Shape Arts Podcast

Welcome to The Art of Blindness, a mini series of the ⁠⁠⁠ Shape Arts Podcast ⁠⁠⁠ from blind artist and winner of our 2025 ⁠⁠⁠ Adam Reynolds Award ⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠ David Johnson ⁠⁠⁠ . In this four part series, David invites us into the world of the lived experience of blindness and his art making practice. With the help of invited guests, he will be exploring the day-to-day experience of living as a blind...

Welcome to The Art of Blindness, a mini series of the ⁠⁠ Shape Arts Podcast ⁠⁠ from blind artist and winner of our 2025 ⁠⁠ Adam Reynolds Award ⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠ David Johnson ⁠⁠ . In this four part series, David invites us into the world of the lived experience of blindness and his art making practice. With the help of invited guests, he will be exploring the day-to-day experience of living as a blind perso...

Welcome to The Art of Blindness, a mini series of the ⁠ Shape Arts Podcast ⁠ from blind artist and winner of our 2025 ⁠ Adam Reynolds Award ⁠ , ⁠ David Johnson ⁠ . In this four part series, David invites us into the world of the lived experience of blindness and his art making practice. With the help of invited guests, he will be exploring the day-to-day experience of living as a blind person, and...

Welcome to The Art of Blindness, a mini series of the Shape Arts Podcast from blind artist and winner of our 2025 Adam Reynolds Award , David Johnson . In this four part series, David invites us into the world of the lived experience of blindness and his art making practice. With the help of invited guests, he will be exploring the day-to-day experience of living as a blind person, and how this ca...

The Art of Blindness is a new mini series of the ⁠ Shape Arts Podcast ⁠ from blind artist and winner of our 2025 ⁠ Adam Reynolds Award ⁠ , ⁠ David Johnson ⁠ . Episodes one and two will be available from Friday 27 March 2026. In this four part series, David invites us into the world of the lived experience of blindness and his art making practice. With the help of invited guests, he will be explori...

To mark the launch of our updated resource - How to put on an accessible exhibition - Shape's Creative Producers sat down to talk through the different approaches you could take to making your own work more accessible for disabled audiences. They cover: the venue, presenting artwork, programming events, and communications and marketing. Check out the updated resource on our website now, or bro...

In our latest podcast episode we chat to artist Abi Palmer about her current projects Slime Mother and Slugs: A Manifesto ! Enjoy three readings from Slugs by Abi as well as tracks from the audio description of her Slime Mother exhibition. Abi is an artist and writer. She uses film, text, sculpture and sensory intervention to explore sick bodies, viscous textures and ecological landscapes. Works i...

Catch the latest episode in our podcast where Emergent artist Linny Venables speaks to producer Debbie Chan.

The creative team and artists involved in our recent Shape Open exhibition, still available online, reflect on the themes of the show and how it all came together. Featuring live performances from artist Samiir Saunders.

For episode 2 of the Shape Arts Podcast , Shape Creative Producers Elinor Hayes and Emily Roderick looked into the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence through the lens of accessibility and creative work. Here, they share the good, the bad, and their thoughts on what's to come.

In episode three, artist Jamila Prowse talks us through her recent residency and work as part of UAL's 20/20 project , which saw Jamila placed in Shape's National Disability Arts Collection and Archive , and  Spoons (after Carolyn Lazard) - a new film of Jamila's which is being shown as part of our upcoming Shape Open exhibition, Open All Hours. The show is hosted by 198 Contemporary A...

The debut episode of Shape Arts ’ podcast celebrates the end of the inaugural year of Emergent , a residency programme delivered by Shape and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts , Gateshead. The programme is designed to support early-career barriers-facing artists. In the first of this brand-new series, we hear from Emergent-shortlisted artist, writer, designer, and publisher, Kaiya Waerea , as sh...