Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding; Stella Tillyard

Arts & Ideas

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4.2 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Helaine Blumenfeld is a sculptor who divides her time between her family in England and her work-family in Italy. As an exhibition featuring much new work opens in Ely Cathedral, she talks to Anne McElvoy about expressing her thoughts in marble, the importance of risk to the artist and why total immersion without distraction produces her best work. As the Liverpool Biennial gets under way Dale Harding, an Australian artist and descendant of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples of Central Queensland, explains his own education in the medium of wood and why his art is part of the making and story-telling traditions and brutal recent history of his cultural family. Back to the 17th century and Stella Tillyard tells Anne about the inspiration behind her new novel: the immense human effort (and human sacrifice) it took to reclaim land from the sea in East Anglia, Holland and the islands of what is now New York. And pirates...New Generation Thinker and Ottoman historian, Michael Talbot, looks to change their image. Helaine Blumenfeld 'Tree of Life' at Ely Cathedral 13 JULY - 26 OCTOBER 2018 Dale Harding See his work at Tate Liverpool as part of Liverpool Biennial 2018: Beautiful world, where are you? from 14 July – 28 October. Stella Tillyard 'The Great Level' is out now. Michael Talbot is a lecturer in the History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Middle East at the University of Greenwich . New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radio. Presenter: Anne McElvoy Producer: Jacqueline Smith

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0:55.6	this is the BBC coming up helene bloomenfeldt the most celebrated sculptor working in
1:04.1	Britain today even if she is an American and to mark the Liverpool biennial 2018 we have
1:10.3	Dale Harding from Australia,
1:12.2	whose work derives from the Aboriginal experience of his family before and after first contact.
1:18.2	We'll also be hearing from novelist Stella Tilliard about a first contact in 17th century England
1:23.6	between a fenswoman and the Dutch man come to drain her watery kingdom.
1:28.8	Plus a critical look at our cosy love of our piratical past.
1:32.5	What will we do with the drunken sailor?
1:34.7	What will we do with the drunken sailor?
1:39.1	Lie in the morning.
1:40.9	Way, hey, up your eyes.
1:43.0	We'll be scratching him in the belly with a rusty pin later on.
1:48.4	The city of Ely in Cambridgeshire is one of the most evocative places in England.
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