Helene Love-Allotey, Chloe Austin, Emi Eleode

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In episode 29 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews THREE brilliant guests: African Art specialist, Helene Love-Allotey, art historian and curator-in-training Chloe Austin, and creator of @arthistorytalks, Emi Eleode. Last week, six exciting young names in art celebrating Black culture took over @thegreatwomenartists Instagram account. To honour this takeover, this episode, as well as last week's, feature interviews with all six women about their practice and work. And WOW. Were these women were absolutely incredible to speak with. First up we have Helene Love-Allotey who speaks in depth about her love for the great British artist, Lubaina Himid, and her experience visiting Himid's very moving and important exhibition "Meticulous Observations and Naming the Money". Housed at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery, this show highlighted how Europe’s wealthy classes spent their money in the 19th century by using enslaved African men and women, which Himid awkwardly and unapologetically portrays in vibrant cut-out sculptures placed amongst the white and male-dominated permanent collection. See more: https://www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk/exhibition/lubaina-himid-meticulous-observations-and-naming-money @helenaloveallotey Next up is the great Chloe Austin, a curator-in-training at London's Barbican Centre, and Institute of the International Visual Arts (Iniva), a radical visual arts organisation dedicated to developing an artistic programme that reflects on the social and political impact of globalisation, in which we speak at length about. We also discuss the institutions' position and reaction to this movement, as well as the three brilliant artists Deborah Findlater, Rosa-Johan Uddoh, and Elsa James. See more: https://iniva.org/ https://iniva.org/programme/projects/chatting-in-the-stacks/ https://chloesinternalmonologue.wordpress.com/2020/06/06/black-boxes/ @chloejaaay And we end with the wonderful Emi Eleode, founder of the Instagram @arthistorytalks, a page that spotlights 4–5 artists from a non-Western country each month. We discuss her own work that plays on art history, her research into the history of dance as a ritual in Brazil, as well as artists Delphine Diallo and Amrita Sher-Gil. This is one of my favourite episodes EVER of The Great Women Artists Podcast so I hope you enjoy! This episode is sponsored by Alighieri https://alighieri.co.uk/ @alighieri_jewellery Use the code: TGWA for 10% off! Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Amber Miller (@amber_m.iller) https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Great Woman Artis podcast. I hope you are all doing well.
0:07.0	I am really delighted that this episode is sponsored by one of my favourite jewellery brands, Alighieri.
0:14.0	During this difficult time, Alighieri will be donating 10% of all online sales to refuge, the country's largest provider of support to women
0:23.9	and children escaping domestic violence. Alighieri is also offering 10% off for Great
0:30.6	Women Artist listeners with the code TGWA at checkout. See www. www.
0:38.3	a laigieri.com for more.
0:40.5	Here are a few words from their founder,
0:42.7	Rosh Matani,
0:43.6	and I hope you enjoy this episode.
0:47.8	Down there is a place
0:49.3	at the furthest part of the tomb
0:51.0	from Bielzebub,
0:52.1	which is known not by sight,
0:53.7	but by sound of a stream that
0:55.3	descends there through the hollow of a rock which it has worn in its winding course and gentle slope.
1:00.9	The leader and I entered on that hidden road to return in to the bright world.
1:06.3	And without caring to have any rest, we climbed up. He first and I second. So far that I saw
1:13.3	through a round opening some of the fair things that heaven bears. And thence we came forth again
1:19.5	to see the stars. These are the final few lines of Dante's Inferno, when he's about to follow
1:26.4	Virgil his guide onto the shores of Mount Pergatory.
1:29.3	In Inferno there's no concept of light or time or seasons.
1:34.3	There's only darkness.
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