The Art of ... Podcast
1) EXHIBITION SPECIAL: Is there more to life modelling than posing nude?
Discover the confidence and creativity needed to undress in the name of art.From artist’s muse to school art class, professional life models explore their role in the creative process. Freyia Lil...Show More
2) The Art of Change
Artworks are living objects which emerge from a particular perspective at a particular moment, yet continue to exist in a changing world. Some historic artworks, and even images from popular culture, ...Show More
3) Women in Revolt! Mini-series: 6. Tough!
In our final episode of this mini-series, curator Linsey Young hears from women artists, photographers, film-makers and activists who were responding to the political upheavals in the 1980s. From...Show More
4) Women in Revolt! Mini-series: 5. A Time of Possibility
Curator Linsey Young finds out about group exhibitions by women of colour in the 1980s.Joined by artists and curators, she explores how their shows made women of colour visible and expressed the polit...Show More
5) Women in Revolt! Mini-series: 4. “We need to change the course!”
In these next two episodes, curator Linsey Young hears from women activists and artists of colour about their experiences and work in the 1970s and 80s.In this episode, she learns about how women mobi...Show More
6) Women in Revolt! Mini-series: 3. Transgression
In episode three, curator Linsey Young investigates how the independent music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s liberated women from the expectations of the time. Joined by artists, musicians, w...Show More
7) Women in Revolt! Mini-series: 2. There’s Something Not Right Here
Curator Linsey Young hears from women who were making work in the 1970s that commented on their roles in the family and in the home. From performing as a pregnant bunny girl in a cage at an agric...Show More
8) Women in Revolt! Mini-series: 1. Ferocious and Magnificent
A 6-part mini-series exploring art, activism and the women's movement in the UK in the 1970s and 80s.In this episode, Curator Linsey Young journeys to the start of the Women's Liberation Movement and ...Show More
9) Introducing Women in Revolt!
Curator Linsey Young introduces this 6-part mini-series about art, activism and the women’s movement in the UK in the 1970s and 80s. She remembers back to when she started researching the Women i...Show More
10) The Art of the Body
In this episode we revisit Paula Rego’s work to talk about the body, reproductive justice and abortion rights.Listen to Polyester Zine’s editor in chief, Ione Gamble and curator, writer and resea...Show More