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Episode: 91. Artist in Residence: reopening LEIGHTON HOUSE with Curator Daniel Robbins and artist Shahrzad Ghaffari
Description: This week we’re talking about two of London’s most magnificent Victorian houses, Leighton House and Sambourne House in Holland Park. Leighton House, studio-home of the eminent Victorian artist Frederic Lord Leighton, has just reopened after an £8 million redevelopment along with nearby Sambourne House, the family home of Punch cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne.
We talk to Daniel Robbins, Senior Curator of both houses and to the Iranian artist Shahrzad Gaffari, who’s hand-painted an 11-foot high textured mural around the curved wall of Leighton House’s brand new helical staircase. Shahrzad tells us that her mural is inspired...