THE IDLE HANDS SOCIETY

On The Idle Hands Society’s latest episode, Paul and Dan speak with Brian Carroll, founder and editor of Offline Journal, a photo-forward publication championing Welsh photographic artists.

On The Idle Hands Society’s latest episode, graphic designer Ryan McDonagh joins us to chat about studying art, having a disability as an artist, using art to express yourself, answering "the big question" using text in art, social media algorithms, the last three things we listened to, designing album covers, making authentic videos, trying new things.

This week, we have the super-talented and almost Welsh Roo Lewis. Roo talks(amongst other thing) about folklore, faith, community, and the importance of telling positive stories. Roo spent over two years photographing the landscape and the people of Port Talbot to create a wonderful body of work that shows how deeply he cares about the people he works with.

This week on the podcast, we have the wonderfully multi-talented Kate Burden. Kate talks about being too young at 18 to goto university and how she kickstarted her creative career after having her third child. She also talks about finding old “Sticky” toys in her loft and how she sliced, broke and chopped them up to make new sculptures.

Dan and Paul round up 2023’s highlights in their end-of-year review.

This week, we spoke with photographer and educator Mimi Mollica.

This week, Sìle Walsh talks about becoming an artist again after motherhood. She also talks about how the Sky Portrait Artist of the Year award built her confidence and how resilience is vital as a creative. She also left us with a beautiful thought on process; “If we could all understand the thing everybody else did, there would be no beauty in that.” -Sìle Walsh, Nov 23.

We caught up with Roland Ramanan at the tail end of his Kickstarter campaign to print Dominoes, his decade-long exploration of joy, addiction, pain and hope in a community centred around a unique corner of London's east end.

One from the archives. Here’s a conversation we had with Stephen Leslie back in January 2023. We chat about the humour in his work, Stephen’s YouTube channel, writing versus photography, street photography, and approach the question of what street photography is.

Dan, Paul, Ed Thompson catch up in an inpromtude episode of The Idle Hands Society Podcast. Sorry about the audio blowing out in a few spots; we recorded this gem unplanned using some very basic gear. As we’re getting into the slower months for our work, you’ll see us picking up the pace a little with the podcast.