Ministry of Arts Podcast

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Ep.181 Charlotte Colbert - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jul 10, 2022

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Charlotte Colbert (@colbertcharlotte)

Language, psychoanalysis, socio-political constructions of gender and identity are at the heart of Colbert’s practice. Spanning film, photography, ceramics, and sculpture, she questions narrative structures and storytelling, weaving surreal and fantastical mise en scene in a documentarian approach to characters, figures, and people. Fiction becomes a way to approach the truth and the most intimate emotions. Straddling the fine line between fine art and film, Colbert’s films have strong philosophical undertones and often play on questions of time, space and identity, often dark and surreal with a hint of comedy.

Selected Shows: Mademoiselle, CRAC Centre Regional d Art Contemporain Occitanie, Sete, France (2018); From Selfie to Self Expression, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2017), Daydreaming with Stanely Kubrick; Guests V&A Museum of Childhood, London, UK; Istanbul International Art fair; Art Basel; Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery; Dancing at the edge of the World, Sara Zanin, Rome; Birth, TJ Boulting.

Kensington + Chelsea Art Week (KCAW) is delighted to present its fifth annual Public Art Trail. West London will be brought to life with vibrant and immersive public art, free for all to enjoy for the duration of the summer.

Opening on 18 June, the Public Art Trail will feature world-class sculpture, installations and exhibits throughout the borough. Presented across nine zones, the Art Trail will take up residence at some of West London’s most beautiful and iconic sites, including Napoleon Garden in Holland Park, Sloane Street, Duke of York Square, Royal Avenue, Pavilion Road, Earl’s Court, Notting Hill Gate, Kensington Memorial Park, Brompton Cemetery Chapel, and High Street Kensington.

For more information on the Kensington + Chelsea Art Weekgo to

https:// www.kcaw.co.uk | @kcawlondon

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Ep.180 Gavin Turk - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jul 03, 2022

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Gavin Turk (@thisisnotgavinturk)

Gavin Turk (b 1967) is a British born, international artist. He has pioneered many forms of contemporary British sculpture now taken for granted, including the painted bronze, the waxwork, the recycled art-historical icon and the use of rubbish in art.

Turk’s installations and sculptures deal with issues of authorship, authenticity and identity. Concerned with the ‘myth’ of the artist and the ‘authorship’ of a work, Turk’s engagement with this modernist, avant-garde debate stretches back to the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp.

In 1991, the Royal College of Art refused Turk a degree on the basis that his final show, ‘Cave’, consisted of a whitewashed studio space containing only a blue heritage plaque commemorating his presence ‘Gavin Turk worked here 1989-91'. Instantly gaining notoriety through this installation, Turk was spotted by Charles Saatchi and was included in several YBA exhibitions. Turk’s work has since been collected and exhibited by many major museums and galleries throughout the world.

Opening on 18 June, the Public Art Trail will feature world-class sculpture, installations and exhibits throughout the borough.

For more information on the Kensington + Chelsea Art Weekgo to

https:// www.kcaw.co.uk | @kcawlondon

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

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Melody Travers - MoA Bonus Episode 11 Jun 29, 2022

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In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Melody Travers (@melodytraversart)

Melody is a French artist with a Masters in Art & Art History at the Université Paris VIII. She lived in London twelve years, developing her art whilst working in book publishing and art galleries. She spent two years working full time on her art at Wimbledon Art Studios; she has since moved her practice back to France and now splits her time between France and London.

She has showcased her work in London and the UK and was shortlisted for the Creates Gallery Emerging Artist Award in 2018, shortlisted for the ArtCan open call 2020 and long-listed for the Secret Art Prize in 2019.

Talented Art 1-3 July 2022

Brighton Racecourse, Freshfield Road, Brighton BN2 9XZ

Talented Art Fair was founded by Oliver Norris and Leah Michelle, the team behind the New Artist Fair, with the aim of offering the public a friendly and affordable place to purchase art directly from established and emerging artists. In doing so, the fair provides a physical platform for successful artists to interact personally with their collectors and also allows them to grow their client list.

Having successfully curated and run exhibitions and art fairs for the past six years, the organisers recognised a gap in the art fair market for artists who have a successful track record for selling their work, and who may also have gallery representation, but want to introduce their art directly to the general buying public in London.

Talented aims to bridge this gap by becoming a great place to discover amazing talent and buy art directly from artists, in a relaxed and inspiring environment.

For more information on the work of The Talented Art Fair go to: https://www.talentedartfair.com/

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Ep.179 Paul Yule - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jun 26, 2022

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Paul Yule (@paul_yule)

Paul Yule is a South African born sculptor, photographer and film-maker, living in the UK.

Having had an extensive career in photography and film-making, Paul turned to sculpture as a form of connecting with his Son, who studied sculpture at Central Saint Martins and had recently passed away. He slowly manipulated a small ball of clay, that he had been handed, he subconsciously formed one bust of an imaginary figure after another.

Each small figure has a definite personality, a personality made more powerful once photographed and blown up to around a metre.

You can find Paul and his work on stall 47, at The Talented Art Fair, Brighton Racecourse 1-3 July.

Talented Art 1-3 July 2022

Brighton Racecourse, Freshfield Road, Brighton BN2 9XZ

Talented aims to bridge this gap by becoming a great place to discover amazing talent and buy art directly from artists, in a relaxed and inspiring environment.

For more information on the work of The Talented Art Fair go to: https://www.talentedartfair.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

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Maya Sanbar - MoA Bonus Episode 10 Jun 22, 2022

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In this bonus episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Maya Sanbar (@mayasanbar)

Maya is an Artist and Filmmaker. Her work in both moving image and installation is centred on the art of storytelling. Footsteps on the Wind is her directorial debut in the narrative and animation world. Her experience is varied, her artworks being often collaborative and enabling of others adding their voices to a central theme. In relation to this film, aside from her own family refugee history, she sought out the depth of emotional truth within refugee stories via therapy workshops, ensuring that this is a film about refugees, told by refugees, for refugees and the general public young and old. As a multimedia artist, her work has been exhibited internationally, notably installations at Shoreditch Town Hall in London “Waiting” 2015, the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City “Alex in Wonderland” scented experience (2016), and at the Berlin Wall on the 30th anniversary of its fall “Chasing the Light” (2019), “Words on the Hill” at the Coronet Theatre in London (2020). Her film production credits include 360 immersion visits to artist studios and documentaries. Sanbar is fluent in 6 languages and passionate about crossing cultural boundaries using words with images to bring about a fresh point of view.

For more information on the Kensington + Chelsea Art Weekgo to

https:// www.kcaw.co.uk | @kcawlondon

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

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Ep.178 Lise Bouissière - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jun 19, 2022

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Lise Bouissière (@lisebouissiere)

Lise Bouissière is a Franco-British artist. She graduated from Central Saint Martins School (London) and Villa Arson (Nice, France). Bouissière is a Royal Society of Sculptors member. Over the past ten years, she has shown in solo and group shows across the United Kingdom and Italy, including at The Royal Society of Sculptors (2021), Aora Space (2021), Koppel Exchange Project (2020 and 2021), The Crypt Gallery (2021), Gerald Moore Gallery (2020), The Smallest Gallery in Soho (2019), Villa Arson (2014), Palais de Tokyo (2016). Bouissière also took part in Venice land Biennale (2019) and Monaco’s music festival (2011). Bouissiere’s practice focuses on the optimisation of space and the use of materials. Through a distinct construction of ideas, found materials are played with to create minimalist and honest compositions. Bouissière’s structures reveal a memory, a current state or a hidden side of a place with the elements that surround it. In many cases, the place Bouissière constructs her art is transformed like a mental space, offering the viewer a large panel of interpretations. Lise Bouissière lives and works in London.

For more information on the Kensington + Chelsea Art Weekgo to

https:// www.kcaw.co.uk | @kcawlondon

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

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Ep.177 KCAW & Kipling Hunt - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jun 15, 2022

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Kipling Hunt (@kipling_hunt)

Born in London, Hunt has also lived in Barcelona, Birmingham and in semi-rural isolation on the borders of Wales. Kipling makes fine art pieces in ceramic, in paint, in print, in film, or in fact any medium most able to deliver each concept in question with assurance and panache.

Kipling has also worked for over a decade in the Secondary Art Market, as a General Specialist in Fine Art Paintings, Prints and Sculpture. This gave Hunt great insight and a comprehensive knowledge of artists both practicing and those now deceased; and a working blueprint of what goes on behind the scenes to oil the wheels of the global art market.

For more information on the Kensington + Chelsea Art Weekgo to

https:// www.kcaw.co.uk | @kcawlondon

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

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Ep.176 Duncan McAfee - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jun 09, 2022

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Duncan McAfee (@duncanmcafee)

McAfee essentially approaches painting as a game. He arranges figurative and abstract elements from art and visual culture to make hybrid paintings, brightly coloured, comic-book exquisite-corpses.

His recent Exploding Heads series could be portraits of the mad prophets of some post apocalyptic cult. Constructed from broken fragments of other images, misremembered or misquoted, like Russell Hoban’s Punch puppet in the novel Ridley Walker. McAfee draws on Hoban, “the way Punch is misappropriated and all wrong is funny and grotesque but the weight and meaning it takes on is also deeply affecting. I want to try and get close to that conflict of feelings in my paintings”. This collage style evokes a surrealist “chance encounter” but also perhaps like Burroughs’ cut-ups, a form of time travel.

McAfee’s influences range from Nigel Cooke’s recurring characters, George Condo’s Psychological Cubism, revisiting Francis Bacon, the fanaticism of classical religious painting, and also outsider Ralph Bakshi’s animation and recent paintings of clowns and mobsters. McAfee’s painting technique plays back and forth between very loose chance actions and tight, illustrative drawing/painting. This creates a tension that makes us unsure if the image is in the process of forming or breaking apart. It’s in a state of transition and meaning is uncertain, much like the world around us.

For more information on the work of Duncan McAfee go to

https://duncanmcafee.com

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Ep.175 Keira Rathbone - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jun 02, 2022

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Keira Rathbone (@typewriterart)

Keira Rathbone is an established fine artist living and working in London. She grew up in Dorset, gained a BA (hons) in Fine Art at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Since 2003 she has developed a unique drawing technique, employing a manual typewriter as a drawing tool.

Rathbone draws images from life using her typewriter, instinctively translating what she sees into an array of letters, number and symbols chosen for their shape and textural values resulting in beautiful enigmatic images that encourage the viewer to keep looking from different distances, reading more into it each time. She develops and exhibits images based around compelling themes and often incorporates live audio/visual performances by typing before an audience with video projection, sound effects and collaborations with other artists.

Her art is used to reflect the world and people around her, capturing moments through this artistic and accessible medium. Typewriter Art does not overcomplicate but allows a moment to be depicted and celebrated in a true snapshot of beauty and poignancy.

She has appeared numerous times on television, including BBC News, BBC World News, The One Show and SKY Landscape Artist of the Year as well as BBC Radio 2, 4 and 6Music. She currently has an original hanging with short film and typewriter exhibited alongside in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. Her work takes has taken across the UK and abroad, each place influences and inspires her creative process.

For more information on the work of Keira Rathbone go to: http://keirarathbone.com

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Ep.174 Dion Kitson - Ministry of Arts Podcast May 22, 2022

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Dion Kitson (@dionkitsonstudio)

Dion Kitson is an emerging artist born in Dudley and his portfolio spans sculpture, film, collage, text-art, and sound. Dion is using the space as a gallery to show artists from the West Midlands and to show his own work and archive. Having graduated in 2020 with BA Fine Art from Birmingham School of Art, he has since been awarded numerous prizes, including the Tate prize and the ACS studio prize. Judges Gavin Turk and Celia Paul said:

‘Dion’s work is dealing with the reality of being an artist in his environment. He takes the outside world and puts it into work, asking the question “what does it mean to him to be an artist?” I think he has a fascinating approach to his environment.’ – Gavin Turk

‘His work reminded me of poetry, there is a dark humour in it which reminds me of Philip Larkin. Dion’s practice is very appropriate to this particular time and the focus that it gives on how to turn things into playfulness. I’m moved by them.’ – Celia Paul

(Text via @hyphastudios)

For more information on the work of Dion Kitson go to: https://www.dionkitson.com

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