In this episode host Juliet Rees Davies is joined by Jaret Loggen-berg and Barbara Lenhard, Directors of the Artists Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa to discuss how the art world is transforming and priorities are transitioning from prestige and scarcity to access and attention. Strategies now focus on making art emotionally resonant and lowering barriers to entry, allowing for greater flexibility, renewed focus, and innovative ways of engaging with both artists and audiences. The Artist G...
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In this episode host Juliet Rees Davies is joined by Jaret Loggen-berg and Barbara Lenhard, Directors of the Artists Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa to discuss how the art world is transforming and priorities are transitioning from prestige and scarcity to access and attention. Strategies now focus on making art emotionally resonant and lowering barriers to entry, allowing for greater flexibility, renewed focus, and innovative ways of engaging with both artists and audiences. The Artist G...
Season 6 Episode 3 of the Nordic Art Agency Podcast is our first podcast episode that is also available on our Nordic Art Agency Youtube Channel. (For that reason the audio in places is a little patchy, but this will be improved) This episode features a deeply personal and important conversation with Swedish creative director, artist, activist, and storyteller Henrik Wahlström in conversation with by Juliet Rees, Founder of the Nordic Art Agency. Henrik shares his journey through art, ...
Belgium sculptor Sabine Allaeys has created a series of minimalist limited edition wildlife sculptures cast in bronze entitled Awakening of Art . The series has evolved over the past decade and these 'mini-monumental' works are beautifully smooth and enticingly tactile in their natural green, brown and black patinas. On this podcast episode host Juliet Rees is in-conversation with Allaeys discussing the inspiration behind the Awakening of Art series and her origins in art history, digit...
Podcast host and Nordic Art Agency gallery Founder Juliet Rees is back with Season 6 a new season of art conversations.Laura Jane Scott is a British artist working in minimalist, geometric abstraction and colour-field painting. Her desire for simplicity through geometric form and her striking use of colour enables her to produce work where painting explores a model of architectural form and where colour embodies a physical structure. The resulting work is a refined visual vocabulary of ...
A slight variation to the podcast as on this episode we discuss The Art Club, a collaboration between the Nordic Art Agency and The Torso, which launches this November. This unique partnership combines fine arts and fine dining in a symbiotic experience, displaying curated artworks on the walls of The Torso Restaurant, located by the iconic Turning Torso skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden.Born out of a desire to share art and artistic experiences in unique location, The Art Club is an opportunity to...
The 12th edition of the Affordable Art Fair Stockholm will be opening its doors on October 2nd - Sunday 6th October. Over 60 handpicked local and international galleries will be exhibiting 1000s of contemporary art works.The Spotlight section is back again at the art fair with a focus on how to decorate your home with art. With the theme of ‘Homes is where the Art is’ 1 interior designer and 2 galleries have been selected to create spotlight stands for the fair.On this podcast epi...
On this episode Juliet is in conversation with Swedish wildlife artist Per Ekros. Always fascinated by faces, expressions and bodies, animals are an intrinsic part of Per Ekros's life, and they form naturally and intuitively as the subject matter of his artworks. His heart lies within the animal kingdom and our consumption of their environments, which impacts him deeply and the psychology of this is a reflection of this. The podcast discusses his series of polar bear portraits from the ...
Anglo-Danish artist Kristian Bluff is based in Copenhagen and is self-taught abstract expressionist with a focus on land and seascapes. With a BA in graphics and a career in design, Kristian Bluff is an exciting emerging artist who has established himself in Scandinavia and the UK. He has exhibited his work internationally and his paintings can be found in many private collections across Europe. On this podcast Juliet is in conversation with Kristian Bluff who is currently working on hi...
The Nordic Art Agency is a participating host in the fourth edition of Southern Sweden Design Days which takes place between the 23–26 May 2024. This is an international design festival in Malmö which invites visitors from all over the world to experience the best the creative southern Swedish design region has to offer. In this podcast designer Helle Robertson and Sarah Nakiito are in conversation with co-curator from the Nordic Art Agency Sarah Blanking. Our gallery exhibition, ...
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Affordable Art Fair (AAF). Each year the fair welcomes over 185,000 art enthusiasts to art fairs around the world. On this episode the Affordable Art Fair Stockholm Director Carl Wilhelm Hirsch joins host Juliet on the podcast to discuss the fair and the forthcoming Pop Up Art Fair in Malmö.This will be the first of it's kind in Sweden and will feature artists from both Galleri Final and the Nordic Art Agency. It is a unique opport...
On this episode gallery Founder and podcast host Juliet is joined by Swedish photorealist painter Mathias Frykholm.Mathias Frykholm is a self-taught painter who phenomenal talent has led to his career thriving since he became a full time artists five years ago. His large scale canvases are truly captivating and engage the viewer on many levels with the accuracy, detail and emotional and sensual qualities.View works by Mathias Frykholm on his Artist Page or on his Instagram and at the Nordic A...
Sara Berman describes her paintings as ‘a dialogue between painting and textiles' and joins Juliet on the podcast to breakdown her works and the 'uncomfortable nooks of the female bodily experience' found in her self portraits.Originally from London, Sara Berman studied at St. Martins School of Art & Design and later took a Masters of Fine Art at Slade School of Art. Her work can be found in notable international collections, and she has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhib...
Delighted to share news of our ongoing gallery Art Auction.There are a few days left to bid on artworks in Nordic Art Agency Art Auction. Many of our international artists we have featured on the podcast have artworks in the auction and this is a great way to acquire their work.All 75 of the artworks can be viewed in the gallery or online at, www.nordicartagency.com/art-auctionThis is a silent auction and bids can be placed by email and until February 8th at 10:00 am.D...
Welcome to this first episode of Season 5 of the Nordic Art Agency Podcast. Art historian, gallerist and host Juliet returns with a new conversation with Swedish landscape watercolour artist Erik Hårdstedt.OUTLOOK is the recent exhibition of Erik Hårdstedt's paintings which opened at the Nordic Art Agency in January 2024 and features 14 watercolour works. Recording from his current studio on the outskirts of Gokarna, a small town on the Indian West Coast, Erik discusses his painting practice ...
Join podcast host Juliet Rees Nilsson and exhibition curator and artist Sarah Blanking on this the final episode of Season 4. This is the second year that the Nordic Art Agency has hosted a Winter Exhibition featuring 12 multidisciplinary artists from Southern Sweden and Copenhagen.Sara Blanking invites three of the exhibiting artists; Christian Bluff, Lotta Blanking and Lucas Nagel to discuss their practices, materials and their personal reflections on the local art scene. The Wi...
A new gallery concept is emerging in London's Soho with a focus purely on music art. This reflects the emergence of an increasing demand for art either created by musicians or which reflects music as a direct inspiration. Film maker, award winning cinema owner, composer and musician Tom Lawes has a passion for instruments, primarily guitars and pianos, and a unique vision to exhibit bespoke and limited edition instruments alongside original artworks, limited edition and photography. His...
Swedish fibre artist Mia Hultgren studied at the The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (BA) in Copenhagen and later at the Royal College of Art (MA) in London. Mia Hultgren was invited to be the first Artist in Residence at the Nordic Art Agency gallery in the autumn of 2023. On this episode host Juliet discusses how Mia's initial visual intention towards the project evolved, how her creative practice has been informed during the r...
On this podcast episode Juliet is joined by British paper and written text artist Caroline Attan. Her works are instantly intriguing and striking using organic visual representations in order to merge folded paper with poetry, paradox and metaphors. The concepts and compositions in her artworks collide as coloured, patterned and folded structures, together create a woven and textual narrative. Her picture mainly consists of dense circular composition of folded shapes rotating along sid...
On this episode of the Nordic Art Agency Podcast host Juliet is joined by Rosie O’Connor the Co-Curator at Frameless, London's first permanent digital immersive arts experience. Frameless opened in September 2022 in the heart of London’s West End cultural district. As the biggest digital immersive arts experience of its kind in the UK, Frameless is a new art landmark destination, bringing art to life like never before. So after almost a year of opening it's doors with a 4K multi-ge...
TOGETHER / APART is a solo exhibition of collaborative photography by Natalie Christensen and Jim Eyre who join Juliet on this podcast episode from their studios in England and New Mexico. The composite images which feature in the exhibition are of surreal cityscapes embodying the disquieting experience of how our lives were transformed by the ravages of COVID-19. Expanding on their earlier collaborative work ALTEREDSTATES/ALTEREDSCAPES, Christensen and Eyre are again combi...
British visual artist Rupert Hartley trained originally in printed textile design at the Glasgow School of Art and later went on to take his MA in Art in Architecture at University of East London. A constant in his work has been an exploration of architecture and city space and the ‘the simulated environments and psychogeographies’.The grid or square blocks and stripes are the formulaic language which dominates much of his work along side his commitment to colour, layering of pain...
In this episode host Juliet Rees Davies is joined by Jaret Loggen-berg and Barbara Lenhard, Directors of the Artists Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa to discuss how the art world is transforming and priorities are transitioning from prestige and scarcity to access and attention. Strategies now focus on making art emotionally resonant and lowering barriers to entry, allowing for greater flexibility, renewed focus, and innovative ways of engaging with both artists and audiences. The Artist G...
