Garageland Salon

A needle found whilst out walking is the cultural object of this episode's guest, Essex-based artist Selena Chandler. Her unique approach to her artmaking and materials brings a new perspective to this season's examination of enchantment.  Selena is a trained basket maker and has a multidisciplinary practice that draws on heritage craft skills and includes sculpture, performance and community proj...

The latest episode in our Enchantment season features artist and educator Katherine Tulloh. Katherine studied painting at Chelsea College of Art and Literature at University of Cambridge and this is reflected in her practice. Katherine's most recent solo exhibition For the Ravers was held at William Blake House, London in 2024. In 2025 Katherine curated Nobodaddy at Findings Gallery, London E5, an...

The third episode in our Enchantment season features artist and educator Rosemary Cronin. Rosemary's latest project is Play Studio: Dream Worlds at Tate Britain which is open until June 2025 (check Tate website for opening times). Rose's cultural artefact is an issue of Prediction magazine from 1974 which she keeps on her bedside table. We talk about Ithel Colquhoun, The College of Psychic Studies...

The second episode in our Enchantment season features artist Grant Foster whose solo show, Home to My Teenage Bedroom has just opened at the Phoenix Art Space in Brighton (and runs until 13 April 2025).  Grant's cultural artefact is a 'strange fossil' which he found on a beach while on holiday in the Quantocks in the west of England. We talk about animals, time, Philip Guston, Mike Kelley, Mike Ne...

We recorded this episode, the first in our new Enchantment season, live at Red Lion Books in Colchester as part of Sluice [Vernacular] - the latest interation of the artist led organisation's expo. Our guest for the episode is Hayley Lock, an artist whose interests lie in the occult and its intersection with female otherness. Her chosen cultural artifact is a mystical mirror, reputedly  owned by E...

Cathy Lomax and Jennifer Caroline Campbell talk to Mississippi born actor/director Jaclyn Bethany about Tennessee Williams' play, The Glass Menagerie.  This is the latest episode in our Biography series – The Glass Menagerie is inspired by Williams own life and he based the narrator, Tom, on himself. We discuss Jaclyn's experiences of playing Laura (a character inspired by Williams' sister Rose),...

Cathy Lomax and Jennifer Caroline Campbell talk to writer and artist Jennifer Higgie about her most recent book The Other Side: A Journey into Women Art and the Spirit World.  This is the latest episode in our Biography series and we discuss the way the book is structured around elements of memoir. The conversation takes in The Dark Monarch, weaving, Emily Kam Kngwarray, Georgiana Houghton, conspi...

For episode five of our first season we talk to artist Luke Burton.  Our discussion is centred on Luke's chosen cultural artefact, the 2004 Philip Guston retrospective at the Royal Academy, an exhibition he saw as a student at Chelsea College of Art, which alongside the 2023-24 Guston show at Tate Modern, bookends Luke's career as an artist. Guston is of course a hugely influential painter and the...

For episode four artist Kathy Bailey selects a significant episode of Star Trek for us to talk about. 'Rejoined' was first aired in 1995 and features one of the first lesbian kisses on mainstream television. Kathy tells us about the importance of queer representation on mainstream television and the resulting discussion takes in fandom, feminine multiplicity, science fiction, collecting and the pa...

In episode three we talk to Jerome , a British artist raised in London to a Grenadian family, who is interested in the language of inner-city London. Jerome has chosen the 2018 song and video  Praise the Lord (Da Shine) by American rapper ASAP Rocky featuring vocals and sole production from English rapper Skepta, as his biography related, cultural artefact. We chat to Jerome about community, hip h...

For episode two of our Biography season we are joined by artist Henni Alftan who has chosen the 1978 Swedish-made absurdist comedy Picassos äventyr ( The Adventures of Picasso ) as her cultural artefact – a film she watched on repeat as a child. Our discussion takes in difficult men, stretching the truth, humorous paintings, silent comedy and Hitchcock's close-ups.  

For episode one of our Biography season we are joined by artist Alex Michon to talk about punk credentials, the Danny Boyle directed series  Pistol and biopics, biographies and authenticity more generally. We end with our first Salon exclusive, excerpts from Michon's 1976 punk diary.