Conversations with Art
Now in its seventh series, Conversations with Art are dialogues between an artist and their guest before an audience. The discussions which also involve the audience focus on or are prompted by, a single piece of art chosen by the artist from their studio. Since many members of the audience are artists too, conversations tend to begin with studio practice, ideas and sources and often techniques, but inevitably widen into the broader concerns of the community. Talks are usually held in the early evening, in the artist’s studio and are open to the public.
APT Artist-member Tim Cousins, set up ‘Conversations with Art’ in October 2013
S7:03 Lippiatt + Cash Davidson
The third conversation of this seventh series is between the artist, Nathan Cash Davidson and the artist Matthew Lippiatt who works for the Turps Banana magazine, studio programme and correspondence course.
Nathan lives and works in London. He is represented by Hannah Barry and his work has been shown widely in London, including the Saatchi Gallery. He has acquired a style of ‘semi-detached sarcasm’. In Davidson’s paintings historical and imaginative narratives are told as though half-heard, half-understood, but the space in his works is overstuffed, both gesturally and pictorially. The work we shall be discussing is Untitled 2020. Nathan says about it ‘My latest painting is based on the idea of Henry VIII’s guards hallucinating about one of Henry’s wives with her head the wrong way up because he knows she is going to be executed’.
Image: Untitled, 2020 Oil on Board, 16 x 16cm
S7:02 Cope + Lippiat
The second conversation of this seventh series is between APT artist, Marcus Cope and artist Matt Lippiatt who works for Turps Banana magazine, studio programme and correspondence course.
Marcus works on his paintings that for the most part take as their starting point a memory of a person, place or event in his life. "They make their way rather crudely- from a kind of nagging insistence in my mind- onto paper through drawing, via a collaging of collected images, memories, formal decision making and intuition. Later these drawings become more solid and form smaller paintings and then the large paintings such as this one, After the Wedding, which are given more definition and detail".
Image: After the Wedding, 2019 Oil on Linen
S7:01 Chance + McCall, Sharples, Cregan-Reid
APT artist member Veronique Chance in conversation with Carali McCall, Artist and PhD from Central Saint Martins ('The Line is a Brea(d)theless Length: introducing the physical act of running as a form of drawing'); Julian Sharples, artist SE London; and Vybarr Cregan-Reid, Professor of English and Environmental Humanities at University of Kent.
Image: Elements from a recent work mapping the River Thames from Berkshire to the North Sea.
S6: 2018-19
April 2019: David Oates in coversation with Dexter Dymoke
March 2019: Steve Lewis in conversation with Geoff Mowlam
February 2019: Aude Hérail Jäger and the sculptor Marcus Cornish
January 2019: Alexandra Harley in conversation with Tim Cousins
November 2018: Geoff Mowlam in conversation with Tim Cousins
October 2018: Javier Molina in coversation with Tim Cousins
Image: Rail, 2019 Dexter Dymoke
S5: 2017-18
June 2018: Nikolai Azariah, Chris Beckett and Isao Miura in conversation with
APT Trustee Jenny White
April 2018: Lydia Julien in conversation with Victoria Rance
January 2018: Tisna Westerhof in conversation with Victoria Rance
November 2017: Marcelle Hanselaar in conversation with Victoria Rance
October 2017: Catherine Ferguson in conversation with Tim Cousins
Image: The Night Horse & The Holy Baboon (model), 2017 Victoria Rance
S4: 2016-17
June 2017: Susan Sluglett in conversation with Victoria Rance
May 2017: Hannah Rowan in conversation with Dexter Dymoke
March 2017: Tim Craven in conversation with Tim Cousins
February 2017: Güler Ates in conversation with Victoria Rance
January 2017: Kaori Homma in conversation with Victoria Rance
November 2016: Chris Marshall in conversation with Dexter Dymoke
October 2016: Gordon Furn in conversation with Tim Cousins
Image: Coup, 2015 (detail of an installation in Trieste), Chris Marshall
S3: 2015-16
April 2016: Peter Clossick in conversation with Tim Cousins
March 2016: Clyde Hopkins in conversation with Richard Dyer
February 2016: Michelle Avison in conversation with Tim Cousins
January 2016: Almuth Tebbenhoff in conversation with Victoria Rance
November 2015: Sheila Vollmer in conversation with Victoria Rance
October 2015: Richard Lawrence in conversation with Tim Cousins
Image: Skirting - Enwrap, 2015 Sheila Vollmer
S2: 2014-15
October 2014 : Fritz Duffy with Colin Pink
November 2014: Cuillin Bantock in conversation with Tim Cousins
January 2015: Tim Cousins in conversation with Professor Les Back, Tariq Ali and
Chanie Rosenberg
Feb 2015 : Sara Redstone in conversation with John Rastall
March 2015 : Victoria Rance in conversation with Irina Nedelcu
April 2015 : Maggie Learmonth in conversation with Tim Cousins
Image: Tariq Ali, who was in conversation Tim Cousins, Professor Les Back and Chanie Rosenberg.
The image was taken by Boberger in Gotenberg in 2011, courtesy of Wikipedia
S1: Conversations with Painting 2013-14
October 2013 : Tim Cousins
November 2013 : Tim Cousins
January 2014 : Tim Cousins
February 2014 : Jacqueline Dupre and Tim Cousins
March 2014 : Tim Cousins
April 2014 : Tim Cousins
Image: Tim Cousins (left) and Paul Finn at the London Group Exhibition 2017