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Helaine Blumenfeld, Dale Harding, Stella Tillyard

Helaine Blumenfeld, whose new work is on display at Ely Cathedral, and indigenous Australian artist Dale Harding who is at the Liverpool Biennial talk about beauty and truth.

Helaine Blumenfeld is a sculptor who divides her time between her family in England and her work-family in Italy. As an exhibition featuring much new work opens in Ely Cathedral, she talks to Anne McElvoy about expressing her thoughts in marble, the importance of risk to the artist and why total immersion without distraction produces her best work.
As the Liverpool Biennial gets under way Dale Harding, an Australian artist and descendant of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples of Central Queensland, explains his own education in the medium of wood and why his art is part of the making and story-telling traditions and brutal recent history of his cultural family. Back to the 17th century and Stella Tillyard tells Anne about the inspiration behind her new novel: the immense human effort (and human sacrifice) it took to reclaim land from the sea in East Anglia, Holland and the islands of what is now New York.
And pirates...New Generation Thinker and Ottoman historian, Michael Talbot, looks to change their image.

Helaine Blumenfeld 'Tree of Life' at Ely Cathedral 13 JULY - 26 OCTOBER 2018
Dale Harding See his work at Tate Liverpool as part of Liverpool Biennial 2018: Beautiful world, where are you? from 14 July - 28 October.
Stella Tillyard 'The Great Level' is out now.
Michael Talbot is a lecturer in the History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Middle East at the University of Greenwich . New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the 麻豆官网首页入口 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radio.

Presenter: Anne McElvoy
Producer: Jacqueline Smith.

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45 minutes

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Wed 11 Jul 2018 22:00

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Role Contributor
Presenter Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest Helaine Blumenfeld
Interviewed Guest Dale Harding
Interviewed Guest Stella Tillyard
Interviewed Guest Michael Talbot
Producer Jacqueline Smith

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  • Wed 11 Jul 2018 22:00

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