THE POINTLESS ARTIST PODCAST

By: Bianca Vinther Artist Art Curator Author Blogger
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  • The Pointless Artist's ART TALKS inspire visual artists to create, and help art curators and educators gain more knowledge about the current art world. They also help you unlock your artistic creativity, find inspiration in art, and overcome artist block. I'm Bianca Vinther, artist, author, art curator, and blogger from Germany. You can listen here to my interviews with artists from all corners of the globe and discover their stories, creative process, and the ways in which they navigate and transform the world. www.thepointlessartist.com
    Bianca Vinther, Artist, Art Curator, Author, Blogger
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Episodes
  • #11 MEANING IN ART & AUDIENCE RESPONSE with Lucianna Whittle
    Dec 8 2023

    This sharp and to the point podcast episode with Lucianna Whittle, a Brighton-based process-driven painter, is about meaning in art and audience response.

    Does art have a purpose? Do and should contemporary artworks have a meaning, a specific content? Can and should they be interpreted?

    How does contemporary audience response look like? What shouldn't visual artists expect from their audiences?

    And how should visual artists make art best: with the potential buyer and his expectations in mind or, like the Sudanese painter and Tate Gallery artist Ibrahim El-Salahi once said, "with no idea whatsoever about what [the artwork] is going to look like"?

    Take a listen to this poignant conversation with Lucianna Whittle, and come talk with us next time on The Pointless Artist Podcast about purpose in art, the art-making process, and audience response!

    Via The Pointless Artist Blog and The Pointless Artist Podcast, I support the creative energy of life and the artists who contribute to transforming this world into a freer, kinder, more inclusive, caring, transparent, and compassionate place to live. I firmly believe in the passion for art, the importance of sharing knowledge and experiences, and the power of personal stories to bring us together.

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    36 mins
  • #10 ART TALK with Sandy Kilpatrick, Scottish musician based in Portugal
    Nov 3 2023

    In this podcast episode, Sandy Kilpatrick, Scottish singer-songwriter based in Portugal, unfolds his life story, and gives us an insight into his creative process.

    He first takes us back into his formative years, when he was a student in Lancaster and then a Manchester-based singer in an indie-rock band. Further, he discusses the transition from a fast-paced professional life in England to a family life in Portugal. One of the highlights of our conversation is Sandy’s almost idyllic description of his large forest, the lush green hues of the leaves, the dazzling variety of his fruit trees, and the wonderful fragrance of orange blossoms. As he confesses in this podcast episode, in such moments of pure grace, when he feels most clear and free, Sandy becomes receptive to inspiration and he allows it to flow. If his guitar happens to be around, then he freely plays its strings, the magic occurs, and a new song is being born. The floodgates open when he silences his self-critical voice for a while.

    Sandy argues convincingly that making peace with the inner demons and getting rid of the tyranny of the mind, an expression he borrowed from his wife, is essential for personal growth and creativity in art.

    Listen to this podcast episode with Sandy Kilpatrick and feel his joy and creative energy! They're contagious :-)

    Via The Pointless Artist Blog and The Pointless Artist Podcast, I support the creative energy of life and the artists who contribute to transforming this world into a freer, kinder, more inclusive, caring, transparent, and compassionate place to live. I firmly believe in the passion for art, the importance of sharing knowledge and experiences, and the power of personal stories to bring us together.

    From Germany with love,

    Bianca Vinther

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    43 mins
  • #9 ART TALK with Susan Hopkinson, Canadian Feeling-Better-About-Life-Expert
    Feb 19 2023

    In this fascinating podcast episode, Susan Hopkinson talks about creativity, inspiration and artist block. She also discusses the link between creativity and inspiration, and she reveals the secret to unlocking your creativity, finding inspiration, and being in the creative flow.

    Susan stresses here the importance of humility and letting go in the art-making process. With this talk and like the previous guest to The Pointless Artist Podcast, the Polish painter Kristof Klimek, Susan sends out a clear and profound message of humility in a visual culture dominated by ownership and the monetary value of art.

    Here's a snapshot from my art talk with Susan: Once you start to contain what you’re doing while you are in a creative flow, and you begin to make choices based on an idea of what you should do instead, you “box yourself and your own creativity in”. Put simply, artist block is not allowing yourself and your creative energy to flow, as well as not letting go of your creative impulse. "If you're not able to let go, nothing new can come in." (Susan Hopkinson)

    I wholeheartedly invite you to listen to my art talk with Susan Hopkinson and to benefit from her wisdom!

    Via The Pointless Artist Blog and The Pointless Artist Podcast, I support the creative energy of life and the artists who contribute to transforming this world into a freer, kinder, more inclusive, caring, transparent, and compassionate place to live. I firmly believe in the passion for art, the importance of sharing knowledge and experiences, and the power of personal stories to bring us together.

    www.thepointlessartist.com

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    46 mins

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