Ministry of Arts Podcast

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Ep.227 Baker & Borowski - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jul 30, 2023

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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 placemaking specialist Catherine Borowski and painter and music producer Lee Baker. Catherine is the founder and creative director of Produce UK, an event-production consultancy and cultural programmer that works with brands, businesses and developers to conceive and deliver experiential placemaking strategies ranging from installations and exhibitions to large-scale festivals.

The duo is on a mission to bring unexpected eruptions of art into the everyday urban landscape and in 2017 they re-conceived the idea of the exhibition space, launching SKIP Gallery – an ongoing series of collaborative, site-specific artworks housed in skips on public sites. With 15 skip shows under their belt, collaborating with artists such as David Shrigley and Jeremy Deller, Baker & Borowski have spread their wings to begin a new venture, Graphic Rewilding, creating large scale artworks that introduce the diversity and colours of the natural world into urban environments. With these images they hope to inspire and encourage people to connect a little more with nature.

For more information on the Kensington Chelsea Art Week & Trail go to

https://www.kcaw.co.uk

To Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofarts

For full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.ministryofarts.org

Email: ministryofartsorg@gmail.com

Social Media: @ministryofartsorg

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Ep.226 Angry Dan - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jul 23, 2023

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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 courtesy of @lauralalis

To Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofarts

For full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.ministryofarts.org

Email: ministryofartsorg@gmail.com

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Ep.225 Misha Milovanovich - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jul 16, 2023

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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 repertoire of images and forms.

Misha's work is often a symphonic abstraction. Her colourful, densely layered works are held in a state of tension between order and chaos, rational structure and spontaneity. She combines depth and surface relief, orchestrating bold contrasts of form, texture and space in her pictures. An intimate colour palette of bodily fluids - red, pink, white, black, yellow and brown - animate the writhing forms and the refracted memories of cartoonish cultural production.

Misha’s work is always spirited, humorous and filled with joy. Her playful totemic sculptures, reflect a kind of prism which defines a new form of appropriation and reference-making.

For more information on the Kensington Chelsea Art Week & Trail go to

https://www.kcaw.co.uk

To Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofarts

For full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.ministryofarts.org

Email: ministryofartsorg@gmail.com

Social Media: @ministryofartsorg

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Ep.224 Fredrix Vermin - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jul 09, 2023

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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 through organising and curating group shows and including making collaborative pieces. The work regularly takes the form of installed environments or fragments from constructed worlds and plays with the space between repulsion and allure. Connection, Institutional critique and humour are often at the centre.

For more information on the work of Fredrix Vermin go to

https://fredrixvermin.com

To Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofarts

For full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.ministryofarts.org

Email: ministryofartsorg@gmail.com

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Ep.223 Josephine Chime - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jul 02, 2023

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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 skewing the dominant notion of aesthetic goals, pulling from ancestral symbolic practices and pictographic messages to inform new female forms that transgress what is socially desirable.

MBS means mind, body and soul. Detangling The MBS is a call to service oneself, to create a flow of healthy self-reflection which may enact change. Detangling The MBS speaks of action, a constant action to become a version of yourself that can recognise the myriad of life’s offerings and self-worth. Starting with the self to loosen the knots found in the heart, the muscles and psyche it is a monumental step in feeling free from life’s expectations and societal constraints.

For more information on the Kensington Chelsea Art Week & Trail go to

https://www.kcaw.co.uk

To Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofarts

For full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.ministryofarts.org

Email: ministryofartsorg@gmail.com

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Ep.222 Lucy Oates - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jun 25, 2023

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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 injecting pots of colour in to otherwise mundane/ neglected settings. Colour is really important to me and is something I really enjoy playing around with in my practice, I wanted to use colours that to me represent fun happy emotions in this piece.”

For more information on the Kensington Chelsea Art Week & Trail go to

https://www.kcaw.co.uk

For more information on the Kensington Chelsea Art Week & Trail go to

https://www.kcaw.co.uk

To Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofarts

For full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.ministryofarts.org

Email: ministryofartsorg@gmail.com

Social Media: @ministryofartsorg

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Satur Chong KCAW - MoA Bonus Episode 34 Jun 23, 2023

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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 drinking tea.

A tea set installed on a chosen manhole cover in South Kensington and in Battersea RCA Campus, both the teapot and 2 cups having a matte black texture and the same pattern as the manhole cover

Satur Chong is a Malaysian artist currently studying at The Royal College of Art, in London. Her practice and research continually focus on exploring the relationship between individual-perspective jewelry as an intimate object and macro-perspective public art. Her recent artworks included mix-media wearable objects, crafts objects, and public installations in various sites for example lifts, streets, and toilets, in pursuit of an interactive, relational, and communication-provoking art form.

For more information on the Kensington Chelsea Art Week & Trail go to

https://www.kcaw.co.uk

To Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofarts

If you would like to promote your work, exhibition or any other creative project, please contact us at:

Social Media: @ministryofartsorg

Email: ministryofartsorg@gmail.com

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Ep.221 Saira Jamieson - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jun 18, 2023

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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 painting and drawing, Saira found escapism, creating otherworldly terrains of symbolism.

Her diarised sketches and “Sarabesque” scripture like forms became a secret language. Unknowingly, it would impact the rest of her life.

Breaking down barriers and preconceptions inside and outside her culture is a constant. Having fought so long to be seen and have a voice, she and her work have now matured. Confident in her skin, she uses not just her art but her voice to champion the unrepresented and particularly female creatives.

For more information on the Kensington Chelsea Art Week & Trail go to

https://www.kcaw.co.uk

To Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofarts

For full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.ministryofarts.org

Email: ministryofartsorg@gmail.com

Social Media: @ministryofartsorg

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Malgorzata Lisiecka - MoA Bonus Episode 33 Jun 11, 2023

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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 body, or interacting with the surrounding space.

Her works take into consideration the place, environment and spectators who are often becoming unaware participants of the artwork itself.

Exploring the phenomena of biology, nature, as well as the social and technological aspects of our world, leads her into the sphere of experimentation with scale, connection and communication between the material and immaterial realms.

For more information on the Kensington Chelsea Art Week & Trail go to

https://www.kcaw.co.uk

To Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofarts

If you would like to promote your work, exhibition or any other creative project, please contact us at:

Social Media: @ministryofartsorg

Email: ministryofartsorg@gmail.com

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Ep.220 Birungi Kawooya & Bokani - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jun 05, 2023

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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 hiplet from Homer Bryant, interpreting these influences in my vibrant collages using layers of Ugandan batik fabrics and cutout card. I enjoy the challenge of capturing these complex and sophisticated dance moves in my 2-dimensional art and am passionate about helping you to express your artistic own vision by creating your own artwork in my Mindful African Art workshops.

Bokani: Bokani’s work is characterised by spontaneous, vibrant colour, fuelled by an exploration of themes and motifs engaging the viewer intellectually, emotionally and spiritually. Painting has empowered her to move past the childhood loss of both parents to resolve questions of global female identity, black African heritage and belonging.

Black Womxn at Rest: In an arresting and repetitive billboard style, this design spells out and depicts Black womxn resting pairing Birungi’s Black women figurative style with Bokani’s swirling paintings.

The choice of bodies at rest will represent the diversity of Black womxn and normalizing everyday Black womanhood at rest.

For more information on the Kensington Chelsea Art Week & Trail go to

https://www.kcaw.co.uk

For more information on the Kensington Chelsea Art Week & Trail go to

https://www.kcaw.co.uk

To Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofarts

For full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.ministryofarts.org

Email: ministryofartsorg@gmail.com

Social Media: @ministryofartsorg

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