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 exhibition which aims to open a dialogue on tenderness, and what it means to care and be cared for. The s...
May 03, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 16Ep. 12
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 Mpagi Sepuya! We also discuss Sally Mann’s photos, visiting New York galleries like Team Gallery and art fairs...
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 16Ep. 11
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 Duane Michals - he has truly shifted the way we think about art forever!!! Duane Michals is an artist wh...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr•Season 16Ep. 10
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 motifs, throughout her research, acquire a peculiar aspect: a certain simplification in the contours, added to a reduction in the contrast between chromatic tones, polarizing ...
Apr 13, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 16Ep. 9
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 countercultures, they touch on alternative ways of living and thinking: lost belief systems, interrupted ...
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Season 16Ep. 8
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 engaging audiences through public programming, exhibitions, and outdoor art projects in a number of cultu...
Mar 30, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 16Ep. 7
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 with The Recharge in Nature Project's mission, which aims to promote nature restoration, biodiversit...
Mar 28, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 16Ep. 6
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 of all, we reveal Sharon’s LOVE for MARGATE, Turner and @turnercontemporary !!!!! Stone has a diver...
Mar 24, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Season 16Ep. 5
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 Renaissance', a new art collection curated by Stella Artois, features work from renowned artists inclu...
Mar 22, 2023•49 min•Season 16Ep. 4
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 from AIDS-related complications. Stanton drew portraits of the young men he slept with, as well as h...
Mar 17, 2023•57 min•Season 16Ep. 3
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 canvases found in flea markets and charity shops, blurring the found images beneath her layers of paint, ...
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 16Ep. 2
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. Mastering the all but forgotten art of painting on copper, Party’s paintings are as luminous as their historica...
Mar 03, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Season 16Ep. 1
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 muted palette of predominantly grey tones is created by layering light washes of oil paint onto panels,...
Feb 24, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 15Ep. 14
We meet leading artist TOM BURR from his studio in Connecticut, USA! In his spare, enigmatic, mixed-media sculptures and installations, Tom Burr explores the ways in which we imbue the spaces and things by which we are surrounded—like clothing, furniture, or the patterns in wood—with our memories and emotions. As he explains: “I know that objects retain the stain of people and that our memory can be physically located out of longing or grief.” Though his work is grounded in his own memories, it ...
Feb 17, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 15Ep. 13
New Talk Art!!! For this VERY special episode we meet artist couple - photographer Ian Lewandowski and painter Anthony Cudahy to discuss how their individual art practices overlap through their life together and the idea of the 'muse'. Ian Lewandowski (born 1990) is a photographer from Northwest Indiana. He’s exhibited photographs at School 33 Art Center (Baltimore), 1969 Gallery (New York), Skylab Gallery (Columbus), and Lamar Dodd School of Art (Athens). Ian has been published in Unseen , The ...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 15Ep. 12
We meet SANDRA BERNHARD, performer, actress, singer, comedian, author and ICON!!!! We discover the influence of her artist mother, growing up in Flint Michigan and meeting/collaborating with artists as wide-ranging as Nan Goldin, Mike Kelley, John Boskovich, Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, and Keith Haring and her deep admiration for the work of Cindy Sherman. We also learn about her passion for expressing herself via fashion, walking the runway for Chanel and Comme des Garçons, and her iconic ...
Feb 03, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 15Ep. 11
New Talk Art! We head to London's Pippy Houldsworth Gallery to meet leading artist Nengi Omuku (b.1987, Nigeria)!!! Grappling with ideas around gender, cultural heritage and race, Nengi Omuku’s practice explores the complexities of identity, focusing on interior psychological spaces and how they manifest within the physical world. Rendered in oil paint on strips of sanyan – a traditional Nigerian fabric used for draped clothing – Omuku creates ethereal scenes of figures in constant flux, interac...
Jan 27, 2023•59 min•Season 15Ep. 10
Talk Art is back!!! To kick off the new year 2023, we bring you an exclusive interview with artist JAKE GREWAL on the occasion of his major solo show of new paintings at Thomas Dane. In Jake Grewal’s paintings and drawings nude figures, nearly always male and often based on the artist’s own image, inhabit verdant forests and woodland landscapes. Unmoored from any specific time or place, Grewal’s dream-like scenes are spaces of desire and projection, where the artist’s exploration of self opens o...
Jan 20, 2023•50 min•Season 15Ep. 9
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! We have a very funny gift of an episode for you before we take a few weeks off!!! We will return in mid January 2023! We meet the one and only BILLY EICHNER!!! Leading American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter, Eichner is the star of new gay romcom Bros and also the creator of Billy on the Street, the iconic comedy game show. The show earned Eichner a nomination for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host. We discuss how Billy grew up with access to th...
Jan 01, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 15Ep. 8
Talk Art Christmas Special!!!! We meet the one and only Julian Clary, comedy pioneer, camp icon and bonafide Talk Art hero!!!! BORN TO MINCE!!!! We discuss living with art, the lasting influence of his art teacher and the fine art of Christmas pantomimes! We learn about his interest in the work of Keith Haring, Peter Blake, Jean Cocteau, queer life in the 1980s and his admiration for Noël Coward, Lindsay Kemp and Renaissance Art! We also have an art quiz in the style of Mastermind, to encourage ...
Dec 23, 2022•59 min•Season 15Ep. 7
New Talk Art! We meet Jammie Holmes from his studio in Dallas, Texas. Holmes is a self-taught painter from Thibodaux, Louisiana, whose work tells the story of contemporary life for many black families in the Deep South. Through portraiture and tableaux, Holmes depicts stories of the celebrations and struggles of everyday life, with particular attention paid to a profound sense of place. Growing up 20 minutes from the Mississippi River, Holmes was surrounded by the social and economic consequence...
Dec 16, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 15Ep. 6
We meet leading artist Peter Halley from his studio in NYC! Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Peter Halley’s paintings and extensive writings about the ever-growing digitisation of cultural, artistic, and social life established him as a leading figure of the Neo-Conceptualist movement in New York City. In his paintings and writings, Halley described the increasingly isolated built environment through his uniquely invented language of ‘cells’, ‘prisons’ and ‘conduits’. These central motifs were...
Dec 09, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 15Ep. 5
We meet emerging artist Nash Glynn, from her studio in New York's Seaport! Nash Glynn (b.1992) is a transdisciplinary American artist currently working in NYC. Working across painting, photography, and video, Glynn is best known for her groundbreaking nude self-portraits of her experience and life as a transgender woman, an underrepresented figure in the Western art canon until recently. Glynn was born and raised in Miami, Florida and learned to paint while working at her father's set design sho...
Dec 02, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 15Ep. 4
We meet artist Kyle Coniglio to discuss his paintings which have been described as 'fictional tellings based on authentic experiences'. Naturally, this leads viewers to search for clues in his paintings to understand Coniglio as an artist, as a painter. A good starting point, as his recent solo exhibition title suggests is Last Summer . The title talks about the particular kind of warming nostalgia from memories of the past, and also Coniglio’s time spent on Fire Island. Fire Island which is par...
Nov 25, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 15Ep. 3
Season 15 continues!!! We meet our dear friend Katy Hessel!!!! Art historian, podcaster, author and presenter. She is best known for creating and curating The Great Women Artists ; under this label, she runs an Instagram account and a successful podcast named by British Vogue as one of the top podcasts of 2021. In 2020, Katy wrote and presented a documentary on Artemisia Gentileschi for BBC Four’s Inside Museum series, followed by a documentary on Monet in for BBC Four’s Art on the BBC entitled ...
Nov 18, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 15Ep. 2
Talk Art is back for Season 15!!!! This special Talk Art live episode with DJ Fat Tony is brought to you in partnership with L’OR coffee for the Secret Podcast Experience. We met artist Fat Tony live from Spring Studios London in front of a live audience for an incredible thought provoking chat about his life experiences, inspirations and interesting people he has met along the way. Follow @DJ_FatTony_ on Instagram and his official website: www.djfattony.co.uk Thanks for listening!!! We are so e...
Nov 15, 2022•56 min•Season 15Ep. 1
It's the Season 14 finale! We meet Skinder Hundal MBE who is the British Council's Director of Arts!!!! We discuss his extraordinary career in Visual Arts including recently working with Sonya Boyce, for the 2022 British Pavilion, who won the Golden Lion prize for her exhibition 'Feeling Her Way', which runs until 27th November. Before joining British Council, Hundal was CEO/Director of New Art Exchange, a contemporary arts space in Nottingham where he worked for 12 years to create connections b...
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Season 14Ep. 12
We meet Alex Rotter, Chairman of Christie’s 20/21 Art Departments, to discuss Christie’s New York forthcoming auction 'Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection' which runs from 9–10 November 2022 at Rockefeller Center. The collection of philanthropist Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, includes more than 150 masterpieces spanning 500 years of art history. Reflecting the depth and breadth of Paul G. Allen’s collection, the auctions connect this visionary innovator to a range of ground-breakin...
Nov 06, 2022•51 min•Season 14Ep. 11
Woody De Othello (b. 1991) is a Miami-born, California-based artist whose subject matter spans household objects, bodily features, and the natural world. Everyday artifacts of the domestic tables, chairs, television remotes, telephone receivers, lamps, air purifiers, et cet era—are anthropomorphized in glazed ceramic, bronze, wood, and glass. Othello’s sense of humor manifests across his work in visual puns and cartoonish figuration. “I choose objects that are already very human,” says Othello. ...
Nov 04, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 14Ep. 10
We meet the one and only ZACHARY QUINTO!!!! Leading actor, film producer and art collector, best known for his roles Sylar in Heroes, Spock in Star Trek, Margin Call, Angels in America and numerous seasons of American Horror Story, for which he received an Emmy award nomination. We discuss living with art, making his own watercolours, growing up in Pittsburgh, coming out publicly as gay in 2011, meeting Cindy Sherman, his close friendship with Leonard Nimoy, the original Spock and also an accomp...
Oct 27, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 14Ep. 9
