Keep your courage. Do what you believe in. Find a way to do it - Dr. Jo Melvin [31]

Jo Melvin is a professor in fine arts and feminisms at Chelsea College of Art in London, director and curator of the Barry Flanagan estate. Jo is also an art historian, a writer, a lecturer, a filmmaker, a curator and an exhibition maker.

"I speak as a woman who wears many hats, academic, scholar, teacher, mother, alongside the simultaneous development of my artistic, curatorial and exhibition making practices."

In this episode of The Warrior Artist, Jo Melvin chats to Éadaoin Glynn about:

• Ending up in art school 'by default'
• Steering her own path in art school
• How she approached and met artists who inspired her
• Her approach to curating and exhibition making
• Teaching
• Meeting Barry Flanagan and curating his work
• Meeting Marion Milner, Francis Bacon and Lucy Lippard
• Her advice to artists
• Her love of film and her own creative practice

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Podcast edited by Bren Russell of Podland.