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Front Row: Chuck D of Public Enemy on watercolours; author Jacqueline Crooks; artist Andy Holden

Chuck D of Public Enemy on watercolours; author Jacqueline Crooks; artist Andy Holden

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Chuck D of Public Enemy on watercolours; author Jacqueline Crooks; artist Andy Holden

Chuck D on his watercolour art; novelist Jacqueline Crooks; Andy Holden on amateur art.

Chuck D of Public Enemy on his first collection of watercolour and pen art; Jacqueline Crooks, Women’s Prize for Fiction nominee; Andy Holden on self-taught artist Hermione Burton.

Chuck D on his watercolour art. He is regarded as one of hip-hop's greatest MCs with his powerful lyrical dexterity a key component in Public Enemy's international success, but what is less well known is that visual art was his first passion. It's a love that he has returned to in recent years and he joins Front Row to discuss the first collection of his watercolour and pen paintings.

Plus author Jacqueline Crooks on her first novel, Fire Rush, which has been nominated for the Women’s Prize For Fiction. 16 years in the making, it draws on many of the author’s own experiences of loss, belonging and discrimination to create a music and memory-filled dramatic narrative.

And artist Andy Holden on his exhibition Full of Days. Intrigued after discovering unknown amateur artist Hermione Burton’s body of work in a charity shop after her death, he turned it into her fantasy exhibition – along with his own new work inspired by her, including an animation with Saint Etienne’s Sarah Cracknell. Full of Days: Hermione Burton and Andy Holden is at the Gallery of Everything in London until 21 May and then tours. 

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