MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh

In this, another special FLAMM episode of the MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh podcast, Sovay is joined by artists and creative producers who took part in an exchange project between FLAMM and Counterpoints Arts Climate Displacement Network over the first few months of 2026.   You can learn more about the exchange, which Sovay facilitated here > https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/flamm-x-counterpoints-di...

This a special episode that deviates slightly from the usual MESKLA programme to reflect upon The Flamm X VASW event, 'How can I stay? Remote Working' which took place at IntoBodmin and The Beat on 12th July 2024.    Sovay is joined by artists Anna Harris and Emma Digerud-White. They share their own reflections, and those of others who attended on the day, of working life as an artist in Kernow.  ...

For this tenth podcast, and the last in this MESKLA series, I am joined by Amanprit Sandhu.   Amanprit is a London based curator and educator with a focus on expanded exhibition practices, pedagogy and widening participation in the arts and arts education,  and collaborative approaches to working.  She is currently working as a Senior Lecturer on the Fine Art programme at Chelsea College of Arts,...

For this ninth podcast, I visit Cornwall based songwriter vocalist, choir leader, researcher and writer Angeline Morrison for a conversation at her home, with a small intervention from her cat, Ted. Angeline is actively concerned with raising awareness about the hidden historic black presence in the UK. And has recently released her acclaimed album, The Sorrow Songs, Folk Songs of Black British Ex...

For this eighth podcast I invited Dr Joanie Willett to talk about lifestyle culture and socio-economic situations in Cornwall, Joanie in turn invited Natasha Carthew to join her in this conversation.    Natasha Carthew is a working-class writer from Cornwall. Her new book Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience, is a powerful exploration of rural poverty and a story of hop...

In this seventh podcast I am joined by artists Kayle Brandon and Angela Piccini of Association of Unknown Shores. Association of Unknown Shores , formed in 2018, is an interdisciplinary social practice art project and platform for the research, production and commissioning of art and cultural works. The project explores the hidden nature of persistent material and remembered traces of the enforced...

In this sixth podcast, I'm joined by Dave Beech , an artist and writer from a working class background. We talk about tourism, class and colonial gaze; how culture and lifestyle is commodified and purchased, and the potential impacts of this.   Dave is reader in art and Marxism at University Arts London, and is author of the books Art and Labour (Brill 2020), Art and Postcapitalism (Pluto 2019) an...

In this fifth podcast  I'm joined by Ellie Allen, caller for ceilidh band Splann . Becky Bordeaux actress, performer and production assistant with Rogue Otherworld and Luke Passey otherwise known as Passman, one half of Hedluv + Passman . We talk about Redruth, living working and growing up in Kernow, nightlife housing and the cost of living, community and the intangible nature of local knowledge;...

In this fourth podcast I am joined by Dr Stephanie Pratt - Dakota and Anglo-American Art Historian, and Jowdy Davey - Director of Lowender Peran Festival.  Steph and Jowdy both share aspects of their research which covers intangible cultural heritage and representation of indigenous peoples through colonial gaze. Through our conversation we explore fracturing and healing of cultures, the importanc...

In this third episode of the MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh podcast series I am joined by Dr Hilary Orange & Prof. Emma Gilberthorpe who share some of their thoughts and research about the impacts of extraction industries on communities around the world, and the relationship of this labour to identity and sense of place and belonging.     Emma Gilberthorpe is a Professor of Anthropology at the University...

In the second part of A Conversation With Artists I am joined by artist Libita Sibungu. Our conversation responds to topics raised in Part 1, and further talks of growing up in Cornwall, wildness, granite, dislocation, the subterranean, and writing new narratives for Cornwall.    Libita made a presention at the MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh symposium on Sat 29th October. A recording of this event will be...

The push and pull of connection to place - belonging, othering, disconnection, discrimination and barriers imposed by others. Pace and space, drekly does it, wildness, rough edges, more commodification, and what just is.    Artists Libita Sibungu , Georgia Gendall , &   Liam Jolly  share their experiences of growing up in Cornwall & becoming artists. They also talk about how their relationship to...

Language, authenticity and the Celtic revival are among topics discussed when Sovay is joined by Grand Bard, Pol Hodge, Deputy Grand Bard, Jenefer Lowe and Cornwall Council’s Principle Culture Lead, Mark Trevethan, for the first episode in the MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh 2022 podcast series.   MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh (tr. Mussel Gathering | Precious Fragments) is a multi-platform project using sculpture...