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LETTERS AGAINST ISOLATION Episode 7: “Symptoms of Cyberspace” with Fleming Mason interviewed by Constance Leterre.

Artist Statement:

Fleming Mason is a London-based interdisciplinary artist whose work predominantly covers sculpture, sound, installation, and conceptual practices. His current studies are engaged with what he titles Inverse Anthropologies; that is, the attempt to look outside the subject, towards that which creates them (pertaining that bodies produce their environments as environments produce them). Inverse Anthropologies reflects this effort to understand human behaviour from a perspective where the body is latent; the attempt to approach the entity from the outside in. Recent works include sculptural investigations into what he calls Deep Time - the prehistoric and “hyper-futures”. By learning from or “placing oneself into” these different forms of time, we might be able to more accurately understand the present. He is currently developing a new series of works for his first solo exhibition, represented by The Who Gallery.

LETTERS AGAINST ISOLATION Episode 6: “Material and immaterial fluids in the cyber-meta-real-human-substance” with Jade Baldo interviewed by Constance Leterre. 



Artist Statement:

The pseudo-dis-trans-post-hyper-cyber real true human substance of beauty? The now? To define and materialise possibilities for the existence of this substance. Revolving around new media, performance and installation to fall back unavoidably into image making and documentation to narrow down and concrete what might be entailed by my practice. A fascination with the intangible laced by an overcomplicated amalgamation of incomprehension. To remain complicated as a way to represent my interaction with the contemporary world and self. To drown in an inexistent sea of this shapeshifting matter.

LETTERS AGAINST ISOLATION Episode 5: “On Holes” with Hugo Hagger interviewed by Constance Leterre.

Artist Statement: 

"To be more holy one needs to get comfortable with the idea of destruction. But the kind of destruction I’m talking about is the sharp clean, trenchant kind of destruction, a kind of burnt-sage, bad-energies, Marykondo-co-star-cosmic-fascism, if it doesn’t bring you joy, kill it, cut its throat with a thin blade, violently agitate and rearrange all its matter until it becomes gaseous, like a red mist and then inhale it and become effigy to the brutal sacrifice you have both made. Ash; thats my T.H.E.O.R.Y.”.

Letters Against Isolation Episode 4: “The artists and their double: Practice and crisis within the art scene” with India Wilson interviewed by Constance Leterre

"Having been consistently been surrounded by theatre and people who were extremely passionate about TV and film also, the direction my art practice is taking currently is intrinsically linked to understanding peoples psyche and the body, and also where the two intersect. Incorporating cinematic or temporal styles to my process of making, I do so within the mediums of sculpture, painting, photography and video. These styles stem from my love of certain concepts and genres: affect, body politics, sci-fi and fantasy, horror (gore, the abject and psychological), eroticism, dark humour, and the absurd.

I hope to come in and out of the realms of fine art, theatre, TV, film, and socially engaging work, and still apply the process personal to me. I love to engage with the texture of people and place, dissect or displace the details I pick out, often using a playful or experimental attitude. The application to different industries is all aligned in my want to pursue a career in art direction, and whatever form that may take."

On this episode of Exhibition Inhibitions, join Maddy in conversation with editorial illustrator Ewan White as they discuss White’s start in the industry and how he develops each commissioned piece.

White works as a freelance illustrator, whose work is often seen in the weekend issues of Financial Times. You can see his work and previous commissions on his instagram @ew_illustration, and contact him through his website ewanwhite.com

Thanks to Ewan for the interview, and thanks as always to Raid.R for their support, see more at raidr.net and @raid.r__ on instagram

In this weeks podcast, Annie Watkins talks with Lee Nowell-Wilson, a self described "mid-emerging" figurative artist based in Baltimore, MD. They talk about the transition into being an artist and a mother, how not to let being an artist or mother define ones whole identity, and about the influence children have on a developing practice. 

Lee graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011 and has since been building her career in Baltimore. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is also the founder of MILKED magazine. 



You can check out Lee's website here 

You can find more out about her publication, MILKED here 

And follow Lee on Instagram here



Special thanks to Nae Bailey for creating the podcast music for this and other episodes. You can find out more about Nae here