In Episode 6 Jack talks to the artist Audrey Roger. This is the first episode recorded under the current lockdown. They had the conversation using Skype. Audrey is a French artist now based in London. Having first studied Fashion and Textile design; her work uses the techniques more associated with fashion, such as weaving to make beautiful minimal abstract paintings that are both poetic in their approach and surface. Drifting between painterly surface and sculptural object. Audre...
Jack talks to the artist Matthew Cowan. A New Zealand artist now living in Berlin and Helsinki. In this episode Matthew becomes the interviewer and Jack is the interviewee. In March of last year Matthew visited Jacks studio to talk to jack about his practice as part of his research towards a PHD thesis. To emphasise the collaborative and reciprocal process of creativity, Matthew asked Jack to produce a mask out of a handkerchief. The conversation grew out of both artists mutual interest in f...
In Episode 4 Jack talks to the artist Charlotte Bracegirdle. Charlotte is a London based artist who works in painting and sculpture. Working with found imagery often of familiar iconography. In her work she plays with ideas of perception, how we perceive imagery and take certain iconography for granted. By carefully painting out certain areas of the appropriated image, Charlotte puts into question our preconceptions of that image. Allowing us to look more carefully at the image and in turn cr...
In episode three I talked to the artist Will Martyr in his studio in Deptford, South London. At the time of the conversation he had just completed a successful solo show at Unit Gallery, London and was currently working on several large commissions. I used to share a studio with Will so it was great to catch up in his new large studio. Wills colourful hard edge paintings depict luxury interiors and the surrounding landscape. Alluding to an aesthetic of affluence; his paintings a...
In this episode I talked to the artist Reece Jones. I’ve known Reece for almost twenty years. First meeting him at the Royal Academy School of Art, when I was in the third year and he was in the first year. Then later amongst the circle of artists and friends who hung out and were involved with the two project spaces, Rockwell and Keith Talent during the early 2000’s. Reece was one of the co-founders of Rockwell space. Keith Talent was run and co-founded by Andrew Clarkin and Simon Pittuck. B...
In this episode I talked to the artist Reece Jones. I’ve known Reece for almost twenty years. First meeting him at the Royal Academy School of Art, when I was in the third year and he was in the first year. Then later amongst the circle of artists and friends who hung out and were involved with the two project spaces, Rockwell and Keith Talent during the early 2000’s. Reece was one of the co-founders of Rockwell space. Keith Talent was run and co-founded by Andrew Clarkin and Simon Pittuck. B...