Art2Art covers art in its widest form - from Burlesque to live music, amazing cup cakes to art and photography.... It's all Art!

Presented by Paul Dawkins and Julian Hogan.

If you are involved in the Arts in any aspect whether your in a band, writing songs, poems, theatre, dancing, costumes, make up, lighting, teaching, running a business within the arts then we want to hear from you! 

Listen to the programme Friday afternoons at 1 and Saturday afternoons at 2.

Thanks to Lisa Coleman for presenting and producing the programme up til June 2011.
"our heart to heart about your art"


Write to the team at:
info@swindon1055.com

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=158352814185950

coming up:




Pevious guests include:-

Jon Ratcliffe first year student from New College photography course talked about his experience as a student and photographer, latest exhibition and up and coming events. 
http://www.peoplesmillions.org.
Swindon Opera visit: http://www.jtptrust.org/


Exhibition by Swindon New College Photoghraphy Students

Some of Our Previous Guests on Art to Art for 2010 included:

June 2011
A Chocolate Theatre Society, coming into the Art to Art programme is Michaela Ballard-Kearns to talk to us about the show taking place from 2nd June at The Arts Centre, Buddy is making an apprearnce too!




May 2011

Owen Fishwick and the Director of Trojan Women Peter Hynds plus music from Skeet Williams with his band the Bear Beats, find out more on the links below!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001972342089

http://www.swindon.gov.uk/artscentre


19th May 2011
Swindon 105.5 hosted The Big Book Swap at Lawn Community Centre on Saturday 21st May 12.30pm until 5pm, part of this event included live music, story telling and of course book swapping, plus lots of cake and tea too! It is a free family event!  To celebrate this we have invited a couple of the artists taking part onto the Art to Art programme, Cristina Newton of Blue Gates Poets and Daryll Ball of Swindon band The Batleurs.  You can find out more about them on the links below:

http://www.bateleurs.co.uk

lso on the programme we have coming into the show Mike Carpenter to talk to us about up and coming auditions for a local production.

13th May 2011

Two very interesting guests this week on Art to Art, Nichoals Smith a very talented Swindon artist who specialises in fine portraits. Also we have Brian Mildenhall who is the curator of an exhibiiton at Swindon's Post Modern Gallery at Theatre Square, the exhibtion in aid of Angels Orphanage in Nepal, lots of news about their second birthday celebrations and how you can get involved.

Find our more about Nick at: http://www.nicholasjsmith.com/
Angels Orphange:  http://angelsorphanage.com/




7th May 2011
An extraordinary, creative young woman called Bexx who suffered a brain injury when she was younger and has been through years of rehabilitation,  talking about her new song called Smile, joined by one of the team who helped Bexx through her rehabilitation, Jennifer Berry.  (launched at Bath Road Museum and Art Gallery)

Also on the programmed interview with Steve Ware to talk about his film "I Prefer Marvin"

April 2011
Sarah Checksfield

Sarah joined the programme to talk about her art and her exhibition at Swindon's Post Modern hotel, find out more about Sarah's work on her website: http://www.sarahchecksfield.co.uk/

Also on the programme was Andrew Steggall from My Street Films, find out more by checking out the website:  http://www.mystreetfilms.com/about



22nd April 2011
Sierra Hurtt with Skeet Williams

Returning to Swindon Sierra performed last night at the Victoria, and tomorrow will be performing live on our Art to Art programme.  Sierra hails from Philadelphia but she brings with her a wonderful cocktail of international flavours to her music.  This is a programme you must find time to listen to, Sierra and Skeet together dance musically amongst the light and shade of emotions, sprinkles shimmer amongst the art they craft together with songs written from the heart.

Find out more about Sierra on her website:
http://sierrahurtt.com/



15th April 2011
Missin' Rosie

Folk Rock conversations with band members, Jason Hull, Joe Rendall, Tim Downes-Hall and Mike Rendall, they have recently made it through to the next round of Live and Unsigned competition, they will be joining us on the programme to tell us about their experiences. Also a speical interview with Frisky and Mannish who will be appearing at the Arts Centre this Saturday.

More information on the competition below:

http://www.liveandunsigned.uk.com/news/view/675/Live-Music-Showcase-at-Birmingham-Regional-final-Feedback?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook

Take a listen to their music on link below:

http://www.facebook.com/missinrosie?sk=info


8th April 2011

Steve Leigh

Muscian, song writer, teacher, Steve runs the Swindon Music Academy in Swindon, Steve will be joining us to talk about his influences, creativity, history and journey through his career as a teacher of music.  www.academyofmusic.ac.uk

1st April 2011

Renowned Swindon artist Stevie Gilmore well known for his Wiltshire chalkands paintings is also a very talented artist and will be sharing some of his other amazing talents with us Friday as he teams up with members of the BlueGate Poets group.  Hilda Sheehan, Mike Scott, Cristina Newton, Emily Harrison and Katherin T Owen.

`Travellers Without Baggage` is an anthology of work by former Swindon resident
the late Valerie Clarke, the poets will be reading their own `responses` to this work with live musical compositions by Stevie Gilmore, guitarist. Plus news on the BlueGates Poets taking part at the Swindon Festival of Literature in May.

The hour will be dedicated to poetry and song, a harmonious recipe of words and notes to cheer up your Friday hour 1-2pm! 

Find out more about Stevie on his website and BlueGates Poets:

25th March 2011

Robert Baker

Who is Rob Baker?  He is the man behind Asylum Sessions, a music promoter, a creative individual that seems to bring inspriational musical magical lagoon to the quiet waters of Wilsthire and beyound.  The hour this week is dedicated to Rob, the music he champions and the opportunity to fnd out more about the man himself, his past, present projects and events and projects going forward to 2011.

Find out more on Rob's website:


http://www.asylumsessions.co.uk/



18th March 2011

Cristina Newton

 Cristina is a poet, cante hondo singer (flamenco) she will be performing live on the programme some examples of this beautiful form of art. Cristina teaches creative writing, poetry and art appreciation. Cristina is also involved as one of the  adjudicators organising the Battered Mooons Poetry Competition.   There is more information about this on Bluegates Poets website: http://www.bluegatepoets.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=303 

18th March 2011

Alex Secker and Joseph Tedder of Spotlight Pro-Media  a multi-media production company made up of students from the Creative Media Diploma at New College, Swindon. They specialise in many different forms of media, ranging from art and design to film and music  Alex and Jo will be sharing news with us about Spotlight Pro-Media which are a multi-media production company and up and coming projects MY WORLD: RECYCLED EXHIBIT, THE SILENT ASSASSIN (short film) and WISHFUL THINKING (short film). 


Find our more about Alex on:

http://alexsecker.webs.com/



4th March 2011

Picture Perfect Photography Project

Volunteer Centre Swindon's vinvolvedswindon project has put together their first ever photography project.  The aim of the project is to capture volunteering in action, the images will then be made available to the organisation free of charge and will be exhibitioned in 11th March 2011 to the general public at the Volunteers Centre, Swindon. Mandy Ramsdale will be joining the programme to talk about the project and her role as Youth Volunteering Development Manager.

http://www.swindonvolunteers.org.uk/

Also Malcolm Insch street artist joined us to talk about his artistic journey and his career.





25th February 2011



Swindon's film festival which takes place in various venues over Swindon and surrounding areas from 4 - 14 March, tune in 1 - 2 pm to find out more about the event.

http://swindonfilmfestival.org/





18th February 2011

Ten in a Bar has established itself as one of Swindons premier singing groups and vocal coacn Jill Hodge came into the show to talk about the group, joining Jill was Paul Dawkins member of Ten in a Bar. 

Find out more by viisiting their website:

http://www.teninabar.com/




11th February 2011

Matt Fox and Luke Marquez came on to the programme to talk about YAP Theatre group/

They are opening its doors to young adults aged 18-21, by offering them the chance to join the chorus of The Beggar’s Opera as part of their 2011 theatre project, Luke and Matt shared lots of advice and information about the YAP Theatre group.

To find out more about getting involved tune in this Friday or contact If you are aged 18-21 and would like to audition to take part in the Beggar’s Opera project, contact YAP on 01793 709722 or email: yaptheatrecompany@gmail.com




4th February 2011 
Paul Bowerbank chairman of the Swindon and District Bonsai Society came in to talk to me about his love of Bonsai keeping and to tell us how he got involved with this passion. Paul shared his expertise and knowledge about keeping Bonsais, you can find out more about Bonais at the groups annual Winter Show to take place on 20th February. 
http://swindon-bonsai.co.uk/



28th January 2011
Dave Franklin Swindon music writer and musican too, Dave joined the programme telling us about his success and interest in writing, love of music, his support of Swindon music community and the growth of his Green Man music project too. 

http://greenmanmusicreviews.blogspot.com/




21st January 2011
Hugh Carroll, Hughie joined the show to share with us his art form, music that is a beautiful combination of modern song writing entwined with influences of meditation and Buddhist mantras, this was truly a warm and captivating hour of music and conversations.

Find out more about Hugh Carroll on the weblink below:  
http://mantrasphere.co.uk/ 








Interview with  Will, Customer Wine Tastings Manager at Laithwaites Wines who are hosting an event at Swindon Steam Museum!

We have running a competition to win 2 free tickets - tune into Swindon 105.5 to hear the question and send in your answers! Draw takes place on 21st January!

 More information to follow on the website!






7th January 2011
One of Swindon's treasure, community poet Tony Hillier came into the studio to share his poetry, stories of travel, we talked about communities how we view them, how we can  help one another. A wonderful hour of chat, poems and some of Tony's favourite songs too!



http://homepage.mac.com/tonyhillier




31st December 2010

New Years Eve Special - with Swindon muscian Jason Hull

An hour of folk/rock music with artist Jason Hull and the rest of the band about Missin Rosie, a folk roots driven band with celtic flavours. 

Paul Dawkins and I will be talked to Jason and the other band members about the last 12 months and what it has meant to us.


Find out more about the band at:

http://www.facebook.com/missinrosie



24th December

Christmas Eve Special - Stuart Rowe

An insightful hour talking to renowned Swindon muscian, producer, teacher and by many peoples opinions an all round wizard of musical excellence.  Stuart will be talking to us about his projects past, present and future which on Christmas Eve seems to fit nicely into a theme. 

http://www.sturowe.com/Sturowe/Home.html




17th December
Grinch Up Christmas!  We had two great on the programme also exclusive new song written by artist Adam Crosland called SANTOS!  Also a run down on the worst Christmas songs with Swindon DJ, DJ Dust!

Listen to Adam's song :   http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3791659/santos_mixdown.mp3


It's that time of year again! 

We talked to Swindon DJ Dust about the art of being a DJ and what takes to be an artist of the DJ'ing kind! 
DJ Dust

Details about DJ Dust
http://www.djdust.com


10th December

Children's story telling and music




Above: Jenni Saunders of Debutots

Jenni Saunders, story teller and drama teacher, this was a dedicated show with childrens stories, music and news on how Jenni's life has changed since becoming her own boss running her business as Debutots. Find our more about how Jenni's group can help your child through imagination, story telling and play!

We had wonderful stories about Greedy Robins and fine and not so fine Christmas trees with fabulous tunes for children too!


Fnd out more about this group at:

http://www.debutots.co.uk/swindon.html

4th December

Singer Sophia Bovell and muscian Roger Mepstead are coming onto the show to talk about the fund raising event at Swindon Town FC, The Legends Lounge, supporting Swindon 105.5!
This will be a lively show talking about the Pre Christmas Cabaret event and we will even have a live performance from Sophia and Roger too!

Find our more information on the Face Book page too!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127303757322763




26th November
Old Town Theatre Company

Cast members from the production of The Elephant Man came into the studio, Owen Fishwick as Frederick Treves, Peter Edge Partington as the Bishop and Jodie Patchett as the Pinhead.

We will be talking about The Elephant Man, The Old Town Theatre Company news too.

The OTTC have kindly donated two FREE tickets to see the show, which were drawn on the day and were won by Michale Kearns.

The show takes place at The Arts Centre, Devizes Road, on 9/10/11 December tickets available by calling: 01793 614837


http://www.swindonweb.com/ottc/



19th November
Christmas Hand Made Market with Vicky South

Vicky South and Lisa Coleman

An extra special programme, we had guest Vicky South, Vicky is a textile artist and she led a live 'how to' telling us how to make lovely hand made brooches on air, my daughter Elizabeth Coleman volunteered to come onto the show to make a brooch on air with us, you can see more photos of these lovely brooches we made with Vicky by visiting the Art to Art Facebook page!

Black brooch made by Elizabeth Coleman, grey brooch made by Vicky South


We talked to Vicky about the Hand Made Market, the lovely things you can buy, crafts, art, Artsite and much more!  A how to guide from Vicky is on the link below which shows you how to make the brooches.

How to guide this weeks show.....! Get your bits and pieces and send us your photos of your attempts too!





12th November
Marky Thatcher -  Swindon song writer and muscian


Marky Thatcher in the 105.5 studio

Marky is a well known artist within Swindon and has played in some well respected and successful bands within our community, Marky presently is working as a solo artist, he came into the studio and talked to us about his music past and present, his new EP called Hometown. You can find out more about Marky by checking out his website (link below) Some fine songs on his EP written from the heart, do be sure to check out his website.http://www.markythatcher.co.uk/

It was a fun filled hour on the Art to Art show, with live music and friendly conversations!
Marky is doing a sponsored sky dive too for Help The Hospices, on 27th November, check out the fundraising page below to support this:

http://www.justgiving.com/idsskydive


Marky Thatcher and Lisa Coleman


Marky Thatcher and Paul Dawkins



5th November
Wroughton writer and poet  Katherine T Owen.  Katherine has faced and lived through some difficult personal challenges. She talked to us about this and telling us about her book It's OK To Believe.  We featured songs in the show that were special to Katherine too, such as Don't Give Up by Peter Gabrielle and Amazing Grace by Judy Collins.


Katherine T Owen - writer/poet

Katherine's book is available to purchase from: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1256851

29th October
Philadelphia singer/songwriter Sierra Hurtt, with guitarist Skeet Williams perform live in the studio with the team.  Sierra divides her time between Philadelphia and Wiltshire through the year, to find our more about Sierra at http://www.sierrahurtt.com/



Sierra Hurtt and guitarist Skeet Williams here with Art to Art co-host Paul Dawkins 



Sierra Hurtt and host of Art To Art Lisa Coleman

Toni Dickinson and Art to Art co host Paul Dawkins

Stevie Gilmore



Above:  Lisa Coleman and Stevie Gilmore
Below:  Stevie and co host Paul Dawkins

24th September
Billy Beaumont
Billy joined the show to talk about his art, Billy is a professional artist who has established a firm identity with his art form, quite specacular and engaging works, it was an intimate show where we found out about the man behind the art we have all grown to love.



Billy Beaumont at his studio

Find out more about his art on his website: http://www.billybeaumont.com/


4th September
Cupaliscious Bakery

Rebekah Samut came in to the show to talk about cup cakes, baking, life starting a new business, the new vogue of cupcakes and old time tea parties.  We had a live taste in too! This was a fun show indeed!



The cupcakes are deliscious..... find out more on the link below:
http://www.thecupaliciousbakery.co.uk/