Daniel Kelly and Rebecca Fortnum: A Different Kind of Looking, Recorded Live During a Haircut
A conversation about drawing, looking, and how a body of work actually begins, recorded live during a real haircut at DKUK, Peckham's mirrorless salon where art replaces mirrors. Rebecca Fortnum is an artist working in drawing and painting. She had just finished a show at DKUK: a set of large drawings, around a metre high, made from portrait sculptures she had come across in collections. The Louvre, the V&A, the Met, the Musée d'Orsay. All of them women. All of them looking down or lookin...
7 Jul 2026
Daniel Kelly and Catherine Ince: How to Make Intriguing Ideas for Everyone, Recorded Live During a Haircut
A conversation about accessibility, design history and what it means to bring intriguing ideas to everyone, recorded live during a real haircut at DKUK, Peckham's mirrorless salon where art replaces mirrors. In this episode, Daniel Kelly sits down with Catherine Ince, curator, design historian, and research fellow working with the Eames estate in Los Angeles. Catherine is also a PhD researcher at the Royal College of Art, where she has stepped back from institutional life to go deep on a subj...
12 Apr 2026
Daniel Kelly and Lucy Cowling: I Didn't Know Curating Was a Job, Recorded Live During a Haircut
A conversation about finding your place in the art world, recorded live during a real haircut at DKUK, Peckham's mirrorless salon where art replaces mirrors. Lucy Cowling is a curator based in South London. She has been the driving force behind the exhibition programme at DKUK, and the shows you see on these walls throughout this video are her work. She didn't know curating was a job until her mid-twenties. What she did know was that she wanted to be close to the work. Not making it, but brin...
23 Feb 2026
Being Seen Is Power: Art, Community and the best kind of chaos
In this episode of the DKUK Podcast, Daniel sits down with Richard Phoenix, artist, writer and long-time collaborator with Heart and Soul, the Deptford-based organisation supporting learning disabled and autistic artists for over 40 years. Recorded inside the Heart and Soul exhibition at DKUK in Peckham, this conversation moves from DIY punk tours and publishing with Rough Trade Books to large-scale public art in Trafalgar Square. Richard talks about the young people’s project Do Your Own Thi...
16 Feb 2026
Humphrey Ocean: On Road Signs, Old Masters and Paying Attention
This episode is taken from the DKUK archive and was originally recorded in January 2024 during Humphrey Ocean’s exhibition at the salon. I first met Humphrey in 2009. The exhibition that followed was many years in the making, so it feels quietly right that this conversation is finally being shared more widely. Humphrey Ocean is a British artist whose practice is rooted in drawing and painting. Over the years he has worked with figures such as Paul McCartney and Ian Dury, yet he remains deeply...
27 Jan 2026
Archive :: Olivia Bouzyk
Listen to Daniel and Olivia discussing her exhibition at DKUK from December 2023.
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