Talk Art

30/05/2026

29/05/2026

🎨🎉🎶 New podcast episode! Robert meets Luis Felber , a London based South-American multi-instrumentalist best known as Attawalpa. His meticulous production, melodies and honest lyrics evoke the future as much as the past.

We explore his love of art and growing up with an artist mother Alma Laura de Felber, a prominent Peruvian painter and artist. The Lima-born painter makes colorful, emotionally resonant oil paintings often explore themes of identity, the feminine, and human connection.

Born in Wi******er, England, to a Peruvian mother and a British father, Felber spent his earliest years in Peru and Chile before moving back to Britain at age 7. At 17, he skipped university and began pursuing a career in music, playing guitar with several different bands and co-founding influential club night and record label Young Turks.

Felber actively incorporates his creative roots into his projects. His mother’s art has been featured in his work, and he frequently collaborates with his wife, Lena Dunham including on the soundtrack for her film Catherine Called Birdy and by co-creating and scoring the Netflix comedy series Too Much.

He records and performs under the name Attawalpa (his middle name, after the 16th-century Incan ruler Atahualpa).

💿 His albums Experience, and Presence, are both available now.

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26/05/2026

🎨🎉📽️🎞️ New podcast! Robert meets Belfast-born Kathryn Ferguson an Emmy and BAFTA nominated, BIFA and IFTA winning director whose innovative and boundary-pushing documentary work has screened globally. We explore art as activism and how film has the power to reveal, and amplify, untold stories.

Kathryn studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, and in 2022 was awarded the inaugural BFI & Chanel Award for Creative Audacity.

In 2018, Kathryn’s short documentary Taking the Waters about Margate’s open water swimming premiered at Sheffield Doc Fest, and was BAFTA long-listed. Then, in 2021, Kathryn worked with Passion Pictures on the short Space to Be for The Guardian’s acclaimed documentary series.

After a decade of short-form work centred on identity, gender politics, and community, Kathryn recently completed her debut feature documentary Nothing Compares - which takes as its subject Sinéad O’Connor’s artistry and activism. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2022 then toured the international festival circuit, where it picked up multiple awards, before hitting cinemas in October 2022. It has received over thirty award nominations internationally, including Emmy, Critics Choice, IDA, and PGA Awards, and was awarded winner of Best Feature Documentary at BIFA 2022 and IFTA 2023.

Her second feature, Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes (Universal), was released in US cinemas in 2024.

In 2024 she also co-founded Tara Films with producer Eleanor Emptage; their latest, Blue Road - The Edna O’Brien Story, premiered at TIFF 2024, and the company is currently developing a slate of non-fiction and drama projects. Alongside her film work, Ferguson has directed campaigns for Nike, Selfridges, Amnesty International, and Air France, and collaborated with artists such as Lady Gaga and Neneh Cherry.

Nostalgie, Kathryn’s first drama short starring Aiden Gillen, about a faded 80’s pop star, has recently been nominated for a BAFTA and won Best Short Film at the IFTAs 2026. The film is available to watch on Channel 4.

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25/05/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎨🎉📚 Robert & Russell in Wales today, led by the award-winning illustrator . We celebrated new children’s book Art School, our third time speaking at ❤️‍🔥

24/05/2026

Our talk is live from Wales with tomorrow afternoon, bank holiday Monday! The event has completely sold out. See you there tomorrow 4pm ❤️‍🔥🎨🎉📚

24/05/2026

22/05/2026

🎨🎉📽️🎞️ New podcast! Robert meets Belfast-born Kathryn Ferguson an Emmy and BAFTA nominated, BIFA and IFTA winning director whose innovative and boundary-pushing documentary work has screened globally. We explore art as activism and how film has the power to reveal, and more widely share, untold stories.

Kathryn studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, and in 2022 was awarded the inaugural BFI & Chanel Award for Creative Audacity.

In 2018, Kathryn’s short documentary Taking the Waters about Margate’s open water swimming premiered at Sheffield Doc Fest, and was BAFTA long-listed. Then, in 2021, Kathryn worked with Passion Pictures on the short Space to Be for The Guardian’s acclaimed documentary series.

After a decade of short-form work centred on identity, gender politics, and community, Kathryn recently completed her debut feature documentary Nothing Compares - which takes as its subject Sinéad O’Connor’s artistry and activism. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2022 then toured the international festival circuit, where it picked up multiple awards, before hitting cinemas in October 2022. It has received over thirty award nominations internationally, including Emmy, Critics Choice, IDA, and PGA Awards, and was awarded winner of Best Feature Documentary at BIFA 2022 and IFTA 2023.

Her second feature, Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes (Universal), was released in US cinemas in 2024.

In 2024 she also co-founded Tara Films with producer Eleanor Emptage; their latest, Blue Road - The Edna O’Brien Story, premiered at TIFF 2024, and the company is currently developing a slate of non-fiction and drama projects. Alongside her film work, Ferguson has directed campaigns for Nike, Selfridges, Amnesty International, and Air France, and collaborated with artists such as Lady Gaga and Neneh Cherry.

Nostalgie, Kathryn’s first drama short starring Aiden Gillen, about a faded 80’s pop star, has recently been nominated for a BAFTA and won Best Short Film at the IFTAs 2026. The film is available to watch on Channel 4.

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🎶🎥 Nothing Compares is available to watch on Showtime and Sky

19/05/2026

Es Devlin’s A National Portrait For The . Friend of Talk Art, Es Devlin invites everyone in the UK to become a co-author of an evolving collective portrait on display at the National Portrait Gallery.

19/05/2026

Comment the word PODCAST to get a link to listen to Talk Art. This week’s Talk Art guest is Mariane Ibrahim. Mariane is a Gallerist with impeccable taste and vision.

🎨🎉 New podcast episode! Robert meets Mariane Ibrahim, leading gallerist and curator, whose mission is dedicated to the elevation and advocacy of diverse global artistic practices, with a particular spotlight on Africa and the diaspora. We explore ’s spaces in three cities: Mexico City, Paris and Chicago, and the artists she has championed over the past 15 years.

Representing artists from across the world, Ibrrahim is driven towards expanding the confines of the creative landscape. Ibrahim’s program compels her to act as something of an ambassador for nuance and complexity in an art world still prone to generalisation. While several of the emerging artists she represents hail from African countries or are members of the African diaspora, Ibrahim emphasises that they – and by extension, her gallery – have much more to offer than simplistic regional or heritage based labels could ever contain.

Mariane Ibrahim Gallery is a highly influential contemporary art gallery that focuses on supporting and championing artists from the African diaspora and diverse global backgrounds. Founded in 2012 by Somali-French art dealer Mariane Ibrahim, the gallery has experienced a phenomenal international expansion, establishing a presence across three different continents.

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18/05/2026

💘🎈 I celebrated on Friday evening at with . I loved viewing all of the art in Jonathan’s newly opened Pimlico store including the mesmerising Gwen John, Austin Osman Spare, Mary Stephenson, Ben Nicholson, Ivon Hitchins, David Bomberg, Bridget Riley and some particularly stunning Alfred Wallis boat paintings.