Steve Chapman, better known as Steve Xoh, is a visual artist and creator with an unusual, yet endearing and playful twist on reality. In this episode we talk about Steve's wide-spanning array of unique ideas and his need to constantly create. W

Don Travis

Mar 8th, 2023 54m 41s

In this episode I speak with Don Travis, photographer and co-founder of Future Hackney. Don has lived in Hackney almost her whole life and is passionate about her community and it's cultural diversity. Future Hackney is a public art project, t

Season Finale 2022

Dec 29th, 2022 39m 7s

Xmas special episode co-hosted with Josh from ALT LDN where we answer listeners' questions, as we bring to a close the first year of the podcast.

Tiffany Roubert

Nov 15th, 2022 31m 31s

In this episode I sit down with French film photographer, Tiffany Roubert.In 2018 Tiffany took on a part-time role with Alternative London while she developed her photography career. During the pandemic she spent time in her wife, Carla’s nativ

The Real Hackney Dave

Nov 1st, 2022 1h 3m

In episode 20 I chat to artist Dave Buonaguidi - otherwise known as The Real Hackney Dave. We chat about Dave’s mid-life epiphany during which he left his marriage and his career in advertising and became an artist. Dave is a fascinating guy an

Jonesy

Oct 18th, 2022 36m 45s

One of Britain's master bronze makers, artist and environmentalist - it's the one and only Jonesy!Mark Jones moved to East London in 1988 to take up work as a finisher in a bronze foundry. Apart from a few stints abroad, he has been there ever

Nadia Stooki

Oct 18th, 2022 46m 12s

In this episode I speak to entrepreneur and Jewellery maker, Nadia Abbas.Nadia, Quincey and Luke co-founded Stööki in 2011 as a Jewelery brand with its roots firmly in London youth culture.We talk about the highs and lows of running a sustainab

Cranio

Oct 18th, 2022 19m 42s

In this episode I sit down with the one and only, Cranio. Hailing from Sao Paulo, Cranio has emerged as one of the world’s best and most loved street artists.We’ve been big admirers of Cranio and his work since the first time we met him in 2012

Jade LB

Oct 18th, 2022 36m 7s

Jade LB is an award-winning author from Hackney.In the early 2000’s chapters of a story started to appear on the blog site Piczo, and suddenly it went viral.Keisha the Sket was well known for being sexually explicit and violent, despite Jade ha

Ant Carver

Oct 18th, 2022 49m 8s

In this episode I chat to artist, Ant Carver as he prepares for his solo exhibition - All Alone in a Crowded Room.This current body of work, inspired by the tragic loss of Ant's best friend, muses primarily on grief and loss. It also displays a

Maher Anjum

Oct 18th, 2022 45m 4s

Maher Anjum is the co-founder of Tati and Oitij-jo, a community organisation that empowers women in the British Bangladeshi diaspora through creativity and culture.In this episode we talk about the challenges that she is working hard to help ov

Ronzo

Oct 18th, 2022 1h

The self-proclaimed Vandal Extraordinaire. Crackney's undisputed finest. Ronzo has been an ever present fixture of the London street art scene since the early days.His characters exist in their own world but reflect on the issues of our reality

Jenny Lewis

Oct 18th, 2022 1h 2m

Jenny Lewis is an award-winning photographer who embarked on her own projects after a successful career shooting for editorials. She has published three books: Hackney Studios, One Day Young and 100 Years and has exhibited her work around the w

Jay Kaes

Oct 18th, 2022 56m 21s

In this episode I chat to the brilliant Jay Ka3s.Jay is a ln East London based, Spanish street artist, muralist and animator whose current body of work deals with our relationship with the online world with his style he refers to as the glitch.

Saki

Oct 18th, 2022 41m 32s

Saki & B, also known as Saki & Bitches is a Japanese artist based in East London. Originally a make-up artist, she relocated from a temporary stint in New York to the East End in 2009 and soon started painting her renowned Bitches on the street

Ben Wilson

Oct 18th, 2022 43m 35s

In this episode I sat down with the amazing Ben Wilson, better known to most as The Chewing Gum Man.Ben is an artist and sculptor from North London who is best known for his miniature paintings on discarded chewing gums in London and beyond. He

Aida Wilde

Oct 18th, 2022 1h 6m

Aida Wilde and her family arrived in the UK from Iran as asylum seekers when she was a child. During her formative years she has become a well-respected print maker, educator, curator and artist in her own right.We discuss the culture shock of

Mohammed Ali

Oct 18th, 2022 47m 31s

Mohammed Ali is a British Bangladeshi artist from Birmingham. He has recently been spending time back in the East End's Banglatown where he has family connections (as well as Bangladesh itself), listening to stories from the local community to

Krissie Nicholson

Oct 18th, 2022 31m 6s

In this first episode of the Alternative London Podcast we chat to co-founder of the East End Trades Guild, Krissie Nicolson. The Trades Guild was founded to give independent businesses, the self employed, charities and social enterprises a voi

Jimmy C

Oct 18th, 2022 58m 2s

Adelaide artist Jimmy Cochran, better known as Jimmy C, has created large scale murals in his unique drip style and exhibited his work in galleries around the world. We first met Jimmy in 2010, not long after he moved to London and have enjoyed

Jo Peel

Oct 18th, 2022 33m 8s

Jo Peel is an artist, film maker and animator from Sheffield, UK. After studying in Falmouth, she spent her formative years in the East End before moving back to Sheffield.Jo's artworks alongside their technical brilliance and visual beauty pro

BSMT Space

Oct 18th, 2022 1h 1m

In this episode we take a trip to BSMT Space Gallery in Dalston to meet up with its founders, Greg Key and Lara Fiorentino. We met several years back when we were both running urban art galleries in East London. I warmed to them both instantly

WRDSMTH

Oct 18th, 2022 47m 28s

In this episode we sit down with WRDSMTH not too long after his recent move to East London from California. Although we'd been introduced previously and said hi a few times, this is the first time I'd met someone properly through the podcast.I

David Speed

Oct 18th, 2022 1h 3m

David Speed is co-founder the Graffiti Life agency with his business partners Iona Thomas and Adam Brazier. As well running a successful agency, David and Adam also hosts the hugely successful Creative Rebels Podcast.Over the years of painting