Stargazer host Iona Bielby on James McNeill Whistler

A rising force in the new era of interviewing, Iona Bielby is host of Stargazer, where her musical guests lie down side-by-side inside a homemade blanket fort decorated with fairy lights and paper-cut stars for candid and unscripted conversations. An Art History graduate, Bielby was also the founder of New Fine Art Exchange, a platform which allows artists from around the world to publicise and sell their art – and today she's talking about one of her favourite artists, American painter James McNeill Whistler!

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