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Minutes_On is an artist led project co-founded by Mark Bletcher, Abi Hampsey and Oliver Hoffmeister in 2020 with the aim of building a community though conversations about visual arts. We work with a range of professionals and practitioners in all stages of their careers to host discussions about contemporary visual art in a range of forms.

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Minutes_On Season 03    ︎︎︎


Season 3 is MinutesOn is coming at you. With no plan or schedule, this time we are embracing the chaos of the precarious natre of the arts industry. Who knows what will be next?! We will let you know a week before release, so pop along and have a read. It’s all good fun. 
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03:00 Matilda Sutton: Dissolution


Enjoy!
The Minutes Team,
Mark, Abi and Oli

Minutes_On Season 02    ︎︎︎


We’ve been out and about, seeing shows, visiting studios and chatting our little heads off during our visit to the smoke last month. Now it’s time we share these conversations with you!
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So here’s this seasons drop in release order:
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Henry Glover, 8th June @hgglover
Georg Wilson, 22nd June @georg.kitty
Mark Connolly, 6th July @mark__connolly
James Ferguson Rose, 20th July. @jamesfergusonrose
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More information including topics, themes and locations to follow 😎

Enjoy!
The Minutes Team,
Mark, Abi and Oli

02:01 Henry Glover: No Hard Feelings
02:02 Georg Wilson: Whoso List to Hunt
02:03 Mark Connolly
02:04 James Ferguson-Rose



Minutes_On Season 01 ︎︎︎


We are excited to release season 1 of Minutes_On! We return with three fantastic interviews in a new format.

Mark Bletcher talks to Roman Vaughan-Willams about his drawings process for a diagrammatic drawing ‘The Past-future or a Conscious-Future; Neo-feudalism or Communism; Barbarism or Socialism’ in his solo show The Dead Hold the Living in Their Grasp at the Ex-Libris Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Abi Hampsey talks to Jo Dennis about her painting ‘Boundaries’ and her connection to landscape and material on the last day of her solo show "Absent without leave" at Sid Motion Gallery, London.

Oliver Hoffmeister talks to Andras Nagy-Sandor about his painting process and armour as a motif for his painting ‘Not Yet’ in his solo show at The Room, London.  

Enjoy!
The Minutes Team,
Mark, Abi and Oli


    01:01 Roman Vaughan-Willams: The Dead Hold the Living In Their Grasp


    01:02 Jo Dennis: Absent without Leave


    01:03 Andras Nagy-Sandor: Tease



Minutes_On Season 00 ︎︎︎


We are excited to re-release our first test-season of talks online!

Our first season of talks took place in 2020 with founders Abi Hampsey, Mark Bletcher and Oliver Hoffmeister. We saw this first project as a test-run for our ideas. We published a series of printed books to accompy this, but sadly due to the pandamic had to change our plans as the publication realeased on the week of UK lockdown. Find and enjoy our converstations in full below.

Enjoy!
The Minutes Team,
Mark, Abi and Oli

    00:01 Mark Bletcher: Black Dogs 


    00:002 Oliver Hoffmesiter: Untitled 


    00:03 Abi Hampsey: Paper Dolls, People Hands 

2022