Breed Presents: Neil Wenman

In this episode, we talk to Will Hudson, who co-founded It's Nice That in 2007. It's Nice That subsequently span off in a number of different directions, including HudsonBec Group, creative agency Anyways, Creative Lives in Progress, which helps newcomers to the industry, and If You Could Jobs.  All have had one aim in mind – the promotion and opening up of the creative industries and the ideas they produce. In our conversation, we touch on the original vision Will and his friend and business partner Alex Bec had, when they set up It's Nice That while still at university in Brighton. And whether they could ever have foreseen how influential it's become in the years since.

For this episode of Breed Presents our guest is the Yorgo Tloupas. Not only is he Creative Director of his own design studio Yorgo&Co in Paris, but he's also a snowboarder, teacher and proprietor of his own Greek cafe, Yorgaki He started his design career while still a student, creating a line of snowboards for Rossignol. He was soon working on magazines in Paris and London, including founding Intersection with photographer Rankin. Recently, he's creative directed Les Inrockuptibles. We talk about all of this, plus his involvement in ski brand Black Crows.

We're joined by artist Polly Morgan for this episode of Breed Presents. Polly made her name working with taxidermy in her art, which evolved over the years into the creation of more sculptural pieces involving snakeskins, concrete and polyurethane. Our podcast chat took place at Polly's home near Stroud, and covered moving away from London, her home for many years, loss and grief, and all the experiences and inspirations that feed into her work. We also touch on her recent transition into being a curator for exhibitions by other artists. @pollymorganartist

We're excited to be joined by Graydon Carter for the latest episode of Breed Presents. A legendary figure in the world of magazine publishing and beyond, Graydon was editor of Vanity Fair for 25 years until 2017. Before that, he was co-founder and editor of the highly influential Spy magazine, and in recent years he was co-editor of weekly newsletter Air Mail, co-founded with Alessandra Stanley.   Last year, he published an immensely enjoyable autobiography, When the Going was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines, which forms the core of our conversation. 

We're kicking off a new series of Breed Presents – our fourth – and what better way to begin than with Neil Wenman, the Global Creative Director of Hauser & Wirth. Hauser & Wirth began as a gallery founded by Iwan and Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser in 1992. It's come quite a way since then and now represents over a hundred artists with gallery locations around the world. Our conversation took place looking out across the vista of London from the windows of his Mayfair office. That conversation took in Neil's achievements during 15 years at Hauser & Wirth, working with and for the artistic community it represents, Ursula magazine, and how he went from an early fascination with architecture to working at the centre of the artistic world. We also talked about his work with the arts and mental health charity Hospital Rooms, which commissions art for hospital spaces and provides art workshops for patients and NHS staff.        

Breed Presents returns this Tuesday May 12th for Season 4. Olivia Triggs, host & founder of creative agency Breed, talks to people from all areas of the creative world, from artists to publishers, designers and more… those who've found their own very individual creative vocation. We're interested in what drives them, how they found their way into what they do, and their attitude towards the creative act. Among the guests we can hint at, without giving any names just yet, are people closely associated with Vanity Fair, It's Nice That, Hauser & Wirth, Black Crows, and Words, Sounds, Colors & Shapes.  New episodes - every Tuesday. 

In this episode of Breed Presents our guest is Catherine Fairweather, journalist, travel writer, editor and also a podcaster. Much of Catherine's professional life has been forged from her love of travel, of discovering new places and cultures and seeing firsthand how other people live. Over the years, Catherine has been a contributing editor at Condé Nast Traveller, Harper's Bazaar, the Financial Times, Air Mail and The Daily Telegraph. She then began podcasting and now hosts two podcasts: Voices from the Frontline, where she talks to people who work in high-risk combat zones all over the world and The Third Act, a podcast that looks at later life in a positive way through conversations with artists, explorers and actors. Catherine was the last interview we recorded for this season and it was so nice to round things off with a fellow podcaster, the first we've had on the series. Voices from the Frontline Podcast The Third Act Podcast Catherine's Instagram 

Our guest for this edition of Breed Presents is Dylan Jones – writer, journalist, editor, and a man with a love of music. In fact, he's just released 1975: The Year the World Forgot.   Dylan is probably best known as the editor of GQ, a position he took on in 1999 and held for 22 years. He began his career in journalism in the early 1980s, joining i-D Magazine and rapidly rising to become its editor, while also working as a contributing editor at The Face.   Post GQ, Dylan has worked for The Observer and The Sunday Times and was editor-in-chief at The Standard, where he also interviewed and reviewed the likes of Van Morrison and the Sex Pistols. On top of that, he has edited and written more than two dozen books, including These Foolish Things: A Memoir which became the main focus of our conversation when we sat down together in London.   These Foolish Things Instagram

In this edition of Breed Presents we're talking to someone who it could easily be argued has had more influence on the cultural capital of London than any other individual in recent history – London's Deputy Mayor for Culture and the Creative Industries Justine Simons OBE. She was given that title by London Mayor Sadiq Khan in 2016, but she'd already been at the heart of support for the creative world under the previous two mayors, since 2002. Some of the projects she's overseen are: Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth, the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, founding the World Cities Culture Forum, establishing the London Borough of Culture and most recently developing the East Bank in Stratford. And that's just scratching the surface of her achievements and we touched on many more during this conversation. Justine Simons' Instagram The Fourth Plinth (https://artsandculture.google.com/project/the-fourth-plinth) World Cities Culture Forum East Bank

Our guest for this episode is artist and illustrator, Fee Greening. Fee usually works with a dip pen and ink technique to create pieces that look simultaneously contemporary and steeped in the world of illuminated manuscripts, folklore and mythology. I sat down with her in person to discuss her career to date as well as her new book, an illustrated edition of Katharine Briggs' Dictionary of Fairies which will be published by Octopus on the 11th September 2025. Pre-order Dictionary of Fairies at Waterstones. Fee's Instagram. Fee's Website.