by Russell Tovey and Robert Diament
Actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament host Talk Art, a podcast dedicated to the world of art featuring exclusive interviews with leading artists, curators & gallerists, and even occasionally their talented friends from other industries like acting, music and journalism. Listen in to explore the magic of art and why it connects us all in such fantastic ways. Follow the official Instagram @TalkArt for images of artworks discussed in each episode and to follow Russell and Robert's latest art adventures.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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April 17, 2025
<p>Delaine Le Bas works in a transdisciplinary way: she combines visual, performative and literary practices to create an artistic oeuvre that encompasses all areas of life. In her works she deals with many facets, political as well as private and emotional, which involve belonging to the Rom*nja people, their history and rich cultural heritage.</p><br><p>Within her work, Delaine Le Bas transforms her surroundings into monumental immersive environments filled with painted fabrics, theatrical costumes and sculptures. Her art draws on the rich cultural history of the Roma people and mythologies, focusing on themes of death, loss and renewal.</p><br><p>Le Bas reflects on her identity, grief and the intertwining of art and life as she says: 'My whole life is just one whole thing. I don't think it's divided off, really.... What I'm like and what I dress like, and then what I do. It's like one big piece of work.'</p><br><p>English-Romani artist Delaine Le Bas lives and works across the UK and Europe. Born in 1965 in Worthing, she graduated from Central St Martin’s and her work explores themes of nationhood, land, belonging, and gender through various media such as embroidery, painting, collage, sculpture, installation, and performance. Describing the intertwined nature of her identity and her work, Le Bas has stated “…as a Romani, my viewpoint has always been that of the outsider and this position of the 'other' is reflected in the materials and messages within my work. We live in a culture of mixed values and garbled messages. My works are crafted from the disregarded and disparate objects of the car boot sale and the charity shops."</p><br><p>Le Bas has played a significant role in the building of a Roma/Traveller contemporary art movement and aesthetic. Her work has been featured in the 52nd and 58th Venice Biennales and the Gwangju Biennale in 2012. She co-curated the first Roma Biennale, 'Come out Now!', in Berlin in 2018. She was Delaine Le Bas was nominated for the <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/turner-prize-2024" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2024 Turner Prize</a>, with an exhibition at Tate Britain, and is currently artist-in-residence at The White House, Dagenham; a contemporary and community art space operated by Create London. <a href="https://www.whitehouseart.org/delaine-le-bas" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.whitehouseart.org/delaine-le-bas</a></p><br><p><strong>Stranger in Silver Walking on Air </strong>by DELAINE LE BAS, is a new solo exhibition running until 27th September 2025, at The White House, Dagenham: <a href="https://createlondon.org/event/atchin-tan-by-delaine-le-bas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://createlondon.org/event/atchin-tan-by-delaine-le-bas/</a></p><p>Step into an immersive exhibition that transforms The White House on the Becontree Estate into a dreamlike space of shifting, layered imagery with textile, sculptural objects, glasswork and interactive installations.</p><br><p>From 31st May - 2nd August 2025, Newcastle Contemporary Art proudly presents +<strong>Fabricating</strong> <strong>My Own Myth – Red Threads & Silver Needles</strong>, a solo exhibition by artist Delaine Le Bas, who continues her exploration of linguistics, mythology, and Gypsy Roma Traveller narratives through the tactile power of textiles, language, and storytelling: <a href="https://www.visitnca.com/exhibitions/delaine-le-bas" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.visitnca.com/exhibitions/delaine-le-bas</a></p><br><p>Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dedelebas/?locale=en_GB" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@DeDeLeBas</a></p><p>Visit: <a href="https://www.delainelebas.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.delainelebas.com</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
April 11, 2025
<p>We meet Gary Kemp, one of the UK’s most successful songwriters of the past 40 years. As guitarist and founding member of the most influential and iconic band of the 80s, Spandau Ballet, he was responsible for writing the words and music for 23 hit singles and albums, including modern day standards like True and Gold. We discuss his passion for the Arts & Crafts movement, William Morris, collecting and living with Edward William Godwin furniture, the 70s and 80s creative scene, and why art and design is so important to his life.</p><br><p>Gary’s songs have had an extraordinary combined total of over 500 weeks in the charts and are hits all over the world. They’ve generated over 25 million record</p><p>sales and the songs were part of the soundtrack to the 80s. Last year, he received the BMI</p><p>Icon Award at the 2023 BMI London Awards for his contributions to popular culture and music.</p><p>He joined an elite group that includes The Bee Gees, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Ray Davies, Peter</p><p>Gabriel, Queen, Sting, and Van Morrison.</p><br><p>Kemp’s songs have proven truly timeless. The ubiquitous hit single True has logged over 5</p><p>million air plays in North America alone, and his songs have featured in an incredible 100</p><p>feature films over the years including Sixteen Candles, The Wedding Singer, Charlie’s Angels,</p><p>Pixels and Crazy Stupid Love as well as countless TV programs including The Simpsons, Spin</p><p>City, Gilmore Girls (all three times each) Euphoria, Modern Family and, Ugly Betty plus many,</p><p>many more.</p><br><p>In 2012, he was presented with the Ivor Novello's prestigious Outstanding Song Collection</p><p>award. Gary has also won numerous awards and accolades for his work in Spandau Ballet,</p><p>including an MTV award, a Brit and a Q award.</p><br><p>In recent years, Gary has become synonymous with the Rockonteurs podcast which he hosts</p><p>with fellow musician Guy Pratt, interviewing music legends and becoming the most listened to</p><p>music podcast in the UK. Gary is a Trustee of the Theatres Trust with a passion for keeping theatres at the heart of</p><p>communities.</p><br><p>Gary grew up in Islington (born October 16, 1959) and attended local grammar school Dame</p><p>Alice Owens and Anna Scher’s Children’s Theatre drama club, becoming a child actor in film</p><p>and TV before concentrating on playing guitar and songwriting and forming Spandau Ballet .</p><p>In the 90s, Gary decided to return to acting, starring in numerous films including hugely</p><p>successful British crime thriller, The Krays and Hollywood blockbuster, The Bodyguard. He has</p><p>continued to feature regularly on stage and in film and TV.</p><br><p>Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/garyjkemp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GaryJKemp</a></p><p>Visit <a href="https://www.garykemp.com/news/uabrtfncb6nthbamnnp3j9kvericc8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.garykemp.com</a> to learn more about his new album This Destination, out now.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
April 4, 2025
<p>We meet BAFTA winning producer Susie Hall to discuss the work of late artist David Robilliard and the Documentary she made with Talk Art’s very own Russell Tovey. </p><br><p>Recorded live at TKE Studios, Margate, special thanks to Elissa Cray and all at the Tracey Emin Foundation.</p><br><p>Artist David Robilliard changed Russell Tovey’s life. It was Robilliard who inspired Tovey’s love of art, his free attitude towards sex, as well as his own sexuality. He is one of the most important people in Tovey’s life, despite the fact that they never met (sadly Robilliard died of AIDS before Tovey hit double digits). In this WePresent film Tovey embarks on a highly personal and intimate journey to discover who the artist truly was through the people Robilliard drank with, worked with, slept with and laughed with.</p><br><p>Though Russell Tovey and David Robilliard never met, Robilliard has remained a totemic presence in Tovey’s life, a source of strength, companionship and constant inspiration. In the emotional short documentary film “Life Is Excellent”, Tovey launches into a mission to track down and meet Robilliard’s friends, lovers and colleagues in an attempt to deepen his understanding of who Robilliard was and what his true legacy has become. Some of these people have never spoken publicly about him before.</p><br><p>Although Tovey thinks he knows a lot about Robilliard, the journey throws up revelations, challenging the vision Tovey has constructed of his hero. As is often the case when trying to understand people after they’ve gone, the question of “who was this person”, becomes not quite an answer but a testament to how beautiful, complex and contradictory each of us is.</p><br><p>Robilliard, like so many working artists taken before their time, has remained shrouded in semi-obscurity since his death in 1988 from AIDS. Tovey is rightly concerned about the risk of him being forgotten forever. “It could’ve been me, if I’d been born ten years earlier. And I feel like I’m part of a lucky generation,” explains Tovey of the loss of artists to AIDS in the film. “I feel a responsibility to make sure people know who David Robilliard is because we should put people back into history that disappeared.”</p><p>Now, through all these touching interviews, performance pieces of Robilliard’s work by the likes of Bimini Bon Boulash, Harry Trevaldwyn and Self Esteem and displays of his artworks, WePresent is proud to help ensure that David Robilliard and his artistic vision is memorialized.</p><br><p>Stream Life is Excellent documentary for free via WePresent <a href="https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/life-is-excellent-russell-tovey-david-robilliard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/life-is-excellent-russell-tovey-david-robilliard</a> and YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/U7_ic49H2ggFollow @SusieHall_23" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/U7_ic49H2gg</a></p><br><p>Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/susiehall_23/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@SusieHall_23</a></p><br><p>Thank you to WePresent and Damian Bradfield.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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