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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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Friday Feb 13, 2026
Friday Feb 13, 2026
Guest artists JENNET THOMAS and SALLY O'REILLY come together to discuss their work via the short story 'Critique' by Ben Marcus. Published in 2018 by Alfred A Knopf and Grant Books, it is one of 13 stories appearing in 'Notes from the Fog' which explore dysfunction, desolation and disconnection within a woundingly funny collision of art and reality.
'The Big Throw' at SET Social 23 April 2026
Get in touch! artfictionspodcast@gmail.com
"...narrative plot and how sticky and unpleasant it can be" JT
"The idea of just working in response to the infinity of the universe is appalling to me" SO'R
Sally and Jennet's conversation encompasses anti-plot, delirium, vertigo, maximalism, hermeticism, visitations and the grotesque. Yearning superpowers of persuasion, they go on and about carboot sales, ontological slippage, lemon sucking, deceptive loops, skewing language, twiddling knobs, automatic sterilisers, visually flamboyant, minor violences, constricting constraints, painting barcodes, slyly political, shifting rules, making knickerbockers, troubling reality, social reproductions, found objects, draped flesh, ecstatic technology talk, working in a factory, the pleasure of difficulty, a taste in the head, reality from the inside out, audience participation as part of the materials, weirdness coming into the living room, jumping to the whip of the ref, being wary of simplification and elegance, well made in a brutal violent sense at gunpoint, and a seal in mud with a lion's head.
JENNET THOMAS
jennetthomas.com
@jennetthomas
'School of Change' 2012
'All Suffering SOON TO END!' 2010
'Return of the Black Tower (after John Smith)' 2007
SALLY O'REILLY
sallyoreilly.org.uk
@manfredopenarms
'The Money Laundering Service' 2025
'Dog Shelves' 2024
'Where They Gather' 2022
'Estee Lauder Factory' 2022
'The Annual Retrieval' 2016
'The Virtues of Things' 2015
"I can't breath"
Eric Garner
George Floyd
ARTISTS
John Smith
Kit Downes
Klara Kofen
Leo Chadburn
Matt Rogers
Maz Murray
Simeon Barclay
WRITERS + BOOKS
Christine Brooke-Rose
Frieze magazine
M John Harrison
Muriel Spark
Russell Hoborn 'Riddley Walker'
Sally O'Reilly 'Help in Cucumbers'
Will Self
William Empson
FILM + TELEVISION
'Bedknobs and Boomsticks'
'Brimstone and Treacle'
Dennis Potter
Michael Kitchen
'The Terminator'
GALLERIES + ORGANISATIONS
Bandcamp
Horse Hospital
Matts Gallery
ICA Institute Contemporary Art
October House Records
Opera North
Royal Opera House
SET Social
SLG South London Gallery
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