Artist Praxis is a podcast dedicated to illuminating the artistic process as a transformative and dialogical practice embedded in community. It is researched and presented by established artists and researchers Debora Faccion Grodzki and Sarah Arriagada, who are currently based in Germany and the USA.

In regular artist-led explorations, creatives across disciplines and from around the globe make meaning of their art-making. We share elevating and enlightening conversations on an artist’s newest piece, enabling open-ended investigations on all aspects of its creation.

In the October 26 episode, I spent 30 minutes talking about art, research and the practicalities of making the painting titled Blue and Silver. This work was part of the solo exhibition, ‘Touching Distance’ (RADAR output ID 7730). In the wide-ranging discussion, materials, methods, techniques and intentions were discussed with Grodzki and Arriagada, highlighting new insights into my ways of thinking through making.

‘Oscillating between alluring closeness and deceiving distance, the tightly knit weave of Graham Lister’s painting raises the question of what we are actually looking at… or through.

As we perceive the equal, rhythmic interactions of positive and negative space, fore and background, we realize that the artwork uses the visible architecture of the medium and the non-visible structures in and around it to come into being. The object acts as a stage set or a prop to signify beyond the image and towards the reality it exists in.’

Available through Apple podcasts, and via the Artist Praxis website.