The Start

The drummer and composer talks about Locked in a Basement, the album he recorded with his band Heernt, before facing the pressures of adulthood...

The visual artist reveals how her installation Turbulent built a community among the Iranian diaspora in New York, and expressed her feelings for her homeland...

The novelist and journalist shares how living a life of austerity inspired his first professional work, Slump...

The electronic musician relates how a breakup, a new keyboard and a hunger for feminist rock’n’roll led to her signature track Lovertits and album The Teaches of Peaches...

The poet shares the story behind Invisible Kisses, a poem that impressed on him the true value of family...

The playwright and screenwriter reveals how a fascination with tyrants and their wives compelled her to write Splendour...

The artist and activist tells how investigating schoolchildren’s deaths in the Sichuan earthquake of 2008 spawned his mammoth installation, Remembering...

The internet artist recalls how her groundbreaking YouTube project Scandalishious allowed for self-reflection, but also invited the scrutiny of a watchful audience...

In the second episode of our new culture podcast about artistic beginnings, Damien Hirst reveals how his neighbour – a compulsive hoarder – triggered a creative explosion that set him on the road to s...

A new podcast about artistic beginnings, as told by great artists of our time. The first episode will be coming soon......