CultureCast: Talk
CultureCast: Talk is a diverse series of talks and lectures that were delivered in our venues. Artists, curators, historians and various other speakers of interest feature in these episodes.
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Episode 7 - Fee Doran
Fee Doran, celebrity stylist and creator of fashion label Mrs Jones, talks candidly about her work, inspirations and experiences within the fashion world. This insight into the work of one of the most iconic image-makers in the music industry offers an introduction to Fee in advance of her appearance at the Shipley Late at the Shipley Art Gallery on Friday 30th October 2009.
Episode 6- Mark Radcliffe, Stuart Maconie and Simon Armitage
Radio presenters Stuart Maconie and Mark Radcliffe celebrate walking the length of Hadrian's Wall and bump into poet Simon Armitage at the finish line.
Episode 5- Rose English
Rose English recalls her live artwork 'Plato's Chair' which she performed at the Laing Art Gallery on 11th April 1985. This recording accompanies 'Notes on a Return', a series of new events and exhibitions at the Laing recalling a sequence of landmark live artworks that took place at the gallery throughout the mid 1980's. These historic performances were the product of a collaboration between the Laing Art Gallery and Projects U.K.
Episode 4- Paul Merton
Join comedian and televsion Paul Merton on a whistle stop tour of 70 years of British comedy! From Max Miller, to the Goons and Tony Hancock, to Alexei Sayle and Paul O'Grady. This interview was recorded with the National Portrait Gallery in 2009, as part of the 'The Comedians: From the 1940s to Now' exhibition.
'The Comedians: from the 1940s to Now' is a fascinating exhibition of photographs that puts the spotlight on British comedy from the 1940s to the present day. The exhibition was created in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, and is on display at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens from 4th April until 21st June 2009.
Episode 3- Visions, dreams and realities
This evening of talks and debate was held at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne on 2nd December 2008, in partnership with Northern Architecture.
The four speakers featured in this recording invite the audience to consider if it is possible to have a vision for the future of a city, or whether such visions build nightmares and ignore day to day needs and realities. The presentations looked at how Newcastle has been shaped by previous generations of visionaries and asked if the city has a vision for its future and, if so, who made it and who shares it?
Episode 2- Laurie Britton Newell, James Beighton, Catherine Bertola
Join Laurie Britton Newell, Curator of Contemporary Programmes at the V&A, James Beighton, Curator of Craft at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art and artist Catherine Bertola for a conversation around the V&A/Crafts Council exhibition Out of the Ordinary: Spectacular Craft, which was on show at the Shipley from 20 March - 1 June 2008.
This conversation took place as part of the NewcastleGateshead Late Shows on 17 May 2008. It included discussion of the recent resurgence of interest in craft and the handmade, explored the boundaries of contemporary art and craft practices, and the complex relationship between ideas, making, material and labour in relation to craft.
Episode 1- Ralph Jackson
Between April and June 2008, a stunning bronze statue of the head of the Roman Emperor Hadrian was temporarily displayed at Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum. The statue was on loan from the British Museum. Ralph Jackson, curator of Roman-British Collections at the British Museum, marked the opening of the exhibition with a fascinating lecture on the origins of the head and on the life of the great Emperor Hadrian.