Prudence Flint

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In Episode 24 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews the AMAZING artist PRUDENCE FLINT!! One of my FAVOURITE artists of 2020 – with her work particularly resonating with me at the time of lockdown – Prudence is known for her eerily quiet scenes of characters silently going about their daily lives. Swept up in her signature pastel-like palette, whilst it might at first appear as though her figures are performing seemingly mundane activities – lying on a bed to brushing their teeth – Prudence gives precedent to their actions by creating tense atmospheres in her slightly distorted and jarring environments. Painting both men and women, but focusing much more heavily on the female and the female psyche, Prudence’s work invites us into a narrative – an intimate, contemplative and private life, where we as viewers very much become an intruder, or a voyeur. Based in Melbourne, Prudence is one of Australia's leading painters and is VERY excitingly included in an exhibition I have excitingly curated titled ‘Dwelling is the Light” at Timothy Taylor Gallery, featuring a multigenerational group of women exploring the relationship between interiors and the outdoors (https://timothytaylor.com/viewing-rooms/dwelling-is-the-light/). Speaking about women in her work she has said, “I wish for women to be at the center of things… to be all things, whole, boundless, perverse, and representative of humanity. I want to give voice to this experience of being alive, now, in this culture, as a woman.” I LOVED interviewing Prudence. It was such an insight to hear about her work in the context of the History of Art and her interest in the divine; exploring the beauty of the everyday; intensity of the home; dynamics between humans and their surroundings; and putting women at the centre of her work. Thank you for listening!! 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) Artwork by @thisisaliceskinner Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Great Women Artists podcast. I hope you are all doing well.
0:07.6	I am really delighted that this episode is supported by one of my favourite jewellery brands, Aligieri.
0:14.9	During this difficult time, Aligieri will be donating 20% of website sales to the Trussle Trust,
0:21.7	who are supporting food banks around the UK.
0:25.3	Alighieri is also offering 10% off for great women artists podcast listeners
0:30.6	with the code TGWA.
0:34.5	Here are a few words from their founder, Rosh Matani,
0:39.9	and I hope you enjoy this episode.
0:52.0	Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart, seized this man for the fair form that was taken from me, and the manner afflicts me still.
0:56.4	Love which absolves no one beloved from loving. Sees me so strongly with his charm that as thou seest it does not leave me yet. In the fifth canto of the
1:02.9	Divine Comedy, we met with the lustful sinners Paolo and Francesca. They talk of falling in love
1:09.8	over a storybook. They read together until they read no more.
1:14.4	Their punishment is that they're trapped together in an infernal storm.
1:18.6	The infernal storm necklace, a square pendant bearing the number five, is evocative of this
1:24.4	infernal storm that is both romantic, tragic and painful as all love sometimes is.
1:32.5	It's a reminder to hang on to it no matter what.
1:40.6	Hello everyone and welcome to The Great Woman Artist podcast with me, Katie Hessel.
1:46.6	Some of you might know me from The Great Women Artists, an Instagram account I set up in October 2015,
1:52.4	which celebrates female artists on a daily basis, ranging from young graduates to old masters.
1:58.5	Well, in a similar fashion to the Instagram, this podcast is all about
2:02.7	celebrating female artists from a variety of backgrounds and histories. And I am so excited to be
2:08.7	interviewing artists on their career or artists, writers, curators or general art lovers on the
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