Art to Art with Natasha Norman

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Welcome to Art to Art with Natasha Norman (previously the Latitude Art Podcast). Unlock the hidden secrets of artistry where colour, brush strokes, and creativity are connected with the personalities and processes behind the scenes. Join Natasha in a series of conversations with artists from the Latitude Aparthotel° Collection (and beyond), from renowned painters and sculptors to emerging talents. Each episode brings you personal insights into the inspirations, struggles, and creative joy behind an artist's work, anecdotal and documentary. This artistic reveal will ignite your imagination with a passion and daily diligence that defines the work behind the art. Brought to you by Latitude Aparthotel. Hosted by Natasha Norman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. Josephine Grindrod

    1D AGO

    Josephine Grindrod

    Josephine Grindrod   Josephine Grindrod is an artist who situates her painting practice as an embodied, critical and generative response to found narratives, objects and images. Her visual research draws on psychoanalysis in order to challenge traditionally male, Colonial, language and knowledge systems. She positions imagination as an important tool in artmaking. A tool that can enable a productive deconstruction of memories, landscape or art history in order to re-vision beliefs and prejudices. Her art making is a conscious process of redressing her personal history, led by intuition, poetry and dreaming. As an artist who is led by process and embodied material making, our discussion of her forthcoming presentation at the Cape Town Art Fair 2026 weaves together ideas and influences that lay the foundation for a viewer’s understanding of her visual world.  Art to Art hosted by Natasha Norman Brought to you by Latitude Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    46 min
  2. Rosie Mudge

    05/21/2025

    Rosie Mudge

    Rosie Mudge is an artist who works in many media. She is known for her large-scale paintings with shimmering colour surfaces crafted from industrial automotive paint and glitter. Her evocative surfaces shape latent phrases derived from pop songs, and her work draws on the look, feel, and sound of the late 90s and early 2000s, a time she associates with the overwhelming experience of trying to understand herself in relation to the world and of being profoundly misunderstood by it. Most recently, the sense of worldly experience impacting her artistic practice has extended to the event of her becoming a mother. In this conversation, we unpack some of the experiences and societal expectations around motherhood and parenting that have impacted Rosie as an artist. Most particularly, we discuss works presented at the Iziko South African National Gallery's exhibition ‘Motherhood: Paradox and Duality’, which brings together over 70 artists across diverse media and time periods in South Africa to explore the complexities of mothering in a rapidly changing world. Rosie Mudge and I sat down to our conversation at the beginning of May 2025. Iziko South African National Gallery is situated in the Company Gardens in Cape Town: https://www.iziko.org.za/museums/south-african-national-gallery/ SMAC Gallery is located in Cape Town and Stellenbosch. https://www.smacgallery.com/ Paarden Eiland is a light industrial suburb located along the Table Bay in Cape Town. Investec Cape Town Art Fair is an annual art fair hosted in the Cape Town Convention Centre in February. Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood is written by Lucy Jones and first published in America by Pantheon Books in 2023. Audio edit, mix and master done by Gerald Kent Brought to you by Latitude Aparthotel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    56 min
  3. Vanessa Cowling

    05/06/2025

    Vanessa Cowling

    In this conversation with photographer and teacher, Vanessa Cowling, we discuss how the origins of photography have impacted her approach to camera-less photography. Vanessa discusses how various artistic exchanges have forged new approaches in her art practice that is centred upon connection and community building. Considering her place in the world has led to the development of a sustainable photographic garden on a disused piece of land outside the University of Cape Town’s photography building. From this project, students are taught sustainable darkroom techniques that see photographic processes derived from the garden and returned to the earth for composting and regrowth. This cycle of creation, decay and rebirth has become an enduring metaphor in Vanessa’s photographic story-telling. Since her most recent artist residency in the Tankwa, Vanessa has begun working on with the importance of darkness to both insect biodiversity and the human condition. I chatted to Vanessa at the Latitude recording studio in Seapoint in December 2024. Biennale de la photographie de Mulhouse, Thann, describes itself as a cross-border festival whose aim is to disseminate contemporary photography through powerful and unifying events. Vanessa’s three main camera-less processes are: lumen prints, phytograms and anthotypes. The Stellenbosch group show was titled Merging Matter. It was hosted at the Oude Leeskamer from March to May in 2024. Shoreline was an exhibition hosted at the Barnard Gallery in July and August 2018. William Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries Sir John Herschel, a British astronomer and scientist, arrived in Cape Town in January 1834 to conduct astronomical observations in the Southern Hemisphere. He established an observatory at Feldhausen, near Table Mountain, and his work contributed significantly to our understanding of the southern skies. He also made important contributions to photography and was a pioneer in the study of cyanotypes. In photography, sodium thiosulfate, often called "hypo," is a fixer used to remove unexposed silver halide from photographic films and paper. It functions by dissolving these silver salts, leaving behind the silver image and stabilizing the picture. Fixing the Shadows was Vanessa’s Masters Degree and exhibition at the University of Cape Town in 2023. Members of the Photography department at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art are listed on the University’s website: https://humanities.uct.ac.za/michaelis/people/academic-staff Gabeba Baderoon is a South African poet and academic. The Tankwa Artscape Residency is hosted at Stonehenge Private Reserve in the Karoo. https://tankwaartscape.co.za/ AfrikaBurn is a community of participants. The main annual AfrikaBurn event takes place in the Tankwa Karoo, located between the Northern Cape and Western Cape Provinces of South Africa, usually at the end of April every year. https://www.afrikaburn.org/ The Darkness Manifesto was written by Johan Eklöf, PhD, a Swedish bat scientist and writer, most known for his work on microbat vision and more recently, light pollution. Host: https://natashanorman.co.za/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    46 min
  4. Stephanie Conradie

    02/12/2025

    Stephanie Conradie

    Stephane Conradie is a printmaking lecturer at the University of Cape Town who won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for 2023. She is known for her bricolage assemblages composed of the trinkets and collectables from family homes that carry the memory and culture of social groups. She draws particularly from her own family experience in the Northern Cape and Southern Namibia, using once treasured objects to investigate the transfer of knowledge and culture through familial generations whose experience of home has been marked by political migration and dislocation.   You can find out more about the Standard Bank Young Artist Award on their website:  https://sponsorships.standardbank.com/sbgs/sponsorship/arts-and-culture/young-artist-award Stephané Conradie’s Artist website: https://stephaneeconradie.com/aboutpage Stephané’s travelling exhibition is titled ‘Wegwysers Deur Die Blinkuur.’You can read a review of the exhibition at The National Arts Festival by David Mann on ArtThrob. https://artthrob.co.za/2024/08/20/sentimental-assemblages-stephanie-conradies-wegwysers-deur-die-blinkuur/. The show is scheduled to open at the Iziko Castle of Good Hope on 18 February 2025. Art to Art with Natasha Norman Brought to you by Latitude Aparthotel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    47 min
  5. Sanell Aggenbach

    11/21/2024

    Sanell Aggenbach

    Sanell Aggenbach is an artist skilled in many creative outputs. Through painting, sculpture and printmaking she creates poetic visual relationships between materials and imagery that comment on the South African reality. Her work draws from a variety of figurative sources, both in media and daily life, which she blends with a playful ambiguity and soft parody. Her quietly disarming artworks address many poignant issues. Sanell and I discuss the underlying cultural attachments to land in South Africa and reflected on key moments in her artistic career. Host: Natasha Norman Guest: Sanell Aggenbach Made possible by Latitude Aparthotel and Sean Loots as Studio Manager. Audio Edited by Gerald Kent Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    41 min
  6. Michael Amery

    10/22/2024

    Michael Amery

    Michael Amery is a painter of landscapes shaped and moulded by humankind. His methodical drawing and painting techniques mimic the construction of scenery by human industry, but his interest in the land as holding a symbolic value of culture and identity is something we discuss in this episode. Alien plant species that have become iconic visual markers of South African land are charged to display beauty despite the conflicting circumstances of their colonial history. Whether natural or man-made the far reaching effects of humanity’s impact on land are deeply felt in Michael’s visual and intellectual pursuits on canvas. Michael's Website: https://michaelamery.com/ Michael's Gallery: https://www.131agallery.com/   NOTES from our discussion for further interest: David Krut Projects is a gallery and print studio based in Johannesburg.   Jane Bennett is an American political theorist and philosopher. We discuss ideas from her influential book "Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things" published in 2009.   You can visit the Pierneef station panels at the La Motte Gallery in Franschoek and the Rupert Museum in Stellenbosch.    Many thanks to Latitude Aparthotel for the use of their recording studio run by the delightful Sean Loots. And a special thank you to Gerald Kent for the editing and audio boost production. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    39 min
  7. Season 2 Introduction

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    Season 2 Introduction

    Welcome to Art to Art, a Latitude Art Podcast. I'm Natasha Norman, your host and a practicing artist. In this season, we'll journey into the world of art and its relationship to land, exploring the lives and inspirations of remarkable local artists and their unique approaches to the South African landscape. I'm a practicing artist with a deep passion for the materials and processes behind the work of art. And I look forward to sharing these artists' stories with you in this season. Natasha Norman Brought to you by Latitude Aparthotel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 min
  8. Zarah Cassim

    02/25/2024

    Zarah Cassim

    Join Natasha Norman on the Latitude Art Podcast as she interviews Zarah Cassim, a painter known for her dreamlike landscapes and exploration of perception. Zarah shares her nomadic lifestyle, moving between continents with her family and finding inspiration in uncertainty. Despite the challenges, she remains dedicated to her art, creating amidst changing landscapes and materials. Brought to you by Latitude Aparthotel Hosted by Natasha Norman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    37 min
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Welcome to Art to Art with Natasha Norman (previously the Latitude Art Podcast). Unlock the hidden secrets of artistry where colour, brush strokes, and creativity are connected with the personalities and processes behind the scenes. Join Natasha in a series of conversations with artists from the Latitude Aparthotel° Collection (and beyond), from renowned painters and sculptors to emerging talents. Each episode brings you personal insights into the inspirations, struggles, and creative joy behind an artist's work, anecdotal and documentary. This artistic reveal will ignite your imagination with a passion and daily diligence that defines the work behind the art. Brought to you by Latitude Aparthotel. Hosted by Natasha Norman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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