Mark Selby’s practice mainly revolves around sculpture, installation and film, using an engineering approach to materials, computation and mechanics in order to explore how images, objects and human agency are affected by technological rationality. Creating and collaborating with machines to develop often complex and elongated processes of making, his work asks questions of access to information from both their aesthetics and function; asking what the potential and limits of programming, rules and instructions can offer. . . Jordan Baseman’s work is best described as a synthesis of reportage, portraiture, documentary, creative non-fiction, narrative practices, that are combined with experimental filmmaking techniques. . . We were invited to Jordans Studio for our chat, which is based in East London. Our chat travels through stories of destroyed self portraits, working in a Emergency Psychiatric Unit, the intimacy of computers, putting screwdrivers through paintings and allowing space for hard work. . . You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN

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Mark Selby & Jordan Baseman

Ceri Hand originally trained as an artist and has extensive experience of working in the arts and culture sector, with previous key positions including: Director of Programmes, Somerset House, London; Associate Director: Institutions and Public Relations, Simon Lee Gallery, London; Associate Consultant, Contemporary Art Society, London; Director, Ceri Hand Gallery, London/Liverpool; Director of Metal, Liverpool; Director of Exhibitions, FACT, Liverpool; Deputy Director of Grizedale Arts, Cumbria and Director of Make, London. . . She has worked closely with emerging and established artists throughout her career, commissioning, producing, programming, exhibiting and selling new interdisciplinary, inter-generational work, including large scale live events, performances, public realm works, touring exhibitions and public engagement, participation and education programmes. . . She has curated over 250 exhibitions and events and was a contributing curator to Liverpool Biennial in 2004 and 2006 and Liverpool’s Capital of Culture year in 2008. . . Henny Acloque is an artist currently living in London. Having recently graduated form MA Painting course at Royal College of Art London. . . Recent solo Exhibitions include: 2019 - Haatschi, EBENSPERGER RHOMBERG Salzburg 2016  - Jerk,  Galerie Tristan Lorenz Frankfurt 2013 - Life After Magic, (Ceri Hand Gallery, London, UK) 2012 - Justice (The China Shop, Oxford, UK) / Lugar De Culto (Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, UK) 2010 - Circumstances (First Floor Projects, London, UK) 2009 - A Dressing (Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, UK) . . You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN

Ceri Hand & Henny Acloque

Richard Hughes and Bernadette Kerrigan live and work in Herefordshire. Richard Hughes’ recent solo exhibitions have included The Great Perhaps, Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2019); Field Trip, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2014), Time Is Over, Time Has Come, Firstsite, Colchester (2013). He is represented by The Modern Institute, Glasgow; and Anton Kern Gallery, New York. Bernadette Kerrigan graduated in Painting from The Royal College of Art in 2017. Recent group exhibitions have included Colours that no-one knows the name of, Recent Activity, Birmingham (2018); Beep Painting Prize, Swansea (2018), Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking, Attercliffe™, Sheffield (2018); Pharmacy For Idiots, Rob Tufnell at Tanya Leighton Gallery, Cologne, (2017). Their most recent show together was at Recent Activity in Birmingham titled 'Colours that no-one knows the name' (2018) You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN

Bernadette Kerrigan & Richard Hughes

Richard Hughes and Bernadette Kerrigan live and work in Herefordshire. . . Richard Hughes is represented by The Modern Institute (Glasgow), Anton Kern Gallery (New York).  Recent solo exhibitions include: Field Trip, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2014), Scene Inbetween, Nils Styak, Copenhagen (2014), Richard Hughes, Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2013) Time Is Over, Time Has Come, Firstsite, Colchester (2013). . . Bernadette Kerrigan graduated in Painting from The Royal College of Art in 2017. Recent group exhibitions include: Beep Painting Prize, Swansea (2018) Paper Cuts, Kris Day, London (2017) Pharmacy For Idiots, Rob Tufnell at Tanya Leighton Gallery, Cologne, (2017). . . Their most recent show together was at Recent Activity in Birmingham titled 'Colours that no-one knows the name' (2018) . . You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN

Emma Talbot is an artist based in London and is winner of the 8th Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Through drawing, painted silk hangings, 3 dimensional forms, installation, sound and - most recently - animation, Emma has developed a distinct visual world. . . Her work explores personal subjectivity, which is then cast into the wider context of prevalent contemporary concerns  - such as our relationships with nature, our intimate engagement with technology, the way we communicate and power structures. Emma’s work has a hand-drawn, direct quality - using combinations of figurative imagery, painted text and flowing pattern to articulate non linear narratives. . . Recent exhibitions include GEM Kunstmuseum, The Hague, A 2019 ArtNight Commission at William Morris Gallery, London, Tate St Ives, Turner Contemporary and Arcadia Missa New York . . Emma has forthcoming solo exhibitions at Eastside Projects Birmingham, Dundee Contemporary Arts and Kunsthalle Giessen, Germany, The Whitechapel Gallery and Collezione Maramotti. . . You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN

Emma Talbot

Anna graduated from the RCA in 2015 and holds a BA from Central Saint Martins. In 2017 she won Griffin Art Prize and the Young Contemporary Talent Prize supported by the Ingram Collection. . . She has been shortlisted for several prizes, including The London Group, in 2013, where she was presented with a prize by Frank Bowling. In 2019 her show Muscle Memory at Elephant West in London saw a collaboration with musician and friend Kieran Hebden also known as Four Tet drawing on grief, movement, vibration and memory. . . Anna describes painting as attitude. Painting serves as a physical intelligence and makes the most sense when described in relation to the body and often come out of chaos. Her Ukrainian grandmother used to say: “If it wasn’t all lies it would be the truth"

Anna Liber Lewis

Tahmina Negmat is currently on a year-long residency at the Carpenters Wharf Studios in Hackney Wick and making paintings about Joe Exotic from Tiger King in her quarantine flat in Moscow. Tahmina treats her studio as a spectacle arena where she wants to throw a real celebration for the anti-hero the Trickster ("A demonic-comic double of a cultural hero, endowed with the features of a naughty dodger”. For her The Trickster is the main protagonist of today and takes a lot of inspiration from cinema and books. . . As a way into this thinking Tahmina explains that her painting ‘Endless Infatuations with Malcolm Mcdowell', which you can see over on our instagram page is a tribute towards my obsession over the portrait of the antihero. Sh says ‘I have a real antagonistic reaction to pitch-perfect moralism, as I think I see most things that are perfect and clean-cut as a nice antisocial package where the whole investment goes towards oneself. However the anti-heroes are raw, and they are rare. They have this weird self conflicted duality going on. Similarly like looking at the rock in Goya’s painting and never quite seeing just the rock, but the tripled eyed devil, ongoing mutating faces, a depiction of the birth of something and the whole mortality is in that rock. So I see the same rawness and wrongness in the rounded and enlarged facial features of Malcolm McDowell who played a lead role in Kubrick’s “Clockwork Orange”. And Malcolm’s face is round and beautiful like it’s been sat on by the birth of Venus. . . You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN

Tahmina Negmat

Gala is a London based multidisciplinary artist. Engaging with ideas of value, taste, hierarchy and absurd labour, her work is the aftermath of a reaction to substance and situation. Materials and actions become metonymic, swapping roles between quotidian interactions and traditional art processes. . . She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and City and Guilds Art School London. She has been selected for exhibitions with The Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the Great Exhibition Road Festival, The London Design Festival with Mint Gallery, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz in Berlin, and Galerie der HBKsaar in Saarsbrucken. Bell has had commissions by BBC One and Tate and Lyle for her sugar sculptures, with a piece acquired by the Tate and Lyle Museum archive in London. She has been included in publications with Dazed magazine and Art Reveal, with interviews by BBC One Tribe and The Royal Docks. . . You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN

Gala Bell

Alexander Pollard graduated from his BA at Glasgow School of Art in 1999 and In 2017 he earned an MPhil from Goldsmiths for his thesis A Genealogy of Bad Painting – Legacies, Soft Objects and Networks. . . Alex is a Steiner student having attended Brighton Steiner School prior to university. This education has left a deep and lasting impact in the way he approaches his work and research where he continuously explores the way human intuition affects and interacts with the creative process especially in the art of painting.  .  .  Alex has also recently set up The New Art School. Which is a rigorous, international online programme suitable for artists anywhere in the world. Designed to offer a contemporary art education and meaningful support structures at an affordable rate, it provides an art education for everyone, not just the few. Providing fresh, relevant and smart educational programmes for contemporary artists and cultural practitioners looking to take the next step in their work.  . .  http://research.gold.ac.uk/22392/ -  A link to Alex’s Thesis : A Genealogy of Bad Painting.  . . You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN

Alexander James Pollard

Alexander Pollard graduated from his BA at Glasgow School of Art in 1999 and In 2017 he earned an MPhil from Goldsmiths for his thesis A Genealogy of Bad Painting – Legacies, Soft Objects and Networks. . . Alex is a Steiner student having attended Brighton Steiner School prior to university. This education has left a deep and lasting impact in the way he approaches his work and research where he continuously explores the way human intuition affects and interacts with the creative process especially in the art of painting. . . Alex has also recently set up The New Art School. Which is a rigorous, international online programme suitable for artists anywhere in the world. Designed to offer a contemporary art education and meaningful support structures at an affordable rate, it provides an art education for everyone, not just the few. Providing fresh, relevant and smart educational programmes for contemporary artists and cultural practitioners looking to take the next step in their work. . . You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN

Matthew Burrows was born in 1971 in the Wirral, UK, and he currently lives and works in East Sussex. He studied as an undergraduate at Birmingham School of Art in 1990-93 and graduated with a Master's Degree in painting from the Royal College of Art London in 1995. . . Matthew's studio, on the site of an old windmill, is perched on a ridge between valleys. Despite the beautiful views and clear vistas his sense of place is far from sentimental. His relationship with habitat is not one of description or nostalgia, but one of dwelling and ritual. It is a process of mythologising, of drawing meaning from the particularities of the environment, of realising its wilderness and ours. . . I caught up with Matt a week or so after he set up his most recent initiative - The Artist Support Pledge. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many artists have found themselves without work, teaching, technical support, gallery work. The initiative aims to alleviate some of the stress the pandemic has caused, as many artists around the world have now found themselves without work. . . The concept is a simple one. Artists post images of their work, on Instagram which they are willing to sell for no more than £200 each (not including shipping). Anyone can buy the work. Every time an artist reaches £1000 of sales, they pledge to spend £200 on another artist/s work. . . As well as this initiative we talk about his other project -The ABC Projects Atelier that aims to support, create and maintain critical engagement and networks for artists, his interest in wilderness, the importance of support structures and breaking down hierachies, the power of generosity and how artists might readdress their roles with our current systems.  .  .  You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN

Matthew Burrows

Neena Percy and Lizzy Drury studied together on the MA Painting Programme at the RCA. Since graduating, the pair formed Hot Desque, a collaboration in which they curate theatrically presented site-specific group exhibitions, staging artworks together within a mise-en-scene. They encourage cross-disciplinary collaborations between practitioners, have written essays and hosted an artist talk as part of Art Licks Weekend, that addressed issues around ‘work culture’ and jobs alongside developing an artistic practice. . . You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN

Episode 4 - Hot Desque

Laurence Owen was born in Gloucester and now lives and works in London. . . He completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at Royal Academy Schools, London in 2015, and holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Falmouth College of Art in Cornwall. . . I caught up with Laurence a week or so after the opening of his exhibition Gerund, where Laurence showed a completely new body of work that split across both Zublowicz Collection and Lychee One Galleries in London. . . Recent solo exhibitions include those at Galerie PCP, Paris, And Evelyn Yard, London. . . Group exhibitions include Mushrooms: The art, design and future of fungi, Somerset House, London, Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, Something Else, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Absent Bodies, OSL Contemporary, Oslo John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool . . You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN

Laurence Owen

Luca George was in Brighton in 1990, he graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2013 and the Royal College of Art in 2019. Recent exhibitions, projects and performances include, London and the Devil at Brockley Gardens, William Blake and the idea of the artist (organised by and taking place at both Paul Mellon Centre and Tate Britain), The Ghost of the Flea Under the Bridge as part of Mark Leckey's Tate Britain retrospective 'O magic power of bleakness at Tate Britian' and Sour Persimmons Chasm at Ex-Baldessarre (curated by Andy Holden). . . Luca George is the ghost of a flea, he is a leaf on a tree, he's the angel hesitating near, he's the human being full of fear, he is dread, he is anguish and he is a sandwich... . . You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN 

Luca George

Benjamin Murphy is a visual artist, writer and co-director of Delphian Gallery. Based in London, he is known to create artworks using the esoteric medium of electrical tape. Innocence, fragility, obscenity, beauty, despair, chaos, love, vanity, and vice are all frequently occurring themes. . . Recent shows for Benjamin have included: Vile Oblivion – Creat Gallery (Helsinki) 2016 Gilded Chaos – Beers Contemporary (London) 2016 Innocence Is A Thing Of Which We Know Nothing – Great Eastern Bear Gallery (London) 2013 Abandon All Hope – Hoxton Gallery (London) 2012 . . Delphian Gallery is an artist run, nomadic gallery and arts platform that they launched in 2017. Primarily London based, they aim to show the most captivating and challenging work by emerging and early-career contemporary artists. They also often endeavour to give a platform to artists that aren’t regularly shown in London . . Past exhibitions have included shows from Florence Hutchings, Jordy Kerwick and Bertrand Fournier, as well as large-scale group exhibitions. And In 2018 they launched their inaugural annual open call competition which was entirely free-to-enter. This year’s competition attracted over 10,000 entries from all around the world . . As well as the gallery, Delphian also produce the Delphian Podcast, Delphian Magazine, and host free talks and panel discussions for early-career artists. . . You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN

Benjamin Murphy

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