Shade
By Lou Mensah
Shade Media was founded in 2019 by photographer Lou Mensah to create a space for Black artists and creative practitioners to talk about their work in their own way. This critically acclaimed podcast features interviews with artists, critics, writers and visionaries including John Akomfrah, Amy Sherald, Lauren Michele Jackson and Ekow Eshun. It's host Lou has been nominated as Best Arts and Culture Producer and also for the Grassroots Production Award in the 2024 AudioUK awards. She was named Producer of the Year by the UK Audio Network in 2024. Shade Podcast further garnered the Best Art Podcast gong at the 2021 British Podcast Awards. Shade Art Review, which debuted in September 2023, is a biweekly arts and culture magazine on Substack.
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Latest episode
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Unreadability in South Asian Photography
Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, Sutapa Biswas, Al-An deSouza: a Shade Art Review audio essay -
Who Gets to Show Up in the Art World?
On Nnena Kalu's historic Turner Prize nomination, accessibility, and disability in the arts -
Deana Lawson Divides Critics. And I'm Here For It
Shade Podcast returns with questions about critical freedom and honest engagement -
Where is the Black Nan Goldin?
On the visibility of Black intimacy in documentary photography -
Hospital Rooms
Lou in conversation with artists Ken Nwadiogbu, Sarah Dwyer and Dr. Sophie Bagge -
Visualise the future
In conversation with Carey Robinson. Deputy Director, Learning and Public Programmes at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. -
The Art of Teaching
Teaching as an artistic practice, with Shepherd Manyika -
Art Outside the Classroom
Dr Sadegh Aleahmad -
Transforming the art curriculum with Exodus Crooks
This series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation … -
Representation in art education, a conversation with Henry Ward & Shabna Begum
This new weekly, five part series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelan…