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ART FICTIONS is fortnightly 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. Follow @artfictionspodcast Instagram for images of works and links, and see the podcast notes for all the references mentioned. Support via patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST.
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Monday May 10, 2021
Monday May 10, 2021
Guest artist KATE MccGWIRE
joins Elizabeth Fullerton to chat about her work via American wildlife scientist Delia Owens' 2018 novel 'Where the Crawdads Sing'. In an ode to the beauty and violence of nature, the story centres around wild "marsh girl" Kya Clark. Abandoned and isolated from childhood, young Kya relies on nature to teach her the basics of survival as well as deluding her that one day she will be rescued. Interaction with other humans provides a whole different set of support and threatening challenges.
Identifying with Kya's barefoot 'n' wild soul, Kate MccGwire and Elizabeth Fullerton share stories of herons, crows, eagles, magpies, blackbirds, turkeys, pheasants, tropicbirds and the confounding snobbiness around pigeons and doves who are both part of the Columbidae family. They go on to explore snakes, oozing, gushing, skin, bones, intestines and scrotum' as well as darkness, resilience, rapture, seductions, repulsion, calm, turbulence, obsessiveness, working intensely, choir singing and Kate achieving a distinction for her dissertation at the Royal College despite being dyslexic.
(This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)
KATE MccGWIRE
katemccgwire.com
instagram kate_mccgwire
'Cavort' 2020
'Sluice' 2009
'Sominal' 2019
ARTISTS & DESIGNERS & PERFORMERS
Akram Khan
Berlinde de Bruyckere
Doris Salcedo
Eva Hesse
Helen Chadwick
Helmut Lang
Hermès
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown
Mona Hatoum
Robert Adam
Thomas Chippendale
BOOKS
Annie Proulx 'Barkskins' 2016
Douglas Stuart 'Shuggie Bain' 2020
Khaled Hosseini 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' 2007
Margaret Atwood 'Dearly: Poems' 2020
Tim Winton 'The Shepherd’s Hut' 2018
GALLERIES & ART DESTINATIONS
Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire
Grand Palais Éphémère 'Art Paris' 2021 contemporary art fair
Harewood House, Leeds
The Lowry, Manchester
SERIES
'It’s a Sin' written by Russel T Davies
MUSIC
Benjamin Britten 'Peter Grimes' 1945
Henry Purcell 'Hear my prayer, O Lord' 1682
Henry Purcell 'Lord, How Long Wilt Thou Be Angry'
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