Polly Nor

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In episode 51 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews the incredible London-based illustrator and artist, POLLY NOR! [This episode is brought to you by Alighieri jewellery: www.alighieri.co.uk | use the code TGWA at checkout for 10% off!] Best known for her dark and satirical drawings of women and their demons, Polly’s work interweaves themes of identity, sexuality, and emotional turmoil in her bold, bright, hilarious and disturbing semi-surrealist dream-like work. Looking at sexuality and the female experience in the internet age, Polly’s incredibly imaginative drawings tell the story of often house-bound women and their demons in the form of an all-consuming devil-like character that appear in her hand-drawn and digital illustrations, sculptures and installations. Creating worlds around them – whether that be from their bedrooms to the bottom of the sea – Polly’s all-consuming drawings have the ability to transport us to the deepest part of our minds, that feel more relatable than work found in any museums. Although graduating in 2011, Polly’s rise to fame has been predominantly online, having amassed over one million followers on Instagram with her art inspiring a generation of illustrators worldwide who are breaking taboos around the female experience. Having had numerous solo shows, as well as creating extraordinarily brilliant animations for Chelou’s Half to Nowhere video – genuinely the most incredible music video I have ever seen – and now narrative-based animations with director Andy Baker for WeTransfer, Polly’s characters, who are based on real, non-judgmental women going about their private life, are some of the most fascinating, complex, real, hilarious, I have ever witnessed in my life, and that is why I am so excited to say that she is the artist who we will be speaking to today! FURTHER LINKS: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pollynor Works discussed: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDtqUpYD0jX/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CA5eYTkjuMO/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BzOxN7bl9hH/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CGr7Gu8DxXN/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CF7zWDLj_EX/ Chelou music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgP9tzt9_Z8 Latest animation, 'How Have You Been?': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjVCVdx8kKk&has_verified=1 Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Laura Hendry (@lghendry) Artwork by @thisisaliceskinner Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Great Woman Artists 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
0:12.0	Alighieri. During this difficult time, Alighieri will be donating 10% of all online sales to refuge, the country's largest provider of support to women
0:24.0	and children escaping domestic violence. Allegieri is also offering 10% off for great women
0:30.8	artist listeners with the code TGWA at checkout. See www. a laigieri.
0:38.3	.
0:39.3	For more.
0:40.3	Here are a few words from their founder,
0:42.3	Rosh Matani, and I hope you enjoy this episode.
0:46.3	Over the last few months, we're so proud to have been working with the charity Refuge
0:51.3	who supports survivors of domestic abuse, which affects one
0:54.6	in four women in the UK during their lifetime. As Refuge goes into their 50 year anniversary,
1:00.3	we've created a pendant called the Glimber of Light Necklace. 100% of all profits will
1:05.1	be going back to Refuge if you're looking for an extra special gift this Christmas.
1:19.6	Hello everyone and welcome to The Great Women Artist podcast with me, Katie Hessel. Some of you might know me from The Great Women Artists, an Instagram account I set up in October 2015,
1:25.6	which celebrates female artists on a daily basis, ranging from young
1:29.1	graduates to old masters. Well, in a similar fashion to the Instagram, this podcast is all
1:35.4	about celebrating female artists from a variety of backgrounds and histories. And I am so excited
1:41.1	to be interviewing artists on their career, or artists, writers, cur curators or general art lovers on the women artist who means most of them.
1:49.6	What I want this podcast to do is celebrate female artists in all different capacities so you, the listener, can gain a look into the greatest female artists working now or from art history.
2:03.8	I'm so excited to say that my guest on the Great Woman Artist podcast
2:07.7	is the incredible London-based illustrator, animator and artist Polly Knorr.
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