Considering Art Podcast
Arts
About
Bob Chaundy of Considering Art interviews an artist about their life and work.
Episodes
- Considering Art Podcast – Clare Burnett, sculpting modern urban themes
In this episode, sculptor Clare Burnett talks about her upbringing abroad, studying law and social sciences before turning to art, starting as a painter before turning to sculpture, the modern issues her sculptures reference, how cities in…
- Considering Art Podcast – Harriet Mena Hill, Concrete Art and London’s Aylesbury Estate
For nearly a decade, Harriet Mena Hill has been drawing and painting on concrete images of the Aylesbury estate in south-west London. In this episode, she talks about how architecture has always been an artistic theme for her, the influenc…
- Considering Art Podcast – Rediscover your artistic passion with Ndzaba Mngomezulu.
Ndzaba Mngomezulu talks about his Artist Creators Academy, which helps people rediscover their drawing enthusiasm. He shares his personal journey back to art and discusses practical and psychological reasons why people stop creating, along…
- Considering Art Podcast – Genevieve Robertson, art meets environmental science
Canadian artist Genevieve Robertson discusses her multimedia art, which is influenced by environmental trauma, particularly logging in British Columbia, and her family
- Considering Art Podcast – Kimberley Gundle, multi-media
South African artist Kimberley Gundle, known for her bold, colourful drawings, prints, and ceramic portraits, discusses her artistic journey. Topics include daily sketching on the London Underground, studying ceramics, designing rugs, art…
- Considering Art Podcast – Jaclyn Mednicov – multi-media
Jaclyn Mednicov, a Chicago-based artist, discusses her artistic development, her focus on nature and plants in her work, her exploration of ceramics, and the techniques acquired through international residencies.
- Considering Art Podcast – Rose Electra Harris, painter and printmaker
Rose Electra Harris is a young emerging artist who paints bright energetic works that focus on nature. In this episode she talks about how her printmaking training influences her painting style, how Covid changed her career, how travels an…
- Considering Art Podcast – Sophie Perez, landscape painter
Sophie Perez is a British-born artist now living in Australia where she has exhibited widely and won prestigious awards. In this episode, she talks about her early art experiences, why she moved to Australia, how the Mornington Peninsula a…
- Considering Art Podcast – Agata Mayes, lens-based visual artist
Agata Mayes is a Polish-born visual artist based in Melbourne, Australia. In this episode, she talks about growing up in Poland during the transition from Communism, the influence of her father’s photography hobby, the effect on her of hav…
- Considering Art Podcast – June Nelson, multi-media
June Nelson paints and draws themes expressing narratives that shape women’s lives. In this episode, she talks about her upbringing in industrial south Wales, studying English before reverting to art, how she has adopted a feminist viewpoi…
- Considering Art Podcast – Paul Hodgson, multi-media
In this episode, British artist Paul Hodgson explains how and why his practice is primarily concerned with reconstructing important moments in art history by deconstructing the process by which the artwork is made. He discusses the symboli…
- Considering Art Podcast – Joan Danziger, sculptor
Joan Danziger is a 91-year-old American sculptor whose fantastical works have adorned many a museum and gallery across the United States. In this episode, she talks about how surrealism attracted her even as a child, how after graduating f…
- Considering Art Podcast – Joanna Whittle, landscape artist
Joanna Whittle is a multi-prize winning landscape artist regarded by some as the greatest painter of her generation. In this episode, she talks about the influences of a childhood spent abroad, her attraction to tents and fairground struct…
- Considering Art Podcast – Narinder Sagoo MBE, architectural artist
Narinder Sagoo’s visionary drawing skills have been instrumental in imagining architectural spaces in his role as Head of Design and Communication for Foster and Partners. In this episode, he talks about how drawing was a key part of his c…
- Considering Art Podcast – Harold Offeh, multi-media
Harold Offeh is a Ghana-born British artist and educator who uses a range of media to investigate the way we think about social, political, sexual and racial models. In this episode, he talks about how performance became a natural part of…
- Considering Art Podcast Reprise – Beezy Bailey, multi-media artist
In this episode, South African artist Beezy Bailey talks about his family roots, his time in New York with the likes of Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, his Fine Art degree in London, his collaborations with rock stars David Bowie, Dave Matth…
- Considering Art Podcast Reprise – Beth Carter, sculptor
In an interview taken from the Considering Art archive in 2022, eminent sculptor Beth Carter talks about the symbolic significance of her bronze sculptures of animals and hybrid animals, how the minotaur became an obsessive subject of her…
- Considering Art Podcast – Hardeep Pandhal, multi-media
Hardeep Pandhal creates fantasy worlds centred on drawing in which he tackles challenging contemporary issues with a slice of humour. In this episode, he talks about his family background in Birmingham as the son of two Sikh parents, the r…
- Considering Art Podcast – Steve Nayar, wildlife painter
Steve Nayar has been a nine times finalist for the Wildlife Artist of the Year competition and focuses on portraying endangered species. In this episode, he talks about his family’s lineage, what he learnt during his career in design and a…
- Considering Art Podcast – Meredith Owen, landscape painter
Meredith Owen explores our relationship with nature in her oil paintings. In this episode, she talks about how nature was important in her childhood, studying Fine Art photography, fulfilling a childhood obsession by travelling to Mongolia…
- Considering Art Podcast – Caro Williams, sculptor
Caro Williams has earned a worldwide reputation for sculptures that are transformations into solid form of lines from books and poems as well as sound, particularly birdsong. In this episode, she talks about her fascinating family backgrou…
- Considering Art Podcast – Simon Casson, painter
Simon Casson is internationally acclaimed for his meticulous paintings based on the Renaissance style but with a modern twist. In this episode, he talks about his African upbringing, how seeing a Renaissance work in the National Gallery as…
- Considering Art Podcast – Esther Neslen, multi-disciplinary
Esther Neslen is a sculptor, ceramicist and educator in London who works both figuratively and in abstraction. In this episode, she talks about how art was a way of easing anxiety as a child, her early fascination with the human form, how…
- Considering Art Podcast – Louise Pragnell, portrait artist
For 20 years, Louise Pragnell has made a speciality of painting the portraits of members of royal families and military top brass. In this episode, she talks about drawing her mother as a child, her years of studying art before turning to…
- Considering Art Podcast – Graham Crowley, painter
Graham Crowley has had a long and distinguished career as a painter and teacher, won the John Moores Painting Prize in 2023 and holds strong views on what he believes painting is and should be. In this episode, he talks about his lack of c…
- Considering Art Podcast – Annemarieke Kloosterhof, multi-media
Annemarieke Kloosterhof is a London-based Dutch artist who works in painting, collage, design and particularly in all things paper including single or multi-layered paper-cut illustrations, paper props, film sets and large-scale installati…
- Considering Art Podcast – Reena Saini Kallat, multi-media
Reena Saini Kallat is an Indian artist who has gained international recognition for works that focus on aspects of global conflicts, injustices, inequalities, and climate catastrophes. In this episode, she talks about her family story of P…
- Considering Art Podcast – Raghav Babbar, painter
Raghav Babbar is a young Indian artist who paints everyday people in a sensitive and empathetic way. His subjects reflect his Indian heritage and his works are highly sought after. In this episode, he talks about his upbringing in a family…
- Considering Art Podcast – Lucy Chapman, multi-media
Lucy Chapman is a multi-media artist whose artworks draw on scientific research. In this episode, she talks about how her father’s dyslexia motivated her to teach in special needs education, how social justice has been a driver for her, he…
- Considering Art Podcast – Bianca Raffaella, painter
Bianca Raffaella won the 2025 Women in Art Prize, a remarkable achievement for an artist who has visual impairment and is registered blind. In this episode, she talks about the nature of this impairment, how she developed an eating disorde…
- Considering Art Podcast – Alice Sheppard Fidler, sculptor
Alice Sheppard Fidler’s work spans sculpture, installation and performance. In this episode, she talks about her early career in design within the film, TV and fashion industries, being a founder member of Studio Voltaire Gallery in London…
- Considering Art Podcast – Sarah Adams, landscape painter
For the past 20 years, Sarah Adams has captured in oil the rugged features of the north coast of Cornwall where she lives. In this episode, she talks about the artistic journey she has made towards becoming a landscape painter, the extraor…
- Considering Art Podcast – Natalia Millman, multi-media conceptual artist
Natalia Millman was born in Ukraine and came to England in her twenties. Her father’s dementia and subsequent death had a profound effect on her both personally and artistically. In this episode she talks about her Ukrainian background, ho…
- Considering Art Podcast – Britt Boutros-Ghali, painter
Britt Boutros-Ghali was born in Norway but for the past five decades has lived in Egypt having married into one of the country’s foremost families. Her emotional abstracts and figurative expressionism are much sought after and she has been…
- Considering Art Podcast – Hannah Gibson, glass artist
Hannah Gibson has held a passion for glass since childhood and is now a multi-award winning glass artist. In this episode, she talks about how her upbringing inspired her love for the material and for geology, how she has studied and pract…
- Considering Art Podcast – Raewyn Harrison, ceramicist
London-based, New Zealand-born ceramicist Raewyn Harrison has made the River Thames the focus of her practice. In this episode, she talks about the hobby of mud larking in which people discover all manner of everyday objects from centuries…
- Considering Art Podcast – Deborah Grice, painter
Deborah Grice is a prize-winning British painter of atmospheric landscapes with a contemporary twist. In this episode, she talks about how she had ambitions to become a war artist, how moving from Glasgow to London to study art changed her…
- Considering Art Podcast – Brian Sayers, painter
Brian Sayers paints remarkable still life paintings that are often cluttered with all manner of everyday objects and implements. In this episode, he talks about how he got into The Slade art school and meeting Lucian Freud and Francis Baco…
- Considering Art Podcast – Jonathan O’Dea, Sculptor
Jonathan O’Dea creates abstract sculptures out of waste material from construction sites. In so doing, he makes art in a sustainable way. In this episode, he talks about his Irish background in which he was making objects from an early age…
- Considering Art Podcast – Su Richardson, textile artist
Su Richardson became a pioneer of feminist art in the 1970s through her crocheted and other works which focused on domesticity and feminine issues such as motherhood, PMS, menopause and so on. In this episode she talks about reactions to h…
- Considering Art Podcast – Jerry Buhari, Nigerian mixed media artist
Jerry Buhari is a renowned artist whose works reflect themes of the environment and the political and social woes of his native Nigeria. In this episode, he talks about how human development has affected his place of birth in the rural nor…
- Considering Art Podcast – Hannah Thomas, abstract painter
Hannah Thomas paints dreamlike, abstract landscapes full of weird biomorphic shapes, hybrid creatures and visceral body parts full of symbols and metaphor. In this episode, she talks about her previous career as a photographer shooting roc…
- Considering Art Podcast – Jean-Luc Almond, painter
Jean-Luc Almond is a prize-winning portrait painter whose images are distorted in order to give them a psychological and emotional depth, representing the polarities of the human condition. In this episode, he talks about his early life in…
- Considering Art Podcast – Fiona Campbell, sculptor
Fiona Campbell creates sculptures and installations that she reappropriates from found and discarded materials. In this episode, she talks about how her concern for the environment is at the heart of her practice, the types of materials sh…
- Considering Art Podcast – Rosanne Guille, painter
Rosanne Guille is an artist and activist who grew up on the tiny Channel Island of Sark. In this episode, she talks about the idyllic childhood she had there, how the scenery of Sark was inspiring as a plein air painter of land and seascap…
- Considering Art Podcast – Andrew Gifford, painter
Andrew Gifford’s paintings of both nature and cityscapes are concerned with the shifting effects of light and atmosphere. In this episode, he talks about painting wildlife from an early age, how particular episodes in his life forged his i…
- Considering Art Podcast – Jacqué Price, painter
Californian artist Jacqué Price paints landscapes, animals and figures in what she calls a “representationally expressionistic” way. In this episode, she talks about a near-death experience which changed her life, how she initially gave up…
- Considering Art Podcast – Carolyn Tripp, ceramicist
Carolyn Tripp makes traditionally-shaped porcelain ceramics but gives them a contemporary twist. In this episode, she tells of how family members first piqued her interest in ceramics, why she gave up a successful career in advertising to…
- Considering Art Podcast – Sophie Duez, surrealist portrait artist
Sophie Duez is a multidisciplinary emerging artist with a particular love for graphite. In this episode, she talks about why she felt an outsider as a child, how having double vision has affected her art, why she chose to study Illustratio…
- Considering Art Podcast – Paige Perkins, painter
American artist Paige Perkins, now based in England, draws on mythology, fairy tales and symbols to create paintings in which hybrid creatures and ambivalent faces abound. In this episode, she talks about how she chose painting over ballet…