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Founder and Communications Professional Meg Molloy joins brave podcast host Lydia Higton to talk about her route from Margate into the art world and the Working Arts Club, the network she started for people from working class backgrounds in the arts. From the shop at Turner Contemporary to Dulwich Picture Gallery, Studio Voltaire and the commercial galleries of Mayfair, Molloy explains how one cal...

'When I Look in the Mirror, I Don’t See Myself' by Arcadia Molinas Headline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts Club Partner: Daler-Rowney

'I Write Letters of Longing to the Riverbed Archive' by Jess Rowley. Headline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts ClubPartner: Daler-Rowney

Curator and Writer Vittoria Beltrame joins brave podcast Host Lydia Higton to talk about her work at Soho Revue, where she helps run the Revue Residency, and Carta Magna, her platform for works on paper. From Christie’s to Soho Revue, Beltrame explains what three months in a free Soho studio gives an artist and what she looks for in an application. She and Higton cover why paper is a medium and no...

'BST+'1 by Writer Sarah RoigHeadline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts ClubPartner: Daler-Rowney

'Great Fear' by Writer Yasmina Hashemi. Headline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts Club Partner: Daler-Rowney

Friday 12 July 2024 by Writer Kelly Wu. Headline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts ClubPartner: Daler-RowneyThumbnail photo by Maya King-Dabbs.

Pieces from a Skin-Coloured Room: Part 1 by Writer Kevin Omosele. Headline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts ClubPartner: Daler-Rowney

Writer Gabrielle Sicam debuts brave’s online reading series. ‘Two or Three Movies’ by Gabrielle Sicam. Headline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts ClubPartner: Daler-Rowney

Gallerist and Writer Matt Carey-Williams joins brave podcast Host Lydia Higton to talk about thirty years in the art world and the gallery he opened in 2023. From Sotheby's, Gagosian and White Cube to Deputy Chairman at Phillips and Head of Sales at Victoria Miro, Carey-Williams explains why he left the blue chip world for a small space with large ambition. He and Higton cover why his programm...

Go behind the scenes at a catering shift from hell in a major cultural institution. Writer Tom Glover lifts the lid on his time as a waiter at a lavish dinner, where he almost fainted, encountered an outrageous guest, and passed judgement on the whole enterprise. This brave diary is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

Laura González explores the changing landscape of the contemporary art world, discussing patronage, institutional models, and the responsibilities of supporting artists today. Looking across her career, she considers why new structures are needed, how meaningful relationships shape her work, and what it might take to build a more open, sustainable, and ambitious future for the arts. Interviewed b...

Writer and researcher Yasmin Alrabiei joins brave podcast host Lydia Higton to ask what neuroscience can tell us about the way we look at art. Trained in neuroscience and now writing for Dazed, GQ and Atmos. Alrabiei and Higton cover the entropic brain and the richness found where two disciplines meet. Guest: Yasmin Alrabiei Podcast Host: Lydia Higton Headline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts Club Partn...

Nothing in Copenhagen's cultural press resonated with Rubén Palma, so in 2021 he built the alternative himself. Three hundred interviews later he calls Overstandard a set of written documentaries. Interviewed by  ⁠Bella Bullen.⁠ This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

Yehong Mao doesn't trust her memories, and counts that as the gift. Mao dissolves remembered places into colour and light, then builds her paintings to tell a story. Interviewed by  Bella Bullen. This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

New York did not need another gallery, Margot Samel said when she opened hers in 2021, and she has not revised the view, what a city can always use is another perspective. Interviewed by ⁠Bella Bullen.⁠ This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

Never do an unpaid internship unless you really want to. Guest Writer, Tom Glover reflects on his brief stint as an unpaid intern in a commercial gallery in Mayfair. Weaving in other ex-interns experience and a rumination on privilege in the art world, 'King of the Interns' is discursive, witty, and attempting to make a serious point. This brave diary is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word...

Jordan Rubio left medical school at 18 to paint. He backed himself with no support behind him, a rare conversation about self-determination, achievement and what being an artist actually takes. Artist: Jordan Rubio Podcast Host: Lydia Higton Headline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts Club

Walk into any London rare bookshop and you'll find the same canon: an Araki, a Comme des Garçons, an old i-D. Somewhere in the last few years, the book became the coolest object in fashion and art. Even Dua Lipa opened a library. As the founder of Library Mothership, artist Athena Mothership rides this new wave, but also keeps asking: how did we get here? A new piece for brave Projects on how book...

Inspiration, for Jonathan Schofield, is a word artists should never reach for, if you are properly awake to the world it is already in you, all of the time. What is left is the daily habit of looking, and the rule that a painting which holds no surprise for its own maker has not yet worked. Interviewed by Bella Bullen. This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the perso...

Yisi Li treats a room as a psychological instrument, tuning scale, lighting and proximity until the architecture carries as much feeling as the work inside it. She rarely knows the full checklist until a fortnight before installation, and counts that suspense as half the pleasure. For The Pliable Wall she took a chapel standing since 1848 and set Pre-Columbian objects talking to the present. Inter...

Ozziline moves between performance, writing and photography as different registers of honesty, work rooted in an early, unwanted sexualisation that shaped her fascination with looking and desire. Increasing online censorship has pushed her from images toward writing and now print, while she resists fixed definitions of art and artist. Interviewed by  Bella Bullen. This brave dialogue is read aloud...

Authenticity, care, and experimentation sit at the centre of Anna Lauree's practice. Discussing abstraction, creative freedom, and the value of genuine relationships, she considers how artists can remain connected to their work while navigating the expectations of the contemporary art world. Interviewed by  Bella Bullen. This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the per...

Justine Do Espirito Santo joins Victoria Comstock-Kershaw to talk about her path through the art industry and ‘Spare Room’, the exhibition project she co-founded in Paris with Anna Frera. Do Espirito Santo reflects on choosing a domestic space over a lease, the economies of subsistence the name carries, and how the real estate market shapes what galleries and project spaces can afford to risk. Fro...

In this special Spanish edition of the brave Podcast, guest host, Elena Rueda Ruiz de Austri speaks with artist Sebastián Espejo about his evolving painting practice, the transformative role of critique, and the relationship between material, memory, and time. Reflecting on his move from Chile to London, Espejo discusses how his experience at Turps reshaped his approach to painting, leading him to...