The Collective 2025 - the sound of art
The Collective meets at the Art Depot NR3 Norwich each week, making art of all kinds. This is our podcast, 'the sound of art.'
Catch us on the first day of each month at midday.
April's edition features the music of Mark C. Sargeant and a performance by the experimental music/arts group Plank.
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 10 minutes
- Episodes
- 56
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
June 2025: interview with Helen Wells on Performance Art
Helen Wells is a prolific performance artist. Her exhibitions and performances in Norwich and beyond attract large audiences. We spoke in St Mary's Works in May where her latest work 'F…
May Day Podcast from The Collective 2025
This is a shortened edition as there's been a virus in the family!
This months podcast focuses on two exhibitions in Norwich this month.
Normal service will be resumed in June!
The Collective April 2025 podcast - the sound of art
This month's edition features the music of Mark C. Sargeant and the art/music improvisation group Plank.
The March edition of the Collective's sound of art
Welcome to the March edition of the Collective’s Podcast.
This month we feature an interview with artist Alexander Costello, whose exhibition ‘It’s not about the thing, It’s about all o…
The Collective Podcast - the sound of art - February edition
Featured artist Paul Levy – an interview on this forthcoming exhibition and reflections on his art practice.
Meanwhile, Mary Littlefield reviews an important book on 1930s Art, pertinent…
New Year Holiday Collective podcast - the sound of art
Welcome and a happy new year to one and all. In this holiday edition we kick off with a review of Martin Battye’s ‘Small Paintings,’ the Beer Mat Series, PrimeYarc, Market Gates, Great …
The Collective, an introduction
Welcome to the first Collective Podcast
The Art Depot NR3, Norwich
featuring ‘the sound of art’
This is a pilot for a monthly podcast to be broadcast on the first day of each month at midd…
Riotous Exhibitions?
A search for a riotous exhibition or its spirit took me to Gustave Courbet in the 19th Century and a little publicised show of kinetic art in Amsterdam in 1961.
The Death of Community Arts
This first of seven talks on the arts looks at the rise and demise of Community Arts,
The Poet's Crimes
Half scripted, half improvised, the poet faces interrogation at the local cop shop. Was his poem in Pix 6 stolen and did anyone read Pix 6? Are all the poet's poems stolen anyway? And i…
Interlude: a short poem
The picture restorer’s invoice
Under honeysuckle sprays, a cinder path
runs up to the barn and around its brick footings
to a thick archway of clipped privet, through which
lies the pictu…
Autobiography 1974-7 - me and poetry
Stable Press, Haverhill Poetry Group, Ipswich Poetry Workshop and the Jubilee... with a poem, The Corn Dolly dole queue blues,' to round it off.
The Factory: autobiography 5, 1974-5
From skimming the pit in the meat factory to riding the Lansing Bagnall across the factory floor, while trying to hang on to a dream.
Autobiography, part 4: 1973-4 - art school, poetry, arson and drugs
Back from Liverpool I returned to education, briefly, but was I born to tip my cap or was I a fire raiser after all?
Autobiography 3: Making a Film, Thunderclap Newman and Poverty 1972
Called back to Liverpool from Clare, Suffolk, to help make a film. Here too is 'Something in the Air,' the Woodside Ferry and the reality of poverty in the city.
Autobiography, part 2: Working at The Haverhill Echo 1972
The Haverhill Echo was an independent newspaper in Suffolk. Now long gone, I look back at my highs and lows working as a trainee reporter there in 1972
Autobiography, part 1: Acting Up To The Tyranny Of A Rural Education
Here is part one of my autobiography (1967-1971). This autobiography will cover my enthusiasms in drama, art and poetry over the years. In part one, an English teacher saves me via a p…
Playwriting Diary 2 - from theatre courses and Silent Witness to Max Wall
A diary exploring playwriting. In this edition: theatre courses, psychology in plays, 1968, Silent Witness and remembering Max Wall.
Playwriting Diary 1 - From Line of Duty to Nursery Rhymes
A fortnightly diary on playwriting and culture. First episode: Line of Duty, the existential threat and writing an audio play. Coming up: my journey in staging a play.