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Artist As Curator

Release Date: 09/10/2017

Group Show

The (maybe) FINAL episode of Group Show Series 2! For this episode, Kat Bevan, Midge Ryall and Zara Worth, current participants of The Collective Studio at The NewBridge Project, present Ask Me Anything! Asking those important questions about being an artist today and discussing things they wish they'd known when they'd just graduated.

Series 2 - Episode 8

Group Show

The penultimate episode of Series 2 is a conversation between Ilana, Hannah, Helen, Lorna, Marwa and Katy who were all involved in artist Bobby Baker's Great and Tiny War project last year. The project, commissioned as part of 14-18-NOW, a series of World War I centenary art commissions, took place in an immersive installation in a house on Sidney Grove in Newcastle and featured an audio guided tour. The project aimed to highlight the role of women during wartime and the impact of war on mental health.

Series 2 - Episode 7

Group Show

This episode features an interview with Clare Gomez who is Studio and Programme Coordinator at The NewBridge Project, a new sound piece by Rotterdam-based artists Nick Thomas and Sophie Bates featuring interviews with fellow passengers on the ferry from Amsterdam to Newcastle and back. Then a conversation with Jon Cornbill an artist and DJ based in Gateshead about his youtube channel project, Camo045 and his trip to Arnold, Missouri to meet his YouTube idol Petro062.

Series 2 - Episode 6

Group Show

This episode features a conversation with Grace Denton (NBP studio holder), Craig Pollard and Will Edmondes chatting about Wild Pop. Wild Pop is a practice-led research group exploring the ways critical discourse might find a place within contemporary popular music practice(s). Wild Pop hosts music and art events, public talks and participatory workshops.

Series 2 - Episode 5

Group Show

This episode begins with an interview with The NewBridge Project's Artist Development Coordinator, Dan Russell. Then a new collaborative sound piece by Sam Blackwood and Luke Garthwaite followed by an interview with Holly Argent about the Women Artists of the North East Library.

Series 2 - Episode 4

Group Show

This episode features three sound pieces from TOT-TOT-TOTALALAZOLA, an exhibition by TOTALLER curated by Lesley Guy at The NewBridge Project in January-February 2019. In order of listening - 'Mithrayer Meditation', 'Solstice Meditation' and 'Totaller Deinitiation'.

Series 2 - Episode 3

Group Show

This episode features Niomi Fairweather, who is Programme Director at The NewBridge Project. I spoke to Juliet Fleming, a studio holder and director of Goldtapped gallery at NBP on skype whilst she was on residency in London. Also there are three poems by Collective Studio member Imogen Charvill Ryall, 'Things My Mother Gave Me', 'Process' and 'Mug'.

Series 2 - Episode 2

Group Show

This episode features 'A Working Thesaurus for Collaboration', a new text written by Gordon Douglas, a NBP associate member and artist based in Glasgow. And music by Gateshead-based artist Graeme Hopper aka Chlorine- 'Confession of a Broken Temperament', 'Velvet Teeth' and 'My Trying Hands, Lost and Tied' - you can hear more on bandcamp.

Series 2 - Episode 1

Group Show

This episode features an interview with Rebecca Huggan, the Director of NBP, sound pieces by Gobscure and marginendeavour and a chat between Tamara Micner and Yael Roberts who is currently on Collective Studio based at NBP. The next episode comes out on Friday 10th May and features a new project by Gordon Douglas and music by Graeme Hopper. Hope you enjoy listening!

Series 2 - Teaser!

Group Show

Welcome to Series 2 of Group Show! This is a wee teaser of what's to come.. This series was produced by me (Caitlin Merrett King) for the Practice Makes Practice Residency that I did at The NewBridge Project in Newcastle in March 2019. The first episode comes out on Friday 26th April, when there will be a launch party at NBP, for more details go to their website or search 'Unintimacy' on Facebook. Hope you enjoy listening! (Image: Eva Duerden)

More Episodes

The fourth episode of Group Show is about the ARTIST AS CURATOR, and discusses gallery committees, nepotism and what it means to wear two hats. We hear three segments from Transmission, an artist-led gallery in Glasgow, split across the first half of the episode, plus a recording of an email conversation that I had with Hamish Chapman and Freya Fullerton earlier this year (featuring the voices of Hannah Reynolds and Theo Vass). We then hear from Muesli, who are Meg Brain and Mia Cathcart, a curatorial duo who ran a project space at The Royal Standard as part of the Liverpool John Moores University Graduate Residency scheme in 2016. After that is a mixture of two conversations that I had with artists Mathew Parkin and Liz Murphy about nepotism, followed by another fab intermission from Tzuzjj.FM (James Harper and Louis Palliser-Ames). The White Pube (Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad) then discuss money and feelings in their regular glossary feature, then in this episode's art scene feature I chat with Becca Halliwell-Sutton about Newcastle- featuring interviews with Juliet Fleming (Goldtapped), Gayle Meikle, Uma Breakdown (a.k.a Ralph), Grace Denton, Max Lee and Matt Antoniak (M I L K), Tommy Keenan, Stacey Davidson (i.o.u.a.e, Goldtapped), Nikki Katrina Carroll and Matt Young (jawbone jawbone). The next and FINAL episode is about Education and comes out on the 24th September. ALSO you are cordially invited to our Group Show closing party on the Saturday 30th September 7:30pm at Light Eye Mind, London!

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