The Distraction Pieces Podcast: Live
Two creative minds collide as visual artist Tomo Campbell chats all things creativity with host and recording artist Scroobius Pip at a live podcast recording.
Welcome, welcome, welcome to a live recording of the Distraction Pieces podcast with Scroobius Pip – one of the UK’s biggest and longest-running podcasts.
Come and hear Scroobius Pip and visual artist Tomo Campbell smash their creative minds and worlds together. Both Pip and Campbell have taken unconventional pathways to success. Together, they’re exploring the nature of creativity, its inspiration and its challenges.
Campbell’s work adorns the walls of executives, architects and famous musicians. He describes his paintings as ‘smashing worlds together’ – a fusion of the past, present and future. His paintings shape-shift between abstraction and figuration, pulsating between chaos and harmony; hard and soft; vivid and translucent; delicacy and immediacy. Campbell’s recurring motifs, details and observations drawn from sources including Old Master paintings, antiquity, medieval tapestry, and contemporary and early modern art, both appear and disappear in ambiguous perspectives created by hazes of colour and line.
‘When I’m painting, all past works that have come before lead up to a painting in the present. The process is determined by quick decisions coming from an unknown yet somehow familiar place. As I paint, I begin to glimpse how the future paintings could be and create new pathways for the works to start manoeuvring towards.’
For the Distraction Pieces podcast, Scroobius Pip has relaxed, unedited conversations with everyone ranging from Stephen Fry and Louis Theroux to Mary J Blige and Florence Pugh. Scroobius Pip broke into the public eye in 2006 as a musician with his unique mix of rap, poetry and ever-changing array of beats. Over the years, he has branched out into the podcasting world and onto the screen, always with a fresh and unique approach.
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12.30pm: Doors
1pm: Event
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This event is held at the Purcell Room Southbank Centre
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