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Episode 17 of Whitechapel Gallery's Hear, Now podcast series delves into the myriad of ways in which artists have studio spaces. Presented and produced by Marthe Lisson, hear from Russell Schofield, director of MDM Props, and artists Rory Cahill and George Mackness, who collaboratively developed ‘PLAZA’, part of this year’s London Open exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery. This episode of Hear Now is inspired by A Century of the Artist’s Studio : 1920 - 2020, a 100-year survey of the studio through the work of artists and image-makers from around the world, on show at Whitechapel gallery until 5 June 2022. For more information: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/a-century-of-the-artists-studio-1920-2020/

Episode 16 of Whitechapel Gallery's Hear, Now podcast series explores the work of Paulina Olowska and her current exhibition The Travel Bureau - selected works from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation. Listen to fascinating excerpts from a live conversation with Iwona Blazwick, as well as a short introduction of The Travel Bureau by Whitechapel's Assistant Curator Grace Storey. For more information: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/christen-sveaas-art-foundation-2/ Transcript: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Paulina_Olowska_transcript_mp3.pdf

Iwona Blazwick speaks with MaryAnne Stevens, a specialist in Norwegian art history, about artist Ida Ekblad’s selection from the Cristen Sveaas Collection, which expose us to the eeriness of night scenes, from moonlit landscapes to dreams and nightmares. We also hear from poet Mark Ford, who reads the eponymous WH Auden poem that inspired the display. For more information: www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/christen-sveaas-art-foundation Transcript: www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Episode-15_Transcript.pdf

Delve into the ideas behind Theaster Gates’ new exhibition, with curator Lydia Yee in conversation with the artist. We also hear from historian Jason Young about the work and legacy of David Drake, an enslaved man whose pottery, engraved with poetry, was an act of resistance in the nineteenth-century American South. For more information: www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/theaster-gates-a-clay-sermon Transcript: www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Episode-14_Transcript.pdf

Artists’ Film International is a collaboration between Whitechapel Gallery and 20 global partner organisations. In 2021 the works selected give us pause to reflect on the meaning of care in today’s society – from bodily, mental or spiritual care to healing, trauma and solidarity. Curator Emily Butler is in conversation with Agnė Jokšė, and artist Rehana Zaman speaks with curator Jemma Desai, to consider the meaning of care within their work. For more information: www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/artists-film-international Transcript available: www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Hear-Now-Episode-13_Transcript.pdf This Work Isn't For Us by Jemma Desai: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HGBSsBsERxSaD1t0Oq_9acqAqiAPPLekBxaJ8tk-Njw/edit

Damascus-born artist Simone Fattal is in conversation with curator Laura Smith about her new commission for Whitechapel Gallery, an environment of ancient ceramic architectures and flowers emerging from memories of lost landscapes. For more information: www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/simone-fattal-finding-a-way Transcript: www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Transcript_Hear-Now-Episode-12.pdf

‘Mend carefully. / Think of mending the world / At the same time.’ These are the instructions offered by artist Yoko Ono for her 1966 work Mend Piece. In this episode curator Cameron Foote reflects on the meaning of this work within Ono’s wider practice, alongside art historian Midori Yoshimoto and art therapist Nicky Roland. For more information: www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/yoko-ono-mend-piece-for-london Transcript: www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Transcript_Hear-Now-Episode-11.pdf

Join curators Nayia Yiakoumaki and Cameron Foote as they examine the pivotal role of women as both artists and as behind-the-scenes organisers within the Surrealist movement in Britain in the 1930s, explored through the lens of the 1936 London Surrealist Exhibition and the women involved. They are joined by the curator Tor Scott and art historian Richard Shillitoe, investigating the legacies of Edith Rimmington and Ithell Colquhoun in particular. More information: www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/phantoms-of-surrealism Transcript: www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Hear-Now-Episode-10-Transcript.pdf

Whitechapel Gallery Curator Laura Smith is in conversation with Whitney Hintz, Curator of the Hiscox Collection, about a new display of works selected by the artist Sol Calero. They consider Calero’s immersive installation, comprising a brightly coloured, densely hung environment celebrating the natural world and the many ways that artists in the Hiscox Collection explore it. For more information: www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/desde-el-salon Transcript: www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Hear-Now-Episode-9-Transcript.pdf

Artist Ayo Akingbade discusses her new film Fire In My Belly, co-developed with Whitechapel Gallery’s youth collective, Duchamp & Sons. Echoing the precarious times we live in, this newly commissioned work offers a compelling take on questions of home, community and crisis in London. Akingbade is in conversation with Curator Renee Odjidja, members of the collective and the Co-Founder/Director of Migrant’s Bureau Alisha Morenike Fisher. For more information: www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/a-glittering-city-ayo-akingbade-with-duchamp-sons Transcript: www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Hear-Now-Episode-8-Transcript.pdf

Celebrating the work of pioneering artist Eileen Agar, Whitechapel Gallery Curator Laura Smith and Assistant Curator Grace Storey share reflections on her legacy, alongside special guests including artist Lucy Stein, poet Daisy Lafarge and designer Beca Lipscombe, who tell us why the multi-talented Agar remains a leading light for contemporary creatives. For more information: www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/eileen-agar Transcript avaliable: www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Hear-Now-Episode-7-Transcript.pdf

CONTENT WARNING: This episode features a reference to rape and sexual violence. In her new video installation Indian artist Nalini Malani explores global issues of social injustice, positioning the voiceless and the invisible alongside gods and goddesses, intellectuals and poets. Here Malani is in conversation with curator Emily Butler to interrogate the myriad stories and political truths in her nine channel animation and how she translates her artist’s notebooks into moving image. Find out more: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/nalini-malani-can-you-hear-me Transcript: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Hear-Now-Episode-6-Transcript.pdf

Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga creates monumental structures out of everyday materials to propose architecture as transitory and corporeal. Having destroyed the gigantic painted cardboard environment he had created for Whitechapel Gallery, Bunga discusses structure as memory, the movement of the body in painting and the Shaker’s idea of making as a form of prayer, with curator Emily Butler. More information: www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/carlos-bunga Transcript: www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Hear-Now-Episode-5-Transcript.pdf

In the late 1970s in London’s East End, Whitechapel Art Gallery developed a pioneering approach to art and education. Jenni Lomax, Community and Education Organiser at the time, invited artists to work alongside communities to set up residencies in schools, workshops at the Gallery and local partnerships with key organisations. Lomax joins curators Sofia Victorino and Nayia Yiakoumaki to return to this paradigmatic moment in the story of art education, discussing what can be learnt from artists and audiences. For more information: www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/exercising-freedom Transcript available: www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Hear-Now.-Episode-Four-Transcript.pdf

Renowned artist, ceramicist and writer Edmund de Waal joins Whitechapel Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick to discuss the legacy of British artist and potter Bernard Leach. Founder of the Leach Pottery in St. Ives 100 years ago and celebrated in Kai Althoff’s current show, Leach drew on traditional Japanese ceramics to lay the foundations for modern Studio Pottery. Author of a critical account of Leach’s genesis and aesthetic, de Waal discusses his enduring appeal. Find out more at www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/kai-althoff-goes-with-bernard-leach Transcript available here: www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Hear-Now.-Episode-Three-Transcript.pdf

What role might art play when our freedom is curtailed? Can confinement trigger new creative processes and networks of solidarity? Hear Whitechapel Gallery’s Youth Forum, Duchamp & Sons alongside Curator of Youth Programmes Renee Odjidja discuss their process in curating an exhibition virtually. They consider the ways in which lockdown has affected experiences of art and culture and how the home – as refuge or prison, as still life or real life - has inspired generations of artists. Find out more at www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/home-live-in-room Transcript available here: www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Hear-Now.-Episode-Two-Transcript.pdf

Renowned British painter Gary Hume speaks with curator Laura Smith about his transcendent selection of art from the Hiscox Collection. Immersed in the transformative power of colour and form, Hume invites us to escape the everyday and to find new joys and sorrows in the myriad worlds imagined by his selected artists including Keith Coventry, Nan Goldin, David Hockney, Alex Katz, Yves Oppenheim, Thomas Ruff and Alison Wilding. Find out more at www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/accelerate-your-escape Transcript available: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Hear-Now.-Episode-One-Transcript.pdf