New episode with Nicolas Bertoux: Red Donkey
Our latest episode is out now Listen to Nicolas Bertoux Originally from Paris, Nicolas first came to Carrara with his father, also a sculptor, who was...
New episode with Jaya Schuerch: Living Stone
Our latest episode is out now Listen to Jaya Schuerch Co-founder of Studio Pescarella near Pietrasanta, Jaya was born in California, moved to Switzerland...
New episode with Emmanuel Fillion: The art of cutting stone
Our latest episode is out now Listen to Emmanuel Fillion Born in Soissons, France, Emmanuel went to trade school at the age of 16 to learn how to renovate...
New episode with Lucy Dickens: The way she sees it
Our latest episode is out now Listen to Lucy Dickens Close friends since the age of three, Lucy and Sarah ramble and percolate over Lucy’s upcoming show. As...
Back again with series 2
Back again: Series 2 Listen to Back again: Series 2 Welcome back to a second series of Materially Speaking. In these snapshot stories, tell us about their...
Epilogue for Series 1
Epilogue: Series 1 Listen to Epilogue: Series 1 Materially Speaking began with interviews from artists and artisans working near Pietrasanta in northern...
New episode with Sollai Cartwright: Finding inspiration everywhere
Final episode from our first series is out now Listen to Sollai Cartwright Sollai Cartwright takes inspiration from everything around him creating both...
New episode with Jacob Cartwright: Embrace
Our latest episode is out now Listen to Jacob Cartwright Born into an artistic family in Australia, Jacob has been living in Italy on and off since he was...
New episode with Christian Lange: A devil’s tool
Our latest episode is out now Listen to Christian Lange Christian Lange apprenticed as a chiseller in Freiburg, Germany, and started out as a stonemason...
New episode with Rita Meier: Walking on marble
Our latest episode is out now Listen to Rita Meier Rita Meier learned the direct carving technique from artisans and the international community of artists...
New episode with Neal Barab: A life of their own
Our latest episode is out now Listen to Neal Barab Californian artist Neal Barab says his work is variously influenced by Mexican pre-Colombian art, art from...
New episode with Almuth Tebbenhoff: Bigger than I am
Our latest episode is out now Listen to Almuth Tebbenhoff When Almuth Tebbenhoff came to London in the late 1960s she started from scratch: learning a new...
New episode with Michael Francis Cartwright: All materials are equal
Our latest episode is out now Listen to Michael Francis Cartwright After what he describes as a ‘very free’ art education, Australian-born Michael Francis...
New episode with Martin Foot: What’s a mistake?
Our latest episode is out now Listen to Martin Foot Liverpudlian Martin Foot always loved learning and since childhood dreamt of carving in stone. At the age...
New episode with Shona Nunan: Balance
Our latest episode is out now Listen to Shona Nunan Shona Nunan and her husband, Michael Francis Cartwright, left Australia for Italy to tell the world, and...
New episode with Eilis O’Connell: Obsessed by scale
Our latest episode is out now Listen to Eilis O’Connell Eilis studied at art school in Cork, Ireland in the early 1970s. Fascinated by making something small...
New episode with Douglas Robinson and introducing our blog
Our latest episode is out now Listen to Douglas Robinson. Canadian Douglas Robinson arrived in Pietrasanta in 1979 to learn from the artisans. He worked with...
New episode with Eppe de Haan: Searching Souls
Our latest episode is out now. Listen to Eppe de Haan. Eppe de Haan was born in Arnhem, Holland and studied art at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague....
New episode with Jim Hager: Homeless
Our latest episode is out now. Listen to Jim Hager. Jim Hager, from California, has been carving marble in Pietrasanta, northern Italy, for almost 30 years....
New episode with Stephan Hamel: Marble, luxury and power
Our latest episode is out now. Listen to Stephan Hamel: Marble, luxury and power. Stephan Hamel – a brand catalyst who divides his time between Milan, Vienna...