The Grateful Web Art Podcast

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 Margaret O’Brien.  Margaret works between the UK and Ireland, creating large-scale installations that combine sculpture, live sound, light, moving image and kinetics. Her practice is rooted in experimentat...

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 Hannah Leighton-Boyce. Hannah works across a variety of sculpture formats including collage, writing, installation, and live event. Her most recent work explores processes of joining, repair, renewal, and trans...

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 Susie MacMurray Susie is a British artist whose work includes drawing and sculpture. She is also known for her architectural installations. She has an international profile, showing in the USA and Europe as wel...

Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester.  I’m Jo Clements – artist, coach, and host of this podcast and today I’m swapping roles – instead of being the one asking the questions, I’m being interviewed for Rogue Studios’ 30@30 series by the brilliant Mollie Balshaw from Short Supply. My work explores h...

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 Mollie and Rebekha Balshaw from Short Supply Short Supply are an artist-led organisation based in the North of England and since 2019, they’ve been carving out radical, joyful, and accessible pathways into the...

 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 Nicola Dale.   Nicola is an artist from Manchester. She has performed at major institutions including The Hepworth Wakefield, Saatchi Gallery and Turner Contemporary. She has exhibited wi...

 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 Jen Orpin Jen lives and works in Manchester, she’s been a member of Rogue Studios since 2000 and is a Member of Manchester Academy of Fine Arts.  She co-founded Rogue Women in 2019 and is the founder...

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 delighted to be chatting with Mike Chavez-Dawson Mike is an interdisciplinary artist curator based at Rogue Artists’ Studios (since 2000). He is also a lecturer on the Foundation course at the University of Salford. Mike has exhibited and...

 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 delighted to be chatting with Maggie Stick Maggies studio practice explores belonging, cultural heritage, migration, transformation, and systems of oppression through printmaking, performance, and mixed media. Alongside this, she wor...

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 delighted to be chatting with Geoff Molineux  One of the very first members of Rogue Studios nearly 30 years ago, Geoff has been at the heart of its story ever since. His practice is wonderfully eclectic, moving with ease between pain...

On this episode I’m thrilled to chat with Museum consultant Louise Thompson. Louise’s work has quite literally transformed lives through art. From 2006 to 2024, Louise was the Health and Wellbeing Manager at Manchester Art Gallery, where, she led the development of its creative health programme, growing it from a small seed of an idea into something internationally recognised, impactful, and ...

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 chatting with Steve Oliver. Steve’s work circles issues of provenance, privacy, censorship, authenticity and the struggle to extract a signal from the noise of the internet. The extreme specificity of the work, rendered through prosa...

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 John Hamilton a painter, illustrator, and printmaker based at Rogue since 1995. John has exhibited widely across the UK and internationally, with work held in collections from Australia to Germany and the USA. Alongside painting, drawing,...

Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester. On todays episode I am delighted to be joined by multidisciplinary artist Sophy King. Sophy’s work explores the nature–culture continuum through deep engagement with place. Working across installation, film, and sound, her practice interrogates how we experience an...

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 welcome artist Sarah Feinmann.  Sarah’s work is inspired by place and the textural materials she chooses to interpret these spaces, paint, collage, and printmaking. She explores the overlooked details of urban and rural landsc...

Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester. During the 30 day run-up to our annual Open Studios, I’ll be sharing a daily short podcast featuring one of our studio members, highlighting the incredible diversity of practices that make Rogue such a vital creative community.  Today, I’m delighted to welcome...

Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester. During the 30 day run-up to our annual Open Studios, I’ll be sharing a daily short podcast featuring one of our studio members, highlighting the incredible diversity of practices that make Rogue such a vital creative community.  In this episode I speak to Andr...

Hello and 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 welcome artist Margaret Cahill. Margaret uses her own photographs as source material as well as appropriated images from a variety of media as the principle source material  for series of paintings and collages that...

Hello and welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester. During the 30 day run-up to our annual Open Studios, I’ll be sharing a daily short podcast featuring one of our studio members, highlighting the incredible diversity of practices that make Rogue such a vital creative community.  Today I’m delighted t...

Hello and welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester. During the 30 day run-up to our annual Open Studios, I’ll be sharing a daily short podcast featuring one of our studio members, highlighting the incredible diversity of practices that make Rogue such a vital creative community.    ✨ T...

Welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester. During the 30 day run-up to our annual Open Studios, I’ll be sharing a daily short podcast featuring one of our studio members, highlighting the incredible diversity of practices that make Rogue such a vital creative community.  Today, I’m delighted to welcome...

Hello and welcome to this special edition of The Grateful Web: Rogue Studios 30@30 celebrating 30 years of Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester. During the 30 day run-up to our annual Open Studios, I’ll be sharing a daily short podcast featuring one of our studio members, highlighting the incredible diversity of practices that make Rogue such a vital creative community.  This year, Rogue mark...

On todays episode I’m delighted to be joined by artist Luce Bergman Bergman's autoethnographic work springs from arts-based research in response to museum collections, social history and personal story. She works across a broad range of media including moving image, music, performance, words, graphic design and book art. For her current solo show Apologues at The Whitaker, Museum and Art gallery,...

In this episode I’m joined by artist  Mishka Henner. Born in Belgium and living in Manchester UK, Mishka’s work challenges conventional perspectives and encourages viewers to reconsider their relationship with the world, technology, and the lasting imprint of human activity. His multidisciplinary practice moves through digital terrain, uncovering the cultural and geopolitical forces that...

On this episode I’m delighted to welcome someone who sits right at the heart of conversations about how artists survive, work, and thrive in the UK—Julie Lomax, Chief Executive of a-n The Artists Information Company. With more than 20 years’ director-level experience in arts organisations and national funding bodies, Julie is a dedicated champion of and advocate for artists and their role in the w...