Introducing WITTA

In this episode, we speak to artists John Wood and Paul Harrison about making sculpture with language, developing systems for making art with words, and the power of playing with expectations. Audio production and sound design by Oliver Sutherland Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, artist Bryony Gillard talks about her shifting approach to using writing from her love of concrete poetry, ambiguity and citation to her recent interest in making writing accessible, borrowing from the narrative structure of 90s Rom-Coms. Audio production and sound design by Oliver Sutherland  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Catherine Parsonage looks to the fragility of words – the way that words can be broken up and put back together, and carried around in our bodies – as a counterpoint to what she sees as the fixity of painting.Audio production and sound design by Oliver Sutherland Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The WITTA podcast is hosted by Lizzie Lloyd and Kit Poulson Senior Lecturers in Fine Art and Art & Writing at UWE Bristol. The WITTA podcast invites guests to reflect on why they do things with words, how they do things with words and what words allow them to do that other materials don’t. Listen on for all things Art and Words.Audio production and sound design by Oliver Sutherland Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.