Into the Paint

Seyhr Qayum is a Kansas City-based multidisciplinary artist and is currently an AICAD Post-graduate Teaching Fellow at the Kansas City Art Institute, and studio resident at Charlotte Street, Kansas City, MO. Seyhr and Anthony first crossed paths during the art-school-Zoom-days of the pandemic and frequently get to catch up IRL in London. In this episode Anthony and Seyhr talk about her recent exhi...

From 8-9 June, Into the Paint set up shop at the inaugural Inventory Art Book Fair at Cromwell Place in London. During those two days Anthony spoke to exhibitors, curators, and publishers about their work and interests. Inventory Art Book Fair described itself as "a book market, reading room and programme of events, Inventory foregrounds interdisciplinary, collaborative and non-profit forms of pub...

From 8-9 June, Into the Paint set up shop at the inaugural Inventory Art Book Fair at Cromwell Place in London. During those two days Anthony spoke to exhibitors, curators, and publishers about their work and interests. Inventory Art Book Fair described itself as "a book market, reading room and programme of events, Inventory foregrounds interdisciplinary, collaborative and non-profit forms of pub...

Elettra Giunta and Adam Othman are a creative duo whose 2023 film To Hold My Love has been creating waves in the dance and cinema world. The two met by chance on a music video shoot and as they discuss with Anthony, connected creatively to capture choreography on film. Elettra is an Italian choreographer, movement director and producer based in London. She works across a range of sectors from...

Shannon Kurlander is a writer, actor and creates performances which incorporate theatrical elements and mixed media. She recently premiered her latest show The Project at Jack Studio Theatre in Brockley, South London. The second play of hers to take on a format of storytelling which positions Shannon as both writer and performer, The Project follows Shannon's 2022 piece Visiting Hours. Recently An...

In her own words, Hadar Cohen describes herself as an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist whose work focuses on multi-religious spirituality, politics, social issues, and community building. She is the founder of Malchut and maintains a practice which includes performance and teaching informed by her family's traditions. Hadar is a 10th-generation Jerusalemite with roots also in Syria, Kurdista...

Amber Pinkerton describes herself as a photographic, moving image and conceptual artist. Based in London and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, Amber's work has been included in exhibitions such as The New Black Vanguard curated by Antwaun Sargent, and her photography regularly appears in publications such as Dazed, i-D, and Vanity Fair just to name a few. Amber and Anthony first connected over her ongo...

Alix Lambert's work spans multiple media and disciplines. From documentary filmmaking to boxing, Alix has spent the majority of her career trying to understand strange and beautiful aspects of human behaviour. Anthony first encountered her work while flipping through the 1993 Venice Biennale catalogue; feeling a strange sense of affinity for the black & white image of Alix punching a speed-bag...

Into The Paint's 10th episode! Back in October 2023, Anthony and Fabio chewed the fat for a few hours. Together they thought through Fabio's artistic trajectory from his origins in working in illustration, fashion design and painting to gigging non-stop as a DJ. Together they unpack the ethos surrounding several subcultures including techno and Northern Soul, reminisce about the glory days of DIY...

Back in November, Into the Paint conducted a house-call in North London with a then-pregnant Erin Green. Erin is a makeup artist by trade and an artist through-and-through. Aside from Erin's professional work for major brands and magazines, she has always maintained personal projects on the side - these form of self expression help Erin to equalise and balance out some of her more commercial work....

Anthony and Manu Printster met in New York City in 2013 by chance at the Affordable Art Fair. Ever since then the two have maintained a bond over printmaking and culture, having collaborated several times from afar. On this episode Anthony met up with Manu Printster in his home town of Mexico City to talk about his recent work with OMG Press . As they try to account for time in between encounters,...

From 25-26 November, Into the Paint set up shop at Bound Art Book Fair at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester UK. During those two days Anthony spoke to exhibitors, curators, visitors and publishers about their work and practice. This episode is the second of two volumes, representing the second day of the book fair with interviews with Rafael Melendez, Richard Phoenix, Tamsin Green, and Jane...

From 25-26 November, Into the Paint set up shop at Bound Art Book Fair at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester UK. During those two days Anthony spoke to exhibitors, curators, visitors and publishers about their work and practice. This episode is the first of two volumes, representing the first day of the book fair with interviews with Amy Gough, Chris Neophytou, Molly Maltman, and Tommy Stewar...

In this episode of Into the Paint, Anthony sits down with New Contemporaries Director, Kiera Blakey. Anthony and Kiera ponder the potential and limitations of what art can do and ask the big questions around who gets to participate in the art world. Considering public art, art school models and art worlds outside of the London, Kiera and Anthony address challenges that arts professional face, but...

On this episode of Into the Paint, Anthony talks to Morley House, an artist duo based in London. This collaboration between Dinara Asadulina and Christos Kakouros, (which some might say started at a Harry Potter themed dinner while at Cambridge University) results in art works that are at the intersection of visual art and literature. Anthony and Morley House discuss topics ranging from post-Sovie...

In the third episode of Into the Paint Anthony interviews artist and "situational interactivist" Harry Bix. Anthony asks Harry about his practice in performance and interactive media, his influences which range from football to hip-hop and landscape architecture, and the emergence of his project East Anglia Records. Theme music by Harry Bix. Recorded at the AND Publishing studio in Bethnal Green,...

In Episode 2 of Into the Paint, Anthony interviews musician Nick Hinman; vocalist and songwriter of the UK-based project Fast Money Music (FMM). Nick talks to Anthony about his time in New York & Los Angeles, building several bands, and his songwriting process. Along with discussions about motorcycle licenses, meeting your idols, and upcoming releases, Nick and Anthony spend some time consider...

In the first episode of Into the Paint Anthony interviews artist and publisher, Ben Goulder. Anthony and Ben talk about Ben's new project, New Dimension as well as Sheffield's hardcore scene, DIY galleries, sauna culture and independent publishing. Theme music by Harry Bix. Recorded by Erik Hanson and Anthony Tino. Special thanks to all of the podcasts, projects and conversations which have brough...