Jo Melvin is a professor in fine arts and feminisms at Chelsea College of Art in London, director and curator of the Barry Flanagan estate. Jo is also an art historian, a writer, a lecturer, a filmmaker, a curator and an exhibition maker.

"I speak as a woman who wears many hats, academic, scholar, teacher, mother, alongside the simultaneous development of my artistic, curatorial and exhibition making practices."

In this episode of The Warrior Artist, Jo Melvin chats to Éadaoin Glynn about:

• Ending up in art school 'by default'
• Steering her own path in art school
• How she approached and met artists who inspired her
• Her approach to curating and exhibition making
• Teaching
• Meeting Barry Flanagan and curating his work
• Meeting Marion Milner, Francis Bacon and Lucy Lippard
• Her advice to artists
• Her love of film and her own creative practice

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Podcast edited by Bren Russell of Podland.

Leah Hewson is an abstract artist who works in layers of complex patterns, in vibrant neon colours. She studied in Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design. She has exhibited extensively, including solo exhibitions in the RHA and Hillsboro. Fine Art. She has had residencies in New York, LA Berlin and Dublin. She has won several awards, including the whites award for painting in the RHA. Her work is in many public collection and has also been auctioned at Sotheby's

In this episode of The Warrior Artist Podcast, Leah chats to host Éadaoin Glynn about :

• Interning with Sean Scully in New York moved her directly into abstraction
• Collaborations enable to give up control and access creativity
• Why she enjoys working in a variety of mediums
• Her intuitive painting process and painting in the 'flow state'

• Avoiding the comfort zone and challenging herself
• Her advice for artists
• Commercial commissions and being outside the gallery system
• Having a painting auctioned at Sothebys London
• Mural painting

• Having an authentic voice and the importance of discipline.

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Podcast Edited by Bren Russell of Podland

In this episode of the Warrior Artist Podcast, host Éadaoin Glynn interviews Ciara Rodgers, a visual artist based in Cork City who works from her studio at Backwater Artists Group. She has a BA and MA from Crawford College of Art and Design and works in an expanded drawing practice which includes polaroid photography, installation and performance. Her work is often site specific, with the defunct and disappearing architecture of the urban landscape as her starting point.

Ciara discusses:

• How the frustration of COVID lockdown forced her to explore new areas in her practice
• Her love of the unpredictability of Polaroid photography
• Her public practice vs her private practice
• Performance drawing
• How the urban environment inspires herHer colour palette inspired by her 1980s childhood
• How she nurtures her practice and balances all her different mediums
• Balancing two teaching jobs with her studio practice
• Taking holidays from social media
• How she handles rejection
• The best advice she received as an art student
• Her advice for emerging artists

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See Éadaoin's work on her website and Instagram.

See Ciara's work on her website and Instagram.

This episode was edited by Podland