Multimedia artist Fungai Marima printing her work Burn Out on an etching press

Fungai Marima is a prize-winning multimedia artist who specialises in printmaking and live performance. She uses her body in her work, imprinting it on glass or onto metal etching plates to express her sense of solidarity with those who've endured abuse and cruelty. Her work is visceral and sometimes disturbing and yet it exudes a sense of hope that things can be made better. I first met Fungai when we completed our Masters of Fine Art Printmaking together. I’ve always been struck by her brilliance but also by her ability to stick by the phrase which guides her – be kind. Born in Zimbabwe and living in London, Fungai has exhibited her work around the world. She has held various international art residencies and her work is in private collections around the UK.

Fungai preparing to be rolled into the etching press to create her work Passage. She talks about the intense emotion behind the creation of this work in the podcast episode. © Fungai Marima

Fungai creating her 8-hour walking work, Burn Out ©Fungai Marima

The writer Noreen Masud was brought up in Lahore with her three sisters. When she was a teenager, and with no warning, her doctor father banished them from Pakistan and, since then, she's created a life for herself as an academic. But now suffering from complex post-traumatic stress disorder, Noreen compulsively seeks out flat places in the landscape - bare spaces where she can see for miles and which find an echo in the traumatised, flat place inside herself. Her strange and original memoir A Flat Place, deservedly nominated for top literary prizes, is an ode to flatness and to the power of what lies beneath. Noreen and Charlie walk the flat, muddy shoreline of Severn Beach - and talk about bones, flesh, and beauty.

Artist Jake Tilson doesn't care if his projects take decades to complete - in fact, he likes it when they do. He's just finished recreating his vision of Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, an art project which took him years and involved walking around the market for thousands of miles. His recent solo show, which included miniature recreations of some of Tsukiji's 1,700 fish stalls, was a triumph of imagination, technical skill and eccentricity. The work is also a ghostly tribute to a market which no longer exists. In this episode Jake explains why walking and typography are so crucial to his work - and how to make a typeface out of eels.

Jake's miniature fish stalls on show at White Conduit Projects

Photo credit: Jake Tilson

Jake's vast walking map of Tsukiji

Photo credit: Jake Tilson

The legendary pink pay 'phone

Photo credit: Agnese Sanvito