Episode 49 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast is with painter @lewis_brander @lewis_brander is currently exhibited in First Light at @collectivending alongside @sonyaderviz curated by @campbell.hector. In this epsjdoe Anna and Lewis talk a lot about Lewis’s journey to this show. After graduating from Goldsmiths in 2019 Lewis was exhibiting in a wonderful range of exhibitions and really picking up momentum. He then took the decision to move to Athens, here Lewis’ work took a shift and his...

Episode 47 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast is with @shaq.whyte Shaqúelle Whyte is a London based artist currently studying an undergraduate in Fine Art at The Slade, UCL. Whyte’s practice evolves around the narrative and life of a series of characters. He depicts them traveling through different scenes and experiences, from running free in fields in a dream like scape to referencing his Grandma’s bible study groups in the domestic. Whyte’s practice is also so much about the way he...

The Artists Contemporary Podcast is back! The Podcast will be released every two weeks :) In episode 46 @anna_s_woodward is joined by London based artists @samking_art. Sam is currently exhibited on The Artists Contemporary Atelier. In the episode learn more about Sam’s practice and how it has developed recently due to something very personal to Sam. Sam uses his work to understand and process his own experiences of his body. Sam first experiences of art was through street art before...

Episode 45 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast is out and this episodes guest is London based painter @kristychanart Kristy studied at @sladeschool for her undergraduate and then went onto @sothebysinstitute where she studied contemporary art theory. She found having the theory based master after her practice focused undergraduate really helped her look into and understand her work. Kristy makes abstract paintings that respond to day to day events in her own life. Kristy will often depict...

Episode 44 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast with London based artist @rene_thatpainterguy Rene’s practice revolves around painting and his own relationship to nature and his environment. Having lived in Canada, Costa Rica and London, he depicts worlds that merge and fantasies these habitats. Rene studied at @cglartschool which saw his practice change from street art to painting. Rene creates mostly large scale paintings that depict a world that feels familiar to the viewer yet has a...

‘Luisa Me have operated as an artistic duo since meeting at the Accademia di Belli Arti di Urbino in 2016, their pseudonymous title borrowed from an Italian colloquialism roughly translated to ‘him with me’. Their interdisciplinary practice engages with the artistic and cultural traditions of their Italian heritage, depicting distinctive Christ-like characters, employing altarpiece arrangements and recalling religious architecture through sculptural reliefs. Similarly, the beachfront...

Episode 42 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast is now live and this weeks guest is @alfie.rouy who is currently exhibited on The Artists Contemporary Atelier in A Fingers Click of Time. Alfie is a London based artist who recently graduated from @camberwellual. Alfie’s work looks into the representation of feelings and investigating those moments. Through the use of his own imagery Alfie is representing different energies and emotions. Alfie finds a lot of inspiration from the natural world...

The Podcast Evening with @stacie_art, @manonsteyaertart and @allyrosenbergartist hosted by @anna_s_woodward at @hackneydownsstudios is now available to listen to on The Artists Contemporary Podcast. On the 23rd September @the_artists_contemporary hosted a live podcast evening to run alongside its exhibition at @hackneydownsstudios - The Podcast. The Podcast Exhibition celebrated 1 year of The Artists Contemporary Podcast, through curation the exhibition celebrates artists working across a...

Episode 41 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast, Anna is joined by London based curator, writer and @collectivending member @campbell.hector. Hector studied Art History at Bristol University, while studying he immersed himself in the street art scene and eventually working with Lonely Planet to produce a publication. After graduating Hector moved to London and shifted his focus into the contemporary emerging art world. After graduating Hector worked in research within the Christie’s...

Episode 40 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast is now out and this weeks guest is @mady_berry who has recently been exhibited in To the power of 5. In the episode @mady_berry and Anna discuss in depth Mady’s work and it’s representation. A lot of Mady’s works investigates and explores her own personal emotions through abstract representation and mods. Mady’s is trained and works as a custom designer and also creates performance pieces. The worlds that are built in the paintings started to...

Episode 39 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast is now Live! This weeks guest is London based painter @grace__mattingly. Grace has recently graduated from an MFA at @sladeschool, before she was studying liberal arts at Columbia. Grace’s work is an investigation into colour, material and being through her bold mark making and deep research into colour theory. Grace work is currently focusing on the colour palette of orange, red, yellow and pink. With these colours she works between paper and...

This weeks guest on episode 38 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast is @dianechappalley Diane is a London based artist whose practice focuses on painting and most recently ceramics. She studied at @cglartschool and the @sladeschool. Diane work explores the forest floor and the world within in. She depicts the worlds that we don’t see or focus on as walk, pushing them beyond reality and into their own world. When creating work Diane doesn’t have a fixed plan, she carves the painting out of...

Episode 37 of The Artists Contemporary podcast ! This weeks guest is Camberwell 2021 graduate @oliviamundy_ Olivia is a London based painter who creates large scale paintings, that depict a foreign world. She creates her piece through the building up of thin layers of acrylic set on a white or black background. Through the process of thin layering creates intense and vivid colours, that often centre around the palette of rich and dark reds, browns and purples. Olivia is currently working...

Episode 36 of The Artists Contemporary is now available to listen to! This weeks guest is the amazing @elsa.rouy Elsa is a London based artist who’s practice explores the representation of the inner self and the side that one is told not to show society. Elsa is a painter and has recently graduated from @camberwellual. Elsa paintings depict a distorted being that you see repeated and travel through her work in different situations and engagements. Elsa is fascinated with the idea of...

Welcome back to The Artists Contemporary Podcast! This weeks episode is slightly different with Anna chatting to two artists in two parts. The episode is all about The Artists Contemporary’s most recent duo show Rough Around the Edges. The Artists Contemporary is proud to present Rough Around the Edges an online duo show exhibiting the work of Megan Rea and Bislacchi. The exhibition investigates the artists fascination with colour, form and materiality, with both artists pushing and...

Episode 34 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast is with the amazing @salome___wu. Salomé is a London based artist who’s practice spreads across multiple mediums and genres from painting, video, writing and performance. Salomé is exhibited on The Atelier from the 10th June - 9th July. Please visit our website to see the exhibition in full. Salomé’s work is an extension of her identity and personality, a visual representation of her. She finds that her themes and use of colour is often focused...

Episode 33 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast is now live and this weeks guest is @o_artdujour. @o_artdujour was the first Writer in Resident on The Artists Contemporary, tune in to learn more about the pieces that she wrote for the platform. Olivia did a range of works and one included an in conversation with @kemionabuleart - you can read this in full on our website. Olivia is currently studying at Sotheby’s institute and while being there she has joined the student run magazine...

Episode 32 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast with @mark__connolly is now live! Mark is a London based painter and set designer who studied at Edinburgh College of Art and The Royal Drawing School. Mark creates large scale paintings that are all a part of a world and his creative language. Mark’s favourite Friday night activity is to go to the National Gallery and to really connect with the work. While at the Royal Drawing School he worked on a project where he spent many weeks just...

Episode 31 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast @anna_s_woodward is joined by @c.lucy.r.whitehead Lucy is a London based artist currently completing an MFA at @royalcollegeofart and already in 2021 has exhibited with @grove_collective and @blueshopcottage. Lucy’s creates abstract figurative paintings that look into the representation of the female body. The idea of looking at the body in its everyday form, removing of the sexualisation and pornographic connotations seen throughout art...

Episode 30 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast is now live and this weeks guest is @douglas.cantor. Douglas is a Colombian artist currently working in Glasgow alongside is wife and fellow painter @im_na_naina. Douglas work is autobiographical and he explores the idea of identity, questioning what is his identity of an emigrant male artist. Douglas uses the South American icon of the cowboy and the horse to investigate his own emotions and thoughts. The idea of the cowboy being sent out to...

Episode 29 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast is now live! In this weeks episode Anna is joined by @morgane.mbw and @jacob_pbarnes co founders and curators of @grove_collective. Grove Collective is a new contemporary art gallery that works with early and mid career artists. Whilst launching in the pandemic the curators have embraced and championed technology with the exhibitions. This have altered they way they think about exhibitions for example they will only curate an exhibition that can...

Episode 27 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast is now out and in this episode Anna is joined by London based surrealist painter @daisydoddnoblestudio. Daisy creates contemporary surrealist paintings often inspired by trees and sunsets. While on evening walks she will make notes of her surroundings and the forms and then she will use her imagination to form the compositions in her paintings. She has describe the trees as the characters within her works and see that they represents symbols...

Episode 26 of The Artists Contemporary Podcast is now available to stream from Spotify, Apple and google podcast. In this weeks episode Anna is joined by London based artist India Nielsen. India studied at Slade and Royal College of Art and speaks about the differences between the two art schools and how they developed her practice. India talks about the hierarchy in different disciplines within art school and how she moved away from performance work and into painting. India’s work is...

Ally Rosenberg is a London based sculpture who’s work investigates the human body in cross sections and the perception of materials. Ally is currently exhibition in The Artists Contemporary’s online exhibition Back to Back - co curated with Cassandra Bowes. Ally uses materials to represent the human body in cross sections in a playful and stylised manner. Ally will use a range of materials including marble and expanding foam, and his use of materials makes the viewer questions the tactility...