Ministry of Arts Podcast

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Kunt from Kunt and the Gang (@kuntandthegang) Kunt and the Gang is a British dark musical comedian from Basildon, Essex, who started performing in 2003. He is also known for founding the spin-off project The Kunts, whose songs entitled "Boris Johnson Is a Fucking Cunt" and "Boris Johnson Is Still a Fucking Cunt" both reached number five in t...

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Tim Allen (@timallenshots) "My work over the last six to seven years has attempted to draw together a number of disparate, sometimes contradictory, formal elements and subjects or themes that have all featured in my work over the last forty five years at different times. I hope that the paintings are more than the sum of their parts and that they can genera...

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Jake Chapman (@jakechapwoman) Working together with his older brother, Dinos Chapman, Young British Artist Jake Chapman has been producing installations, sculptures, paintings, and works on paper since the early 1990s that appall, anger, seduce, and thrill—often simultaneously. An iconoclast to his core, Chapman describes himself as a collection of “traitor...

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Phoebe Minson (@phoebe_reemgallery) Phoebe Minson is the Creative Director at Reem Gallery, an avid collector, and in her final year at Central Saint Martins studying Fine Art.  Phoebe has been creating art, and collecting art, in every way since she was young. Nowadays, she writes and thinks about how society interacts with art and creativity, t...

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Alexandra Steinacker-Clark (@alexandrasteinacker) Alexandra Steinacker Clark (AUT/USA), is an American-Austrian art historian, curator and writer. She lives and works in London, UK. She obtained her BA in History of Art at University College London and continued her education at Goldsmiths University with an MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy, gr...

  In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Tony Grounds (@tony.grounds)   Tony Grounds (born in East London) is a British playwright and screenwriter, who has worked extensively in television.  Described by The Independent as "the best TV writer of his generation", Grounds has written for all four of Britain's main channels.   He started writing for the theatre, winning the Ver...

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Alice Nicholls a.k.a Alice the Autist (@alicetheautist) Alice Nicholls is an abstract/realism pencil artist from England’s oldest recorded town, Colchester. She has been a tattoo artist for fifteen years and a professional fine artist for three, sharing her experiences through art to collectors all over the country. Since her late diagnosis of autism...

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Fandangoe Kid (@fandangoekid) The fandangoe kid is a London based print artist who makes large-scale narrative driven pieces for the public realm. Her work seeks to smash taboos around complex subject matters such as loss, trauma release, mental health and gender constructs. The artist has created work for a wide range of purposes, for example with her ‘Sta...

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Tom Waugh (@tomwaughsculptor)   With a background in classical stone sculpture, Tom Waugh uses traditional materials and techniques to create contemporary works of art. Stone and marble sculptures, carved in minute detail, depict waste objects, discarded in the wake of human consumption. The objects document the casual imprints of human use. Plast...

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Kate Enters (@kateenters) Kate Enters is a contemporary renaissance woman. As a painter, she responds to her contemporary life in London creating paintings that depict moments in time through stylised compositions borrowing from vintage scenes, quotations, book titles as well as taking a wry look at social media, all conveyed through her own mix of wi...

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Beth Cullen Kerridge (@bethcullenkerridge) Beth Cullen Kerridge studied at John Moores in Liverpool, and on to postgrad at the Royal College of Art, which was a springboard on to the London art scene, with two of the London Parks Showing her work consecutively. She then showed in many exhibitions in the capital and around England, Commercial site-specific s...

  In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Rankin (@rankinarchive)   Rankin is a British photographer, publisher, and film director. Alongside being head of the eponymous agency RANKIN, which hosts an 80+ strong team that puts strategy, creative and production all under one roof.   Through RANKIN, he is best known for work that is on the cultural cusp and leading future trends: prod...

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Cathy Verney of the Worthing PAOTY (@thevenuewpaoty) The Worthing Portrait Artist of the Year will be an exciting evening of live portraiture. This year will see a limited number of 9 local portrait artists being offered the chance to create in public. Selected artists will each produce a portrait of one of 3 sitters over the course of an evening. The...

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Trish Wylie (@trishwylieartist)   Trish Wylie has been painting for more than 30 years and is currently based in London. Her latest work is inspired by themes of gender and nature. She also explores the use of multiple mediums from collage to re-visiting watercolour on large scale canvas. Alongside this is her interest in Jungian theory (animus/anima)...

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Rich Simmons (@richsimmonsart)     Rich Simmons is a Contemporary Urban Pop Artist who has exhibited all over the world. Simmons work explores the intersections of visual culture, spanning pop art, comic books, the Renaissance, contemporary fashion, sexuality and beyond.   London-based Rich Simmons has a global reach and celebrity following,...

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Joe Munro (@joe_mun)   British illustrator Joe Munro has drawn on locations all around the world. His practice stems from reportage principles of illustration, capturing his subjects with a layered aesthetic to add depth to the stories he tells. For more information on the work of Joe Munro go to https://joemunro.com/     To Support this podc...

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Kate Knight (@knightpainter) Kent based artist Kate Knight works primarily with figurative imagery. Within the drawn explorations of nature, Knight's concerns are upon the aesthetics of desire, sex and death. The works are provocative, playful, harsh and tongue in cheek. The compositions establish a series of graphic signs, aiming to evoke a narrative wheth...

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to John Ball (@beware_the_void) Based in Romford (London, U.K) and working primarily in the South East of the United Kingdom, contemporary artist John Ball creates unsettling images of a dystopian suburban landscape. John is probably best known for his appearance on the Sky Arts ‘Landscape Artist Of The Year’ television show where he was fortunate enough...

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Edgar Arts (@edgar._.arts)   Edgar Arts is a collaborative group of three (Luke Edgar, Matthew Huggett and Jay Goodwin), who are all both tattoo artists and fine artists, all of which is created under the same roof in north Essex.   LUKE EDGAR TATTOO AND FINE ARTIST   Luke works freehand to create undeniably creative tattoos. This is only bol...

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Outsider Gallery (@outsidergallerylondon Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Trust proudly present a creative arts exhibition that has been created by participants engaging in music therapy, expressive art and drama therapy programmes, in response to the pressures of Covid, isolation and the impact of complex mental health. Funded by NHS Charities Togeth...

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Sara Pope (@sarapopeartist)   Contemporary artist Sara Pope is best known for her bold, seductive paintings of voluptuous lips. Taking inspiration from a successful career in the fashion industry as a shoe designer for brands such as Paul Smith, and also her work in magazines as a designer and art director, Sara aims to capture the sensuality and seduc...

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to The Misfortune teller (@themisfortuneteller)   After failing at everything else in life, The Misfortune Teller gave up entirely and decided to become an artist.     Since then, his bleakly humorous, confessional style has garnered him a modest yet enthusiastic following, and nigh-on zero industry recognition. Encouragingly, some people have p...

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Miss Bugs (@miss_bugs) Miss Bugs was founded in the early part of 2007, originally coming from a background in photography and graphics. Working in partnership, they developed fast, spontaneous working methods, cutting and pasting existing images; ‘remixing and sampling classics’ in art to make new pieces with their own mark. Miss Bugs began in the ea...

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Jonathan Parsons (@artistjaypee)   Jonathan Parsons’ work is an enquiry into the systems and structures of art and the everyday world. His paintings are a mindful reversal of their own convention, relating traditional modes of representation to issues of contemporary relevance.   He is a graduate of Goldsmiths College and has exhibited internation...

  In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Adam Brigland (@adam_bridgland)   Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2006, Bridgland has used a diverse range of materials and working methods to pursue an incisive and often witty exploration of distinctively British sentiments, externalising the underlying sense of loss and nostalgia that permeates our memories. Vignettes of Bri...