Jupiter Artland, Angel of The North, Henry Moore Institute, presented by BMW
Talk Art
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Talk Art SPECIAL EPISODE!!!! We go on an electric Art Adventure from Leeds to Edinburgh! Russell and Robert drive to Jupiter Artland in Edinburgh in a BMW electric iX to meet Jupiter's founder, the philanthropist Nicky Wilson, and discover some sculpture legends en route.
Our first stop is the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. We convene in their incredible library with Laurence Sillars, Head of the Institute, to explore their mission to inspire everyone to enjoy and study sculpture through their exhibitions, library, archive & research. We explore their current group exhibition 'The Weight of Words' and a solo show of Egon Altdorf (1922 - 2008). We chat to Errin Hussey to discover the Sculpture Research Centre with archive of sculptors papers including Helen Chadwick. Before driving through the countryside all the way to Antony's Gormley's iconic 'Angel of The North' in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. Since its completion in 1998, this epic public sculpture has become a treasured location for local families but also art lovers who make the pilgrimage from across the UK. It is believed to be the largest sculpture of an angel in the world and is viewed by an estimated 33 million people every year.
We continue our trip all the way to Lindsey Mendick's new solo exhibition at Jupiter Artland in Scotland and meet Nicky Wilson, Jupiter's incredible founder and leading philanthropist. Jupiter Artland is an award-winning contemporary sculpture garden located just outside Edinburgh. Founded in 2009, Jupiter Artland has grown into one of Scotland’s most significant arts organisations, with an international reputation for innovation and creativity. Set over 100 acres of meadow, woodland and indoor gallery spaces, Jupiter Artland is home to over 30 permanent and unique site-specific sculptures from artists Phyllida Barlow, Christian Boltanski, Charles Jencks, Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley, as well as a seasonal programme of carefully curated exhibitions and events from a plethora of artists, both emerging and established.
We navigated our art trip with help from the My BMW App and the BMW Art Guide - a wonderful book created with Independent Collectors - the go-to guide to discover new collections where art is presented in the most diverse and interesting settings. The first of its kind, the Art Guide is a perfect companion for city trips abroad or for finding havens of contemporary art right on your doorstep. Now in it's 7th edition, the guide presents 304 private, yet publicly accessible, collections of Contemporary Art — featuring large and small, famous and the relatively unknown. Succinct portraits of the collections with color photographs take the reader to 51 countries and 224 cities, often to regions that are off the beaten path.
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon, good morning, good evening. Wherever you are in the world, I am Russell Tovy. |
| 0:08.0 | And I'm Robert Dianman. Welcome to Talkar. How are you today, Robert? |
| 0:13.0 | Today, Russell, I feel like an adventurer. And I feel like an electric art adventurer. |
| 0:20.0 | Oh, yeah, tell me about that. Well, where are we right now, Rose? |
| 0:23.0 | Right now, we are actually in Leeds. We've just arrived in the BMW Electric Ix, |
| 0:28.0 | which is stunning. And we want to continue our art adventures that we had last year, |
| 0:32.0 | where we were driving around in a BMW i7. And we ended up at Stonehenge for Henry Moore, |
| 0:38.0 | when there was an exhibition at Housing Worth in Bruton in Somerset. |
| 0:41.0 | And now we've found ourselves in Leeds because there is another Henry Moore museum here, |
| 0:46.0 | called the Henry Moore Institute, right, Rob? |
| 0:48.0 | That's right. And we are so excited to go and meet Lawrence Sellers, |
| 0:52.0 | who's the new director there for the past kind of five years or so. |
| 0:55.0 | I used to visit a lot when Leesla Fervor was the amazing curator. |
| 0:59.0 | And it's a real center of excellence. And I really wanted to go there with you |
| 1:03.0 | because I know you've never been there before, to kind of show you their libraries, |
| 1:07.0 | you know, to show you that exhibition program, and just to meet all of the team. |
| 1:10.0 | Because it's a really specifically interesting gallery in the sense that they're all very academic. |
| 1:18.0 | And it's almost like being in a university center or something like that. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm really excited to see that, but we are also planning to further our electric art adventure. |
| 1:26.0 | We're going to see Anthony Gormley's Angel of the North as well in this trip, |
| 1:29.0 | which is a sculpture that neither of us have seen either. |
| 1:31.0 | So we're doing Henry Moore legend, Anthony Gormley legend, |
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