{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Homing","title":"Maria Balshaw on Creative Rebellion, Life After the Tate & The House as a Container","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4592,"description":"Beyond the whirlwind of galleries and exhibitions, Tate Director Maria Balshaw's home holds the quieter, deeply personal moments of her life.\nGrowing up in Northampton, she longed to escape her characterless new-build house and nurtured a desire to be different. Her current home in Kent is a reflection of that creative rebellion, with medieval beams at its centre, classical sash windows on one side and Crittalls on the other.\nMaria grows vegetables in her garden year-round, swims in the sea nearby, and measures time by what’s coming into flower – a way to be at one with nature and shed the stress of an urban working week.\nHer mother spent her final months in this house, sitting on the terrace in the sun, watching buzzards circle the valley, convinced one of them was her late husband waiting for her.\nAt the end of March, Maria is stepping down from her position at the Tate after nine years, signing off with a major Tracey Emin exhibition. She knows exactly where she’ll be the following morning: in the garden, in her wellies, at the start of the growing season.\nThis is a conversation about movement and rootedness – and about what it means to build a home that can hold both.\nThis episode was recorded inside Maria’s home in Kent.\nA full tour of the home and garden is available to our Patreon community.\nPatreon: http://patreon.com/HomingWithMatt\nTo hear more from us:\n\nYouTube: Subscribe to our channel, Homing with Matt, to watch the video version\nInstagram: @homingwithmatt\nContact: Email us at hello@mattgibberd.com\nMatt Gibberd’s book, A Modern Way to Live, is available here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/320176/a-modern-way-to-live-by-gibberd-matt/9780241480496\nMusic by @simeonwalkermusic\nIdentity & design by @lena.winkler.creative.office Produced by @podshoponline\nThe full visualised home tour is available to our Patreon community.\nPatreon: http://patreon.com/HomingWithMatt","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/jfhTOve5zkBU-4TRtFPERWb8yNLRKVKLKahjrWvoDdk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wNWNk/YTE1NTI1ZWQ0NjI1/MTBhNDlkOWY1ZTU1/OGM1YS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}