Artists and Interviews

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To read the FULL TRANSCRIPT of each interview, please click on the name of the artist.

To read the individual artist's interview from any of the following topics:
training, influence of place, influential artists, class issues, gender issues, political issues,
racial issues, techniques, print, new technology, anecdote or identity as an artist,
please click on the topic index.

To read the interviews by TOPIC rather than by artist, please use the links below.

Training

Alfred University (Mason)
Bristol Polytechnic (Bunnell)
Cardiff College of Art (Mason)
Carlisle College of Art (Atkinson)
Cranbrook (Williams)
L’Ecole des Arts Decoratif (Goddard)
Epsom School of Art & Design (Goddard)
Goldsmiths College (Williams)
Grays School of Art (Bunnell)
Harlow (Densham)
Liverpool College of Art (Atkinson)
Manchester Polytechnic (Mason)
Middlesex Polytechnic (Williams)
Middlesex University (Goddard)
Night School (Goldenberg)
North West China Painters’ Guild (Krafft)
Royal Academy (Atkinson)
Royal College of Art (Bunnell)
Royal College of Art (Goddard)
Royal College of Art (Densham)
Torquay Technical College (Bunnell)
University of Wolverhampton (Densham)

Influence of Place

America (Atkinson)
America (Mason)
America (Williams)
Asia (Willliams)
Australia (Williams)
Cuba (Atkinson)
Denmark (Goldenberg)
Greece (Goddard)
North of England (Atkinson)
Paris (Goddard)
Sarajevo (Krafft)
South Wales (Williams)
West Wales (Williams)

Influential Artists

Abstract Expressionists (Atkinson)
Paul Astbury (Mason)
Francis Bacon (Atkinson)
Glenys Barton (Mason) [ Biography of Glenys Barton ]
Simone de Beauvoir (Goddard)
Joseph Beuys (Atkinson)
Joseph Beuys (Densham)
Alison Britton (Goddard)
Alison Britton (Mason) [ Biography of Alison Britton ]
Emily Bronte (Atkinson)
Carlton ware (Densham)
Mick Casson (Mason)
Marc Chagall (Goddard)
Richard Coin (Bunnell)
Joseph Cornell (Mason)
George Cruikshank (Atkinson)
Alan Barret Danes  (Mason) [ Biography of Alan Barret Danes ]
Dutch design (Goldenberg)
Von Dutch (Krafft)
Morris Graves (Krafft)
German Expressionists (Goddard)
Greek mythology (Goddard)
Tony Hepburn (Mason)
Damien Hirst (Bunnell)
William Hogarth (Atkinson)
Jasper Johns (Atkinson)
Mo Jupp (Bunnell)
Mo Jupp (Mason)
Willa Cather (Williams)
Wally Keeler (Bunnell)
Bernard Leach (Goldenberg)
Martin Brothers (Goddard)
William Morris (Atkinson)
'Neue Slowenische Kunst' Group (Krafft)
Eduardo Paolozzi (Mason)
Pablo Picasso (Atkinson)
Pablo Picasso (Goddard)
Jackson Pollock (Atkinson)
Robert Rauschenberg (Atkinson)
Georges Roualt (Goddard)
Kurt Schwitters (Mason)
Percy B. Shelley (Atkinson)
Cindy Sherman (Densham)
Martin Smith (Bunnell)
Martin Smith (Mason)
Stanley Spencer (Atkinson)
Geoffrey Swindell (Mason)
Janice Tchalenko (Bunnell) [ Biography of Janice Tchalenko ]
Robert Williams (Krafft)
William B. Yeats (Bunnell)

Class Issues

Working class students at Royal Academy (Atkinson)
Experience as a child (Densham)
 


Gender Issues

Few women staff at Bristol (Bunnell)
Car imagery (Bunnell)
Phallocentricity (Densham)
Few women role models (Densham)
Male-biased education system (Goddard)
In Simone de Beauvoir (Goddard)
Sexual Identity (Goddard)
All male teachers at Manchester and Alfred (Mason)

Political Issues

Grandfather celebrating relief of Leningrad (Atkinson)
'Destruction in Art' Symposium (Atkinson)
Miners' Strike (Atkinson)
Visit to Cuba (Atkinson)
Reaction to high price of art (Atkinson)
Thalidomide Print (Atkinson)
Blacklisted by the British Council (Atkinson)
Northern Ireland (Atkinson)
Making 'Bombs' (Atkinson)
Need for the state to support artists (Densham)
The political agenda of art (Krafft)
Experiences in Sarajevo (Krafft)
The state supporting artists (Mason)
Does not want support from society (Willliams)  
 

Racial Issues

Black culture and white culture in the 1950s (Atkinson)
Growing up in a mixed race family (Goddard)
Returning to Britain from Africa (Goddard)

Techniques

Building the 'books' from clay (Goldenberg)
Building large constructions (Williams)
Collage (Bunnell)
Collage (Mason)
Delftware (Krafft)
Design work (Bunnell)
Dipping (Densham)
Drawing (Bunnell)
Experiments with materials (Williams )
Glaze tests (Bunnell)
Hand-building (Bunnell)
Layering clay with organic materials (Williams)
Marriage of drawing and clay (Densham) 
Moulds (Bunnell)
Playing of a torn edge against a cut edge (Mason)
Prints in latex (Williams)
Slip-casting (Bunnell)
Slip-casting (Krafft)
Slip-casting (Williams)
'Spone' (Krafft)
Toys as a sources of ideas (Mason)
Using clay as a sketchbook (Goddard)
Using non-traditional ceramic techniques (Goldenberg)
Using industrial items in pieces (Mason)

Print

Ceramic decals (Krafft)
Getting into RCA with prints (Goddard)
Mono-printing (Densham)
Printing on clay (Goddard)
Screen-printing (Bunnell)
Transfer print (Bunnell)

New Technology

Computer graphics (Bunnell)
Computer images (Krafft)
Computer transfer images (Mason)
Selling on the Internet (Goldenberg)
Setting up text for 'books' on computer (Goldenberg)
Three dimensional design (Williams)
Xerox (Mason)

 

Anecdote

Grandfather celebrating relief of Leningrad (Atkinson)
Performance art (Atkinson)
Writing thesis (Densham)
Moving to Denmark (Goldenberg)
Building his 'books' (Goldenberg)
About Paolozzi (Mason)

Identity as an artist

Craftsperson (Bunnell)
Artist (Densham)
Potter (Goldenberg)
Craftsman (Krafft)
Artist/Ceramicist (Mason)
Varies according to audience (Williams)


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