By art writer and visual arts curator Joana P. R. Neves. Your host takes you on journeys through London exhibitions, forgotten theories, rediscovered texts, and generous guests—be it art experts with an edge or curious non-art experts with spiky questions. Expect varied segments, including the short recurring feature Art Etiquette. Send your questions, and if you have an etiquette suggestion for Joana to explore, she'd love to hear it.
Creative Flow with Virginia Woolf - Special Episode
Episode 52
Monday, April 6, 2026 • Duration 51:28
Your host, writer and curator Joana P. R. Neves, challenges you to explore the mystery of a missing paragraph in Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall', and its significance for creative pursuits. You're about to dwell on the flow of consciousness as creative flow – the art of mastering and letting go simultaneously.
How do we create? How to we get to that special place where we're in control while accepting the randomness of the reactive materials we work with? And what does that say about life?
We're fine-tuning the show in the background, so we're on a hiatus of sorts–but episodes will drop every two weeks, now on Mondays. We're clarified our purpose: we're now Exhibitionistas - Notes on Art, which feels good and more in tune with our vibe.
Takeaways
Textual discrepancies in literary works can reveal insights into the author's creative process.
Favorite texts can deeply influence creativity and self-perception. Better than self-help books? Find out for yourself!
The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf explores the balance between creative control and letting go, reflecting the complexities of the artistic process.
Chapters
00:00 Unraveling the Mystery
11:41 Introduction to the Special Series
17:28 Virginia Woolf's Life and Influence
32:31 The Angel in the House and Creative Freedom
01:01:24 Reading 'The Mark on the Wall'
Art Writing versus Speaking About Art - Art Topic
Season 3 · Episode 50
Friday, March 6, 2026 • Duration 01:03:19
ART TOPIC is is an exploration of a topic through visual arts or vice-versa. Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves, this episode is an experiment in opposing writing to oral communication. It also engages with queer lives at the height of modernism, the notion of genius and its patriarchal tendencies, as well as the intriguing, unique couple of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
Discover Joana's text "G is for Genius, Grammar and Girl", published on her Substack Art Thinkosaurus. She reads it here as a performance of sorts, with mistakes, reflexions and all, to test voice versus word. What will she discover?
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What you get from this episode:
How do we write about art?
Is talking about art different than writing about it?
Is Modernism entangled in Gender issues?
How did gender influence modernism and vice-versa?
Why were we obsessed with the "genius"?
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Visual Arts and Fiction? Laisul Hoque Chooses Babu Bangladesh! by Numair Atif Choudhury – ART Book Club
Season 3 · Episode 11
Friday, February 20, 2026 • Duration 01:21:35
ART BOOK CLUB is a segment where a guest suggests a book which was not written with visual arts in mind and yet is a source of inspiration, guidance and / or creativity for their work. Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves, this episode welcomes visual artist Laisul Hoque.
How can a work of fiction influence the work of an artist?
Can a visual arts practice be illuminated by storytelling? How can art practices she light on the value and limitations of archives and photographic documentation of the past?
To what extent do images convey the truth?
Is visual arts the territory where we reckon with our ties with the past, and our emotional needs?
Laisul chose: Babu Bangladesh!, written by Numair Atif Choudhury.
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What you get from this episode: Curating revelations, unexpected curating methods, lessons in community, art philosophies, ethical art questions.
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Art In Unusual Places – Encounters Along The Line Art Trail W/ Sarah Carrington, Visual Arts Curator
Season 3 · Episode 10
Friday, February 6, 2026 • Duration 40:51
You're bound to get an art education with our guest, curator Sarah Carrington! Our art talk with her explores her work as director of the Public Art Trail in East London The Line, as well as the joys of producing visual arts projects and supporting artistic commissions for an urban space full of wildlife and industrial areas, away from the capital's most overcrowded areas.
Art Insider is an art discussion segment with fascinating visual arts thinkers and curators who lift the veil on their corner of the field (hosted by Joana P. R. Neves).
When is an art trail more than a walk from sculpture to sculpture?
And how does a visual arts curator work with artists for a context such as... a city?
Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves.
Guest: Sarah Carrington, Director of The Line
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Colour in Visual Arts: Eating, Touching, Making & Other Methods to Explore One Of The Hottest Art Themes
Season 3 · Episode 9
Friday, January 23, 2026 • Duration 01:12:47
For some, colour is subjective, for others it's vital. In visual arts, is it a universal idea or a local material? As far as art themes go, this one leads to a world of possibilities. Curator Joana P. R. Neves welcomes María Castro Jímenez, whose Substack page "Pigments, Colours & Other Stories" reveals new pathways into art history, art making and creativity. Perfect for artists, ideal for polymaths, superb for creative souls and idyllic for those who enjoy a mix of prehistory, archeology, chemistry, anthropology and magic. Ultimately, this is the best art podcast to creatively explore creativity...
Art Topic is an art discussion segment focusing on the most intriguing art themes, or providing exciting new approaches to classic art themes in visual arts, with art experts, thinkers or curators (hosted by Joana P. R. Neves).
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Visual Artist Studio Secrets with A. M. Caballero & A. Jabre: MY ART TOOLS
Season 3 · Episode 8
Friday, January 9, 2026 • Duration 41:55
What if a visual artist’s favourite tool revealed their underlying art themes and intrinsic creative processes?
Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves.
Guests: Ana María Caballero and Alexandra Jabre.
This segment is as much:
an art education as
an introduction to art critique,
by empowering you
with art tips
art techniques we seldom talk about.
My Art Tools is a segment associating two art talks where an established visual artist opens their tool box: what is their fetish instrument? An artist life can get as technical as it can be spiritual. In fact, they may be related...
But most of all, a visual artist's hand guides you through the passion of following one’s vision, the pleasures of trusting an instinct, and the resilience it takes to work creatively. After all, creative processes are everywhere, for the visual artist as for any problem-solving situation, with an added philosophical twist.
Our two guests also discuss what it takes to embark on a creative life, what it takes to create poetry, sculpture, and more. What sacrifices do you make, what path do you take, and what kind of healing does art bring?
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The Other Side of The Mirror: Art Spaces in the Age of Online Life
Season 3 · Episode 7
Tuesday, December 30, 2025 • Duration 46:56
A part of our work and leisure is spent online and so is our art. Posted on social media and even made with the help of AI, LLMs, and more, creative initiatives and art objects may now also live in online art spaces. Is an art podcast to be confused with it? What are the joys and dangers of real art spaces becoming virtual ones? Or is the danger elsewhere, and the art education potentially everywhere?
Art Topic is an art discussion segment about intriguing art themes, or exciting new approaches to classic art topics in visual arts, with art experts, thinkers or curators. This time, host and art writer Joana P. R. Neves shares some insights about art spaces in light of our presence in online spaces, through her relatively new role as a female podcaster.
Does being present online affect our presence IRL in galleries, museums and art spaces in general? Two exhibitions stimulated this critique of digital engagement and creativity: Peter Doig's House of Music and Danielle Brathwaite Shirley's The Delusion at the Serpentine gallery. Before we visit the two exhibitions, and proposing an art review of sorts, Joana analyses how her work as an art podcaster provides insights into the realities of new technologies, creativity, the social feedback loop and having a sentient body.
Art spaces can and should help us understand the impact of the internet and AI on our humanity.
Sculpting Water: Under the Spell of Roni Horn's Work
Friday, November 28, 2025 • Duration 27:10
Have you ever been under the irresistible spell of an art work?
Art Story is a shorter episode exploring an art work, an artist, an exhibition or even a concept through a proudly subjective narrative.
Narrated by: the host, Joana P. R. Neves
Joana explores an aesthetic shock involving a tongue twister and a photography by Roni Horn in a busy art fair. Maybe you’ll jump into the flow, maybe you’ll be touched by Joana's devotion to the art, the feeling, and the inscrutable nature of certain contemporary art attractions.
Roni Horn's work; conceptual art art; photography; art installation; art and language; identity and fluidity; androgyny, aesthetic shock
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Painting The Dreaming – Emily Kame Kngwarreye – Art Exhibitions at Tate Modern: EXHIBITION CHINWAG
Season 3 · Episode 5
Friday, November 14, 2025 • Duration 01:13:04
What can you paint at the end of your life? How does painting feature in a Aboriginal culture? Does contemporary art culture intersect with Aboriginal art – should we even look for this kind of connection? How did exhibitions of the great painter and artist of the Northern Territory explose her work and contextualise it? How do exhibitions in contemporary museums welcome aboriginal art?
Exhibition Chinwag is the original segment of the podcast where Joana invites professionals from other fields to visit and discuss the work of artists through their solo exhibitions.
Guest: Emily Harding the OG Exhibitionistas co-host!
Ursula K. Le Guin with curator Catherine Li - ART BOOK CLUB
Season 3 · Episode 4
Friday, October 31, 2025 • Duration 01:19:43
What do curators do? THE CARRIER BAG THEORY OF FICTION
It's a very very short text that can basically change your life.
With a simple shift in narrative, Le Guin demonstrates how we can totally change the STORY.
But... how does this apply to curating?
ART BOOK CLUB is a segment where a guest suggests a book which was not written with contemporary art in mind and yet is a source of inspiration, guidance and / or creativity for their work. Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves.
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0:00 Intro
04:19 Choosing an artistic career
11:13 Autobiography in visual arts
18:26 Book: Babu Bangladesh! By NUmair Atif Choudhury
20:14 How a book intersects with personal life
22:15 The personal, the politics, the art, the book
28:20 What is Babu Bangladesh! about?
35:14 Family photo archive and visual arts
39:26 Break and call for action
41:43 Speculative fiction as device for truth telling
45:58 Why is Babu Bangladesh! In English?
48:32 Taking ownership of the historical archive?
56:18 StorytellingThe Ground Beneath Me: An artistic exploration of care
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0:00 Introduction
8:50 Art Spaces and Online Spaces Intersect
14:35 How Work Online and at Work Creating Content Impacts our Notion of Presence
17:23 The Other Side of the Mirror: The Ethics of Creating Art Content Online
20:14 Does Less = Nothing? The Impact of Measuring
31:47 Two case studies: Peter Doig and Danielle Brathwaite Shirley at the Serpentine Gallery
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Painting; children in art; painting the body; the representation of the body, Jenny Saville
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00:00 Intro 00:05:10 What does a curator do?00:09:57 The book over which Joana and Catherine bonded00:15:29 The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction00:23:16 An exhibition the size of a lunchbox00:33:22 Ideas and practicalities of curating00:40:49 Le Guin’s critique of the hero-centric story00:45:55 The curator: hero, opinion maker?00:52:09 Feminism, pre-history and curating00:59:49 The curator as a carrier01:07:23 Traditions and experimentations in curating01:16:59 Le Guin’s vision: process rather than conflict
