Ministry of Arts Podcast

Ep.248 Heath Kane returns - Ministry of Arts Podcast

March 31, 2024 23:01 - 49 minutes - 38.3 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Heath Kane (@ByHeathKane) Heath Kane returns almost five and a half years after he first appeared on the podcast, in episode 09. At the time he had his own branding agency, creating his ‘Rich Enough to be Batman’ prints as an external creative outlet. We simply discuss what’s happened since we first recorded on that bench in Hoxton Square many moons ago... “Having worked with clients in the luxury goods market for quite a while, I found it hard t...

Ep.247 Danielle Tomlinson - Ministry of Arts Podcast

March 18, 2024 00:01 - 44 minutes - 28.9 MB

💥Ep.247 Danielle Tomlinson 🎙Ministry of Arts Podcast LINK IN BIO In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Danielle Tomlinson (@danielletomlinsonart) Danielle Tomlinson is a successful young British contemporary artist, taking the art world by storm with her bold, abstract paintings focused around her passion for wildlife. Before working full time as an artist Danielle was competitive swimmer, competing nationally and internationally for the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games and the Wo...

Ep.246 Georgia Powell/CURA Art - Ministry of Arts Podcast

March 03, 2024 23:59 - 34 minutes - 32.1 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Georgia Powell of co-founder of CURA Art (@cura_art_) Georgia Powell and Liza Shapiro are the Founders of CURA Art and The Residency. Through the two platforms, the founders have created an environment that is focused on long-term care and legacy. The Residency is a platform aimed at supporting and sponsoring underrepresented artists, centered around time away from their usual routine at various appropriate spaces. The Residency uses a unique approac...

Ep.245 Endless - Ministry of Arts Podcast

February 19, 2024 00:01 - 38 minutes - 25.1 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Endless (@endlessartist) He goes by the name “Endless” – a word which embodies his limitless creativity, passion and drive. Endless is a London-based artist, who infuses street and contemporary art techniques and practices. After 6 years of study, Endless graduated from Cambridge School Of Art, where he specialised in fine art and screen printing. Shortly after this, he moved to London and began sharing his ideas with the world in the form of street...

Ep.244 Nicola Turner- Ministry of Arts Podcast

February 05, 2024 00:01 - 41 minutes - 29 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Nicola Turner (@nicolaturner.art) Turner investigates dissolution of boundaries, liminal states, and continuous exchanges across ecosystems. In doing so, she explores the interconnection of life and death, human and non- human, attraction and repulsion. She combines found objects that hold traces of memory, with the shapes of living forms, and materials from organic ‘dead’ matter such as horsehair - a material used previously for bedding and furnitu...

Ep.243 Hercule Van Wolfwinkle - Ministry of Arts Podcast

January 22, 2024 00:01 - 1 hour - 52.6 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Hercule Van Wolfwinkle (@portraitsbyhercule) Hercule has been called lots of things throughout his life, an artist certainly wasn’t one of them. But all of that changed one late summer afternoon in 2020 when, whilst trying to coerce his young son into making some thank you cards, he doodled a picture of their family dog. The picture was rubbish, so naturally he stuck it on Facebook with the following comment: ***FOR SALE*** Beautiful hand drawn ...

Ep.242 Sara Prinsloo - Ministry of Arts Podcast

January 07, 2024 22:38 - 58 minutes - 34.3 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Sara Prinsloo (@saraprinslooart) Sara Prinsloo is a Sheffield based artist exploring her own mental health and lived experiences through art. “My art is a journey into an unconventional adolescence and those ‘things’ that just stay with you forever. The aim is to make sense of my own life experiences: dealing with grief, coming from a working-class background and the impacts of being reckless as a youth.” Anger and frustration is an emotion of...

Ep.241 The 2023 Round-up - Ministry of Arts Podcast

January 01, 2024 00:01 - 22 minutes - 25.2 MB

In this episode, MoA host Gary Mansfield looks back at the guests that have appeared on the podcast throughout 2023. As ever, we had the widest range of guests of any art podcast, from the unknown to the world renowned and all those in between. Thank you for your support throughout 2023 and look forward to keeping you company through 2024. For any podcast guest recommendations, please contact @MinistryOfArtsOrg on Instagram To Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patr...

Ep.240 Martin O'Brien - Ministry of Arts Podcast

December 11, 2023 00:01 - 58 minutes - 33.9 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Martin O'Brien (@martinobrienart) Martin O’Brien is an artist and zombie. He works across performance, writing and video art. His work uses long durational actions, short speculative texts and critical rants, and performance processes in order to explore death and dying, what it means to be born with a life shortening disease, and the philosophical implications of living longer than expected. He has shown work throughout the UK; Europe; USA; and Cana...

Ep.239 The Legend Background Bob - Ministry of Arts Podcast

November 26, 2023 13:17 - 44 minutes - 38.5 MB

Last week we said goodby Background Bob, the artist with the BIGGEST smile in the art world. In his short time on the art-scene he inspired everyone he came in contact with. We're re-releasing episode 86, recorded [with his Dad Nathan] just over 3 years ago, at the start of his journry... Keep smiling Background Bob!! This week Gary Mansfield speaks to Nathan, the Father of Background Bob (@background_bob) Background Bob is a severely disabled young lad, that just so happened to make hun...

Ep.238 Jamie Jones - Ministry of Arts Podcast

November 13, 2023 00:02 - 44 minutes - 26.8 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Jamie Jones (@just.jamie.jones) Jamie Jones absorbed the artistic and illustrative pop-culture of the 80s and early 90s, bingeing Saturday-morning cartoons, collecting comic books and being mesmerised by the pillars of hip-hop. Playful, bigger-than-life characters, bold neon colour palates and pop art styles. Jamie works with recognisable characters that evoke nostalgia - reflections of childhood memories that make his work accessible to audiences y...

Ep.237 Joelle Taylor - Ministry of Arts Podcast

October 30, 2023 23:36 - 54 minutes - 36.3 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Joelle Taylor (@jtaylortrash) Joelle Taylor is the author of 4 collections of poetry. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors. C+NTO is currently being adapted for theatre with a view to touring. She is a co- curator and host of Out-Spoken Live at the Southbank Centre, and tours her work nationally and internationally in a diverse range of venues, from Australia to...

Ep.236 Chris Atkins - Ministry of Arts Podcast

October 15, 2023 23:03 - 56 minutes - 37.2 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Chris Atkins (@scatatkins ) Chris Atkins is a British journalist, documentary film maker and best-selling author. He has made several fiction feature films, feature length documentaries and television documentaries, which have received three BAFTA nominations. His work is noted for causing controversy and has faced legal action as a result of his films. He gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into the ethics of the British press. In 2016 he was s...

Joseph Ford - MoA Bonus Episode 39

October 11, 2023 23:01 - 31 minutes - 19.7 MB

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Joseph Ford (@josephfordphotography) The best summary of what I do is 'storytelling with a side order of off-beat creativity and an occasional sprinkling of optical illusions'. Twins blended into a wall with custom knitwear? Check. A railway line merging into a zipper? Check. A lifestyle shoot featuring a cardboard teenager? Yup, that too. Clients around the world choose me to create advertising and editorial images and films of people on loca...

Ep.235 Alison Jackson - Ministry of Arts Podcast

October 03, 2023 23:01 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Alison Jackson (@alisonjacksonartist) Alison Jackson, a contemporary, BAFTA and multi award-winning artist, photographer and filmmaker explores the cult of celebrity – an extraordinary phenomenon manufactured by the media, publicity industries and the public figures themselves. To raise questions about this, Jackson creates celebrity ‘news’ that appears real and plausible but isn’t. She creates convincingly realistic work portraying the imagined pri...

CONART - MoA Bonus Episode 38

October 01, 2023 23:01 - 26 minutes - 17.4 MB

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Katy & Jo of CONART (@conartglobal) Conart is a social art marketplace, combining the community engagement of a social network with the trust of a curated marketplace. Designed for artists, art lovers and collectors to connect, discover and buy art, all on one app. Conart was born out of our personal frustration and struggle to access and purchase original art, online. Our experience on other platforms was overwhelming, impersonal and confusi...

Ep.234 Piers Secunda - Ministry of Arts Podcast

September 24, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour - 43.5 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Piers Secunda (@pierssecunda) Piers Secunda was born in London in 1976 and studied painting at Chelsea College of Art in London. Since the late nineties Piers has developed a studio practice using paint in a sculptural manner, rejecting the limitations imposed by the canvas. Piers’ work has developed into a research heavy practice, which examines some of the most significant subjects of our time, such as energy and technology history and the deliber...

Zoë Allen - MoA Bonus Episode 37

September 20, 2023 23:40 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MB

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Zoë Allen (@zoedolcevita) Zoë Allen is the founder and director of Artistic Statements. Artistic Statements create impactful art installations. Connecting people to place through engaging artistic interventions whilst supporting creative talent by finding unique opportunities to showcase artistic skill. Artistic interventions can take many forms; from pop-up immersive displays for events, outdoor graphic murals and temporary interactive in...

Ep.233 Lee Wagstaff - Ministry of Arts Podcast

September 13, 2023 23:01 - 44 minutes - 38.8 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Lee Wagstaff (@lee_wagstaff) Lee Wagstaff was born in 1969 in London, I am an English artist living in Italy. He studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in London and Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan. He has exhibited his body, large format photographic self-portraits and graphite works at art and performance venues worldwide. One performance was featured in the Ornament Und Abstraction sh...

Steve Bannatyne - MoA Bonus Episode 36

September 10, 2023 23:01 - 44 minutes - 28.3 MB

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Steve Bannatyne (@steve.bannatyne) Steve Bannatyne was born and raised in Belfast during the troubles. After leaving home at 16, he studied Art and Design at Exeter College, then earned a BA in Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins. Steve’s work for an environmental protection charity has led him to explore working exclusively with waste materials. Stories can be found within, and memories provoked by, the shapes, textures and visible tr...

Ep.232 The Cameron Twins & DWW Gallery - Ministry of Arts Podcast

September 05, 2023 23:10 - 1 hour - 39.6 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Abigail & Phoebe Cameron a.k.a The Cameron Twins (@the_camerontwins) and Ned Kelly from The Don't Wakk Walk Gallery (@dontwalkwalkgallery) The Cameron Twins are a collaborative artist duo of identical twins who work together in a range of different media including screen print, digital montage, photography, casting, sculpture and installation .Their work has an overall strong and garish style using an oversaturated bright colour palette to create a s...

Ep.231 Dameon Preistly - Ministry of Arts Podcast

August 28, 2023 23:01 - 49 minutes - 32.6 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Dameon Preistly (@dameon_priestly_artist) Dameon Preistly's work focuses on times and events of social and cultural change, often set in an historical context, but with direct relevance to the present. These stories are intensively researched and results in works with a strong narrative and an emphasis on the people involved in the unfolding dramas. The motivation behind his work is directly related to his childhood growing up in 1970s Belfast. His...

Julie Bennett - MoA Bonus Episode 35

August 24, 2023 23:01 - 36 minutes - 27.1 MB

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Julie Bennett (@Julie_Bennett) Julie Bennett is a portrait painter living and working in London. Her bold, unapologetically confident portraits appropriate pop culture icons from the music industry and art world, creating contemporary homages to the likes of David Bowie, Elvis, Frida Kahlo, Boy George, Patti Smith, and Her Majesty The Queen. Defined as British Pop Art, her dripping wet, vibrant, colourful broad-brush marks give the appearance...

Ep.230 Jessica Worrall - Ministry of Arts Podcast

August 20, 2023 23:01 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Jessica Worrall (@jessicaworralldigitalcollage) Originally from Yorkshire and now based in Glasgow, I’ve worked as a theatre designer for over 30 years working in both the mainstream and the experimental with my designs being seen from a disused bus in a Bethnal Green car park to the main stage at Shakespeares Globe. During lockdown I took advantage of the hiatus in my theatre work to explore the creative possibilities of making my own work, initia...

Ep.229 Junior Tomlin - Ministry of Arts Podcast

August 13, 2023 23:02 - 52 minutes - 40.7 MB

Today's episode is one of several featuring some of the artists from the 2023 Kensington & Chelsea Art Week/Trail, for info go to: https://www.kcaw.co.uk or @KCAWlondon In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Junior Tomlin (@juniortomlin) Junior Tomlin was born and raised in Ladbroke Grove, west London. Renowned for his stunning flyer and record cover art, mostly produced during the golden era of rave culture, Junior’s visionary work combines influences from sci-fi, surrealism, fant...

Ep.228 Jimmy Cauty - Ministry of Arts Podcast

August 06, 2023 22:51 - 1 hour - 51 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Jimmy Cauty (@towerblock1) Jimmy Cauty aka James Cauty, Musician, K Foundation artist, deconstructed rock star, part time model village builder, honorary undertaker, town planner, record producer, wooly-back-misfit, armchair rioter, head composer/conductor/AV mixer for The L-13 Light Industrial Orchestra Over a diverse and productive anti-career Cauty has distinguished himself by somehow coming up with at least one must-have-counter-culture-design-c...

Ep.227 Baker & Borowski - Ministry of Arts Podcast

July 30, 2023 23:01 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MB

Today's episode is one of several featuring some of the artists from the 2023 Kensington & Chelsea Art Week/Trail, for info go to: https://www.kcaw.co.uk or @KCAWlondon In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Lee Baker of Baker & Borowski @skipgallery A partnership between artists and curators Lee Baker and Catherine Borowski, Baker & Borowski cultivates and commissions incursions of art into unexpected places. Baker & Borowski is an artist-curator partnership between sculptor and placem...

Ep.226 Angry Dan - Ministry of Arts Podcast

July 23, 2023 23:00 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Angry Dan (@angrydan) Angry Dan is an artist, musician, and a writer from London. He depicts his writing through illustration, animation, and song. Sometimes tragic, sometimes witty, sometimes beautiful, and more often with a hint of irony. His ongoing Instagram project, Angry Dan's Lunchtime Limerick, is intended to be an entry point for his long-form work. For more information on the work of Angry Dan go to https://www.angrydan.com Cover image ...

Ep.225 Misha Milovanovich - Ministry of Arts Podcast

July 16, 2023 23:01 - 44 minutes - 30.2 MB

Today's episode is one of several featuring some of the artists from the 2023 Kensington & Chelsea Art Week/Trail, for info go to: https://www.kcaw.co.uk In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Misha Milovanovich (@mishamilovanovich ) Misha is a Belgrade-born artist living and working in London. She works across several mediums, from sculpture to painting and digital art. Characterised by vivid colour, optical movement and energetic visual cadences, Misha's visual work fuses a diverse rep...

Ep.224 Fredrix Vermin - Ministry of Arts Podcast

July 09, 2023 23:01 - 55 minutes - 46.4 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Fredrix Vermin (@fredrix.vermin) Fredrix Vermin is an interdisciplinary artist from South-East London, the founder of The House of Parakeet as well as part of the micro publishing collective GROTTI. Working across mediums such as print, object making, performance, video and installation; drawing is always a vital starting point and an integral thread through the work. Collaboration and interaction are considered to be an essential part of practice t...

Ep.223 Josephine Chime - Ministry of Arts Podcast

July 02, 2023 23:01 - 40 minutes - 37.7 MB

Today's episode is one of several featuring some of the artists from the 2023 Kensington & Chelsea Art Week/Trail, for info go to: https://www.kcaw.co.uk or @KCAWlondon In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Josephine Chime @jaccartist Detangling MBS: One Hoopers Court, Knightsbridge Underground Station ‘Detangling The MBS’ is a mixed media sculpture, a response to the confining narratives and contradicting messages of how women should present themselves. Chime’s practice delves into sk...

Ep.222 Lucy Oates - Ministry of Arts Podcast

June 25, 2023 23:01 - 34 minutes - 26.9 MB

Today's episode is one of several featuring some of the artists from the 2023 Kensington & Chelsea Art Week/Trail, for info go to: https://www.kcaw.co.uk or @KCAWlondon In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Lucy Oats @overnit.oats Lucy Oates is a London based multidisciplinary artist “I designed a piece for KCAW based off collages I’ve been doing over the years in response to my surrounding environments. For me painting and designing murals is about uplifting areas and injec...

Satur Chong KCAW - MoA Bonus Episode 34

June 23, 2023 18:06 - 21 minutes - 16.5 MB

Today's episode is one of several featuring some of the artists from the 2023 Kensington & Chelsea Art Week/Trail, for info go to: https://www.kcaw.co.uk In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Satur Chong(@satur.chong) THE MANHOLE TEA SET CEREMONY by Satur Chong 24 + 25 June 30-minute performances at 1 pm + 3 pm The Manhole Tea Set is a performance piece where the artist, Satur Chong, and random members of the public are invited to sit down around a manhole, in a pretend ceremony of ...

Ep.221 Saira Jamieson - Ministry of Arts Podcast

June 18, 2023 22:22 - 47 minutes - 31 MB

Today's episode is one of several featuring some of the artists from the 2023 Kensington & Chelsea Art Week/Trail, for info go to: https://www.kcaw.co.uk or @KCAWlondon In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Saira Jamieson @sairajamieson Born in London, to Pakistani parents, Saira Jamieson was raised in a household of both immense cultural pride as well as deep religiosity. These levers, were the inspiration and rebellious fuel of her early artistic impulses. Through paintin...

Malgorzata Lisiecka - MoA Bonus Episode 33

June 11, 2023 22:36 - 31 minutes - 28 MB

Today's episode is one of several featuring some of the artists from the 2023 Kensington & Chelsea Art Week/Trail, for info go to: https://www.kcaw.co.uk or @KCAWlondon In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Malgorzata Lisiecka @malgorzata_lisiecka Malgorzata is an artist based in London whose practice is located between sculpture, public art, installation, costume, and performance. She crosses the boundaries of disciplines, shifting the functions of both wearable objects and the...

Ep.220 Birungi Kawooya & Bokani - Ministry of Arts Podcast

June 05, 2023 23:10 - 32 minutes - 19.9 MB

Today's episode is one of several featuring some of the artists from the 2023 Kensington & Chelsea Art Week/Trail, for info go to: https://www.kcaw.co.uk or @KCAWlondon In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Birungi Kawooya & Bokani (@Birungiart& @bokani) Birungi Kawooya: My art passionately embodies the beauty of the African diaspora with a focus on dance, nature and wellbeing. I take inspiration from Ugandan classical Kiganda dance styles, flash dancing by The Nicholas Brothers and hip...

Ep.219 Sarah Graham - Ministry of Arts Podcast

June 01, 2023 00:29 - 49 minutes - 34.8 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Sarah Graham (@sarahgraham_art) British painter Sarah Graham was born in Hitchin in 1977, and works almost exclusively in oil on canvas. She completed a BA (hons) in Fine Art painting from De Montfort University, Leicester in 2000, and has been pursuing her practice ever since. From 2001 - 2007 she exhibited at independent galleries and art fairs in the UK and overseas. From 2007 - 2014 she signed with a major UK fine art publisher, Washingto...

TOMA- MoA Bonus Episode 32

May 28, 2023 21:16 - 33 minutes - 25.8 MB

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to The Other MA (TOMA)(@TheOtherMA) The Other MA (TOMA) is an 18-month artist-run education model and nomadic exhibition space based in Southend-on- Sea which supports artists who have faced barriers accessing art education and the ‘art world’. The Other MA (TOMA) is an independent, not for profit art organisation, providing a free or low cost means for anyone to engage with contemporary art. We endeavour to make all our activities as friendly a...

Ep.218 Peter Morris - Ministry of Arts Podcast

May 21, 2023 22:12 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Peter Morris (@petermorrisarchitects) Peter Morris is primarily an architect, who has been running his own practice for over a decade. But his other creative work – as an artist, illustrator, model-maker and designer of products and interiors – has always sat alongside his architectural work, and he loves to bring the colour, quirkiness and joy of his artworks to his buildings wherever possible. The sculpture joining KCAW ART TRAIL this s...

Ep.217 Sophie Derrick - Ministry of Arts Podcast

May 14, 2023 23:44 - 37 minutes - 26.2 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Sophie Derrick (@SophieDerrickArt) Sophie Derrick's work very much focuses on portraiture, but with the use of both painting and photography this genre is skewed and manipulated, and the transformative properties of paint are pushed to the limit. She photographs the act of painting onto her own skin and then paints on top of the photographs, creating a layering of image of paint and painted image, blurring the boundaries between the two. The 'self' ...

Ep.216 Holly Stevenson - Ministry of Arts Podcast

May 03, 2023 23:01 - 49 minutes - 32.8 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Holly Stevenson (@holly__stevenson) Holly Stevenson makes fluid ceramic forms that explore Sigmund Freud’s favourite ashtray and last cigar as an analytical metaphor. Her vessels diligently embody the ashtray and cigar as though they were two gendered male and female forms, the yonic ovular dish and the cylindrical phallic cigar, as she reconfigures them into a material language of her own. Holly graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design F...

Ep.215 Ant Hamlyn - Ministry of Arts Podcast

April 23, 2023 23:01 - 44 minutes - 41.5 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Ant Hamlyn (@anthamlyn) Working across a pollination of hand made and digital fabrication processes, Ant Hamlyn’s works delve into our relationship and fluctuating enthusiasm towards contemporary life. His sculptures regularly have anthropomorphic elements and work with metaphor, technology and the interplay between hard and soft to create moments of tactility and surprise through material and visual obscurity. Often creating relics from a recognizab...

Ben Oakley Gallery II - MoA Bonus Episode 31

April 16, 2023 23:01 - 24 minutes - 17.4 MB

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Ben Oakley (@BenOakleyGallery_) Ben Oakley Gallery II 2 Nelson Arcade, Greenwich SE10 9JB We've gone round the bend! BOG2 the resurrection, sounds like a David Lynch Film ffs Navigation of location is tricky, especially with all the costs that go with that on the high street. We had our last gallery for 12 years and built a solid community in the South East of London. It started as a platform for emerging artists, the freedo...

Ep.214 Charlie Haydn Taylor - Ministry of Arts Podcast

April 12, 2023 23:09 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Charlie Haydn Taylor (@charliehtart) Charlie Haydn Taylor was born in Jersey, Channel Islands and is now based in London. His work evokes a sense of contemplation and isolation, where the lines between the fictional and autobiographical collide. His most recent works respond to the emotional weight of isolation that can occur when living in a major city, paradoxically surrounded by millions of others. With regards to this, his work looks to convey a...

Ep.213 INKTERAKTIV- Ministry of Arts Podcast

April 02, 2023 22:03 - 39 minutes - 28.6 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to INKTERAKTIV(@inkteraktiv) INKTERAKTIV, aka Caro Clarke is a London based Urban Paper Artist. She works mostly with fluorescent paper strips using paper quilling techniques, and playing with paper and light. Born in Paris, France in 1976, she has spent most of her life travelling, finally settling in London in 2006. Following a degree in Art History & Fine Art with an emphasis on paper, bookbinding and packaging, Caro went on to receive a BFA in Gr...

Background Bob - MoA Bonus Episode 30

March 30, 2023 23:01 - 24 minutes - 15.6 MB

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Background Bob (@background_bob) Background Bob & his amazing friends…back again A simple little idea that has turned into a worldwide phenomenon. Background Bob is the artist name of 14 yr old Noah. Noah has hydrocephalus, epilepsy and cerebral palsy, but despite that, he’s a cheeky, kid full of smiles who loves to paint. He paints wonderful abstract paintings on cardboard and sends them to artists all over the world to collaborate on with h...

Ep.212 Elizabeth Power - Ministry of Arts Podcast

March 23, 2023 00:04 - 35 minutes - 23.6 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Elizabeth Power (@ElizabethPowerArt ) Bursting with colour and energy, Elizabeth Power’s paintings exude a warmth and vibrancy. Based in St Leonards on Sea, UK, Power’s work has a colour palette rich in coral pinks, forest greens and cool blues. Drawing inspiration from colourists such as Matisse, Hockney, Milton Avery and Tal R, Power’s loose and free abstraction takes this to the next level. Power co-founded the Babes In Arms Collective with fell...

Ep.211 Billy Childish - Ministry of Arts Podcast

March 13, 2023 23:32 - 1 hour - 83.6 MB

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Billy Childish (@billychildish_for_it_is_he) Billy Childish is an English painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. Since the late 1970s, Childish has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art. He has led and played in bands including the Pop Rivets, Thee Milkshakes, Thee Headcoats, and the Musicians of the British Empire, primarily working in the genres of garage rock, punk and surf and releasing more than ...

On The Edge - MoA Bonus Episode 29

March 13, 2023 00:03 - 25 minutes - 16.8 MB

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Tere Chad & Caroline Russell (#OnTheEdgeRSS) On The Edge is a multimedia exhibition of work by members of the Royal Society of Sculptors, made at a time when the world is on the edge, with climate change and war in Ukraine. The exhibition will be held at Espacio Gallery, 159 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 7DG from 14-19 March, with a Private View on the evening of Thursday 16th of March. A series of guided tours and workshops will be held bet...

Ritchie Iwanski - MoA Bonus Episode 28

March 05, 2023 00:01 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MB

In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Ritchie Iwanski (@_r_i_t_c_h_i_e) Ritchie Iwański, a Canadian native, has been honing his artistic skills for the last ten years and has since made New York City his place of residence. He is dedicated to a style of art known as transcendent collage, where he utilizes genuine magazine or comic book clippings to produce his art, providing them with a retro and genuine ambiance. His artwork distinguishes itself through his exceptional methods o...

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