art fair, an expo, a biennial, a gallery, a magazine and an online platform working exclusively with a...

Space cadets, on the hunt for a room that we can put the art in! Episode 3 - It's finally time to tackle one of the triplets (time / space / money). We chat with Chi Emecheta, an artist, producer and co-director of Longsight Art Space about diet gentrification, making space for your work, yourself and your peers. What kind of space is available and how do we navigate a career without it? Tune...