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Series 2 Episode 11: Hera
Welcome everyone to Art Cast Season 2 Episode 11!
Just a reminder, you can listen back to Season 1 which includes the previous 7 episodes on the Morley Radio website, which included artist support pledge founder Matthew Burrows, Goldie, and Morley Chelsea alumni Susan Collis. The first eight of episodes of Season two are also available with Andy Holden, Russel Shaw Higgs, Mira Calix, Barry Reigate, Helen Kirkum, Hannah Uzor, Peter Kennard and Jeremy Deller.
Art Cast is a podcast presented by Matt Gee, artist… and Subject Leader for Fine Art at the Chelsea Centre, Morley College. The decision to do this podcast was originally Inspired by photographs taken from the Polio outbreak in the 1940s where students were being remotely taught by radio. This podcast is a series of informal discussions with artists, designers and musicians about their work, lifestyle and how they have adapted during the current crisis we live in. The aim is to disseminate material for students by limiting screen time and providing a feed of information for when they are taking a break from the screen.
For this episode I’m delighted to have street artist Hera, and Fashion student Inigo joining us.
Born in Germany, Jasmin Siddiqui is known in the street art world as Hera, and is one part of the collaborative pair, Herakut.
Hera creates mixed media work on huge murals entwined with poetic text that is poignant and distinct in terms of the graffiti writing style. She looks into themes such as political injustice and social awareness.
The work is hugely ambitious. One collaborative piece in Berlin measures in at a huge 42 by 16 Metres. The aim of this piece was to remind Berliners about the closeness to nature the city possess by portraying a woman in a hoodie standing holding animals in her palm, symbolically enjoying the beauty and diversity of nature.
The work symbolises an escape from homeland to a foreign nation, the path from the familiar to the unknown, with the mantra being ‘home is where you take it’.