The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum Podcast

Herbert Art Talks Episode 6: Joy with Vortex Creates

Marianne Taviner and Nicola Richardson, who together are Vortex Creates, get together to talk about their show, Joy… Inspired by nature, which many of you will have visited over the summer. Discussing what inspired it, how the exhibition was put together, and about what brings them joy!

Collecting Coventry - Episode 1: Interview with Ali Wells and Martin Roberts

On this edition of the Herbert Podcast we take a look at the amazing new exhibition at Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Collection Coventry which is open until April 2025. To mark this, we talked to Ali and Martin, who curate the collections, who gave us some insight into what the show is about as well as into the life of a museum curator.

Herbert Art Talks - After The End of History: In Conversation w/ Johny Pitts & Alan Van Wijgerden

In order to mark the opening of the new exhibition at the Herbert, After The End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989 - 2024, we sat down with curator of the show, Johny Pitts, and local documentary photographer, Alan Van Wijgerden to have a wide ranging discussion around the themes of photography, culture and class.

The City is Full of Noises: Episode 2 - In Conversation with Rick Holt of Frequency Central

In this second episode of the City is Full of Noises series of podcasts, Jack and Dom speak to synthesiser designer and Coventry local, Rick Holt, founder of Frequency Central, about how he found is way into the world of electronic music and circuit design.

Herbert Art Talks Episode 5: Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Inspired by Wildlife Photographer of the Year, we talk to Warwickshire Wildlife Trust about capturing nature in photographs and what we can do to help nature and wildlife.
Ian Jelley, Director of Landscape Recovery at Warwickshire Wildlife Trust and Karl Curtis, Director of Nature Reserves, talk about about hopes for the future, local reserves and the wildlife that can be seen in Warwickshire and surrounding areas. 
The world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, on loan from London's Natural History Museum, can be seen at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry until 1st April 2024.  
 

What’s In Store: Episode 1 - Interview with Mark Johnson

Join curator Ali Wells and community member and social historian Mark Johnson in a discussion about the history of the Jewish community in Coventry, focussing on the 19th century watchmakers.
Hear about a quillmaker turned philanthropist, producers of world-class pocket watches as well as Suffragist and a scientist turned painter and poet.
Mark and Ali’s chat draws upon newly opened displays in the museum’s History Gallery (open until September 2024) and Coventry Archives (open until end of 2023).

The City is Full of Noises: Episode 1 - What is The City is Full of Noises?

The City is Full of Noises is an annual festival of electronic music that takes place at Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. In the first episode of this series, Jack speaks to Dom, one of the founders of the festival, about what inspired it and what makes it so special.

Herbert Art Talks Episode 4: Bridging the Gap - Gordon Cheung’s Megalopolis

How do landscape paintings reinforce or challenge traditional power structures? 
Drawing on both Eastern and Western art traditions, British-Chinese artist Gordon Cheung encourages us to question the assumptions of familiar landscape paintings, which often reflect the politics of a world where history is written by the victors. 
Now on display in Divided Selves, his painting Megalopolis is inspired by a major Chinese development project, combining three neighbouring cities into a single urban powerhouse. The work is a futuristic, mixed media cityscape, mixing features of traditional landscape painting with surreal, dreamlike elements, in a style he describes as the “technological sublime”. 
Inspired by his own “in-between” identity, Cheung raises the question of whether diaspora communities can act as a “conduit of understanding” between cultures, helping to rebuild bridges that have previously been burned. 
Divided Selves: Memories, Legacies, Belonging is free to visit at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum until 24 September 2023. Find out more at theherbert.org.