Synovium Podcast

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1. DAWN HURTON ON HER FICTIONAL MUSEUM IN RURAL CUMBRIA

   25 oktober 2026 · 43 min

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   Dawn Hurton is a contemporary sculptor based in Dufton, Cumbria, in the North Pennines. Working with rag pulp, plant fibre, pony hair, barytes and earth pigments, her practice explores the relationships between people, labour and the land. Her current project, The Dufton Hoarde, is an artist-made Museum of Rural Memory rooted in the lead-mining villages and worked landscape surrounding her home. Combining sculpture, text, moving image and invented museum records, it asks what counts as evidence, how stories acquire authority, and what remains when accumulated knowledge of place is no longer carried forward. Lees meer

   You can learn more about Dawn at her website www.dawnhurton.com and on Instagram @dawnhurtonartist

2. RIMA STAINES ON PAINTING THE REALMS OF MYTH, MAGIC, AND FOLKLORE

   25 oktober 2026 · 59 min

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   Rima Staines is an artist whose work straddles myth, magical realism and the folk arts. Her work explores the edges of culture and consciousness in media from painting, music, writing, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, to clock making, mask making, theatre, puppetry, book arts and animation. Lees meer

   Rima’s visual world is steeped in melancholy, story-rich and alchemical. Her detailed paintings are often made with oils on found wood - icons rooted in animism that feel simultaneously both strange and familiar.

   She has a long-held fascination with the idea of the liminal - the edges and hedges, the boundaries between one place and another, both metaphorical and real - and with the power of art that comes from that place. Her work is a kind of “Iconography of the Otherworld”.

   Her paintings have been exhibited and published internationally and hang in many private collections worldwide. She was co-founder and co-director of the Hedgespoken travelling storytelling theatre and small press. In 2018 she was a finalist in the Best Artist category of the World Fantasy Awards. She is a mother to two young sons and lives and works in South Devon halfway between the moor and the sea.

   You can connect with Rima at https://rimastaines.com and on Instagram @tilsamka

3. AHMAD NABIL ON IMAGINATION AND DOCUMENTING PARANORMALS IN PALESTINE

   25 oktober 2026 · 46 min

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   Ahmad Nabil is a Palestinian, Jerusalem-based visual artist, researcher, and educator whose practice explores folklore, storytelling, ritual, and the paranormal as forms of intangible Palestinian heritage, with a particular interest in their connection to the natural world. His work traces how myths, superstitions, and inherited stories continue to resonate in the present, carrying memory, imagination, and belonging across generations. In 2015, he founded The Fiction Council in Jerusalem, a platform that celebrates Palestinian imagination through research into Arab and Islamic mythology, folklore, superstitions, and paranormal phenomena, and their reactivation through contemporary art. He is the author and illustrator of Hidden Companions: Paranormals from the Old City of Jerusalem. Lees meer

   You can connect with Ahmad on Instagram @djinnabad and through The Fiction Council @the_fictioncouncil

   Photo by Eggy Ding

4. 🌹 MYTH, MAGIC, & MAYHEM: ARTIST HIGHLIGHT COLLECTION COMING OCTOBER 25TH, 2026

   12 oktober 2026 · 2 min

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   Coming Soon... Lees meer

   Artwork by Rima Staines

5. 💫 NOTES FOR CREATIVES WITH ELIZABETH GLEAVE ~ CALLING ALL CRAFTS FOLK

   22 augustus 2026 · 4 min

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   💫 NOTES FOR CREATIVES WITH ELIZABETH GLEAVE ~ CALLING ALL CRAFTS FOLK by Morgan Kulas, Elizabeth Gleave, & Land Art Collective

6. 💫 NOTES FOR CREATIVES WITH ELIZABETH GLEAVE ~ HOW YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE IS INFLUENCING REALITY

   22 augustus 2026 · 14 min

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   💫 NOTES FOR CREATIVES WITH ELIZABETH GLEAVE ~ HOW YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE IS INFLUENCING REALITY by Morgan Kulas, Elizabeth Gleave, & Land Art Collective

7. CAL FLYN ON WRITING THE MYSTERY OF WILDERNESS

   17 juni 2026 · 32 min

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   Cal Flyn is a bestselling author, writer and journalist from the Scottish Highlands. This conversation moves through her relationship to landscape, the discipline of paying close attention, and what it means to listen to a landscape. Cal and Morgan talk about sensory notetaking, letting go of control, and why getting words on the page can matter more than getting them right. Lees meer

   Dive into:

   • Writing a place ~ choosing what to emphasise and what to leave out • Sensory and emotional notetaking as a foundation for landscape writing • Building a writing routine that works with your natural rhythms

   • How to handle critique in ways that strengthen rather than silence your voice • Accepting the agency of the nonhuman world as a creative and philosophical practice

   • Why publishing imperfect work builds more resilience than waiting for it to be ready

   Follow her on Instagram or visit her website to connect https://www.calflyn.com!

8. KATIE GROVE ON WEAVING WILD BASKETS

   5 april 2026 · 49 min

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   Katie Grove is a basket weaver and educator based in New York's Hudson Valley, whose practice is rooted in foraging, seasonal plant knowledge and the slow work of making by hand. This conversation moves through her relationship to landscape, the emotional life of creative wounds and what baskets hold beyond their contents. Katie and Morgan talk about reciprocity with land, teaching from a place of care and why what children watch adults do can matter more than what they are told. Lees meer

   Dive into:

   • Home as deep connection with land rather than location ~ mountains, rivers and the desert Southwest

   • Baskets as containers for intention, community and meaning

   • How early creative wounds shape adult makers ~ meeting students where they are

   • The intimacy of foraging and following plants through the seasons

   • Motherhood and the long game ~ patience, balance and what gets passed on without words

   • Community as a container for transformation ~ the slow work of re-learning belonging

   Photo of Katie Grove in her studio is by Costa Boutsikaris

   Visit Katie's website at https://www.katiegrovestudios.com

9. ROUZBEH RASHIDI ON A MACHINERY OF DREAMS

   25 maart 2026 · 1 uur 44 min

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   Rouzbeh Rashidi is an Iranian-Irish experimental filmmaker and founder of the Experimental Film Society. This conversation moves through his experience of exile and displacement, his resistance to the capitalist urge for relentless productivity and his understanding of cinema. Rouzbeh and Morgan talk about embracing liminality, making art from mistakes and wounds and why the act of creation is itself an act of resistance. Lees meer

   Dive into:

   • Approaching cinema as process over product

   • Why slowness and deep engagement matter more than prolific output • Embracing liminality ~ neither here nor there ~ as generative creative ground • Making work from mistakes, limits and wounds

   • Building radical, non-hierarchical communities as the ground for creative practice

   • How the act of creation itself becomes an act of resistance in dark times

   Visit Rouzbeh on Instagram or at https://rouzbehrashidi.com & https://experimentalfilmsociety.com

10. NAHLA TABBAA ON THE ALCHEMY OF FOOD, PLACE, & BEAUTY

    3 maart 2026 · 51 min

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    Nahla Tabbaa is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans food, botany, ritual and plant-based making. This conversation moves through her relationship to home as something constructed rather than inherited, her familial roots spanning Syria, Jordan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, the kitchen as an alchemical space, and what it means to create beauty as an act of resistance. Nahla and Morgan talk about somatic healing, micro interventions and how critical thinking anchors creative work in the real world. Lees meer

    Dive into:

    • The kitchen ~ unlearning recipes and rediscovering the agency of ingredients

    • Why creating beauty through food, decoration and ornamentation is an act of resistance

    • How micro-interventions ~ small, meaningful gestures ~ accumulate into impactful change

    • Constructing a sense of home internally and through chosen communities • Using critical thinking to ensure your work responds to real contexts

    Visit Nahla on Instagram or at https://nahlatabbaa.com

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