Heart in Art

Neoclassicism is the label we use for the period of art history after the Baroque. Spanning the 18th century enlightenment era and into the beginning of the 19th c. Paradigms or broad thought trends a...

Continuing on with our art history series, this episode we’ll focus upon the aesthetic of The Baroque, with reference to European classical music. The term ‘Baroque’, coined by 19th century critics, d...

Part of Series 3: Artistic Movements for Beginners. Join our host Dani Van De Broucke, as she explores the Renaissance paradigm through the exploration of three famous art pieces of the time:The Sisti...

Get your Christmas treats out, light the fire and get cosy. Join our host Dani Van De Broucke for a yuletide Victorian classic story, A Christmas Carol, by English author, Charles Dickens....

This episode starts our new exciting new season, which is a beginners crash course in major artistic styles and movements across the centuries. This episode has a spooky vibe, and focuses upon Gothic ...

2020: In a year that's turned travel upon its' head, what is it like to be a travel writer? Meghan O'Dea has been writing for the past decade about everything from tech to travel to cultivating resili...

How has the Electronic Dance scene changed since the 1980s? With special guest, Canadian DJ and Producer, Model Citizen. Electronic Music has been an important part of counter-culture in both Europe a...

Today I'll be talking to the first photographer we have welcomed to Heart in Art, Adam Lang of LangShot Photography. His work focuses upon portraiture and the urban landscapes and architecture in the ...

Our special guest today is children's author and journalist, Ritu Hemnani. We talk about her new children's book 'Gope and Meera,' based upon the 1947 partition of India and the resulting destruction ...

This comic novel was published in 1923. The story takes place in London, and depicts the self-absorbed elite in turbulent times following the end of World War I. Listen and enjoy, as our host, Dani Va...

A multi-disciplinary storyteller from Indonesia, Edward Gunawan has worked as writer, producer, director and actor on award-winning stage and screen projects across Asia and the US. He was a producer ...

Sonia Leung began writing when she turned forty. In 2016, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with distinction from City University of Hong Kong. Presently, Sonia is working on rewrit...

This is a short story by our host, Dani Van De Broucke, borne out of a writing experiment with perspective and time. Set in Oaxaca, Mexico, it tells of the interesting relationship between the protago...

Mental health issues, such as addiction, remain a societal taboo, despite many high-profile celebrities, such as Elton John, Steven King and Daniel Ratcliffe to name but a few, bravely breaking their ...

In this episode, host Dani Van De Broucke chats with the uber-cool Jason and Stan, founders of Hong Kong Walls; a group responsible for much of the incredible Graffiti and Street Art around central Ho...

Good fiction writing requires characterisation that makes you feel invested in a character because they seem three dimensional, have human flaws and also, desires. The bare bones of any plot rely upon...

Artists sometimes discover their talent late in life, and some have a lifelong relationship with their chosen art form. As a writer, I know there have been times in my life I have loved fiction writin...

In Chimamanda Adichie's 2009 Tedtalk 'The Danger of a Single Story,' Adichie talks about the danger of dominant or one track stories; discourse that can be culturally reductive, deny groups with less ...

Often artists work spans forms, for example writers/musicians, poets/singers and so on. There are also artists who work in a variety of mediums; writers who use many different platforms, for differing...

Today, we are joined by Karina Calver. Karina is an International Bestselling Author of A Girl’s Faith, published in February 2019. She is a counselor from Monash University, Australia, specializing i...

'Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art.' (Wilde, O, 1854-1900) 'Art is a lie that makes us realise the truth.'(Picasso, P, 1881-1973) Aesthetic, a lie, the truth, int...