Not Supposed To Know

This Too Shall Pass (Excerpt)

Corrina Rothwell Artist - Podcast 6

After success as a textile artist and digital illustrator, Corrina Rothwell found her true calling in painting, exploring abstract and figurative styles to discover a visual language that reflects who she is today.

Originally from Rochdale, Lancashire, Corrina has lived and worked as an artist in Nottingham since the early 90s. Initially believing that being self-taught was detrimental to her practice, over the years she’s come to realise that actually it’s given her a freedom that might have been difficult to find via a conventional art education. Her work has always been anchored by a strong feeling for...

Yellow Blockwork Core

Susan Forster Artist - Podcast 5

Her aesthetic is influenced by mid-century art following her family's move to Canberra in 1956

Susan makes "artefacts," simple structures using everyday things such as boxes, cardboard, hessian, and bamboo skewers. Inspiration comes from engaging with the form and texture of her materials. She works without an idea or aim, discovering what the materials like, what they are willing to do, how far they will go, regularly using techniques such as grids, repetition, and translucence....

Artists Interviews Susan Forster Podcasts

Billie Ireland & Rob White, 6th June 2024

Billie Ireland & Rob White Discuss Their Films About Grief - Podcast 4

Films screened at Seeing In The Dark exhibition, Bath Fringe 2024

In this Not Supposed To Know podcast, Billie Ireland and Rob White give an in-depth talk about their grief related animated films. Their films were exhibited in the Seeing In The Dark show, curated by Inga Burrows, as part of the Bath Fringe Festival 2024. The programme of short films illuminated how contemporary artist-filmmakers, from culturally diverse backgrounds, respond creatively to their...

Artists Exhibitions Animation Film Interviews Billie Ireland Rob White Podcasts

Jack inside a partially-excavated Bronze Age ring ditch, County Wexford / Carlow border, 2023

Jack Rowe Archaeologist - Podcast 3

He can often be found spending an inordinate amount of time among standing stones and burial mounds

Jack is an archaeologist based in Mid Wales. He has worked across Wales, mostly in community engagement and outreach. He's currently studying for a PhD in Archaeology with the research title "Exploring human movement on and around Neolithic landscapes in Western Britain". In doing so, he is seeking out the paths and routeways that people might have taken in prehistory and how they negotiated their...

Academics Archaeology Interviews Jack Rowe Podcasts

Parallel Dream II, 2021 (Excerpt)

Rob White Artist - Podcast 2

He creates abstract works which explore the metaphysical and the unknown

For our second podcast featured on Not Supposed To Know, we'd like to welcome one of our founders Rob White. Rob lives and works in Mid-Wales UK, his practice is primarily focused on memory, mortality and loss. He has spent considerable time in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal and the Karakoram range in Northern Pakistan trekking through vast and bewildering landscapes....

Artists Interviews Rob White Podcasts

Solar Tree, 2022

Pauline Woolley Artist - Podcast 1

Artist discusses her process and inspiration about the metaphysical and the unknown

Welcome to the Not Supposed To Know Podcast. This space has been created by artists Billie Ireland and Rob White from the hilly heart of Mid-Wales. To kick off with our very first podcast we'd like to thank the artist Pauline Woolley for joining us. Pauline is based in the UK and her practice deals with her relationship to the sky, time, place and astronomy....

Artists Interviews Pauline Woolley Podcasts