The Grateful Web Art Podcast

Today on  The Grateful Web  I’m joined by Sam Owen-Hull, an artist whose practice moves fluidly between painting, sculpture and textile work, creating richly layered pieces that explore contradiction, connection and the spaces where opposing forces meet. Her work brings together gestural painting and painstaking hand embroidery, combining instinctive mark-making with slow, careful constr...

In today’s episode of @the_grateful_web Art Podcast I'm joined by curator Will Marshall.  Based in Manchester, Will has played an active role in the region's artist-led scene, previously working as a curator at Bankley Gallery and co-running the nomadic Scaffold Gallery, producing exhibitions in spaces across the North West. He is now the founder and director of Texture, an independent galler...

Today on @the_grateful_web Art Podcast I’m joined by Nicola Ellis, an artist whose practice is deeply rooted in industry, collaboration, and materiality. Much of Nicola’s work has developed through her long-standing relationship with the Blackburn-based engineering company Ritherdon & Co, where she has worked alongside fabricators and factory workers to explore how knowledge, skill, and labour...

Hello and welcome to The Grateful Web with me Dr Jo Clements.   This week I’m delighted to be taking to Katy Morrison, Katy is a Manchester-based independent curator/researcher and is the Director of PINK, a curatorial project and artist studio space in Stockport. She is pursuing a practice-based PhD at Manchester School of Art, exploring artist residencies as performative spaces for cur...

Welcome to The Grateful Web with Dr Jo Clements. This week I’m joined by artists Alan Ward @alanjward_axisdesign and Jeffrey Knopf @jeffrey_knopf to talk about their collaborative exhibition *Nothing Remained Unchanged but the Clouds*. Do tune in to this fascinating conversation about a project that started out with one slide bought on ebay during lockdown that developed into an amazing collaborat...

In this episode, I am joined by artists Dr Kimberley Foster and Jane Scobie to discuss their participation in the Compass Residency.  The residency connects two artists based in Manchester—Margaret O’Brien and Emma Illingworth—with Kimberley and Jane who are based in Norfolk. The project is organised by Proforma and Cromer Art Space in Norfolk  and is structured around a dialogue be...

On this weeks episode I’m joined by members Rebecca, Blake and Aliya from 1838 Collective - an artist-led organisation based at Islington Mill in Salford. Founded by 7 postgraduate students who met at Manchester School of Art, the collective takes its name from 1838, the year the school was established. Their work focuses on supporting emerging and graduate artists as they navigate the often-uncer...

Today I’m delighted to be talking to artists Sophy King and John-Paul Brown about their major new exhibition The Guardians of Living Matter at The Lowry in Salford, currently on show until 29th March 2026.   Sophy King is a multidisciplinary environmental artist whose work interrogates the nature–culture continuum through installation, film, and sound to examine ecological systems under...

In this episode of The Grateful Web, Dr. Jo Clements interviews filmmaker Jeremiah Quinn, who shares insights into his diverse body of work, including documentaries that focus on social justice and forgotten narratives. They discuss the importance of sound design in filmmaking, the impact of his films like 'Oluwale' and 'Incognito', and the emotional connections that storytelling can create. Quinn...

On this brand new episode I speak to the brilliant multi-disciplinary artist John Powell Jones John Powell-Jones is a UK-based artist whose work spans sculpture, animation, print and installation. Drawing on horror, folklore and the visual language of videogames, he creates speculative worlds populated by mutated beings and unstable technologies. His practice examines how power, ideology and myth...

In this episode I’m delighted to talk to Amanda Sutton Director of Venture Arts Based in Manchester, Venture Arts is a supported studio that provides professional facilities, long-term artistic development, and artistic support that enables neurodivergent learning disabled artists to develop their own visual languages, produce ambitious work, and build sustainable careers within the contemporary a...

Hello and welcome to the grateful web. I’m Dr Jo Clements -  artist, artists coach and your grateful web host    My guest today is the brilliant Jamie Holman       A multidisciplinary artist, Jamie Holman seeks to make visible the exciting connection and propositions that manifest when heritage collides with contemporary practice. His research often pro...

My guest today is the fabulous artist Jude Wainwright    Jude is a figurative and surrealist painter based in Manchester. Her work explores identity, emotion and storytelling through staged, symbolic self-portraits that blur the line between the real and the imagined. Drawing on theatrical gesture, costume and surreal settings, she examines how we construct and conceal the self, reflecti...

A warm welcome to the 14th episode of the Weaving Connections series on The Grateful Web the podcast that weaves connections with some of the fabulous people I’m privileged to call part of my arts community here in Manchester and the North West. I’m Dr Jo Clements -  artist, artists coach and your grateful web host  My guest today is the artist Rowland Hill.   Rowland...

Welcome to The Grateful Web,  I’m  Dr Jo Clements and In this episode I’m delighted to speak to curator Chris Bailkoski.  Chris is an independent curator with over 20 years’ experience developing collaborative practices with artists to co-create dynamic exhibitions and events, predominantly focusing on grassroots visual and musical artists in Greater Manchester. He has fou...

On this episode of The grateful Web  I’m honoured to be joined by Sara Hindhaugh, a visual artist whose work weaves together fragments of memory, autobiography, and myth. Born in the Solomon Islands, Sara studied Fine Art at Wimbledon School of Art and is a valued member of  AWOL Studios in Manchester. Her practice spans drawing, painting, printmaking, embroidery, book arts, an...

Welcome to this FINAL edition of my special series The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.  Today I’m joined by artist Martin Nash.   A long-standing member and director of Rogue Artists’ Studios, in this last episode of the 30@30 series before we open our doors tomorrow, Martin tells us about his work and the history of th...

Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.  Today I’m delighted to be joined by Rebecca Davy. Rebecca is an artist- predominantly a painter- based in Rogue Artists Studios. She studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, graduating with a BA in Fine Art in 2003, where s...

Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.  Today I’m joined by Karol Kochanowski, a Polish-born artist and painter based at Rogue Artists Studios in Manchester. A graduate of Manchester Metropolitan University, Karol’s work has been shown across the UK, Germany, the US, and Greece, and in 2020 he rece...

Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.  Today I’m joined by Julie Cassels a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores textiles, clothing, and the way fabric has been depicted and reinterpreted throughout art history. Working with photography transferred onto fabric, paper, and aluminium, Jul...

Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.  Today’s guest is the painter and printmaker Michelle Leigh. Working in oils, watercolour, etching and woodcut, Michelle creates richly imaginative works that weave together myth, memory, and everyday experience. She studied Fine Art at Manchester Polytechnic,...

Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.    Today I’m joined by painter Ruth Murray. Her paintings often place women in quiet, everyday scenes—yet beneath the familiar lies a tension. They can evoke feelings of alienation, paranoia, or the subtle weight of social expectations, while also fi...

Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.  On this episode I’m thrilled to be chatting with Mike Black Mike is a photographer based at Rogue Studios Manchester UK he works in both commercial and fine art photography and has worked for a wide range of clients and artists. Please do check out his Instag...

Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.  On this episode I’m thrilled to be chatting with Simon Woolham Simon is an artist, curator, performer and academic whose practice centres on expanded drawing and narrative. Simon studied Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan   University before c...

Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.  On this episode I’m thrilled to be chatting with Lucy Ridges Lucy is a visual artist and photographer based in Manchester, specialising in analogue photography and traditional mark-making techniques. Over the past decade her work has focused on the repre...