Nengi Omuku, Alayo Akinkugbe, Michaela Yearwood-Dan

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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In episode 28 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews THREE brilliant guests: Lagos-based artist, Nengi Omuku, founder of @ablackhistoryofart Alayo Akinkugbe, and the amazing London-based artist, Michaela Yearwood-Dan. Over the past six days some of the most exciting young names in art celebrating Black culture have been taking over @thegreatwomenartists Instagram account. To honour this takeover, this episode, and the next one will feature interviews with all six women about their practice and work. And WOW. Were these women completely incredible to speak with. We first speak to Nengi Omuku, the Slade BA and MA graduate whose work explores perceptions of race and gender, protest and notions of collective mourning, dealing with the coping mechanisms the body develops in order to be present. We speak at length about her aim to paint the mind capturing psychological notions in her sitters, as well as her interest in art as therapy. See more: http://www.nengiomuku.com/ + @nengiomuku Works discussed: Funke, Nearing, Gathering, Male Next up is the great Alayo Akinkugbe, the 19 year-old History of Art student at Cambridge University who created the Instagram, @ablackhistoryofart which highlights overlooked artists, sitters, curators, and thinkers from history to the present day. We discuss Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Faith Ringgold, as well as her participation in Decolonising Art History at Cambridge. See more: @ablackhistoryofart And wow, we end with the sensational, Michaela Yeawood-Dan. One of the MOST exciting and phenomenal young artists working in London right now, known for her incredibly beautiful, playful, vibrant and sometimes thick impastoed canvases that explore themes around class, culture, gender and nature. We speak about the artists' work and practice, in particular the text behind her work, and of course her love for the great Carrie Mae Weems. See more: http://michaelayearwood-dan.com/ + @artistandgal 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! 50% of ad revenue for this episode will be donated to the Stephen Lawrence Trust, Black Minds Matter, Black Lives Matter UK, and The Marsha P Johnson Institute. 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 from Bielzebub,
0:52.0	which is known not by sight,
0:53.7	but by sound of a stream that
0:55.2	descends there through the hollow of a rock which it has worn in its winding course and gentle
1:00.2	slope. The leader and I entered on that hidden road to return in to the bright world. And without
1:06.8	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.
1:37.3	And the first thing we notice when we reach the shores of Mount Pergatory is that light reappears.
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