Jo's Art History Podcast

Welcome to Jo’s Art History Bite-Size - small manageable podcast episodes that deep dive into a specific artwork or artist in 10 minutes or less. This week we take a look at the incredible painting entitled The Skating Minister by Henry Raeburn - one of Scotlands most beloved paintings. Want to connect? Email: josarthistory@gmail.com Instagram: @josarthistory Please consider supporting the podcast...

Welcome to Jo’s Art History Bite Size - small manageable podcast episodes which deep dive into a specific art work or artist in 10 minutes or less. This week we discuss Jenny Saville’s Propped. Want to connect? Email: josarthistory@gmail.com Instagram: @josarthistory Please consider supporting the podcast by buying me a book from my Wishlist - this will go towards future episodes of the podcast: h...

Welcome to Jo’s Art History Bite Size - small manageable podcast episodes which deep dive into a specific art work or artist in 10 minutes or less. This week I take you on a whistle stop tour of the life and work of Bridget Riley . Resource Links: https://tanyabaxtercontemporary.com/bridget-riley-ra https://artuk.org/discover/artists/riley-bridget-b-1931 https://mediacentre.kallaway.com/the-courta...

Welcome to Jo’s Art History Bite Size - small manageable podcast episodes which deep dive into a specific art work or artist in 10 minutes or less.. This week we are discussing one of Anthony Van Dyke’s best known portraits of Charles I on horseback, Want to connect? Email: josarthistory@gmail.com Instagram: @josarthistory Please consider supporting the podcast by buying me a book from my Wishlist...

Welcome to Jo’s Art History Bite Size - small manageable podcast episodes which deep dive into a specific art work or artist in 10 minutes or less. This week we deep dive into the amazing work Pauline Bunny by Sarah Lucas. Resource Links: https://www.theartstory.org/artist/lucas-sarah/ https://gallery.98bowery.com/2021/sadie-coles-hq-sarah-lucas-bunny-gets-snookered-folded-card-1997/ https://tba21...

Welcome to Jo’s Art History Bite Size - small manageable podcast episodes which deep-dive into a specific art work or artist in 10 minutes or less. This week I take you on a whistle stop tour of the life and work of Kim Lim This episode was made possible through a commissioned piece of writing I did in 2021 for Sprout Magazine. The contents of this article make up a large percentage of my research...

Welcome to Jo’s Art History Bite-Size - small manageable podcast episodes which deep dive into a specific artwork or artist in 10 minutes or less.. This week we are discussing The Endless Column by Romanian artist Constantin Brâncuși.  Resource Links: This episode is taken from a blog I wrote back in 2020 - read it here: https://www.josarthistory.com/post/a-contemporary-monument-for-a-contemporary...

Welcome to Jo’s Art History Bite Size - small manageable podcast episodes which deep drive into a specific art work or artist in 10 minutes or less.. This week we are discussing the monumental installation work: The Floating Piers by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Resource Links: https://www.josarthistory.com/post/how-to-walk-on-water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG91th5SHvI Skip to 20 minutes in:...

Welcome to Jo’s Art History Bite Size - small manageable podcast episodes which deep drive into a specific art work or artist in 10 minutes or less. This week we are discussing  Rosa Bonheur’s The Horse Fair. Resource Links: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/rosa-bonheur-the-horse-fair https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/rosa-bonheur https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/stories/5...

Welcome to Jo’s Art History Bite Size - small manageable podcast episodes which allow me, Jo McLaughlin, you resident host and art historian to deep dive into a specific art work or artist in 10 minutes or less. This week we look at Ai Wei Wei’s installation Sunflower Seeds Ai Wei Wei Sunflower Seeds Resource Links: Tate Video following the Making of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PueYywpkJW8 Ta...

Hello! It’s been over a year since I published a new episode on Jo’s Art History Podcast so you have probably been wondering - where on EARTH have I been? Well - listen to find out.  In this short update, I tell you about the release date of Season 3 and introduce you to a new segment called Jo’s Art History Bite-size which launches soon! Until then, keep learning and remember, Art is for All! Lov...

Welcome back to Jo’s Art History Podcast and the FINAL episode of season 2! It’s a two-part special this week and I’m joined by art dealer Will Jarvis to discuss the history of art patronage! Will and I take you on a whistle-stop tour of art creation and support from cave paintings to the cutting edge contemporary market of today! It’s a great episode to close season 2 so I hope you enjoy it! Will...

Welcome back to Jo’s Art History Podcast and the FINAL episode of season 2! It’s a two-part special this week and I’m joined by art dealer Will Jarvis to discuss the history of art patronage! Will and I take you on a whistle-stop tour of art creation and support from cave paintings to the cutting edge contemporary market of today! Will also discusses Gertrude, his art subscription service and how...

Why is art Important? It’s a big question; and one that I have asked every guest on the podcast so far. So, join me this week as I try to unpack the multiple answers to this question with a little help of some of the podcast’s previous guests! Enjoy! Jo x

Celtic Mirrors & Iron Age Treasures with James Handley Welcome back to Jo’s Art History Podcast!! We are nearing the end of Season 2 and this week I am bringing you something a little different - an episode all about Celtic Mirrors and Iron Age Treasure! This week, I sit down with British Artist James Handley to discuss something completely unique to Britain, Celtic Hand Held Mirrors which hav...

Happy International Women’s day! I could not think of a better way to mark this special day than to take a deep drive back into four previous podcast episodes which celebrated four brilliant women artists. Today I revisit my episodes all about Anna Atkins, Frida Kahlo, Peggy Angus and Tracey Emin. I loved dipping my toes back into these episodes and hope you enjoy them too! Happy International Wom...

It’s Episode 50 and oh my - I have quite the episode for you all this week! Today, I speak with the brilliant Sara McKee, who is an art historian and gallerist based in Caernarfon in Wales. After studying Art History at University Sara ’got herself real Job’ in the advertising and marketing world and soon enough made a name for herself in the industry. It wasn’t until the tragic death of her husba...

Welcome back to Jo’s Art History Podcast! This week I am joined by British artist, Cherish Marshall, who will be sharing her love of all things Salvador Dali! Dali is now an iconic artist whose art seems to have worked its way into the fabric of our everyday living. Much like artists like Van Gogh, Dali is associated with certain items - such as melting clocks & surrealist landscapes - yet the...

This week I sit down with photographer Rachel Vogeleisen to discuss 4 works from the brilliant Artemisia Gentileschi!!! Artemisia Gentileschi  was an Italian  Baroque  painter and is considered among the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists. In an era when women had few opportunities to pursue artistic training or work as professional artists, Gentileschi was the first woma...

Barbara Hepworth is one of the greatest artists to ever come out of the UK. Achieving monumental heights of fame and success during her life, she developed a sculptural language that makes her work not only timeless but so instantly recognisable as her own. This week I take you on a whistle-stop tour of her life and work during her time living and working in her iconic studio and gardens in St. Iv...

TRIGGER WARNING This episode contains references to rape and sexual violence, which some listeners may find upsetting. Welcome back to Jo’s Art History Podcast.  This week I sit down with Melody Thornton to discuss the representations of rape and sexual violence within Art History. Melody talks us through 5 works from within the history of art which, on first appearance, seem perfectly innoce...

He may be one of art history’s most iconic artists but there is a lot to Vincent Van Gogh which has become myth and legend - and some of it more damaging to his repetition than you might expect!! This week I am joined by Yorkshire based artist Mimi (Millie) Cullen to discuss the one, the only - Vincent Van Gogh. Mini takes a drive into Van Gogh life, his mental health struggles, discuss how ‘the e...

Welcome back to Jo’s Art History Podcast Today we are celebrating the art of pride by taking a whistle-stop tour of 5 works that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. Starting as a blog post back in 2020, I received a lot of attention from this blog and decided to turn it into an Instagram series. I learnt so much that it seemed a shame to leave it hidden in the depths of my Instagram / blog so I decide...

This week’s episode is a two-part special all about land art!! I’m joined by the brilliant art historian Liuka Jonynaite who talks us through two iconic land artists - Walter De Maria and Michael Heizer. We discuss pushing the boundaries of land art, why its an important movement, what it means to create something which is only ever meant to be temporary, why photography is such an important tool...

This week’s episode is a two-part special all about land art!! I’m joined by the brilliant art historian Liuka Jonynaite who talks us through two iconic land artists - Walter De Maria and Michael Heizer. We discuss pushing the boundaries of land art, why its an important movement, what it means to create something which is only ever meant to be temporary, why photography is such an important tool...