In the Studio: Alberta Whittle

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Alberta is an award-winning Barbadian-Scottish multi-disciplinary artist whose work encompasses drawing, digital collage, film and video installation, sculpture, performance and writing. In this edition of In The Studio, Antonia Quirke follows the progress of a new painting, commissioned specifically for the exhibition. All is going well with the painting, until Alberta realises that it might be upside down.

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0:00.0	In 2011, Fukushima nuclear power plant on the east coast of Japan was struck by a tsunami.
0:08.0	It triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster since Shinobu.
0:12.0	We are in a nuclear emergency!
0:14.0	Fukushima, a new audio drama series from the BBC World Service,
0:19.0	tells the story of how the disaster unfolded and of those living with its aftermath.
0:24.0	The radiation is here, it's everywhere.
0:26.0	Search for Fukushima, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:30.0	Welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service.
0:34.0	The programme that follows some of the most individual minds in the world
0:38.0	as they develop a creative idea from its very beginnings through the artistic process
0:43.0	right up to its introduction to an audience.
0:49.0	Striving for freedom, you know, it's a human right.
0:53.0	But I do think it's a big part of the human condition to try and find ways to feel free.
0:59.0	And we can't take those freedoms for granted.
1:03.0	We just absolutely can't.
1:05.0	And that's the message I'm really hoping for the audience to feel.
1:13.0	This is Alberta Whittle, Barbadian Scottish artist who works in film,
1:19.0	tapestry, installations, sculpture, drawings, paintings and more.
1:24.0	Work that explores in particular racial inequality and climate change
1:29.0	and yet is pointedly optimistic and compassionate.
1:33.0	Her work has been shown all over the world.
1:36.0	At the Venice Biennale in 2022 aged 42 she represented Scotland.
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