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ART FICTIONS is a monthly, contemporary art meets literature programme, created by artist Jillian Knipe. Each guest artist selects a piece of fiction, which we both explore, then use as a lens through which to view their artwork. We delve into the book‘s themes, context and characters, which opens up and steers a rich conversation about the artist‘s practice. The podcast bounces back and forth between art and text, all the while focussing on the ideas which govern both. It is a way of talking alongside art, rather than directly at it, getting close and personal with the origins of artistic ideas. Hosting is shared amongst a small group of artists, critics and curators, and artists are selected based on each host's area of specific interest.
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Tuesday Mar 24, 2026
Tuesday Mar 24, 2026
Guest artist HAROUN HAYWARD
joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss his work via 'The Sea The Sea' by Iris Murdoch. Winner of the prestigious Booker Prize, it was first published in 1978 by Chatto & Windus, and most recently by Vintage Classics as part of Penguin Books.
The chaotic story centres around Charles Arrowby, a director, actor and playwright who has retired from his highly glamorous London life to become something of a hermit in a near isolated house by the sea. Just like in slapstick theatre he bumps up against a myriad of characters, including his buddhist cousin James, his childhood sweetheart Mary Hartley Fitch, ex lover Lizzie Scherer whose life he destabilises once again, and Lizzie’s ex lover before Charles - Peregrine Arbelow, the Irish drunk.
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Haroun and Jillian's conversation encompasses skateboarding, cancer, philosophy, thalassophobia, repetition, serpents, Japan, overthinking, identity, unclean, synesthesia, graffiti, enlightenment, hippiedom, apophenia, keystones, dog poo, constructivism, cascading failures, narrative honesty, suprematicism, magic realism, suppressing thought, apocalypse fish, landscape painting, self flagellation, vorticism, etching plates, herding cats, horror films, zombie formalism, lack of soul and poetry, and giving up painting to be a fry cook.
HAROUN HAYWARD
harounhayward.com
@harounhayward
'Path Through Trees' 30 May - 1 Nov 2026
ARTISTS + WORKS
Ben Nicholson
Ben Westerby
Bridget Riley
Carolin Walker
Chris Offili
Édouard Vuillard
Frankie Knuckles
Hans Memling
Hergé 'The Adventures of Tintin'
Hokusai 'The Great Wave'
Model 500
Paul Nash 'The Wanderer'
Paul Nash 'Path through Trees'
Peter Doig
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Philip Guston 'I Paint What I Want to See'
Sonia Delaunay
Shezad Dawood
Ukiyo-e
Wassily Kandinsky
Wilhelmina Barnes Graham
Winifred Nicholson
WRITERS + BOOKS
Edward James
Gabriel García Márquez
Haruki Murakami
Iris Murdoch 'The Black Prince' + 'The Sublime and the Beautiful Revisited' + 'The Severed Head'
John Burnside 'Black Cat Bone'
Kim Sloan 'Places of the Mind: British Watercolour Landscapes 1850-1950'
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Tom McCarthy 'Tintin and the Secret of Literature'
William Shakespeare 'King Lear' + 'The Tempest'
ARTS ORGANISATIONS
Goldsmiths
Hales Gallery
Indigo Madder - Kritika Sharma
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Pallant House
Tate St Ives
Thamesside Studios
Turner Contemporary
West Dean College
Zwirner Gallery
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