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Ep.129 LR Vandy- Ministry of Arts Podcast Jul 12, 2021

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to LR Vandy (@lrvandy)

In her sculptures, LR Vandy brings together both found and made objects in order to create new meaning from seemingly unrelated mediums forced together.

A large Jesmonite sculpture from the series Superhero Cog-Woman, this work, on view in Napoleon Garden for Summer 2021 as part of the *Kensington & Chelsea Art Festival, is a tribute to women throughout time, alluding to how women have often acted as the unmentioned drivers of industry, toiling long and hard but underrated, often overlooked and largely unrecognised.

Cogs are mechanical components used to connect one thing to another, literally enabling things to be driven forward. As such, they act as a perfect metaphor for the role of women in industry and indeed in society in general.

* Kensington + Chelsea Art Festival is expanding throughout the summer season with a festival that elevates the magic and shared experiences of public art and live performance.

Until 31 August, K+C Festival will bring people together to celebrate, inspire, and be inspired - For more information go to https://www.kcaw.co.uk

For more information on the work of LR Vandy go to https://octobergallery.co.uk/artists/LRVandy

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Ep.128 Amy Jackson - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jul 08, 2021

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Amy Jackson (@thisisamyjackson) Amy Jackson is a conceptual artist with 15 years’ experience blending philosophy, nature and science to create meticulous immersive experiences in traditional galleries and unconventional spaces. Her work includes street art, happenings, photography, painting and found objects. Jackson explores issues such as climate change, consumerism, mental health, social inequalities and critically, how these themes are inextricably linked. Her work often exists outside of the ‘white cube’ and inside the communities it touches. Experience spans art commissions for *Kensington + Chelsea Art Week to public speaking on climate change. Her work has been featured in the Times, Art World Magazine, Modern Art Oxford, Time Out and The Tate Britain. You can join Amy Jackson for a Live Walking tour and artist talk of the Alternative Art Trail in Portobello as part of the 2021 Kensington + Chelsea Art Week * Kensington + Chelsea Art Week is expanding throughout the summer season with a festival that elevates the magic and shared experiences of public art and live performance. From 21 June – 31 August, K+C Festival will bring people together to celebrate, inspire, and be inspired - For more information go to https://www.kcaw.co.uk For more information on the work of Amy Jackson go to https://www.thisisamyjackson.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 Social Media: @ministryofartsorg

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Ep.127 Philip Colbert - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jul 05, 2021

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Philip Colbert (@philipcolbert) Philip Colbert is a contemporary British artist based in London. Colbert works across the mediums of painting, sculpture, clothing, furniture and design. Colbert was described by Andre Leon Talley as "The godson of Andy Warhol" On 30 June, Colbert will unveil LOBSTEROPOLIS CITY, his first fully digital exhibition, opening within the ‘metaverse’ of Decentraland – seeing the artist’s lobster universe evolve into its latest iteration. Curated by globally renowned art auctioneer and dealer Simon de Pury at the Lobster Land Museum, the exhibition includes a series of NFT works available exclusively with NFT platform Super Rare. These include Colbert’s iconic past works Cryptofixtion and Lobster Fountain, alongside new unseen NFT works. This marks the most ambitious and largest-scale single artist venture to be seen in Decentraland to date. To visit LOBSTEROPOLIS CITY, head here and create your avatar: https://play.decentraland.org/?position=-103%2C147 For more information on the work of Philip Colbert go to https://www.philipcolbert.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 Social Media: @ministryofartsorg

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Ep.126 Ben Wakeling - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jul 01, 2021

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Ben Wakeling (@_benwakeling_) Ben Wakeling is a multi-disciplinary artist that really does use art to ‘give back’. Ben discovered art whilst receiving support during a secure mental health assessment. He found the art therapy being most beneficial part of the after care. Since then, Ben has gone on to create the *Hackney Wick Life Drawing classes, deliver regular art [therapy] experiences for those within NHS secure hospitals and opened the **Outsider Gallery (London’s innovative art gallery exhibiting original works from NHS trusts in Forensic, CAMHS, HMP, secure units, care settings and the excluded & beyond). With the confidence built up during his journey, Ben has now taken the leap to present and sell his work at ***The Other Art Fair in July 2021. An Art Fair that has championed the mental health charity CALM for several years. *For more information on the Hackney Wick Life Drawing classes go to: https://www.instagram.com/hwlifedrawing/?hl=en **For more information on the work of Outsider Gallery go to https://www.instagram.com/outsidergallerylondon/?hl=en ***The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art is the UK’s leading artist-led fair and we are so excited to be returning to in-person events this July. Our venue at West Handyside Canopy is a covered outdoor space that is easily accessible and located 2 minutes away from the newly developed shopping and food destination Coal Drops Yard. For tickets go to: https://www.theotherartfair.com/london/tickets 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.125 Zak Ové - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jun 28, 2021

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Zak Ové (@zakove) Zak Ové is a London based multi-disciplinary artist working in film, sculpture and photography to reclaim old world mythologies in new world source materials and technologies. His fascination with the interplay between antiquity and the future is inspired by masking rituals and traditions of Trinidadian carnival that is itself rooted in a struggle for emancipation. Ové’s work is in celebration of the power of play, the juxtaposition of parody and sacred ritual and the blurring of edges between reality and fantasy, flesh and spirit. His use of non-traditional materials: copper, wood, Victoriana and other found materials, situates the work in the metropoles of Europe and the Americas where they merge and mutate into endless possibilities and unexpected identities. Zak’s huge artwork Autonomous Morris has been installed outside the Design Museum as part of the *Kensington & Chelsea Art Week * Kensington + Chelsea Art Week is expanding throughout the summer season with a festival that elevates the magic and shared experiences of public art and live performance. From 21 June – 31 August, K+C Festival will bring people together to celebrate, inspire, and be inspired - For more information go to https://www.kcaw.co.uk For more information on the work of Zak Ové go to https://www.vigogallery.com/artists/9 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.124 Sarah Hardie - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jun 24, 2021

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Sarah Hardie (@sarahhardie.art) Sarah’s practice deals with how we live in the world, the intimate and extimate nature of the human voice and how we connect through it, via language and other forms of aural communication. The concept of resonance itself captures within it the potential for both love (if love is an echoing or recognition and acknowledgement of the self by another (‘I rebound I am light’, Roland Barthes), and loss (in the temporal nature of echoes). These ideas are always at the heart of her work. Sarah was awarded the inaugural Soho House Art Prize 2020/21, selected by illustrious panel: Maria Balshaw (Director, Tate); Kate Bryan (Head of Global Collection,Soho House); and Hebru Brantley (Artist) and created an artist’s film, a symphonic visual essay, ‘Spring sometimes rises in me too’ screened at Electric Cinemas internationally in June 2021. To watch Sarah’s prize winning film SPRING SOMETIMES RISES IN ME TOO - https://vimeo.com/sohohouse/review/561057951/951cb85ea1 For more information on the work of Sarah Hardie go to https://www.sarahhardie.info/ 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.123 Graphic Rewilding- Ministry of Arts Podcast Jun 21, 2021

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Lee Baker of Graphic Rewilding (@graphic_rewilding)

Lee baker [like Catherine Borowski, ep.104] is one half Baker & Borowski, that has given us, among other things, The skip Gallery and now Graphic rewilding.

Lee has been a commercial music producer for many years, using its income to fund Baker & Borowski projects to bypass the bureaucratic process of funding applications.

Their latest, Graphic Rewilding, delivers exactly what the title states… Large-scale graphic floral worlds placed in a contradictive environment, be it a factory window, wall of a building, or in this case a 30 metre hoarding in Earle’s Court as Part of the *Kensington & Chelsea Art Week

* Kensington + Chelsea Art Week is expanding throughout the summer season with a festival that elevates the magic and shared experiences of public art and live performance.

From 21 June – 31 August, K+C Festival will bring people together to celebrate, inspire, and be inspired - For more information go to

https://www.kcaw.co.uk

For more information on the work of Graphic Rewilding go to

https://www.baker-borowski.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

Social Media: @ministryofartsorg

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Ep.122 Lily Lewis - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jun 14, 2021

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Lily Lewis (@tigerlilylewis) Lily Lewis is a multi-disciplinary artist, her works range from painting, drawing, sculpture and mixed media pieces. She has had works shown in both group and solo exhibitions in London, New York, LA and Paris. Her current exhibition is ‘Safe Places’ at Petersham Nurseries, in Covent Garden. Lily Lewis addresses vulnerability and the projected self in her new collection "Safe Places", raising funds for domestic abuse victims in partnership with *Refuge; a UK charity, providing specialist support for women and children experiencing domestic violence. *If you are a victim of domestic violence, if you would like to find out how to donate or just want more info on the work of REFUGE: https://www.refuge.org.uk For more information on the work of Lily Lewis go to https://www.lily-lewis.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 Social Media: @ministryofartsorg

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Ep.121 Edie Baker - Ministry of Arts Podcast Jun 07, 2021

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In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Edie Baker (@Ediebakerart)

Specialising in collage, contemporary artist Edie Baker creates new narratives from predominantly ephemeral images sourced from magazines, books or those discarded on the street.

Larger works are created by digitally printing previously treated images onto stretched canvasses which are then embellished with shapes, patterns and forms that enhance or detract from certain areas of the original.

Content is often brutally cut or edited, resulting in final pieces that speak more of what is absent, rather than that which is present. This treatment leads to work that is sometimes awkward, sometimes humorous, sometimes provocative but almost always surreal.

For more information on the work of Edie Baker go to

https://www.ediebaker.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

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Ep.120 Adam Buxton - Ministry of Arts Podcast May 31, 2021

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Adam Buxton is an English comedian, writer, podcaster, and actor. He studied sculpture at Cheltenham College of Art, a creative experience that set the foundations for many of the projects that were to follow. With filmmaker Joe Cornish, he created the comedy duo Adam and Joe. They presented the Channel 4 television series The Adam and Joe Show between 1996–2001. Buxton has produced music videos, including several collaborations with the band Radiohead. In 2015, he launched The Adam Buxton Podcast, in which he interviews comedians, authors, musicians, and celebrities. For more information on the work of Koestler Arts go to www.adam-buxton.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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