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THE FOLKLORIAN ARTIST : Julia Ashby Smyth
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Monday, 17 February 2025 - 1 hour 24 minutes
Guest no.6, Julia Ashby Smyth, is so much more than Just An Artist; she spends a great deal of her worldly life immersed in nature, but also flitting in and around the spaces of the inbetween. You will know her work from the extravagantly decorated bottles of Fynoderee gin, rum and vodka, perhaps also from various Manx books such as the 2013 publication of Sophia Morrison's Manx Fairy Tales and, very likely, from curating the Hodgson Loom Gallery in Laxey.
We talk about myths and moggies, tribal culture and time travel, superstitions and seeing magic, something called the susserous and dreamweaving and Blue Peter Makes... amongst many other marvellous things.
This is full of wonder and fizzing with What If?s. And if, after listening, you find yourself drawn you into Julia's world as intensely as it did me, go see her latest exhibition 'Rare Sightings and Urban Faeries' at the Manx Museum* which transports you to her otherworlds - or 'Jubiverse' as she calls it.
*Rare Sightings is open until February 23rd 2025. But if you can't make it, or you'd like to relive it, you'll find a series of photos and videos on our social media channel.
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