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Lee Alexander McQueen's Sarabande Foundation
In Talks With - March 29, 2024 17:11 - 45 minutesGuest 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 stud...
Pauline Boty
In Talks With - February 15, 2024 15:31 - 45 minutesWho 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 ...
Reframing Pauline Boty
In Talks With - February 15, 2024 15:31 - 45 minutesWho 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 ...
Filling in the gaps: Lubaina Himid
In Talks With - January 31, 2024 13:16 - 16 minutesOf 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 ...
David Remfry reflects
In Talks With - January 21, 2024 16:51 - 55 minutesJournalist 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 h...
The collaborative fashion spirit behind Marni
In Talks With - December 03, 2023 19:53 - 1 hour“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, ...
Amber Pinkerton
In Talks With - November 08, 2023 13:03 - 32 minutesArtist 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 ...
Liverpool Biennial director Sam Lackey
In Talks With - October 11, 2023 10:06 - 37 minutesDanielle 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. ...
Brandon Wen
In Talks With - September 18, 2023 18:46 - 31 minutesThe 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 fash...
Janette Beckman
In Talks With - September 07, 2023 07:56 - 32 minutesSince 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 ever...
S.S. Daley
In Talks With - August 29, 2023 12:55 - 44 minutesThe 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...
Aindrea Emelife and Black Venus
In Talks With - August 06, 2023 11:55 - 31 minutesDanielle 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...
Moki Cherry at the ICA
In Talks With - August 04, 2023 18:47 - 36 minutesMoki 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 pra...
Richard Malone
In Talks With - August 03, 2023 18:40 - 39 minutesDanielle 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 to...
Betty and George Woodman at Charleston
In Talks With - July 17, 2023 08:49 - 43 minutesHow 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 sis...
Anthony Caro at Pitzhanger Manor
In Talks With - July 04, 2023 18:38 - 32 minutesAnthony 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...
Shezad Dawood
In Talks With - June 17, 2023 19:48 - 38 minutes“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...
Man Ray
In Talks With - June 05, 2023 17:12 - 36 minutesCurator 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 Mille...
Touria El Glaoui
In Talks With - May 16, 2023 10:49 - 38 minutesUnder 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, includin...
Nazy Vassegh on collecting art
In Talks With - May 13, 2023 16:06 - 24 minutesWhat 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 fulfillin...
Leonardo Drew
In Talks With - March 31, 2023 16:07 - 25 minutesSpotted 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
In Talks With - February 23, 2023 16:10 - 39 minutes"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 recla...
Scott Covert
In Talks With - February 13, 2023 16:02 - 26 minutesAn 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 Daniell...
Jenkin van Zyl
In Talks With - January 26, 2023 11:27 - 35 minutesArtist 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 i...
Who was Cinzia Ruggeri?
In Talks With - January 16, 2023 19:35 - 44 minutesThis 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....
Hannah Starkey
In Talks With - January 09, 2023 17:44 - 35 minutesIn 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 ph...
Nigel Cooke
In Talks With - December 20, 2022 10:27 - 52 minutes"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
In Talks With - November 18, 2022 11:13 - 30 minutesIn 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 trai...
Suzanne Clements
In Talks With - November 17, 2022 16:41 - 31 minutesThe 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
In Talks With - November 15, 2022 15:26 - 28 minutes“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.
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