Talk Art

We meet Nadya Tolokonnikova of PUSSY RIOT, the legendary Russian feminist protest art collective. We discuss Nadya's journey in art thus far and her monumental current exhibition in Sante Fe at CONTAINER space. "While working with artifacts, bottling ashes, and manufacturing the faux furry frames for the bottles, I used skills that I learned in the sweatshops of my penal colony. I was forced to se...

We meet Daniel Lismore live at Hay Festival 2023! Daniel is a London-based artist. He was born in Bournemouth and raised in Fillongley Village on the border of Coventry. Although he started his career as an artist from the perspective of the outsider, working as a photographer within a year he had moved in front of the lens as a model, later emerging as a creative consultant for Mert & Marcus,...

We meet living legend Sue Tilley and artist Rui Miguel Leitão Ferreira!!! Sue Tilley (b. 1957), also known as Big Sue, is an artist, artist's model and writer. Most notably, she modelled for painter Lucian Freud. Tilley collaborated, and was best friends, with performance artist and club promoter Leigh Bowery. In 1997, she published  Leigh Bowery: The life and times of an Icon...

New Talk Art! We meet artist Tim Stoner (b. 1970, UK), best know for his paintings, which we explore in depth in this fascinating discussion!!! Before settling in London full-time, Tim lived and worked between London and Ronda, Southern Spain. In Ronda, a village in Andalucía, he began experimenting with unfinished canvases submerging them in swimming pools, pouring dissolving chemicals and d...

We meet Nicholas Cullinan, leading art historian, curator and current Director of the National Portrait Gallery in London. The new National Portrait Gallery opens its doors to the public on 22nd June 2023. The Gallery is home to the most extensive collection of portraits in the world, from the 8th century. The NPG collection has over 220,000 works, 150,000 of which are illustra...

In a significant moment for Talk Art podcast, we meet the Jean-Michel Basquiat Estate - run by his sisters Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux. We explore the extraordinary, new Los Angeles exhibition 'Jean-Michel Basquiat: KING PLEASURE © ' of over 200 never-before-seen and rarely shown paintings, drawings, multimedia presentations, ephemera, and personal artefacts that tell the story of Jean-M...

Season 17 continues with a magical episode!!! We meet artist STUDIO LENCA!!!! Studio Lenca is the working name of artist Jose Campos – ‘Studio’ refers to a space for experimentation and constantly shifting place; ‘Lenca’ referring to the name of the artists ancestors from El Salvador. Jose Campos was born in 1986 in La Paz, El Salvador and like many had to flee the country during its violent civil...

New Season 17!!! For the first episode of our NEW SEASON we meet the legendary photographer and activisit AJAMU X, at his studio on Railton Road, South London. Ajamu X (1963, Huddersfield, UK) is a photographic artist, scholar, archive curator and radical sex activist best known for his imagery that challenges dominant ideas around black masculinity, gender, sexuality, and representation of b...

Bonus Live Episode!!! We meet Emma Dabiri, Irish author, academic, and broadcaster live at Dulwich Picture Gallery in South London to discuss Talk Art Book 2! Emma's debut book,  Don't Touch My Hair , was published in 2019, followed by the Sunday Times Best Seller What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition in 2021. Her new book Disobedient Bodies will be published in Autumn. Em...

TALK ART - THE PARTY!!!! In a first for the Podcast, we invite legendary DOSA CAT to take over the podcast during our official launch party at Shreeji News in London's Marylebone, in a glamorous, roving reporter styleeeee!!! Listen in to the wild launch party of Talk Art: The Interviews... OUR NEW BOOK! Conversations captured in this episode include Russell & Robert's MOTHERS - Carole and Judi...

TURNING THE TABLES ON TALK ART with ALAN CARR!!!! To celebrate the launch of the brand new Talk Art book 'The Interviews', Russell & Robert meet legendary broadcaster, stand-up comedian and writer ALAN CARR. Who better to chat with than the CHATTY MAN himself???!!! We discuss our new book Talk Art: The Interviews! That's right, it's TALK ART BOOK 2 release day!!! We are PUBLISHED AUTHORS! for...

We meet Hettie Judah, chief art critic on the British daily paper The i , a regular contributor to The Guardian ’s arts pages, and a columnist for Apollo magazine. Following publication of her 2020 study on the impact of motherhood on artists’ careers, in 2021 she worked with a group of artists to draw up the manifesto How Not To Exclude Artist Parents , now available in 15 languages. She writes f...

Special Episode presented by BMW. We meet artist and curator Ronan Mckenzie at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate to discuss her monumental new group exhibition To Be Held. The show is now open and runs until 25th June 2023. Free entry, so we really recommend visiting Margate to see this EXTRAORDINARY show. To Be Held brings together nineteen artists and three furniture designers in an immersive exhib...

New @talkart!! We meet Antoni Porowski, inspiring chef, New York Times Bestselling Author and star of Netflix’s Emmy Award-winning series Queer Eye.  We discover his passion for Louise Nevelson’s sculptures, the impact his art teacher had on his life, the paintings of Giacomo Balla, Les Lelannes sheep sculptures, collecting furniture and photography by Simen Johan, Ryan McGinley and Paul Mpag...

We meet living legend DUANE MICHALS (b. 1932, McKeesport, PA) one of the GREATEST photographic innovators of the last century, widely known for his work with series, multiple exposures, and text. For more than 60 years he has pushed photography and art to new dimensions. Without doubt, so many contemporary artists have been inspired by, and have directly referenced, the groundbreaking work of Duan...

Paula Siebra is a Brazilian painter born in Fortaleza, Ceará, in 1998. The artist focuses on images related to everyday life and scenes of intimacy using Brazilian northeastern culture as her starting point. Her paintings emerge from the exploration of established themes such as portraits, landscapes and still lifes. These motif...

We meet legendary artist MIKE NELSON!!! Nelson’s installations take the viewer on enthralling journeys into fictive worlds that eerily echo our own. Constructed with materials scavenged from salvage yards, junk shops, auctions and flea markets, the immersive installations have a startling life-like quality. Weaving references to science fiction, failed political movements, dark histories and count...

We meet Péjú Oshin, a British-Nigerian curator, writer and lecturer born and raised in London. Her work sits at the intersection of art, style & culture with a keen interest in liminal theory and diasporic narratives. Core to her practice is working with visual artists, brands and people globally. Since starting her career working in arts & culture in 2015, Péjú has worked broadly in engag...

Welcome to this very special edition of Talk Art brought to you by "The Recharge in Nature Project", a three-year collaboration between National Parks UK and BMW. Our guest for today is the extremely talented Hannah Lees, a Margate-based artist whose art is deeply influenced by the beauty of nature, its landscapes, discarded treasures and sustainability. Hannah's artistic vision aligns seamlessly...

Talk Art EXCLUSIVE! We meet Hollywood icon SHARON STONE!!! In this feature length special episode, we discover Sharon's obsession with painting, her current debut solo exhibition 'Shedding' at Allouche Gallery in Los Angeles and her lifelong passion for art. We learn about her journey collecting art, her close friendships with artists including Robert Rauschenberg and her love of museums. But most...

Talk Art special episode!! We meet awesome artist RYCA to explore his new collaboration with Stella Artois Unfiltered to reimagine an iconic pub sign as a nude artwork to raise awareness and support for pubs struggling with rising energy bills!!! RYCA is one of 11 contemporary artists who’s original artworks will be sold at online auction, with all profits going to Hospitality Action . 'The Pub Re...

We meet Arthur Lambert from the Estate of artist LARRY STANTON (1947-1984). Larry Stanton was a Manhattan-based portrait artist whose work was championed by David Hockney, Henry Geldzahler, Ellsworth Kelly and others. He was a gay man who lived in Greenwich Village in New York City. Stanton produced a significant body of work—mostly drawings and paintings—in the four years leading up to his death...

We meet painter KATY MORAN to discuss More Me, the artist's first presentation in Australia to date, showcasing her signature style of painting that defies and dispels traditional genres of landscape, portraiture or still life, instead, existing as free, gestural explorations of colour and line. Moran’s practice hovers in a productive space between figuration and abstraction. She paints over canva...

SEASON 16!!! We meet LEGENDARY artist Nicolas Party!!!! We discuss his major new solo show  Cascade ,  Nicolas Party ’s third exhibition with Xavier Hufkens. A stunning group of new works, including pastels, cabinets and oil-on-copper paintings. Large tripartite pastels and smaller cabinet paintings point to a new trajectory, both formal and technical, that has opened up in his practice....

We meet artist Aubrey Levinthal from her studio in Philadelphia!!! Softly-rendered portraits by Aubrey Levinthal explore contemporary psychology. In the works, figures go about familiar daily routines - eating, sleeping and daydreaming. The artist is inspired by a range of modernist painters, from portraitist Alice Neel to collagist Romare Bearden and modernist David Hockney. Her intentionally mut...