Joe Cunningham
speaker
333 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 5 Mar
Joe Cunningham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, you know, the Lascaux cave paintings are very arguably self-portraiture.
You put your hand on a wall and you blow pigment over it.
You are creating your own human mark.
Simultaneously, and interesting quip,
I've been doing self-portraits from the beginning because I was very shy about my work and I needed a subject.
And so I had myself, I was ready to go and I didn't have to show anybody.
I didn't have to, if it was terrible, I could say, okay, great.
That's going to go into, we'll call them the archives.
But years later, I'm making all these self-portraits.
They're going in shows.
I'm touring around the world, whatever.
And I've got these big pictures of me, seven and a half foot square pictures of me on the walls everywhere.
I'm showing them.
They're these things I've spent hundreds of hours making or whatever.
And people who didn't know me and didn't know my sort of history were just like, this is the most egotistical man I may have ever met in my lifetime.
He just liked pictures of himself.
Whereas for me, it was more a sort of
I was too shy to ask any people I knew to sit for me to take a picture of them because what if it went poorly and I needed to show them and I was too embarrassed, but like not a lot I can do at this point.
It is.
Yeah, absolutely.
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