Discovering The Two Roberts & Dalziel and Scullion

What makes a great partnership? And does that mean it’s good for everyone involved? Patrick Elliot explains the explosive partnership of Robert Macbride and Robert Colquhoun, and to contrast we hear from one of Scotland’s most established contemporary partnerships, Dalziel and Scullion, on how the…

Partnerships & Relationships

What makes an artistic partnership? Where is it healthy and how can it be destructive? In this episode we find out how powerful partnerships can transcend time and place and cause the people involved to generate some of the most powerful works in history. We’ll hear the tragic tale of Elizabeth S…

Discovering Richard Dadd

We hear the full interview with Nick Tromans, author of Richard Dadd; The Artist and the Asylum.

The Mind

Picasso said “the purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls”. So how does art help us communicate with our inner experience and process life events? In this episode we look at how creative work can be a tool to make sense of events or changing times, to share or interrogate em…

Discovering The Grand Tour

Professor Jeremy Black explains the nuanced experiences offered by the 18th Century Grand Tour and its impact on British art and culture.

Artists and Travel

How is it possible to capture another world or time in a canvas, sculpture, photograph or sketchbook? What do these works tell us about how the artist views their own culture? And how does it cause us to reflect on our own? From the art and architecture inspired by the revered remains of Palmyra, …

Discovering Leonora Carrington

Tthe full interview of how journalist Joanna Moorhead uncovered a little-talked about link in her family history, and formed a life-changing friendship with the artist Leonora Carrington.

Representing Women

We discover how women creating art have depicted their identities, bodies and those of other women independent to the male gaze. We find out about Leonora Carrington’s artistic emancipation, touch upon photographer Francesca Woodman’s use of her own body and discover the satirical humour of Sarah L…

Who Speaks for Wolf?

If politics speaks for people, who speaks for the landscape and nature? Every other week, we feature an extra story from the interviews in our main programme as a bonus episode.Scotland-based partnership Dalziel and Scullion explore art as a conduit between people and nature in this bonus episode.…

Depicting Scotland

The National Galleries of Scotland are developing a new suite of exhibition spaces which will showcase the national collection of Scottish art, right in the heart of Edinburgh so today we hear about some of the ways Scotland, its landscape and identity have been depicted in art. From Romanticism t…