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New Talk Art podcast episode! Robert meets artist Lewis Hammond to explore his first museum presentation in the UK, featuring a new body of paintings developed specifically for The Hepworth Wakefield. A graduate of the Royal Academy School in 2017, Hammond’s practice reflects a fascination with the materiality of oil paint and the evocative power of dark, earthy tones. His charged, fantastical paintings interweave mythological elements with contemporary themes and explore the interplay between personal relationships and global socio-political events. Drawing inspiration from Old Masters like Caravaggio, Velåzquez, and Goya, he creates haunting, statuesque figures tha...
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Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, wherever you are in the world. My name is Robert Diement and you're listening to Talk Art. Welcome to Talk Art. Now today, I am feeling haunted. And I don't mean that in a negative sense, because I think haunted can obviously mean that you're troubled and literally haunted by the ghosts of something
from the past, but over the past four or five years, I've been haunted by today's guests' paintings and they've always been really compelling to me and I've never been able to get them out of my mind, which is the main reason I've been trying to interview him for maybe like four years. And today, it's happening! So this feels like a major achievement on my part
because I'm a massive, massive fan of today's guest. His paintings are just really, really, and I know I use this word a lot, but they really are extraordinary. And they're oil paintings, they're really evocative, they're incredibly dark, mysterious, and at times fantastical. And there's lots of mythological elements and references and themes from kind of different
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