Calls with CURA: Stories from the Art World
‘Calls with CURA: Stories from the Art World’ is brought to you by the CURA Art team, recorded during an unprecedented year, and as a celebration of our community. We are fortunate enough to know and work with some of the best in the art sector and are delighted to be sharing their fascinating and inspiring stories with you throughout this series. Hear interviews with artists, collectors, curators and conservators, amongst other professionals. We hope you enjoy learning more about the wonderful world we work in. .
Episodes
24 episodes
Hormazd Narielwalla - Artist
Hormazd Narielwalla is a London-based artist who is known for his geometric collages made from repurposed tailoring and sewing patterns. His work also encompasses original prints, artist books, and sculpture. After moving to the UK from his hom...
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Episode 24
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33:39
Lily Ackerman - Art Consultant
Lily Ackerman founded Ackerman studios – a London-based art consultancy working closely with artists and galleries, connecting them to hotels, restaurants, and private spaces. They offer full services including strategic planning and conception...
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Episode 23
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25:27
Philip Smith - Auctioneer
Philip Smith is an auctioneer and specialist in 20th Century Design and Modern & Post-War British Art, running these departments and as Associate Director at Lyon & Turnbull.After graduating with a Masters from the Courtauld Inst...
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Episode 22
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38:56
Victoria Chapman - Curator
Victoria Chapman founded VC Projects in 2014, out of a desire to aide artists and curators with both gallery and museum exhibitions. Her services also include art advisory, proposal writing, and social media outreach. Victoria studied at The Sc...
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Episode 21
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39:20
Ashleigh Brown - Conservator and Collection Care Advisor
Ashleigh Brown is a trained paper conservator and collection care advisor with experience in both the private and public sector on both sides of the Atlantic. She studied History of Art at Manchester University before completing a master’s degr...
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Episode 20
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36:07
Skylar Hughes - Artist
Skylar Hughes is an artist living and working in Los Angeles who explores relationships and the artistic process revealed through his meditative brushstrokes and warm color palette. He is interested in one’s experience and relationship to natur...
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Episode 19
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37:26
Helen Armon-Jones - Art Advisor
Helen Armon-Jones studied Art History at Manchester University before pursuing a career in commercial marketing (including managing art sponsorship for Hiscox Insurance, where she worked with The Whitechapel and Serpentine galleries) and went o...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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28:27
Sacha Halona Baumann - Artist, Curator and Art Business Consultant
Sacha Halona Baumann is a woman of many talents. She is an artist, curator and art business consultant where she helps Los Angeles based artists problem solve and achieve their goals. Sacha is the independent publisher, designer and editor of&n...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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31:49
Alayo Akinkugbe - Art Historian
Alayo Akinkugbe is currently reading history of art at Cambridge University, having grown up in Lagos, Nigeria. After studying she hopes to become a curator, whilst pushing the globalization of African Art. &nbs...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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27:42
Kamila M. Korbela - Conservator
Kamila M. Korbela is an award-winning and accredited German Art Conservator with almost 15 years of experience in the field. She has held positions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the <...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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31:57
Alice Lodge - Gallerist
Alice Lodge is an Australian-born Angeleno who founded The LODGE, a gallery that has been called “East Hollywood’s Art Oasis.” Originally constructed as a shopping mall in 1923, the building, which still includes several artists’ studios, gaine...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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34:13
Fru Tholstrup - Art Consultant
Fru Tholstrup is a London-based art consultant with a specialism in the contemporary global art market, advising collectors and international businesses on building museum-quality art collections. Fru is best known for her role launching Sotheb...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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31:25
Aubrey Catrone - Provenance Researcher and Appraiser
Aubrey Catrone is an international art historian, appraiser, and provenance researcher. Aubrey earned an MA in History of Art from University College London, specializing in the documented histories of art objects, and is a USPAP-compliant Asso...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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38:14
Molly Segal - Artist
Molly Segal is an artist and teacher from Oakland, California who lives and works in Los Angeles. Her use of watercolour on a slick, plastic paper highlights her artistic process and results in powerful paintings that provoke a lasting visceral...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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45:20
Jo Baring - Director of the Ingram Collection
Jo Baring is a curator, consultant and arts speaker and Director of the Ingram Collection of Modern British & Contemporary Art, one of the UK’s leading art collections. As a graduate of Oxford and the Courtauld Institu...
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Episode 10
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30:47
Sveva D'Antonio - Collector
Sveva D’Antonio was born in Naples and graduated in art history and conservation of artistic heritage in 2013. After having carried out various internships at galleries in Naples and Brussels, in 2016 she began working at Laveronica Gallery in ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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43:24
Heather Christensen Smith - Art Advisor and Curator
Heather Christensen Smith is the founder of Art at Work and a curator creating gallery spaces within corporate settings. She designs dynamic exhibitions and installations to bring business spaces to life and reflect the ethos and energy of the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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30:32
Marine Tanguy - Art Agency
Marine Tanguy is a French art entrepreneur, speaker and media commentator. In June 2015, Tanguy founded MTArt Agency, the first agency for artists worldwide, in order to provide a better supporting structure for artists outside the tradit...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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24:48
Stephanie Manasseh - Art Advisor and Curator
Stephanie Manasseh is a Canadian entrepreneur in the arts and founder of SM Art Advisory and the Accessible Art Fair. With the fair, Stephanie has brought together top leaders in the industry to select and showcase the best emerging artists in ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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24:26
Chad Attie - Artist
Chad Attie is a mixed media artist living and working in Los Angeles who uses collage, photography, painting, sculpture and video to explore subject matters from various perspectives. Attie collects found materials that connect to memory, liter...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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38:55
Alice Minter - Curator
Alice Minter, having spent 10 years as a specialist and then Director at Sothebys, is now Curator of the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She studied in Paris for a master in History and then History of...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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41:32
Jessica Burgess - Conservator
Jessica Burgess is a textile conservator living and working in London. She has worked in the private conservation sector for many years and is now in the process of opening her own studio, Soteria Conservation. Liza met Jessic...
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Episode 3
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33:51
Valeria Napoleone - Collector
Valeria Napoleone is an Italian collector, patron and philanthropist and lives in London with her family. Valeria studied in New York receiving a BA from New York University’s Journalism School and an MA in Art Gallery Administration at t...
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Episode 2
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35:44
Jonathan Prince - Artist
Jonathan Prince explores his fascination of form and material through the creation of his elegant abstract sculptures. His work investigates the duality of form and chaos, one complementing the other; Nature, science, the human form, and ancien...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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43:48