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Front Row: Joy Labinjo, By The Grace of God reviewed, Alastair Sooke, actors doing other jobs

22/10/2019

Joy Labinjo, By The Grace of God reviewed, Alastair Sooke, actors doing other jobs

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Artist Joy Labinjo on her paintings inspired by photos and Francois Ozon's film reviewed.

Artist Joy Labinjo on her exhibition at the Baltic, we review Francois Ozon's film about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and what do actors do when they're out of work?

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Berlin Film Festival, By the Grace of God is Francois Ozon's new feature film about sexual abuse hidden by the Catholic Church in France. Briony Hanson reviews. 

The young artist Joy Labinjo discusses her new exhibition Our Histories Cling to Us at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. Her large oil paintings draw on Labinjo's personal experience of growing up in the UK with British-Nigerian heritage, using photos to explore memory and ideas of belonging, focusing on intimate scenes of contemporary family life.

Art Critic Alistair Sooke talks about The Way I See It - his new landmark series for BBC Radio 3 in which 30 leading cultural figures choose their favourite work from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and explain what it means to them. 

The former EastEnders actress Katie Jarvis has been in the tabloid press this week after it revealed she was working as a shop security guard. But with most actors out of performing work most of the time is it such a shock? Chris Rankin - Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter films - talks about his personal experience of working in a pub after the franchise ended and Matt Hood of Equity explains why actors' "day jobs" are not only a necessity but an advantage. 

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