Welcome to Seen. Where the art world meets the real world. Every two weeks we sit down with emerging and established artists to offer a genuine glimpse into their lives and minds - all in an authentic and totally straightforward manner. Carrie Scott is your host. After two decades working as a curator and art historian, Carrie firmly believes in the transformative power of art. If it's seen.
Matthew Lusk on Belonging, Art as Resistance and the American Dream
Artist Matthew Lusk talks with Carrie Scott about art practice, community, and the American dream - and how getting diagnosed with ADHD changed everything about how he sees himself as a maker. Matthew is a sculptor, painter, installer, and builder working across media. He's spent the last few years reviving the Goudy Wildlife Club in Newburgh, New York, and building Winter Ours - a makeshift community center born during the pandemic. He's obsessed with questions about belonging, resistance, and why creative practice is an antidote to disconnection.
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About the Have You Seen? series:
The Have You Seen? Series is all about talking to emerging and mid-career artists about their journey to now.
Curious about how an artist got to where they are or indeed why they chose art in the first place? Then this series is for you. Join us as we speak to emerging and mid-career artists across the globe. Don’t worry, there’s no hiding behind art speak here, or pretending that being an artist is a bowl of cherries. We’re here to hear it all, straight from the source.
18 Aug 2026
Ben Mazey on Quitting Fashion Design at Kenzo to Make Clay Art During Lockdown
Artist Ben Mazey was seven years into a career as design director at Kenzo in Paris when the pandemic hit. Stranded in Sydney with an empty apartment and an at-home clay kit, he decided to pretend he was on a self-directed artist residency. He never really stopped. In this episode, Carrie Scott talks with the ceramic artist about his unlikely path from fashion to sculpture, and the deceptively simple rules that shape his practice: a 20-by-50-centimeter rectangle of clay, manipulated just five ways. Ben explains why he's drawn to text pieces that twist familiar phrases into gut-punch questions like "How will you know when you're dead?", and why he thinks his own mortality—and the loss of his mother—has made him a more joyful person, not a darker one. They talk about the seduction of gold and delft blue, the freedom of being "creatively selfish," why niceness isn't a liability in art, and what he calls "empowered apathy." Also: a gold tooth makes an appearance. This is a conversation about starting over, making rules just to break them, and why the best art might come from not needing to solve the riddle.
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About the Have You Seen? series:
The Have You Seen? Series is all about talking to emerging and mid-career artists about their journey to now.
Curious about how an artist got to where they are or indeed why they chose art in the first place? Then this series is for you. Join us as we speak to emerging and mid-career artists across the globe. Don’t worry, there’s no hiding behind art speak here, or pretending that being an artist is a bowl of cherries. We’re here to hear it all, straight from the source.
14 Jul 2026
Chloe Wise on Lettuce Chandeliers, Bread Handbags and Archetypal Women
This week, we're visiting artist Chloe Wise in her Manhattan studio. In this episode: the shift from painting a specific person to painting an archetypal woman, the biological necessity of laughter, the problem with calling women's success an Instagram story, and what Chloe made in 2019 that accidentally predicted the pandemic. It's a conversation about humor, vulnerability, the reverse ready-made, and why the best art might just be the stuff that evades description. Carrie's verdict at the end: she still doesn't fully understand Chloe's work. But that might be entirely the point.
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