Paperweight Radio: Explorations in Visual and Material Culture draws together artists, designers, academics, curators, writers and researchers around a theme, to explore the territory of visual and material culture from different vantage points. In these explorations, Paperweight offers reports from the front-line of research into visual and material culture, running into the heat of battle and reporting back with dispatches.
On this episode of Paperweight Radio we discuss plastic. Featured are material scientist Paul Tangney on the history and material properties of plasti...
This episode of Paperweight Radio, themed The Art School, features art historian Beth Williamson on the Tate's Art School Educated project; artist Mat...
Our episode on Mixed Media featured art historian Matt Lodder on art on TV and film; geographical historian Elizabeth Haines on colonial cartography; ...
Themed Domesticating the Modernist Body, this episode featured guests include design historian Jessica Kelly on the architect and critic J.M.Richards;...
In the Animals episode, we feature contemporary art historian Lynn Turner, medieval art historian Robert Mills and Edinburgh School of Art’s Chancello...
This episode, themed Collection, features Goldmiths’ Curator of Art and Textile Collections Jenny Doussan, material culture specialists and historians...
In the fifth episode of this six part series exploring themes in visual and material culture, hosted by Juliette Kristensen, we discuss the role of fa...
In this week's show we discuss how ecological concerns and ideas intersect with contemporary art practice with contemporary art historian Wood Roberde...
In conversation with artist, curator and maker Helen Carnac, this week’s show explores Maker Culture, the contemporary trend for making that marries t...
In the third episode of this six part series exploring themes in visual and material culture, hosted by Juliette Kristensen, we feature the art histor...