A lively monthly podcast exploring international emerging and established artists and art influencers. Hosted by British Art Historian, Art Advisor and Gallerist Juliet Rees, based in Scandinavia, who brings her open fresh approach to art and art collecting with great co-hosts and insightful conversations.
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Season 6 Episode 3 of the Nordic Art Agency Podcast is our first podcast episode that is also available on our Nordic Art Agency Youtube Channel. (For that reason the audio in places is a little patchy, but this will be improved) This episode features a deeply personal and important conversation with Swedish creative director, artist, activist, and…
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Belgium sculptor Sabine Allaeys has created a series of minimalist limited edition wildlife sculptures cast in bronze entitled Awakening of Art . The series has evolved over the past decade and these 'mini-monumental' works are beautifully smooth and enticingly tactile in their natural green, brown and black patinas. On this podcast episode host Ju…
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Podcast host and Nordic Art Agency gallery Founder Juliet Rees is back with Season 6 a new season of art conversations. Laura Jane Scott is a British artist working in minimalist, geometric abstraction and colour-field painting. Her desire for simplicity through geometric form and her striking use of colour enables her to produce work where paintin…
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The Art Club at The Torso - Max Paulsson Hall
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19:35A slight variation to the podcast as on this episode we discuss The Art Club, a collaboration between the Nordic Art Agency and The Torso, which launches this November. This unique partnership combines fine arts and fine dining in a symbiotic experience, displaying curated artworks on the walls of The Torso Restaurant, located by the iconic Turning…
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Affordable Art Fair Stockholm Spotlight Edition
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49:39The 12th edition of the Affordable Art Fair Stockholm will be opening its doors on October 2nd - Sunday 6th October. Over 60 handpicked local and international galleries will be exhibiting 1000s of contemporary art works. The Spotlight section is back again at the art fair with a focus on how to decorate your home with art. With the theme of ‘Homes…
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On this episode Juliet is in conversation with Swedish wildlife artist Per Ekros. Always fascinated by faces, expressions and bodies, animals are an intrinsic part of Per Ekros's life, and they form naturally and intuitively as the subject matter of his artworks. His heart lies within the animal kingdom and our consumption of their environments, wh…
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Anglo-Danish artist Kristian Bluff is based in Copenhagen and is self-taught abstract expressionist with a focus on land and seascapes. With a BA in graphics and a career in design, Kristian Bluff is an exciting emerging artist who has established himself in Scandinavia and the UK. He has exhibited his work internationally and his paintings can be …
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Southern Sweden Design Days - In Conversation
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31:06The Nordic Art Agency is a participating host in the fourth edition of Southern Sweden Design Days which takes place between the 23–26 May 2024. This is an international design festival in Malmö which invites visitors from all over the world to experience the best the creative southern Swedish design region has to offer. In this podcast designer He…
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Affordable Art Fair & Galleri Final - In Conversation
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33:42This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Affordable Art Fair (AAF). Each year the fair welcomes over 185,000 art enthusiasts to art fairs around the world. On this episode the Affordable Art Fair Stockholm Director Carl Wilhelm Hirsch joins host Juliet on the podcast to discuss the fair and the forthcoming Pop Up Art Fair in Malmö. This will be …
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On this episode gallery Founder and podcast host Juliet is joined by Swedish photorealist painter Mathias Frykholm. Mathias Frykholm is a self-taught painter who phenomenal talent has led to his career thriving since he became a full time artists five years ago. His large scale canvases are truly captivating and engage the viewer on many levels wit…
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Sara Berman describes her paintings as ‘a dialogue between painting and textiles' and joins Juliet on the podcast to breakdown her works and the 'uncomfortable nooks of the female bodily experience' found in her self portraits. Originally from London, Sara Berman studied at St. Martins School of Art & Design and later took a Masters of Fine Art at …
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Bonus Episode - Art Auction at the Nordic Art Agency
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1:31Delighted to share news of our ongoing gallery Art Auction. There are a few days left to bid on artworks in Nordic Art Agency Art Auction. Many of our international artists we have featured on the podcast have artworks in the auction and this is a great way to acquire their work. All 75 of the artworks can be viewed in the gallery or online at, www…
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Welcome to this first episode of Season 5 of the Nordic Art Agency Podcast. Art historian, gallerist and host Juliet returns with a new conversation with Swedish landscape watercolour artist Erik Hårdstedt. OUTLOOK is the recent exhibition of Erik Hårdstedt's paintings which opened at the Nordic Art Agency in January 2024 and features 14 watercolou…
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Winter Exhibition - Artists In Conversation
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54:09Join podcast host Juliet Rees Nilsson and exhibition curator and artist Sarah Blanking on this the final episode of Season 4. This is the second year that the Nordic Art Agency has hosted a Winter Exhibition featuring 12 multidisciplinary artists from Southern Sweden and Copenhagen. Sara Blanking invites three of the exhibiting artists; Christian B…
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A new gallery concept is emerging in London's Soho with a focus purely on music art. This reflects the emergence of an increasing demand for art either created by musicians or which reflects music as a direct inspiration. Film maker, award winning cinema owner, composer and musician Tom Lawes has a passion for instruments, primarily guitars and pia…
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Swedish fibre artist Mia Hultgren studied at the The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (BA) in Copenhagen and later at the Royal College of Art (MA) in London. Mia Hultgren was invited to be the first Artist in Residence at the Nordic Art Agency gallery in the autumn of 2023. On this episode host Ju…
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On this podcast episode Juliet is joined by British paper and written text artist Caroline Attan. Her works are instantly intriguing and striking using organic visual representations in order to merge folded paper with poetry, paradox and metaphors. The concepts and compositions in her artworks collide as coloured, patterned and folded structures, …
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On this episode of the Nordic Art Agency Podcast host Juliet is joined by Rosie O’Connor the Co-Curator at Frameless, London's first permanent digital immersive arts experience. Frameless opened in September 2022 in the heart of London’s West End cultural district. As the biggest digital immersive arts experience of its kind in the UK, Frameless is…
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Natalie Christensen & Jim Eyre - In Conversation
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53:21TOGETHER / APART is a solo exhibition of collaborative photography by Natalie Christensen and Jim Eyre who join Juliet on this podcast episode from their studios in England and New Mexico. The composite images which feature in the exhibition are of surreal cityscapes embodying the disquieting experience of how our lives were transformed by the rava…
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British visual artist Rupert Hartley trained originally in printed textile design at the Glasgow School of Art and later went on to take his MA in Art in Architecture at University of East London. A constant in his work has been an exploration of architecture and city space and the ‘the simulated environments and psychogeographies’. The grid or squ…
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Saint has spent much of his career as a successful New York based photographers of iconic actors, musicians, athletes and fashion. The iconic images shot by Saint are a testament to his skill and understanding of the human form and this career has led to a constant revaluation and development of his photographic practices reimagining the role of li…
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John Atherton is a Scottish screen print artist who studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. He joins Juliet on this podcast conversation discussing his abstract portraiture process and the body of work he will exhibited in his first solo gallery exhibition in Sweden, Nostalgia of Distance, at the Nordic Art Agency. …
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Our new season of art conversations begin with a discussion focused purely on abstract painting. Michael Gittings, one of the original founders of Playpaint, joins Art Historian and Art Advisor Ebba Davidsson on this episode as they explores the philosophy and intention behind the initial project and the concept that playpaint make paintings to mak…
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The Winter Exhibition is our second exhibition of local artists opened which opened in November. The initial Open Call invited multi-disciplinary artists from Skåne and Greater Copenhagen to apply and the exhibition was juried by the Nordic Art Agency and curated by Gry Hammarlund & Lars Herman Hegg. Artists Exhibiting Include: Stella Lindhagen, Ma…
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Canadian floral abstract artists Bobbie Burgers joins host Juliet from her studio in Vancouver for an in depth conversation into her current practice, her compulsion to create and paint and how the passing of time continues to inform her artwork and compositions. We have long admired Bobbie's large scale flora works and most recently her smaller sc…
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Victoria Curling Eriksson & Jingbei Zheng - In Conversation
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28:58On this podcast Juliet Rees-Nilsson introduces two international artists and their current bodies of work, their artistic practices and solo exhibitions. Victoria Curling Eriksson is a British painter who works with minimal abstract land and seascapes. We have represented Victoria at the Nordic Art Agency since 2021 and this is her first solo exhib…
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The art world is an ever evolving industry spurred on by technology & our desire to access artworks freely from the comfort of our own homes. Innovation continues to refine the industry & at the forefront of this are many artists driven platforms which increasingly eliminate the gallerist and connect the artists directly to the client online. Altam…
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The NAA X Summer Exhibition is the first time that the Nordic Art Agency has collaborated with local artists from Malmö and the Greater Copenhagen region. Inspired by the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition held each year in London since 1796, an artist open call was held for a group exhibition in the Spring. In a new separate gallery location, dedicat…
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This episode was recorded in the gallery a few hours before the launch of 'A True Story' a solo exhibition by British collage artist Jo Hummel. Gallery Founder Juliet and Co - Host Ebba Davidsson decided to seize the opportunity to document these visiting artist. This very impromptu discussion between Jo and British abstract painter Sara Dare captu…
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On this episode Juliet is in conversation with Guest Artist Olivia Babel. Olivia is a French fiber artist who is based in Lyon and works exclusively with contemporary tapestries. We were initially drawn to her work and unique compositions which reflect origin, cartology and the environment and invited Olivia to exhibit in our current International …
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Our sixth International Art Pop Up has opened in our fabulous new gallery location in the heart of Malmö. In this podcast, the first of Season 3, join Juliet in conversation with Ebba Davidsson, Art Consultant and Visual Assistant as they discuss the curation of the latest exhibition of international art, sculpture and tapestry, the creation of art…
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Kirsten Hinder of Nfinitymark - In Conversation
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29:42For our final episode of season 2 we are looking to the future of the art world and are joined by the Co-Founder of Nfinitymark Kirsten Hinder. Kirsten Hinder's art-tech company is bridging the gap between analogue art and the digital crypto art space with an exciting technology that creates a digital signature for physical artwork, enabling it to …
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This is the second episode in our two-part special Sculpture Series. On this podcast Juliet is in conversation with British bronze expert, restorer and conservator Lucy Branch. Lucy comes from a family of restorers and art historians and is incredibly passionate about bronze public statues, sculpture and historical architectural features. Her educa…
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This is the first in a two part series on sculpture and sculpture conservation and restoration. We are introducing British emerging sculptor Hugh Chapman. This is a raw and honest introduction into the artist's journey of Hugh. His conceptual work is engaging and incredibly emotive. His sculptural forms are complex with elegant waxing modern patina…
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Victoria Curling Eriksson - In Conversation
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27:16On this podcast episode, Juliet introduces emerging British abstract artist Victoria Curling Eriksson. Landscapes dominate Victoria’s paintings and her compositions are minimal with multiple fine layers of oil which develop the depth of colour and emotive modus of her work. Her paintings relate to simple motifs with polychromatic tones, gently grad…
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Bonus Episode - Vernissage // Saatchi Gallery
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4:26This Bonus Episode features news of some exciting gallery exhibitions happening in August-September in Malmö and London, featuring four international artists who have been guests on the podcast. Interior Souls is a new exhibition at the Nordic Art Agency gallery in Malmö and features nine new paintings of iconic interiors by architectural painter B…
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This episode features Eric Grech as the voice of French figurative artist Frédéric Blaimont. It is the first time we have experimented with our podcast guest being represented as an actor and the whole experience was quite interesting! Frédéric Blaimont is an observer of the everyday characters who are found in the banalest of situations. Anonymous…
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Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen - In Conversation
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49:46Our guest on this episode of the podcast is the Director of the Copenhagen Photo Festival 2021. We are currently facing a cultural battle as the global pandemic has left the consumption of art in galleries, museums and exhibitions in very uncharted waters. The Copenhagen Photo Festival, which was hosted between June 3th - June 13th, launched at a t…
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A slight departure from the normal guests we invite on this episode of the podcast. Rather than an artist or an art influencer, we are in conversation with visual influencer Niki Brantmark, founder of the phenomenally successful award-winning blog MyScandinavianHome.com and best-selling author of three interior and lifestyle publications. MyScandin…
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Tom Lohner's paintings are very much like the artist himself, bold, dynamic, entertaining and fearless. During a whirlwind art career over the last twenty years, Austrian pop surrealist artist Tom Lohner has achieved huge success as a painter, a creative brand, as a gallery owner, and most recently as a creator of the first NFTs to placed in a muse…
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Spanish artist Bea Sarrias is obsessed with the architecture that surrounds her in her home city of Barcelona and the iconic international modernist and rationalist architects. Bea paints portraits of spaces and not buildings and the elements of composition, light and shade and perspective are essential to her painting practice in order to create t…
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Exciting British abstract painter and installation artist Sara Dare is the guest on this episode of the podcast. Sara Dare typically works on a large-scale using paper, linen and canvas combined with a range of mediums, selected for their viscosity and finish, such as ink, oil, emulsion and acrylic. Her paintings seek an evocative experience or vis…
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In this episode, we were delighted to be joined by Alexandra Fried and Alexandra Herlitz who, together, host the podcast Konsthistoriepodden a Swedish Art History podcast. Both are currently senior lecturers at Gothenburg University in the department of Cultural Science specialising in specific periods of Art History. The Konsthistorienpodden discu…
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Marta Lafuente is a figurative painter based in Barcelona. She has developed a unique mixed media style and creates memorable and emotional paintings which touch on the everyday encounter and forgotten moments. In the podcast, she discusses her painting practice and dedication to her instinctive process, her work as a Professor of Drawing at the Un…
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In this episode of the podcast, we join photographer Natalie Christensen in her Santa Fe studio. With over 51,000 Instagram followers Natalie Christensen's career has been one very much born online and driven by a thriving organic digital audience. Architecture is the main subject matter of her images as she is intrigued by line, form, structure an…
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Our podcast guest is the delightful Modupeola Fadugba, a young multi-disciplinarian artist who draws from her vast global travels and academic background. Modupeola holds a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware, a Masters in Economics from the University of Delaware and a Masters in Education from Harvard University but …
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Welcome to the wonderful (and slightly alternative) world of Danish photographer Lars Daniel. Lars Daniel is always joyfully reasserting and contradicting initial responses to his photography, and this conversation is no different. As a conceptual photographer, Lars Daniel sees the human form and the environment in which they exist in his images as…
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British artist Christabel Blackburn won Sky Art's Portrait Artist of the Year earlier in 2020 with her minimal and stripped back contemporary portraiture style. Christabel's compositions typically include flat planes of colour, architectural aspects, simplistic interiors with limited details balancing of context, reduction and intimacy. In the podc…
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Catherine Ludeau is a French abstract artist who works within a minimalist style in resin on canvas. Her career as a designer and artist has spanned over many decades and has evolved in recent years to a pure reduction of natural elements informed by the practice of Zen, repetition and instinctive emotional responses. Currently in her studio in Par…
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In this episode of the Nordic Art Agency Podcast we are in conversation with Munich based abstract artist Frederic Paul. We signed Frederic Paul to the Nordic Art Agency Gallery in 2018 having connected with his whimsical, emotive paintings with tonal graduation and elements of layered three-dimensionality. Heavily influenced by his roots in Asia, …
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