In this episode, I visit Ed Bats at his home and studio.

Ed’s art qualifications are a little different from most artists that appear on the podcast, having been largely educated within the graffiti art community in Cape Town and New Zealand, a self confessed “confusing degree” and the world of furniture making and design.

At this point in an introduction I usually reel off a list of public collections that an artist is in. The inclusion of Ed in an episode is instead a little different - and this requires more editoralising than usually happens here. In Ed’s case I believe the proof points of what a strong practice his is, are his high degree of technical skill in making, combined with a strong awareness, appreciation and application of art history into his works. In part this is taking the baton of sorts from Don Dr ...