The third episode in our Enchantment season features artist and educator Rosemary Cronin. Rosemary's latest project is Play Studio: Dream Worlds at Tate Britain which is open until June 2025 (check Tate website for opening times).

Rose's cultural artefact is an issue of Prediction magazine from 1974 which she keeps on her bedside table. We talk about Ithel Colquhoun, The College of Psychic Studies, surrealism, having work revealed in dreams, tarot cards, scepticism, disrupting makeup advertising, pleaser heels, Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), the iconic TV series Bewitched and much more.

The second episode in our Enchantment season features artist Grant Foster whose solo show, Home to My Teenage Bedroom has just opened at the Phoenix Art Space in Brighton (and runs until 13 April 2025).

Grant's cultural artefact is a 'strange fossil' which he found on a beach while on holiday in the Quantocks in the west of England. We talk about animals, time, Philip Guston, Mike Kelley, Mike Nelson, Caravaggio and much more.

We recorded this episode, the first in our new Enchantment season, live at Red Lion Books in Colchester as part of Sluice [Vernacular] - the latest interation of the artist led organisation's expo.

Our guest for the episode is Hayley Lock, an artist whose interests lie in the occult and its intersection with female otherness. Her chosen cultural artifact is a mystical mirror, reputedly owned by Elizabeth I's court astronomer John Dee, which is currently housed in the British Museum.

Hayley talks about working with and under hypnosis, the Essex witch trials, and finding witch marks in the windmill attached to her house on the Suffolk/Norfolk borders. Not quite coincidentally Witch Marks is also the name of Transition Gallery's exhibition at The Minories in Colchester which took part over Sluice weekend (14-16 June 2024) and featured Hayley's artworks alongside work by six other artists.