Season 14 continues!! We remember the life and work of one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century: KEITH HARING!!! We meet GIL VAZQUEZ, Executive Director and President at Keith Haring Foundation in New York, one of Haring’s closest friends, confidants and heir. We explore how Haring attracted an audience worldwide by expressing universal concepts of birth, death, love, sex and war, using a primacy of line and directness of message. Like Talk Art’s core values, Haring's work really was, and...
Oct 20, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 14Ep. 8
Talk Art Special LIVE EPISODE with Ruinart!!! We meet leading artist JEPPE HEIN!!! Live from London's Frieze week, this inspiring episode was recorded in South Kensington in front a live audience. Trustful that art can enlighten and connect us across time and places, Ruinart gives Carte Blanche to leading contemporary artists to pay tribute to the Maison’s legacy. Their artworks echo Ruinart’s values, raising awareness about climate change. To renew the experience of nature and bring it into our...
Oct 14, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 14Ep. 7
Talk Art special episode!!! We meet leading artist NIKITA GALE! It's Frieze London and we explore an incredible new art installation for BMW Open Work by Frieze. Artist Nikita Gale worked with BMW i7 designers to present the site-specific installation “63/22” in the BMW Lounge at the fair from October 12-16, 2022. Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini , BMW Open Work by Frieze invites an artist to develop an ambitious project utilising BMW design and technology to pursue their practice in innovat...
Oct 11, 2022•59 min•Season 14Ep. 6
Season 14 continues with VERY special episode with one of our all-time ART WORLD ICONS!!!! We meet the legendary gallerist MAUREEN PALEY. Inspiration to many of today's international contemporary galleries, Maureen was in fact the reason our co-host Robert Diament became inspired to change careers to work full-time in a gallery! We discover how she began her gallery programme in 1984 in a Victorian terraced house in London’s East End. Initially named Interim Art, the gallery changed its name to ...
Oct 06, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 14Ep. 5
We meet leading artist Amy Sherald , one of the defining contemporary portraitists in the United States. We discuss her new works about to be exhibited in London, growing up in Columbus, Georgia, the experience of painting Michelle Obama's portrait and how New York has become her home. From 12th October, Sherald will unveil a suite of new paintings in a major exhibition at Hauser Wirth London , marking the artist’s first solo show in Europe. Featuring a series of small-scale and monumental portr...
Sep 29, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Season 14Ep. 4
SPECIAL EPISODE!!! Live Talk Art!!! Robert Diament meets legendary artist Ai Weiwei (*1957, Beijing) recorded at Kite Festival, Oxfordshire on 12th June 2022. Ai Weiwei lives and works in multiple locations, including Beijing (China), Berlin (Germany), Cambridge (UK) and Lisbon (Portugal). He is a multimedia artist who also works in film, writing and social media. Special thanks to Tortoise Media, Tom Macklin and the wonderful team at Kite Festival. "Expressing oneself is a part of being human. ...
Sep 22, 2022•47 min•Season 14Ep. 3
Talk Art Season 14 continues with a truly special episode!!! We meet artist Jimmy Wright (b. 1944, Kentucky) who has lived and worked in New York since the early 1970s. We discuss queerness, Queer Art of the 1960s & 70s, grief, a lifetime of painting, his close friendship with the Chicago Imagists, being taught by Ray Yoshida and his extraordinary new solo exhibition ‘Flowers For Ken’, which has just opened in New York at Fierman West gallery, 19 Pike Street and runs until October 23rd 2022....
Sep 15, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 14Ep. 2
New Talk Art!!! SEASON 14!!!! We begin with a generous, heartfelt conversation with emerging artist Pam Evelyn who creates paintings that read as abstractions, however she incorporates a sensitivity and consideration towards figurative and landscape structures. Born 1996, Guildford, we speak to Pam from a residency in Cornwall on the southern coast of UK. To tolerate occupying a space of unresolved. To hover in the perpetual state of building towards. Every step forwards feels like it’s supporte...
Sep 08, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 14Ep. 1
Talk Art Season 13 FINALE!!!! And what a corker of an episode we are bringing you!!! WE MEET SELF ESTEEM!!!! Iconic pop star, singer, songwriter, producer, poet, actor, novelist, soundtrack composer... and our dear, DEAR friend!!!! We discuss sincerity and her supportive artistic community in Margate, her surprise love of making ceramics and painting, her creative process for songwriting and all art, collaborating with her longterm friend & leading artist Lindsey Mendick, visiting exhibition...
Jul 21, 2022•56 min•Season 13Ep. 15
We meet leading artist Guy J Oliver in his hometown of Margate to discuss video art and film! Guy's award-winning interdisciplinary practice employs video as well as text, painting, collage and performance. We discuss his major film 'You Know Nothing of My Work'. This extraordinary project is a multi-chapter rumination on the cultural dilemma of the disgraced popular icon. Considering how collective, systematic failure led to cases of abuse from powerful figures in the cultural scene, this work ...
Jul 14, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 13Ep. 14
We meet leading artist Jonathan Baldock who works across multiple platforms including sculpture, installation and performance. With work often taking on a biographical form, Jonathan Baldock addresses the trauma, stress, sensuality, mortality and spirituality around our relationship to the body and the space it inhabits. Baldock’s work is saturated with humour and wit, as well as an uncanny, macabre quality that channels his longstanding interest in myth and folklore. He has an ongoing focus on ...
Jul 07, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 13Ep. 13
Talk Art Season 13 continues with a broadcasting LEGEND!!! We meet Clara Amfo, one of British radio and television’s most dynamic voices and faces. An award winning broadcaster, podcaster and television presenter best known for her work on BBC Radio 1, where she hosted the official chart and the world famous Live Lounge. She currently hosts Future Sounds, breaking the new music from rising and established musicians. A little known fact about Clara is that she collects art and is friends with man...
Jun 30, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 13Ep. 12
Talk Art special episode!!! We meet Andrew Moncrief (b.1987), a visual artist from Comox Valley, Canada. We speak on the eve of Gucci presenting his first exhibition in France at their Saint-Germain boutique, during the men's fashion shows in Paris. Influenced at an early age by a rigid and immobile interpretation of masculinity, Andrew’s work explores depictions of the male identity, questioning idealism, queerness, and representation. The Canadian artist, now based in Berlin, questions masculi...
Jun 27, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 13Ep. 11
We meet leading artist Zoë Buckman from her studio in Brooklyn, NY!!! We discuss grief, trauma, her precise textile artworks and a powerful, new film titled 'Show Me Your Bruises, Then' (2021-2022) - a 3 channel video installation, written, performed and directed by Zoë Buckman, and featuring actors Cush Jumbo and Sienna Miller. Zoë Buckman’s multidisciplinary practice incorporates sculpture, textiles, ceramics, photography, and large-scale public installations. Adopting an explicitly feminist a...
Jun 23, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 13Ep. 10
We meet Ashley Joiner, Founder & Director of QUEERCIRCLE a new public gallery space, library and home for LGBTQ+ Arts, Culture and Social Change. QUEERCIRCLE seeks to develop an ecology of artists, curators, writers, thinkers, community organisers, grassroots organisations and charities who collectively work together to strengthen links between culture, health and wellbeing. Set in the pioneering Design District in North Greenwich, their new gallery, library and project spaces enable us to a...
Jun 16, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 13Ep. 9
Talk Art Special Episode!!! We catch up on all things Art Basel with legendary Global Director Marc Speigler - Art Basel is the biggest art fair in the world where thousands of people flock to the city of Basel every year to discover and witness new art, new ideas and the changing of culture - this is art world insider magic. Marc Spiegler (born 1968) is an American/French art journalist and columnist since 1998. In 2012 he became global director of Art Basel. Marc leads the organization’s devel...
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 13Ep. 8
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 Pavilion won the prestigious prize, the Golden Lion. Six years before, she had been the first Black British...
Jun 09, 2022•1 hr 43 min•Season 13Ep. 7
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-made pulse sensors. The presentation is inspired by a shared vision for a sustainable future, and a des...
Jun 08, 2022•49 min•Season 13Ep. 6
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 technique, textile art, embroidery and crochet. We learn about her artistic family including her artist fat...
Jun 02, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 13Ep. 5
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, in addition to an open-air presentation of seminal works including: ‘The Arch’ (1963/69), ‘Large Int...
May 31, 2022•1 hr 36 min•Season 13Ep. 4
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. The show runs until 19th June 2022 and has been widely critically acclaimed. Free entry, and we st...
May 26, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 13Ep. 3
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, worship, protest, mourn, escape or even to better themselves. This is the heart of this ambitious new project...
May 19, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 13Ep. 2
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 highlights often overlooked jobs performed by women and the psychologically charged spaces they inhabit. Wa...
May 12, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 13Ep. 1
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 care; as well as speaking to this extraordinary contemporary moment. While some works have previousl...
May 05, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 12Ep. 19
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 movements during the 1970s and 1980s. We discuss how he witnessed the birth of Punk, his friendship with Vi...
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 12Ep. 18
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 series ‘Seeing Ourselves' is an exploration of identity, beauty standards, and race through celebratory ...
Apr 21, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 12Ep. 17
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 of the pavilion’s curators: Lizaveta German and Maria Lanko, co-founders of the Kyiv art space Naked Room , and ...
Apr 19, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 12Ep. 16
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 inscribed upon the large-scale paintings, extracts of Yearwood-Dan’s experiences, influences, personal thoughts and questions c...
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 12Ep. 15
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 has developed through experience, relationships and through the depths and the peaks of their human existence thus far....
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 12Ep. 14
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 often based on figures appearing in personal and archival imagery that include family photographs, found...
Mar 31, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 12Ep. 13
