Digging with Flo

This week on plot Flo is joined by Turner Prize winning artist and non-gardener, Mark Leckey. They chat about nostalgia, living in Las Vegas and how Mark got noticed in the art world all whilst doing Flo’s favourite task.. potato planting.

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Presenter - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Editor - Sam Stone, Sound Recording - Rory Bowens, Mastering - Felix Stock, special thanks to Dimitris Mylonas.

Music - Cleaners from Venus - The Artichoke That Loved Me, courtesy of Martin Newell & captured tracks.

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This week on the plot, Flo gets some help with ground prep from the much loved London musician, Novelist. As they work they discuss his musical upbringing, his new life in Ghana, and Nov’s childhood memories of gardening at his Nan’s house.

Presenter - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Editor - Sam Stone, Sound Recording & Mastering - Felix Stock, special thanks to Dimitris Mylonas.

Music - Cleaners from Venus - The Artichoke That Loved Me, courtesy of Martin Newell & captured tracks.

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Today on the plot Flo’s joined by multidisciplinary artist and musician Duval Timothy. Duval’s work blends his musical and cultural influences with the piano at the centre of his practice. His work spans food, painting, sculpture, textiles and more. Recent collaborators include fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner and rapper Kendrick Lamar.

Flo and Duval talk about fatherhood, Lewisham’s Mr Pink, Duval’s commitment to the colour blue, his early experiences of making art, and some of his more recent music. Duval proves himself to be a fantastic digger and planter of courgettes, which was today’s task.

Presenter - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Editing - Femi Oriogun-Williams, Sound Recording and Mastering - Sophie Ellison

A video version of this episode is also available on YouTube

Music - Cleaners from Venus - The Artichoke That Loved Me, courtesy of Martin Newell & Captured Tracks.

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Flo is off the plot again today, this time at the veg patch of Cosey Fanni Tutti. Cosey is an artist, musician, and writer. She was a co-founder of COUM transmissions and later went on to form industrial music group, Throbbing Gristle. Both groups were highly censored and at one point they were accused by the mainstream press of being ‘wreckers of civilisation’ for their shocking and confrontational work. Cosey went on to form Chris and Cosey, and later Carter Tutti Void with her bandmate and partner, Chris Carter.

In this episode Cosey talks Flo through her DIY approach to gardening, her recent work scoring the Delia Derbyshire film, and their mutual love of the Rosemary Tonks book, The Bloater. Later in the podcast they discuss Cosey’s choice of music to strip to, all whilst they sow carrot seeds and plant out onion sets.

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Presenter - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Sound Recording - Jennifer Walton, Editor - Sam Stone, Mastering - Rory Bowens.

Music - Cleaners from Venus - The Artichoke That Loved Me, courtesy of Martin Newell & Captured Tracks.

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Flo is off the plot today and doing some container gardening on Brix Smith’s roof garden. Brix started out at the liberal arts college Bennington, alongside Donna Tartt and Bret Easton Ellis, before going on to join seminal British post-punk band The Fall. She was also married to Mark E Smith. Today she fronts her own band, Brix Smith - a “kind of all-female supergroup”.

Between her time in bands, she was the fabulous co-host on Gok’s Fashion Fix. Flo and Brix discuss how Brix’s acute synesthesia marries up the seemingly disparate worlds of 1970s British post-punk and the mainstream 00s TV fashion competition, whilst they pot up some tomatoes and peas.

Presenter - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Sound Recording & Editor - Sam Stone, Mastering - Felix Stock.

Music - Cleaners from Venus - The Artichoke That Loved Me, courtesy of Martin Newell & Captured Tracks.

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