Talk Art

We meet writer Oisín McKenna to discuss his debut novel Evenings and Weekends which is released today!

Oisín makes work about love, money, health and history. He’s interested in the ways that political, economic and social conditions shape how we act, think, and feel at particular places and times. He writes about the mundane details of people’s daily lives in order to tell a bigger story about the world.

Oisín McKenna was born in Dublin and lives in London...

We meet artist Leilah Babirye to discuss her inspiring multidisciplinary practice, her major solo show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and new sculptures in the Venice Biennale 2024.

Transforming everyday materials into objects that address issues surrounding identity, sexuality and human rights, the artist fled her native Uganda to New York in 2015 after being publicly outed in a local newspaper...

We meet the PET SHOP BOYS!!!! Recorded in London, we chat to Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe about their love of art, collaborations with artists throguhout their 40 year career including Derek Jarman, Eric Watson and Wolfgang Tillmans. This exclusive episode celebrate today's release (April 26th 2024) of their incredible new album Nonetheless, via Parlophone Records...

Talk Art live in Venice Biennale, presented by Burberry. Recorded at the St Regis Library, we meet leading artist Sir John Akomfrah and curator of the British pavilion Tarini Malik

We're delighted to present Listening All Night To The Rain by John Akomfrah at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2024.

The exhibition runs from 20 April to 24 November 2024...

TALK ART EXCLUSIVE! We meet Sir Antony Gormley OBE RA to discuss his forthcoming solo show 'Aerial' at White Cube New York, USA and his epic new 'Time Horizon' public installation of 100 sculptures which has just opened at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, UK. We explore his entire career across this intimate, highly detailed, feature-length special episode recorded in person at his London studio...

We meet artist Brook Hsu. We discuss other worlds, the power of storytelling, the colour green, the drive to make paintings and making art at your own pace.

BROOK HSU (b. 1987 Pullman, Washington) deploys and weaves the autobiographical and the mythopoetic into paintings using an array of materials, including ink, oil paint, industrial carpets, and off-cuts of ready-made lumber...

Season 21!!! We are back with an icon of art, the one and only Judith Bernstein (b. 1942, Newark, New Jersey) to discuss almost 60 years of art making.

Since graduating from Yale in 1967, Bernstein has developed a reputation as one of the most unwaveringly provocative artists of her generation...

Talk Art Live! We meet Otamere Guobadia, a multidisciplinary writer, poet, and columnist whose work focuses on desire, art, adornment, queerness, and agency, within culture high, low, and popular.

Recorded live in Margate @FortRoadHotel. Thanks to @TheMargateBookshop & @QuenchGallery...

We meet artist Li Hei Di on the eve of 700 Nights of Winter, their debut UK solo exhibition, at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London.

In new paintings, Li explores primal, sexual urges with their signature fluid application of paint...

We meet living LEGEND, the English sculptor, performance artist, jewellery-maker, portraitist and all-round cultural ICON... Andrew Logan!!!!! We learn about his friendships with Zandra Rhodes, Vivienne Westwood, Derek Jarman and his recent collaboration with Stella McCartney for her Paris catwalk show.

Logan (b. 1945) belongs to a unique school of English eccentrics...