The Gallery Companion

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thegallerycompanion.comShortlisted for the Independent Podcast Awards 2023. Subscribe to receive exclusive weekly content at www.thegallerycompanion.comIn this week’s episode I am talking about lines -- the ones that you can see and the invisible ones that you can only feel. It’s a subject that the geographer Max

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thegallerycompanion.comShortlisted for the Independent Podcast Awards 2023. Subscribe to receive exclusive weekly content at www.thegallerycompanion.comI’ve been thinking a lot this week about the practice of looking closely at things. It started when one of my readers sent me some wonderful writing and drawings th

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thegallerycompanion.comShortlisted for the Independent Podcast Awards 2023. Subscribe to receive exclusive weekly content at www.thegallerycompanion.comI’ve often heard artists talk about how making art for them is not optional, it’s essential. Life-saving, even. In this week's episode I discuss the meaning of th

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thegallerycompanion.comShortlisted for the Independent Podcast Awards 2023. Subscribe to receive exclusive weekly content at www.thegallerycompanion.comIn this week's episode I discuss the highly profitable commercial world of human egg freezing, which has seen a dramatic rise in the UK and across the global north.Th

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thegallerycompanion.comShortlisted for the Independent Podcast Awards 2023. Subscribe to receive exclusive weekly content at www.thegallerycompanion.comIn this week's episode I discuss the Yoko Ono exhibition showing at Tate Modern in London at the moment. It is a huge show spanning a prolific creative life over more

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thegallerycompanion.comShortlisted for the Independent Podcast Awards 2023. Subscribe to receive exclusive weekly content at www.thegallerycompanion.comIn this week's episode I consider what it means to have something ‘useful’ to say in a world saturated with visual and textual information, with some words of wis

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thegallerycompanion.comShortlisted for the Independent Podcast Awards 2023. Subscribe to receive exclusive weekly content at www.thegallerycompanion.comYou know when you’re looking at art and somehow it manages to convey feelings or sensations that are going on for you at that particular moment in time? I had that

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thegallerycompanion.comShortlisted for the Independent Podcast Awards 2023. Subscribe to receive exclusive weekly content at www.thegallerycompanion.comIn this week’s episode I am talking about the new show at the Royal Academy in London. It’s called Entangled Pasts, and it looks at the relationship between Brita

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thegallerycompanion.comShortlisted for the Independent Podcast Awards 2023. Subscribe to receive exclusive weekly content at www.thegallerycompanion.comI’ve got four lovely things for you today. A bit of poetry, some music, a film and an artwork by Felix Gonzalez-Torres that knocked me for six this week. In this ep

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thegallerycompanion.comShortlisted for the Independent Podcast Awards 2023. Subscribe to receive exclusive weekly content at www.thegallerycompanion.comIn this episode I think about the culture of contemplating art, particularly in the hushed environment of art galleries, and how we approach it with a seriousness tha