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brave Projects brings forward the voices shaping contemporary art.

Through intimate conversations each episode explores the ideas, challenges, and dreams shaping creative practice today.

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  • October 12 · 7 min

    Sarah Roig: BST+1

    'BST+'1 by Writer Sarah RoigHeadline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts ClubPartner: Daler-Rowney

  • October 8 · 4 min

    Yasmina Hashemi: Great Fear

    'Great Fear' by Writer Yasmina Hashemi. Headline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts Club Partner: Daler-Rowney

  • October 4 · 2 min

    Kelly Wu: Friday 12 July 2024

    'Friday 12 July 2024' by Writer Kelly Wu. Headline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts Club Partner: Daler-Rowney Thumbnail photo by Maya King-Dabbs.

  • September 25 · 7 min

    Gabrielle Sicam: Two or Three Movies (Video)

    Writer Gabrielle Sicam debuts brave’s online reading series. ‘Two or Three Movies’ by Gabrielle Sicam. Headline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts ClubPartner: Daler-Rowney

  • S4 · E3
    September 24 · 47 min

    Matt Carey-Williams: The Art World Veteran Backing Emerging Artists (Video)

    Gallerist and Writer Matt Carey-Williams joins brave podcast Host Lydia Higton to talk about thirty years in the art world and the gallery he opened in 2023. From Sotheby's, Gagosian and White Cube to Deputy Chairman at Phillips and Head of Sales at Victoria Miro, Carey-Williams explains why he left the blue chip world for a small space with large ambition. He and Higton cover why his programme runs in episodes and scenes, why he writes his own 3,000 word exhibition texts, what an emerging artist should ask a gallerist, the 50/50 relationship between artist and dealer, and why trust is built by actually doing what you said you would do. Headline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts Club Partner: Daler-Rowney

  • September 16 · 6 min

    brave diary: Serving the Man by Tom Glover (Audio)

    Go behind the scenes at a catering shift from hell in a major cultural institution. Writer Tom Glover lifts the lid on his time as a waiter at a lavish dinner, where he almost fainted, encountered an outrageous guest, and passed judgement on the whole enterprise. This brave diary is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

  • September 13 · 6 min

    brave dialogue: Laura González on Patronage, Institutional Models & Supporting Artists (Audio)

    Laura González explores the changing landscape of the contemporary art world, discussing patronage, institutional models, and the responsibilities of supporting artists today. Looking across her career, she considers why new structures are needed, how meaningful relationships shape her work, and what it might take to build a more open, sustainable, and ambitious future for the arts. Interviewed by ⁠Bella Bullen.⁠ This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

  • S4 · E2
    September 10 · 33 min

    Yasmin Alrabiei: Where Art and Science Meet (Video)

    Writer and researcher Yasmin Alrabiei joins brave podcast host Lydia Higton to ask what neuroscience can tell us about the way we look at art. Trained in neuroscience and now writing for Dazed, GQ and Atmos. Alrabiei and Higton cover the entropic brain and the richness found where two disciplines meet. Guest: Yasmin Alrabiei Podcast Host: Lydia Higton Headline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts Club Partner: Daler-Rowney

  • September 8 · 7 min

    brave dialogue: Rubén Palma, Building OVERSTANDARD Magazine (Audio)

    Nothing in Copenhagen's cultural press resonated with Rubén Palma, so in 2021 he built the alternative himself. Three hundred interviews later he calls Overstandard a set of written documentaries. Interviewed by ⁠Bella Bullen.⁠ This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

  • September 6 · 6 min

    brave dialogue: Yehong Mao on Memories, Colour and Light (Audio)

    Yehong Mao doesn't trust her memories, and counts that as the gift. Mao dissolves remembered places into colour and light, then builds her paintings to tell a story. Interviewed by Bella Bullen. This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

  • September 4 · 5 min

    brave dialogue: Margot Samel on Giving New York A New Perspective (Audio)

    New York did not need another gallery, Margot Samel said when she opened hers in 2021, and she has not revised the view, what a city can always use is another perspective. Interviewed by ⁠Bella Bullen.⁠ This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

  • August 24 · 7 min

    brave diary: King of the Interns by Tom Glover (Audio)

    Never do an unpaid internship unless you really want to. Guest Writer, Tom Glover reflects on his brief stint as an unpaid intern in a commercial gallery in Mayfair. Weaving in other ex-interns experience and a rumination on privilege in the art world, 'King of the Interns' is discursive, witty, and attempting to make a serious point. This brave diary is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

  • S4 · E1
    August 22 · 29 min

    Jordan Rubio: "I Left Medical School to Paint" (Video)

    Jordan Rubio left medical school at 18 to paint. He backed himself with no support behind him, a rare conversation about self-determination, achievement and what being an artist actually takes. Artist: Jordan Rubio Podcast Host: Lydia Higton Headline Supporter: Shoreditch Arts Club

  • August 19 · 8 min

    brave diary: The Seductive Power of Books: Why They Have Become the Coolest Object by Athena Mothership (Audio)

    Walk into any London rare bookshop and you'll find the same canon: an Araki, a Comme des Garçons, an old i-D. Somewhere in the last few years, the book became the coolest object in fashion and art. Even Dua Lipa opened a library. As the founder of Library Mothership, artist Athena Mothership rides this new wave, but also keeps asking: how did we get here? A new piece for brave Projects on how books stopped being read and started being posted, how we aestheticise the thing once its function is hollowed out, and why cultivating a taste in books might be a small act of personal imperialism. This brave diary is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

  • August 18 · 5 min

    brave dialogue: Jonathan Schofield on Discipline, Colour and the Music of the Universe (Audio)

    Inspiration, for Jonathan Schofield, is a word artists should never reach for, if you are properly awake to the world it is already in you, all of the time. What is left is the daily habit of looking, and the rule that a painting which holds no surprise for its own maker has not yet worked. Interviewed by Bella Bullen. This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

  • August 14 · 15 min

    brave dialogue: Yisi Li on Interdisciplinary Thinking and The Pliable Wall (Audio)

    Yisi Li treats a room as a psychological instrument, tuning scale, lighting and proximity until the architecture carries as much feeling as the work inside it. She rarely knows the full checklist until a fortnight before installation, and counts that suspense as half the pleasure. For The Pliable Wall she took a chapel standing since 1848 and set Pre-Columbian objects talking to the present. Interviewed by Bella Bullen. This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

  • August 11 · 9 min

    brave dialogue: Ozziline on Performance, Writing and the Politics of Being Seen (Audio)

    Ozziline moves between performance, writing and photography as different registers of honesty, work rooted in an early, unwanted sexualisation that shaped her fascination with looking and desire. Increasing online censorship has pushed her from images toward writing and now print, while she resists fixed definitions of art and artist. Interviewed by Bella Bullen. This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

  • August 8 · 7 min

    brave dialogue: Anna Lauree on Authenticity, Care and Experimentation (Audio)

    Authenticity, care, and experimentation sit at the centre of Anna Lauree's practice. Discussing abstraction, creative freedom, and the value of genuine relationships, she considers how artists can remain connected to their work while navigating the expectations of the contemporary art world. Interviewed by Bella Bullen. This brave dialogue is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.

  • S3 · E10
    July 16 · 45 min

    Justine Do Espirito Santo: 'Spare Room' Rethinks the Exhibition Space (Video)

    Justine Do Espirito Santo joins Victoria Comstock-Kershaw to talk about her path through the art industry and ‘Spare Room’, the exhibition project she co-founded in Paris with Anna Frera. Do Espirito Santo reflects on choosing a domestic space over a lease, the economies of subsistence the name carries, and how the real estate market shapes what galleries and project spaces can afford to risk. From her years in London galleries to her return to Paris, the conversation moves through the limits of the white cube, the pull of the art fair circuit, whether a gallery needs to be somewhere people return to, and how a generation raised on cheap travel and social media might belong differently. Throughout, she resists the idea of reinventing the model, describing instead a young project taking its time to find out what works.

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