Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
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Fermynwoods Contemporary Art is an educational charity and arts organisation that supports life through art. We commission innovative and meaningful ways for visual artists to engage with audiences, in public spaces across Northamptonshire and online. Our podcast is an experimental space for the display and creation of contemporary art which is fully accessible from people's homes, featuring original sound art, artist discussions, audio essays, video content and more.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Artist conversations connect contemporary art's conceptual language to the materials, sounds, environments, and practical choices from which the work emerges.
Fermynwoods Contemporary Art Podcast gives artists room to explain how materials, places, and ideas become finished work, often pairing discussion with commissioned sound art.
A yew branch becomes a diddly bow; your art curiosity gets dirt under its nails.
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An English yew sound work that blends field recordings, craft, and decay.
A Ton of Worms is a multidisciplinary sound work built around the English yew. It moves through field recordings, whittling, fermentation, propagation, and a performance made on the summer solstice of 2023.
Silence becomes social, lonely, and quietly revealing in a performance that changes how a body is read.
Maya Zeicho's Silencer sits at the center of a conversation about a sensory-impairment soundwalking suit that moves through woodland and Corby Town Center, where silence reshapes how body, gender, and voice are read in public.
A woodland art conversation that keeps site, process, and social use in close view.
The episode stays in the woodland setting as Marie Chantal Hamrock speaks with Danny Tracy and Johannes Sitz about Tree Wilder, with its site-responsive interventions, sculptures, and video for Barnwell Park.
Climate, sound, and AI meet in a conversation that stays thoughtful and human.
Furman Woods' contemporary art podcast sits where climate-minded practice, sound art, and AI overlap. Becky McRae and Jason Singh bring different angles to the same question: how art moves between activism, voice, and the natural world.
A reflective sound piece that treats listening as an embodied encounter with light, otherness, and a faint uncanny edge.
Adrienne Murray's Ear for the Other is a reflective, luminous piece that stays attentive to light, everyday sound, and the body moving through space.
A reflective art conversation where myth, womanhood, and autofiction keep folding into one another.
Sarah Long's conversation is a thoughtful art talk about myth, womanhood, and the body as landscape. Marie-Chantal Hamrock keeps it moving through painting, performance, nationhood, suppressed female archetypes, and Mother Ireland, with the body pushed against the old male gaze.
A patient conversation that connects grief, fatherhood, and myth-making into one reflective whole.
David John Scarborough's conversation moves through grief, fatherhood, ecological collapse, and the shared language of folk traditions and myth-making.
A final-episode art radio play where industry and landscape press against each other.
The final episode stays in a hard material world of ironstone, blast furnaces, black dust, and loss. A radio play frame carries the story through a narrator and a strange little cast, which keeps it rooted in place instead of letting it drift into abstraction.
Art historian Tamar Avishai interviews critics, curators, and writers about single paintings and ideas.
Jennifer Dasal narrates art history's overlooked lives, from Picasso's police file to Rauschenberg and Twombly's romance.
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament interview artists about their materials, biography, and process.
Cinematographer Roger Deakins and James Deakins interview film crew about the craft behind specific shots.
Robert Bound interviews artists and reviews new film, book, and music releases with critics.
Sound art from places, recordings, and memory.
Light returns slowly here.
Love and Light begins in ocular darkness.
A dark woodland walk slips underground.
Light becomes a way to listen.
The season is nearly over.
Light takes its time here.
A Ton of Worms begins with yew and keeps its ear close to the wood.
Silencer begins with blocked hearing.
Tree Wilder starts in the woods.