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56 episodes - English - Latest episode: 30 days ago -Adventures in visual culture. With journalist Danielle Radojcin
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Lee Alexander McQueen's Sarabande Foundation
March 29, 2024 17:11 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBGuest host Simon Chilvers speaks to Trino Verkade, Chief Executive of The Sarabande Foundation, a beacon of support and inspiration for emerging talent in the creative world. Founded by the legendary Alexander McQueen in 2006, Sarabande has blossomed into a nurturing space offering not only studios but also a wealth of knowledge through talks and workshops spanning various disciplines. Trino Verkade's journey intertwines deeply with the legacy of Alexander McQueen himself. Hailing from Liv...
Pauline Boty
February 15, 2024 15:31 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBWho was Pauline Boty? With her blonde, backcombed hairstyle and It Girl charm, this pioneer of Pop Art embodied the 1960s scene in London, hanging with Bob Dylan, posing for David Bailey, and acting with Michael Caine in the film Alfie. As a new generation discovers her work, Danielle Radojcin and guests explore the tragically short life and burgeoning legacy of this extraordinary woman. Born in 1938 in Croydon, Boty studied at The Royal Academy and became a part of the nascent British p...
Reframing Pauline Boty
February 15, 2024 15:31 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBWho was Pauline Boty? With her blonde, backcombed hairstyle and It Girl charm, this pioneer of Pop Art embodied the 1960s scene in London, hanging with Bob Dylan, posing for David Bailey, and acting with Michael Caine in the film Alfie. As a new generation discovers her work, Danielle Radojcin and guests explore the tragically short life and burgeoning legacy of this extraordinary woman. Born in 1938 in Croydon, Boty studied at The Royal Academy and became a part of the nascent British p...
Filling in the gaps: Lubaina Himid
January 31, 2024 13:16 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBOf her work, British artist Lubaina Himid says she is "filling in the gaps of history." Danielle Radojcin travels to The Holburne Museum in Bath to meet her at her new exhibition, Lost Threads, which, like much of her work, addresses the histories and legacies of colonialism and slavery. Himid turns 70 this year. She was born in Zanzibar, but after her father tragically died of malaria when she was just a few months old, her British mother took her to live in the UK, where they settled in L...
David Remfry reflects
January 21, 2024 16:51 - 55 minutes - 51 MBJournalist Danielle Radojcin visits British artist David Remfry in his studio, where he reflects on his life as an artist - from 60s London (Francis Bacon was a neighbour), to 20 years spent living in the Chelsea Hotel to a triumph at the Royal Academy - and the famous people who have sat for him along the way. Born in Worthing in the 50s and raised in the northern industrial town of Hull, Remfry studied art and moved to London in the 60s, holding his first solo exhibition there in 1973. ...
The collaborative fashion spirit behind Marni
December 03, 2023 19:53 - 1 hour - 59.6 MB“Joy is something that requires work and commitment. It doesn’t just fall on you like rain.” So says Francesco Risso, the creative director at Italian fashion house Marni, where he has been in post since 2016. For this episode, guest host Simon Chilvers speaks with Francesco and Carlos Nazario, the stylist with whom Risso works, about how they came to work together, and what inspires them. Founded in 1994 by Consuelo Castiglioni, Marni built a devoted following for its intellectual and arti...
Amber Pinkerton
November 08, 2023 13:03 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBArtist Amber Pinkerton describes what it's like moving to London from Jamaica as a young woman, and her experiences of alienation and self-awakening. The photraphic film-maker and conceptual artist creates work which ranges from art to fashion photography to installation, with a self-described focus on themes of identity, personhood and the nature of individual and cultural agency, colourism and class. Pinkerton's work has been featured in publications such as Vanity Fair, and Dazed and sh...
Liverpool Biennial director Sam Lackey
October 11, 2023 10:06 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBDanielle Radojcin talks to Sam Lackey, director at the Liverpool Biennial and the UK’s largest festival of contemporary art. The biennial, a festival which happens every two years in a city around the world, and often in disused spaces, is the chance to revitalise the city it’s taking place in. The 12th edition of the Liverpool Biennial, curated by Khanyisile Mbongwa, addressed the history of the city of Liverpool and its connections to the slave trade, and acted as a call for “ancestral a...
Brandon Wen
September 18, 2023 18:46 - 31 minutes - 29 MBThe end-of-year SHOW + EXPO of the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp is Belgium’s biggest fashion happening of the year, with both industry and insiders and the general public donning their finest clothes to attend, have a good time, and support their considerable fashion talent. Antwerp has a history of producing some of the world’s finest fashion creatives, from Martin Margiela to Dries van Noten to Raf Simons. In the excitement of the days leading up to the even...
Janette Beckman
September 07, 2023 07:56 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBSince the 70s, photographer Janette Beckman has documented youth culture in street scenes on both sides of the Atlantic, capturing musicians such as Dr Dre, Pete Townsend and Paul Weller, just before they hit the big time. Captivated by street style, her photojournalism has caught on camera everything from punks and rockers in London to the gangs of East Los Angeles. Janette grew up in London and spent time as a youth working for some of the most preeminent music and youth culture magazine...
S.S. Daley
August 29, 2023 12:55 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBThe British fashion brand S.S. Daley, designed by Steven Stokey-Daley, makes clothes for men and women that celebrate traditional tropes of English heritage while also playfully subverting embedded ideas around queerness and class. And it's struck a chord: Anna Wintour has given him her approval, Sir Ian McKellen has walked in his show, and Harry Styles has worn his clothes. Steven grew up in Liverpool and studied at the University of Westminster, after which he did internships at Tom Ford a...
Aindrea Emelife and Black Venus
August 06, 2023 11:55 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBDanielle heads to Somerset House in London to speak with Aindrea Emelife, the Nigerian-British curator and art historian. Specialising in modern and contemporary art, with a focus on questions around colonial and decolonial histories in Africa, transnationalism and the politics of representation, her writing includes the book A Brief History of Protest Art, and in 2021, she was appointed to the Mayor of London’s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm. She is currently Curator of Modern...
Moki Cherry at the ICA
August 04, 2023 18:47 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBMoki Cherry was a Swedish artist who lived between 1943 and 2009 and who made a name for herself initially through a two-decades long artistic collaboration with her husband, the Jazz musician Don Cherry, and then later as an artist in her own right, developing an expansive and collaborative practice across textile, sculpture, painting, drawing, writing, collage, and video. As a mother - her children are the musicians Neneh Cherry and Eagle Eye Cherry - she found a way of working her art ar...
Richard Malone
August 03, 2023 18:40 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBDanielle goes on a studio visit with the artist and fashion designer, Richard Malone. Richard was born in Ireland in 1990. He studied at Central Saint Martins and after graduating became a name to watch on the London fashion scene in the 2010s. His work has been recognised for its sensitivity towards the environment. As well as being awarded the prestigious LVMH Grand Prix scholarship and Deutsche Bank's Award for Fashion, he has won the Woolmark Prize for creating a fully biodegradable col...
Betty and George Woodman at Charleston
July 17, 2023 08:49 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBHow can a physical space impact an artist’s work? Danielle travels to Charleston, that famous home in the rolling Sussex hills of South East England, which was home to the Bloomsbury Set during the First and Second World Wars and which still attracts fans of the works of Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell their friends who stayed there, and which continues to be held up as a beacon of artistic and sexual freedom. This summer, the space plays host to an exhibition of the artists Georg...
Anthony Caro at Pitzhanger Manor
July 04, 2023 18:38 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBAnthony Caro is a giant of British architecture, who designed the London Millennium Footbridge spanning the Thames between St. Paul's Cathedral and the Tate Modern, who worked with Henry Moore, and who, with his vision and restless drive, broke through the stagnation of the art world in post-war Britain. A major exhibition of Anthony Caro’s work is currently on view at Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery in Ealing, West London, itself a landmark of the British cultural landscape. Over tea in her he...
Shezad Dawood
June 17, 2023 19:48 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MB“I like to break and remake things.” Calling himself-medium-agnostic, London-based British-Pakistani artist Shezad Dawood interweaves stories, realities and symbolism to create richly layered artworks, spanning painting, textiles, sculpture, film and digital media. The breadth of Dawood's output is quite astounding, and his ability to jump across an omniversal divide is worth the time spent listening to this alone. Dawood currently has a solo exhibition of ambitious new work entitled ‘Night ...
Man Ray
June 05, 2023 17:12 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBCurator Romy Cockx talks to Danielle Radojcin about Man Ray’s journey from growing up as the son of working-class immigrants in Philadelphia to a towering giant of 20th Century image-making. Man Ray was responsible for some of the most eye-catching photos of women in the 20th Century: Lee Miller’s floating lips, the glass tears of Kiki de Montparnasse, and portraits of fashion stars Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli to name but a few. MoMu, the Fashion Museum in Antwerp, is currently runni...
Touria El Glaoui
May 16, 2023 10:49 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBUnder Touria El Glaoui's guidance, the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair has become a flagship event in the art world, providing a platform for emerging and established artists from Africa and the diaspora to showcase their work. The fair has been held in major cities around the world, including London, Marrakech and New York, and has attracted a diverse audience of art enthusiasts, collectors, and curators. Touria's visionary mindset extends far beyond the art world. Ahead of the latest N...
Nazy Vassegh on collecting art
May 13, 2023 16:06 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBWhat makes a good art fair? In recent years, there has been an ever-growing number of them around the world, their size and number leading to complaints of disregard of environmental impact and general art fair fatigue. So, is it possible to make attending an art fair into a creatively fulfilling experience? Leading art advisor Nazy Vassegh addresses this with her boutique art fair, Eye of the Collector, located in the storied 2 Temple Place building in London. Nazy sees her mission as putti...
Leonardo Drew
March 31, 2023 16:07 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBSpotted as a teenager for his spectacular drawing skills, African-American artist Leonardo Drew was nearly recruited into a world of draughtsmanship for the likes of Marvel and DC comics, but instead found his true calling via the study of fine arts in New York and the impact of Jackson Pollock.
Somaya Critchlow and Lucian Freud
February 23, 2023 16:10 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MB"What is it like to be a young artist growing up - what are your reference points and how do you take ownership and claim that history?” Taking inspiration from 1950s porn magazines, Lucian Freud and her grandfather, the young British artist Somaya Critchlow creates intimate paintings that reclaim ownership of the Black female nude. Danielle visits The Lightbox, the regional contemporary art gallery in Surrey, where recently-appointed director Sarah Brown made the unconventional decision ...
Scott Covert
February 13, 2023 16:02 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBAn habitué of the vibrant New York art, fashion and nightlife scene of the 1970s and 80s, where the crowd included Cookie Mueller, Basquiat and Holly Woodlawn, Covert's works featuring celebrity graves have become a life’s journey. With his first solo show opening in London, he talks to Danielle Radojcin about past lives, future pilgrimages and being a survivor.
Jenkin van Zyl
January 26, 2023 11:27 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBArtist Jenkin van Zyl seeks to portray characters who find transcendence through the freedom of being able to be whomever they want, behind prosthetic, ghoulish masks. Doppelgangers and clones swarm through his work; theatrics and extreme body alteration abound; moments of extreme tension break into the absurd. On the eve of his first solo show, 'Surrender', he talks to journalist Danielle Radojcin about his work and appearance.
Who was Cinzia Ruggeri?
January 16, 2023 19:35 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBThis episode relates the fascinating life story of Cinzia Ruggeri, the artist and fashion designer whose free-spirited creativity saw her achieve extraordinary success during the 1970s and 80s, only for her to walk away, and, since her death, be largely forgotten by the wider creative community. Born in Milan in 1942 into an industrial manufacturing family, Cinzia Ruggeri studied applied arts in Milan, interned for the fashion label Carven in Paris, and worked at her father’s tailoring com...
Hannah Starkey
January 09, 2023 17:44 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBIn this episode, host Danielle Radojcin travels to East London to meet Hannah Starkey, the British photographer. Since she first came to prominence in the 90s, Starkey has built up an impressive body of work focusing on women and how they are represented. Born in Belfast in 1971, she studied photography and film at Edinburgh’s Napier University in the 90s and went on to study photography at the Royal College of Art in London. Today, her work can be found in major collections including the T...
Nigel Cooke
December 20, 2022 10:27 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MB"My job is about preparing new problems, and trying to paint back out of them towards something true." The artist, who has a major new show in London, talks to Danielle Radojcin about relishing the challenge of the blank canvas and how he strives to represent what it is to be human.
Vanessa Baird
November 18, 2022 11:13 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBIn her first-ever podcast interview, Vanessa Baird, one of Norway's most pre-eminent artists, speaks to Danielle Radojcin about her life’s work. Taking inspiration from her daily routine at home with her family in Oslo, her drawings are at once darkly comic and profoundly relatable. Vanessa trained at the the Royal Academy in London under Quentin Blake, and is a winner of Norway’s most important art prize, the Lorck Schive Kunstpris. She also designed the Nobel Peace prize diploma. She speak...
Suzanne Clements
November 17, 2022 16:41 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBThe former fashion designer, who has recently pivoted to art, talks to Danielle about the heady days of designing for Clements Ribeiro; why French women love Cacharel; and the special energy of Naomi Campbell.
Ghada Amer
November 15, 2022 15:26 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MB“Always be upset. We can go backwards, we can lose rights. If you don’t fight for what you have, you will lose it.” The artist talks to Danielle about her upcoming retrospective at MUCEM in Marseille and how she uses feminism, politics and humour in her work.
Soheila Sokhanvari
October 21, 2022 15:33 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBBorn in Iran, the artist Soheila Sokhanvari has lived in the UK since the 70s. Working first as a scientist, according to her family’s wishes, and then retraining as an artist in the 2010s, she became an ‘official’ exile from Iran in 2009. Now based in Cambridge, where she is a studio resident at Wysing Studios, she has her first Her Barbican exhibition, curated by Eleanor Nairne, two years in the planning and her first major institutional show. Called Rebel, Rebel (after the David Bowie so...
Catherine Sarr
September 26, 2022 09:43 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBSelected as one of the creatives in the Theaster Gates x Prada design programme, Catherine Sarr is a jewellery designer for our times. Her sustainable jewellery line, Almasika, was snapped up by Vogue and has adorned the likes of Michelle Obama and Reese Witherspoon; she is also co-founder of the Prix Sarr at Les Beaux-Arts Paris, which presents three awards annually to students for excellence in a body of artistic work. She speaks to Danielle about philanthropy and being a "vector of change".
Jaume Plensa
July 15, 2022 16:23 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBJaume Plensa is an internationally celebrated artist, whose colossal sculptures enhance the landscape in locations from Japan to Germany, from the United States to Reunion. Born in Barcelona in 1955, he has become known for creating work that aims to build bridges and foster communication between people and nations, principally via his enormous portrait sculptures with closed eyes, which exude an air of peaceful meditation in contrast to their size, and his linguistically-playful pieces form...
Laurie Simmons
May 23, 2022 18:54 - 31 minutes - 72 MB“I feel like it’s going to be a tidal wave of appreciation.” The New York artist talks about her friend, the photographer Jimmy DeSana, and a major retrospective of his work she is planning this autumn. She also discusses the meaning of photography in the digital age and how she will always prefer the artificial to reality.
Laurie Simmons on Jimmy DeSana
May 23, 2022 18:54 - 31 minutes - 72 MB“I feel like it’s going to be a tidal wave of appreciation.” The New York artist talks about her friend, the photographer Jimmy DeSana, and a major retrospective of his work she is planning this autumn. She also discusses the meaning of photography in the digital age and how she will always prefer the artificial to reality.
Kaat Debo at MoMu Antwerp
October 19, 2021 16:40 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBKaat Debo is the director and chief curator at MoMu, the fashion museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Belgium is famous as a key fashion location, not just for producing contemporary star names such as Raf Simons and Glenn Martens, but also for the Antwerp Six, a group of designers who came to prominence in the 90s and became celebrated for their groundbreaking designs. In September this year, MoMu reopened after an expansive renovation which was begun in 2018. Danielle speaks to Kaat about what it’s...
Peter Hujar
May 17, 2021 19:58 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBThe American photographer Peter Hujar came to recognition for his gritty, tough and glamorous black and white images of the downtown New York scene taken during the 1970s and 80s. Until his untimely death from AIDS in 1987, he was a key player in the group of artists, musicians, writers, and performers who made the city so compelling at this time, and he left behind a complex and profound body of work that has become posthumously celebrated. Ahead of a show of his work at Maureen Paley in Lon...
Emma Talbot on becoming an artist
April 21, 2021 15:16 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBThe multidisciplinary British artist shares her journey, from juggling motherhood and work, to dealing with grief, to having her work broadcast at Piccadilly Circus and winning the Max Mara Art Prize for Women and major new shows at Whitechapel Gallery in London and Collezione Maramotti in Italy.
Emma Talbot
April 21, 2021 15:16 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBThe multidisciplinary British artist shares her journey, from juggling motherhood and work, to dealing with grief, to having her work broadcast at Piccadilly Circus and winning the Max Mara Art Prize for Women and major new shows at Whitechapel Gallery in London and Collezione Maramotti in Italy.
Colleen Hill on 90s fashion
March 06, 2021 11:23 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBWas fashion more fun in the 90s? From grunge to vintage, from McQueen to Margiela - there's a lot to cover. Danielle Radojcin asks Colleen Hill, a curator at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, to give us the lowdown on the stories she uncovered while researching her new book on the subject.
New Art Centre Roche Court
October 25, 2020 19:30 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBDanielle spends a day at the New Art Centre at Roche Court in Salisbury near Stonehenge, talking to the artists Edmund de Waal and Jacqui Poncelet, and the gallery's founder, Madeleine Bessborough.
Edmund de Waal
October 25, 2020 19:30 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBDanielle spends a day at the New Art Centre at Roche Court in Salisbury near Stonehenge, talking to the artists Edmund de Waal and Jacqui Poncelet, and the gallery's founder, Madeleine Bessborough.
Tiphaine de Lussy
September 23, 2020 09:58 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBA beacon of glamour on London's fashion and social scene, the cool, effervescent Tiphaine talks to Danielle about her bespoke knitwear label, Paris Essex, how her love of second hand clothes helps raise money for charity, and how she ended up with that extraordinary name.
Marisa Yiu
September 07, 2020 17:21 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MB“What is Chinese design, what is Hong Kong design, what is identity?” These are some of the questions asked by Marisa Yiu, architect and founder of Design Trust, the Hong Kong-based non-profit, grant-funding platform that supports creative endeavours both locally and around the globe, from keeping local silk-making traditions alive, to supporting Rem Koolhaas at The Guggenheim and Cao Fei at Serpentine Galleries.
Allegra Huston
August 18, 2020 15:26 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBAllegra Huston is a writer and editor. She is the author of Love Child, a memoir, and a novel called A Stolen Summer. She was raised in Ireland by the film director John Huston and is the sister of actress Anjelica Huston. She talks from her home in Taos, New Mexico, about memories of her mother, Ricki Soma, and of the book, One Last Lunch, edited by Erica Heller, which she has contributed an essay to.
Michael Salu
July 26, 2020 18:25 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MB"Being on a Black Lives Matter protest with white Germans was a strange experience.” The writer, former creative director of Granta and founder of House of Thought dials in from his home in Berlin to share his thoughts on life after lockdown.
Kendell Geers
July 19, 2020 17:20 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBThe provocative South African artist shares his views on race, violence and the power of art to change perceptions.
#notflix
June 28, 2020 19:18 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBCaroline Issa is a familiar face at fashion shows, parties and on Instagram. She's also the co-owner and fashion director of Tank Magazine, which has been experiencing a bump in views to its Tank TV curated film channel, thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown. As the daughter of a Chinese mother and a Lebanese-Iranian father, she talks to Danielle Radojcin about how her unusual racial heritage has affected her attitude to working in fashion, and which brands she thinks are worthy of her wallet as a ...
Caroline Issa
June 28, 2020 19:18 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBCaroline Issa is a familiar face at fashion shows, parties and on Instagram. She's also the co-owner and fashion director of Tank Magazine, which has been experiencing a bump in views to its Tank TV curated film channel, thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown. As the daughter of a Chinese mother and a Lebanese-Iranian father, she talks to Danielle Radojcin about how her unusual racial heritage has affected her attitude to working in fashion, and which brands she thinks are worthy of her wallet as a ...
Katie Paterson
June 17, 2020 17:45 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBArtist Katie Paterson deals with themes of time, space and nature. For her Future Library project, she has secured authors including Margaret Atwood, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Elif Shafak and Han Kang to each create a piece of writing which will only be revealed 100 years from the time of writing. She talks to Danielle Radojcin about how the authors responded differently to the brief, how the public can participate, and how the mysterious project is evolving in response to environmental threats...