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Sculpting Lives

Sculpting Lives is a podcast series written and presented by Jo Baring (https://www.jobaring.com/about) (Director of the Ingram Collection of Modern British

Further podcasts by Jo Baring and Sarah Turner

Podcast on the topic Bildende Kunst

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S2 Ep6: Sculpting Lives: Making Sculpture Public from 2021-12-06T05:00

Over the last year public sculpture has become a hugely controversial issue. No longer passive objects that we simply walk past on our streets, public sculptures are part of a vigorous debate ...

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S2 Ep5: Sculpting Lives: Cathie Pilkington from 2021-11-30T05:00

'The thing about my work is that there is a tension between a passionate love and engagement with the traditions of the past and a complete impatience with their irrelevance and it’s tryin...

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S2 Ep4: Sculpting Lives: Alison Wilding from 2021-11-23T05:00

Alison Wilding emerged into the art world in the 1980s making powerful sculptural statements out of a myriad of materials. Taking sculpture out of the museum and off the plinth, Wilding’s work...

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S2 Ep3: Sculpting Lives: Gertrude Hermes from 2021-11-16T06:00

'She did cause a bit of a revolution in the Royal Academy, which has been only to the good,' Anne Desmet, R.A.

Gertrude Hermes was one of the most experimental sculptors of t...

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S2 Ep2: Sculpting Lives: Veronica Ryan from 2021-11-09T06:00

'I have been preoccupied all my life with a "sense of belonging." Growing up with an awareness of "being apart" has certainly defined who I am now. However, that alienation was in part to ...

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S2 Ep1: Sculpting Lives: Dora Gordine from 2021-11-02T06:00

“Sculpture has a vital, important message” Dora Gordine (1895-1991)

When Dora Gordine died in 1991 leaving her Studio House to the nation, many people, including muse...

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S2: Sculpting Lives Season Two Trailer from 2021-10-25T07:00

Launching on 2nd November 2021, the second series of the Sculpting Lives podcast features episodes on Dora Gordine, Gertrude Hermes, Veronica Ryan, Alison Wilding and Cathie Pilkingto...

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S2: Sculpting Lives Season Two Trailer from 2021-10-25T07:00

Launching on 2nd November 2021, the second series of the Sculpting Lives podcast features episodes on Dora Gordine, Gertrude Hermes, Veronica Ryan, Alison Wilding and Cathie Pilkingto...

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S1 Ep5: Sculpting Lives: Rana Begum from 2020-04-21T06:00

We interview Rana Begum in her studio, asking about definitions of sculpture, and things which aren’t usually spoken about – how to balance family life and her artistic career, and the problems she...

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S1 Ep5: Sculpting Lives: Rana Begum from 2020-04-21T06:00

“I don’t want to use a language that really segregates people. I don’t want to use a language that makes them think about gender – if they are looking at a female artist or a male artist....

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S1 Ep4: Sculpting Lives: Phyllida Barlow from 2020-04-14T06:00

In a candid interview in her studio we asked Phyllida Barlow about how she came to sculpture, how she defines what sculpture is, how she disrupts those ideas, her recent successes and how they have...

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S1 Ep4: Sculpting Lives: Phyllida Barlow from 2020-04-14T06:00

“The first time I met him he said ‘Because you’re a woman, I’m not that interested because by the time you’re 30 you’ll be having babies and making jam.’” Phyllida Barlow on meeting ...

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S1 Ep3: Sculpting Lives: Kim Lim from 2020-04-07T06:00

Kim Lim was born in Singapore and moved to Britain in the 1950’s to enroll at art school. Despite a successful career (there are over 80 of her works in UK public collections) she has been left out...

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S1 Ep3: Sculpting Lives: Kim Lim from 2020-04-07T06:00

“Being female and foreign was never a problem as a student, later I realised that there was a difference, but what was important in the end, was what I did and not where I came from. Race...

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S1 Ep2: Sculpting Lives: Elisabeth Frink from 2020-03-31T06:00

In this episode, we explore hidden narratives in Frink’s career, and consider how artists can be sidelined by the ‘art world’ yet remain popular with the public.

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S1 Ep2: Sculpting Lives: Elisabeth Frink from 2020-03-31T06:00

Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)

“She respected herself. She took herself seriously and she took the work seriously, due to the nature of the...

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S1 Ep1: Sculpting Lives: Barbara Hepworth from 2020-03-24T07:00

Barbara Hepworth was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire in 1903. By the time of her 1975 death, she had become one of the most important artists of the century, creating a poignant and innovative sc...

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S1 Ep1: Sculpting Lives: Barbara Hepworth from 2020-03-24T07:00

“Hepworth... didn’t see herself as a feminist at all and didn’t see herself as ‘a pioneering woman’, she just felt she was a pioneering sculptor.” Stephen Feeke, curator and writer. ...

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S1 Ep1: Sculpting Lives: Trailer from 2020-03-16T09:45:55

Dame Barbara Hepworth, Dame Elisabeth Frink, Kim Lim, Phyllida Barlow, and Rana Begum - some of the most globally well-known British artists are women sculptors.

Conversely, the professi...

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S1 Ep1: Sculpting Lives: Trailer from 2020-03-16T09:45:55

Dame Barbara Hepworth, Dame Elisabeth Frink, Kim Lim, Phyllida Barlow,  and Rana Begum - some of the most globally well-known British artists are women sculptors.
 
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