RYCA (Special Episode)
Talk Art
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Talk Art special episode!! We meet awesome artist RYCA to explore his new collaboration with Stella Artois Unfiltered to reimagine an iconic pub sign as a nude artwork to raise awareness and support for pubs struggling with rising energy bills!!!
RYCA is one of 11 contemporary artists who’s original artworks will be sold at online auction, with all profits going to Hospitality Action.
'The Pub Renaissance', a new art collection curated by Stella Artois, features work from renowned artists including Reuben Dangoor and Heath Kane.
The campaign is in direct response to the threat facing pubs across the country. Amid the cost of living crisis, many are struggling to pay their bills as energy prices continue to skyrocket - latest data from charity, Hospitality Action, has revealed applications for financial support are up by almost a third (29 per cent) on the previous year.
The nude signs are available for online auction for a limited time only at The Auction Collective. All profits will be donated to Hospitality Action to assist pubs with rising energy bills and Stella Artois will match funds raised, up to £50,000.
Inspired by the recent launch of Stella Artois Unfiltered, the eleven-piece collection celebrates the beauty of living life 'au naturel' - just like the naturally unfiltered beer itself.
The cheeky series includes ‘The Cricketers’ reimagined by Reuben Dangoor to star a batsman with a strategically placed bat, a new view of 'Queen Victoria' by Samuel Rees-Price, and a brand-new portrait of HRH King Charles for 'The Kings Head' by Heath Kane. Spanning a variety of signs from across the UK, the full collection includes:
● Reuben Dangoor x The Cricketers
● Bernadette Timko x Duke of Wellington
● Emma Wesley x The Bricklayers Arms
● Becki Gill x Britannia
● Samuel Rees Price x Queen Victoria
● Alice Tye x The Plough
● Mattia Guarnera x Horse & Jockey
● Natasha Klutch x George & Dragon
● RYCA x Robin Hood
● Enigma x The Cannon
● Heath Kane x King’s Head
The original works will be sold via The Auction Collective, with online auction closing on 5th April.
So... Buy nude art. Help pubs.
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Ryan Callanan (a.k.a. RYCA, born 1981) draws on his disparate experiences in 3D design, commercial printing, and street art to make paintings, prints, hand-etched signs, and sculptures that riff on pop culture. Common themes include Star Wars, 1980s acid house culture, song lyrics, and art historical figures such as Johannes Vermeer and Andy Warhol. RYCA has exhibited extensively in London and has had shows in Brighton, New York, Miami, and Hong Kong.
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon, good morning, Good evening. Wherever you are in the world, I am Russell Tovy. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Robert Diamond. And this is Talk Art. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to Talk Art. How are you today, Robert? |
| 0:16.0 | Today, Russell, I am feeling smiley. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, that's a change. I'm going to be miserable. |
| 0:24.0 | It's a drastic shift. |
| 0:26.0 | Because today's guest makes the most powerful, inspiring and joyous work. |
| 0:33.0 | And you will often find it on the streets of London town, but also further afield all over the world, I imagine. |
| 0:41.0 | But his work often has a very smiley face within it as part of it. |
| 0:46.0 | It's not only that, but there is often this very smiley face, which gave me a smile and made me think, you know, you've got to keep your chin up and stay happy. |
| 0:55.0 | And today we are presenting this episode with the wonderful Stella Ratoire and also their Stella Ratoire unfiltered range, which is an incredible unfiltered beer. |
| 1:07.0 | Because they have the most extraordinary campaign at the moment called the pub Renaissance, which we are going to explore. |
| 1:13.0 | Today's guest, the extraordinary artist, is part of this campaign. |
| 1:18.0 | And it's a really exciting project to kind of help pubs stay alive, stay open and stay vital to all of our local communities. |
| 1:27.0 | I love going to my pubs in Margot. Russ, where's your, oh, yeah, we go, we went to your local pub the other week with Pedro, didn't we? |
| 1:33.0 | We did pubs pub culture for me is the epicenter of socializing for me that I'd rather sit under pub with my mates than go to some fancy posh party somewhere or have a nice meal. |
| 1:44.0 | I love the pub. So to discover that many pubs are closing because of rising prices and less people going out being able to fall to go to the pub. |
| 1:54.0 | This initiative that Stella set up is incredibly important. And today's artist is someone who is very involved in that and believes in pub culture as well as being the epicenter of of what it is to be, you know, to be part of society in the UK. |
| 2:10.0 | Yeah. Well, we would like to welcome to talk at the one and only. |
| 2:15.0 | Raka. Hey, doing guys. Hello, Russell. Hello, Robert. Hi, mate. Yeah, I thought you was going to call me a piss artist for a second, but we're all good. |
| 2:30.0 | And yeah, here I am. And we're talking about something that I've been involved in, brought up in, spent a lot of childhood and adult life in pubs. |
| 2:42.0 | Yeah, so I heard that you've actually made pub signs before your incredibly successful artistic career. You were actually sort of doing that amazing tradition of the pub sign, which is something I've grown up always being obsessed by. |
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