Talk Art

New Talk Art! We meet leading artist Sonia Boyce. Boyce’s practice is fundamentally collaborative and inclusive, fostering a participatory approach that questions artistic authorship and cultural difference. Last month, she became the first Black female artist to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest international art exhibition. The work she presented in the British Pa...

Talk Art SPECIAL EPISODE!!!! This week we talk to Rafael Lozano-Hemmer to discuss his new collaboration with Superblue (@superblue.art) and BMW i, “Pulse Topology” presented on the occasion of this year’s Art Basel (@artbasel). The participatory artwork is composed of 6.000 lightbulbs, suspended from the ceiling at different heights, that glimmer to the heartbeat of visitors detected by custom-mad...

New Talk Art!!! JUBILEE SPECIAL with an ACTUAL QUEEN!! We meet Rose Matafeo, the BAFTA nominated comedian, writer and actor from New Zealand. Self confessed "curious nerd" who has a passion for art, craft and photography. We discover Rose's joy for creating her own artworks including dioramas and miniature models, photography and Lomo cameras, her obsession with the Pepper's Ghost illusion te...

Talk Art SPECIAL EPISODE!!!! We travel to Somerset to have an exclusive 5am visit to Stonehenge and an art adventure to Hauser & Wirth in Bruton. We visit Henry Moore's exhibition 'Sharing Form' for a guided tour with the artist's daughter Mary Moore and curator Hannah Higham. Hauser and Wirth Somerset present a comprehensive survey spanning six decades extends across all five gallery spaces,...

Talk Art season 13 continues with an art icon!!! We meet leading artist Tracey Emin to discuss her return to her hometown of Margate, her new art school, her current solo exhibition in the town's Carl Freedman Gallery as well as a further new solo show in Edinburgh at Jupiter Artland. 'A Journey To Death' is a comprehensive solo exhibition of new prints, large-scale monotypes and bronze sculptures...

Talk Art series 13 continues!!! We meet British sculptor and contemporary visual artist Hew Locke. The artist shares the inspiration behind his decades of work and reflects on the process of making his new and exciting large-scale installation 2022 Tate Britain Commission,  The Procession . A procession is part and parcel of the cycle of life; people gather and move together to celebrate, wor...

Talk Art is back for SEASON 13!!!! Woohooo!!! We meet leading artist Caroline Walker. Walker’s paintings reveal the diverse social, cultural and economic experiences of women living in contemporary society. Drawing on her own photographic source material, Walker provides a unique window into the everyday lives of women.  Blurring the boundary between objectivity and lived experience, Walker h...

We meet Lily van der Stokker (b. ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, 1954), one of the Netherlands’ most celebrated contemporary artists at the installation of her first institutional solo exhibition in London at Camden Art Centre. The exhibition brings together a group of works made by van der Stokker between 1989 and 2021, which address ideas of society, home, friendship, work, finances, illness and...

New Talk Art!!! We meet London icon PHILIP SALLON at his home in St John's Wood!!! A legendary British club promoter, event organiser, socialite, style innovator, impresario, and clothing designer. He was born in London, England where he still lives and works today in his 70th year. He is particularly known for being a prominent member of the Punk sub-cultural and New Romantic pop cultural movemen...

New Talk Art!!! We meet Sharon Walters, a London-based artist who creates hand-assembled collages celebrating black women. 'Seeing Ourselves', Sharon's ongoing series, is an exploration of under-representation in many arenas in particular, the arts and heritage sector and mainstream western media. The work encourages us to "'take up space', be seen and create our own spaces." Sharon's ongoing seri...

It's the Venice Biennale 2022!!! We meet Pavlo Makov who is representing Ukraine at the Ukrainian pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale. Makov presents  The Fountain of Exhaustion. Acqua Alta  (1995–2022). This kinetic sculpture, which speaks to infrastructural ruins, cultural erasure, climate collapse, and war, is the focal point of the pavilion in Venice. Made possible with the support...

We meet leading artist Michaela Yearwood-Dan to discuss her solo show The Sweetest Taboo , which runs until 26th April at Tiwani Contemporary, London. Recently the artist has been thinking about the priorities for affirming spaces of self and collective actualisation, specifically BIPOC and queer space(s), community needs and desires, that include her own.    Projected and insc...

New Talk Art! We meet leading British artist Daisy Parris to discuss their recent solo show 'I See You In Everyone I Love'. We discuss text, rough gestural brushstrokes, large-scale canvases and their punk aesthetic that led to painterly abstraction. Daisy Parris is a painter of psychological space. Direct text-based works and abstract paintings are made up of a vernacular that...

We meet leading British-Nigerian artist Joy Labinjo to discuss her solo exhibition of self-portraits in Lagos at Tiwani Contemporary, her giant public mural for Brixton underground station and her major institutional solo show at Chapter Gallery, Cardiff. Joy Labinjo’s large-scale figurative paintings often depict intimate scenes of historical and contemporary life, both real and imagined and ofte...

New Talk Art! We meet ARRAY COLLECTIVE. For this AWESOME new episode, we meet a record five guests - all members of the collective: Clodagh, Jane, Thomas, Sighle and Emma. Winners of the 2021 Turner Prize, Array Collective are a group of individual artists rooted in Belfast, who join together to create collaborative actions in response to the sociopolitical issues affecting Northern Ireland. Array...

Bonus Talk Art! We meet teacher, and Talk Art Book editor, Ella Parsons. This special episode of Talk Art is brought to you in partnership with Get Into Teaching. Ella was the inspiring editor of our Talk Art book in 2021, published by Octopus Publishing , and after our book became a Sunday Time's Bestseller, she decided to change career and become an English teacher. We find out why she decided t...

We meet leading artist Elad Lassry (b. Tel Aviv, 1977) who defines his practice as consumed with “pictures”—generic images culled from vintage picture magazines and film archives. Tapping the visual culture of still and motion pictures, he engages traditions of story-building with images and the ghosts of history that persist in images long after they have been lifted out of their original context...

We meet Berlin based artist Navot Miller on the eve of his first solo exhibition at WESERHALLE in Berlin. His new show presents 'Colourful, homo, great.', a series inspired by the artist’s recent travels interwoven with the artist’s multilayered identity. Navot makes large-scale, vibrant coloured canvases, electric compositions fueled by the flamboyant use of colours and the intensity of the explo...

Talk Art speaks to Mark Neville, the award winning British photographer. Since 2015, Neville (born 1966) has been documenting life in Ukraine, with subjects ranging from holidaymakers on the beaches of Odessa and the Roma communities on the Hungarian border to those internally displaced by the war in Eastern Ukraine. Through his community-based projects, Neville explores the social function o...

Talk Art continues!!! We meet ActionSpace's Sheryll Catto and Charlotte Hollinshead to discuss the inspiring art of Nnena Kalu! Nnena Kalu (b.1966) is a prolific artist working from ActionSpace’s supported studio within Studio Voltaire since 1999. Over two decades Kalu has created a vast body of sculptural and 2D artworks and developed a live, performative element to her art practice. She is drive...

New Talk Art!!! We meet a GLOBAL LEGEND, our dear friend, the iconic recording artist, three-time Grammy winner, and global R&B superstar, MAXWELL!!!!!!  We discuss Maxwell's musical journey, collecting art, visiting Frieze New York art fair where he first expeirenced Hans Op de Beeck's Silent Library  (2016) immersive installation, his love for artists Nina Chanel Abney, Steve...

New Talk Art!!! Season 12 continues!!! We meet emerging artist Lydia Pettit! We discuss painting, growing up in Maryland, horror films, moving to London and the strength you can gain from being creative!!!! Pettit's first presentation with White Cube is available to view online now, her first solo exhibition with the gallery. Building on the artist’s previous paintings that explored Post Traumatic...

Talk Art special episode with WePresent !!! We meet leading artist Alex Prager at her solo exhibition in London's Cromwell Place, South Kensington. We also chat with WePresent's editor-in-chief Holly Fraser about the support they offer artists and creative minds around the world. View Alex's video online here: https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/alex-prager-part-one-the-mountain/ Alex Prager's...

New Talk Art!!! We meet artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran on the eve of his new solo show in Mumbai, India titled The Mud and The Rainbow. Encountering the sculptures of Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran is, at first, bewildering and unsettling, so multifarious and polymorphous are his references. Yet there is a logic to these works, a reasoning which draws the artist to his conclusions, such that we might...

Season 12 continues with another exclusive! We meet The Turner Prize Judges 2021!!! We rewind to discover the behind-the-scenes experiences of each judge; the highs and lows of organising the world famous art prize during a global pandemic. The members of the 2021 Turner Prize jury were: • Zoé Whitley, Director, Chisenhale Gallery • Aaron Cezar, Director, Delfina Foundation • Kim McAleese, Program...