On today’s episode Tom speaks with Martin Grover, a South London painter and printmaker whose witty and accomplished artworks are ever present on the London art scene.

They talk about his Masters at the Royal Academy in the late 80’s, his early days establishing his career as an artist, and how his best paintings are always yet to come.

Martin’s candid manner and poetic use of narrative comes across beautifully in this conversation, as they uncover some of the tools and inspirations which have allowed him, as he puts it, to find the beauty in the mundane.

Show Notes

Martin's Instagram

Alice Neel

Tony Beaver

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In this episode of The Art Podcast, Tom Cox speaks with London based Vietnamese artist KV Duong.

KV speaks about his family’s experience in the aftermath of the Vietnam war and his own journey moving across three continents to eventually settle in London.

We learn how his experience as a tennis player has helped to frame the mindset needed to navigate competitive funding applications and how his vision for the long-term have brought him not one, but two museum exhibitions.

Show Notes

https://www.ludwigmuseum.hu/en/author/hajas-tibor

https://www.parkerharris.co.uk/

https://www.migrationmuseum.org/event/artist-showcase-kv-duong/

https://jerwoodarts.org/programme/11-fund/

https://jerwoodarts.org/programme/jerwood-new-work-fund-2/

https://www.museumofthehome.org.uk/

Briony Marshall https://briony.com/press-media/

Reece Jones https://www.cityandguildsartschool.ac.uk/reece-jones-2/

Ceri Hand https://www.artistmentor.co.uk/about-ceri-hand/

https://www.mattrobertsarts.org.uk/

https://www.theastergates.com/

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Tom Talks with Italian contemporary-pop artist Ernesto Romano who lives and works in East London.

In this episode they talk about Ernesto's process, the Queen as his muse, and the various steps that have led him from an Italian architect to an artist based in London.

Show notes:

Ricardo Cinalli

Bankside Hotel residency

Ernesto's work

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