The second episode in our Enchantment season features artist Grant Foster whose solo show, Home to My Teenage Bedroom has just opened at the Phoenix Art Space in Brighton (and runs until 13 April 2025).

Grant's cultural artefact is a 'strange fossil' which he found on a beach while on holiday in the Quantocks in the west of England. We talk about animals, time, Philip Guston, Mike Kelley, Mike Nelson, Caravaggio and much more.

We recorded this episode, the first in our new Enchantment season, live at Red Lion Books in Colchester as part of Sluice [Vernacular] - the latest interation of the artist led organisation's expo.

Our guest for the episode is Hayley Lock, an artist whose interests lie in the occult and its intersection with female otherness. Her chosen cultural artifact is a mystical mirror, reputedly owned by Elizabeth I's court astronomer John Dee, which is currently housed in the British Museum.

Hayley talks about working with and under hypnosis, the Essex witch trials, and finding witch marks in the windmill attached to her house on the Suffolk/Norfolk borders. Not quite coincidentally Witch Marks is also the name of Transition Gallery's exhibition at The Minories in Colchester which took part over Sluice weekend (14-16 June 2024) and featured Hayley's artworks alongside work by six other artists.

Cathy Lomax and Jennifer Caroline Campbell talk to Mississippi born actor/director Jaclyn Bethany about Tennessee Williams' play, The Glass Menagerie.

This is the latest episode in our Biography series – The Glass Menagerie is inspired by Williams own life and he based the narrator, Tom, on himself. We discuss Jaclyn's experiences of playing Laura (a character inspired by Williams' sister Rose), her participation in a recent production of The Pretty Trap (an early version of The Glass Menagerie) and her new film Tell That to the Winter Sea. We also talk about the latest Tennessee Williams issue of Arty magazine which is edited by Jaclyn and Cathy, and the Transition Gallery exhibition Hard Candy which includes Williams inspired work by Cathy, Jennifer and five other artists.