The Collective 2025 - the sound of art

Send us a text Welcome to the March edition of the Collective’s Podcast. This month we feature an interview with artist Alexander Costello, whose exhibition ‘It’s not about the thing, It’s about all of it’ is on at the Outpost Gallery, Norwich, until March 16. A discussion around the theme of Alexander’s exhibition ensued at the Art Depot, which led Nicola to reflect on

Send us a text Featured artist Paul Levy – an interview on this forthcoming exhibition and reflections on his art practice. Meanwhile, Mary Littlefield reviews an important book on 1930s Art, pertinent in today’s world. And amidst the sounds of the collective drawing, a walrus pops up! Do join us for our March 1 podcast. Like nature the artists will be in bloom!

Send us a text Welcome and a happy new year to one and all. In this holiday edition we kick off with a review of Martin Battye’s ‘Small Paintings,’ the Beer Mat Series, PrimeYarc, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth. Then there’s Paul Levy who introduces Tiny Scores; followed by an interview with David Lester about his forthcoming dramatic production at The Garage in January; Mary

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Send us a text Welcome to the first Collective Podcast The Art Depot NR3, Norwich featuring ‘the sound of art’ This is a pilot for a monthly podcast to be broadcast on the first day of each month at midday. Running time of this episode is just over 18 minutes, though we aim to build up a magazine of 30 to 40 minutes per month. This episode features artist Dave Cassell talking a

Send us a text A search for a riotous exhibition or its spirit took me to Gustave Courbet in the 19th Century and a little publicised show of kinetic art in Amsterdam in 1961.

Send us a text This first of seven talks on the arts looks at the rise and demise of Community Arts,

Send us a text Half scripted, half improvised, the poet faces interrogation at the local cop shop. Was his poem in Pix 6 stolen and did anyone read Pix 6? Are all the poet's poems stolen anyway? And if he has stolen them, did he not then murder them? This is a Crime Busters fly-on-the-wall interrogation, not for the faint hearted.

Send us a text The picture restorer’s invoice Under honeysuckle sprays, a cinder path runs up to the barn and around its brick footings to a thick archway of clipped privet, through which lies the picture restorer’s door. He stands mixing pigments with linseed oil, cleans brushes with turps and stares intently at the painting before him. A woman in rags looks up from the canvas

Send us a text Stable Press, Haverhill Poetry Group, Ipswich Poetry Workshop and the Jubilee... with a poem, The Corn Dolly dole queue blues,' to round it off.