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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. Follow @artfictionspodcast Instagram for images of works and links, and see the podcast notes for all the references mentioned. Support via patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST.
Episodes

Friday Apr 23, 2021
Meandering Mourning and Collaged Reality (FIONA CURRAN)
Friday Apr 23, 2021
Friday Apr 23, 2021
Guest artist FIONA CURRAN
joins me to chat about her work via Esther Kinsky's 2020 novel 'Grove : A Field Guide'. The story is directed by a narrator who takes a trip to a village on the outskirts of Rome which was supposed to be an adventure with her recently deceased partner.
Fiona and I go on to discuss how the work of her current solo exhibition developed during lockdown and a nasty bout of covid, as well as an earlier, major outdoor installation. We expand on landscape as a character, contemporary poetry, a balance of bleak and beauty, loss of identity through grief, looking for solace in the landscape, loving everything Italian, beyond the optical, seduction of the screen, the colour blue, extreme fatigue, memory flooding into the present, sanitisation of nature, resurfacing, fragmentation, aimlessness, hovering, disorientation and losing a sense of self.
(This episode is produced by Jillian Knipe with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)
FIONA CURRAN
fionacurran.co.uk
instagram fiona_curran
'Jump Cut, Still Life' solo exhibition at Broadway Gallery
'Your Sweetest Empire is to Please' outdoor installation at Gibson Estate
ARTISTS
Anna Maria Garthwaite
Anni Albers
Florence Peake
Fra Angelico
Gunta Stöltzl
Hannah Luxton
Hélio Oticica
Henri Matisse
Lindsay Seers
Lygia Clark
Lygia Pape
Mary Heilman
Raoul De Keyser
Sonia Delaunay
BOOKS
Anne Truitt 'Daybook : The Journal of an Artist' 1982
Esther Kinsky 'River' 2014
Jeremy Cooper 'Bolt from the Blue' 2021
Joanne Kyger 'The Japan and India Journals 1960-1964' 1981
Linda J Lear 'Rachel Carson : Witness for Nature' 1994
Rachel Carson 'Silent Spring' 1962
Rebecca Solnit 'A Field Guide to Getting Lost' 2005
GALLERIES
Bosse & Baum
Broadway Gallery, Letchworth
THEORISTS & BOTANY
Gibside Estate
Kew Gardens
Mary Eleanor Bows 1749-1800
Mary Wollstonecroft 1759-1797
Paul Virilio 1932-2018
FILM
Michelangelo Antonioni 'Red Desert' 1964 starring Monica Vitti
Pier Paolo Pasolini 'The Hawks and the Sparrows' 1966 'Notes Towards and African Orestes' 1970

Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Theatrical Forms and Shifting Times (LINDSAY SEERS)
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Guest artist LINDSAY SEERS
joins Elizabeth Fullerton to chat about her work via Russell Hoban's 1980 novel 'Riddley Walker'. A child of sorts in a futurist, post-nuclear explosion setting which harks back to the iron age, far from walking, the narrator Riddley is on the run. His patriarchal heritage has deemed him 'connexion man' and alongside his role of puppeteer, interpreter and propaganda pusher, Riddley begins to uncover the truth of past cleverness which is officially prohibited under religious conjecture. He throws himself to the dogs and together they journey through danger and forbidden knowledge in a story held together by a fragmented new language.
Layering ideas and various time zones, Lindsay Seers and Elizabeth Fullerton explore imposter syndrome, hunger for power, problems with articulation, excess of language, confusion, the puppet who overwhelms the puppetmaster, the search for new forms of artwork, becoming a camera, character instability, non normative brains, compassion, discomfort, connections, coincidences, blips, misunderstandings, signs, traces, unknown causes, unknown effects, mass hallucination, states of becoming, constant evolution, multitude of narratives, grand historical narratives, personal history, quantum theory, quantum biology, metaphysics, unified consciousness, the impossibility of identifying origin, and eye gouging.
(This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)
LINDSAY SEERS
lindsayseers.info
instagram lindsayseers1
'Entangled'
'Every Thought There Ever Was'
'Nowhere Less Now'
The following references are mentioned on Podcast Episode 22 or suggested by guest artist Lindsay Seers :
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Anthony Burgess 'A Clockwork Orange' 1962
Arto Paasilinna
Brian Massumi 'What Animals Teach Us About Politics' 2017
EE Cummings
Frances Yates
Gerard Manley Hopkins
James Joyce
Jim Al-KKhalili & Johnjoe McFadden 'Life on the Edge : The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology' 2014
Jeremy Cooper 'Bolt From the Blue' 2021
Kevin Breathnach 'Tunnel Vision' 2019
Lindsay Seers 'Human Camera' 2007
T S Eliot
Virginia Woolf
THEORISTS
Benjamin Libet - Libet's Clock
Carl Jung, psychiatrist
Giles Deuleuze
Henri Bergson
Jacques Lacan, psychoanalyst
John Dee
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Samuel Barclay Beckett, novelist and playwright
ARTISTS & GALLERIES & ART ORGS
Artangel
Derek Jarman 'Jubilee' 1978
Ewerk, Berlin
Fabrica Gallery, Brighton UK
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea UK
Hospitalfield Gallery, Arbroath, Scotland UK
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham UK
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton UK
MONA (Tasmania), Australia
Nine Elms site, Matt's Gallery, London UK
Robin Klassnik, Matt's Gallery, London UK
Sharha Art Foundation, UAE
Sursock Museum, Lebanon
Tate, London UK
TELEVISION & FILM
Everything by Adam Curtis (English documentary filmaker)
'The Bridge' series 2011
'The Fly' film series
'The Quartermass Experiment' series 1953
'Twin Peaks' series 1990
'Twin Peaks : The Return' series 2020

Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Earthly Nourishment and Landscape Potential (LIZ ELTON)
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Guest artist LIZ ELTON
joins me to chat about her work via Max Porter's 2019 novel 'Lanny'. The story revolves around a young boy named Lanny and his disappearance in the setting of an English village bordered by a forest. Little lad Lanny is as captivating as his author's ability to envelope us deep within the seams of the village's social and ecological networks, where Dead Papa Toothwort oversees all, over all time.
Bouncing off nature and infinite ephemerality, Liz and I go on to discuss her work selected for the John Moores Painting Prize as well as her upcoming residency with the Mark Rothko Memorial Trust. We talk of the constant state of becoming, nourishment, self care, delicate touch, bruising, translucency, landscape, lightness, mortality, composting, ritual, recycling, equality, silk thread, internal shadows, wastage, potential, breakdown, food labour and that fragile layer of soil on which all life depends connecting with our own skin.
(This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)
LIZ ELTON
lizelton.com
instagram liz_elton
'John Moores Painting Prize' exhibition at Walker Art Gallery
'Flowers of Romance' group exhibition at White Conduit Projects
ARTISTS
Alice McCabe
Allyson Keehan, curator
Angela de la Cruz
Dillwyn Smith
Din Q Lê 'The Colony' 2016
Eliza Bennett
Elizabeth Murton
Eric Ravilious
Francisco Goya
Jem Finer 'Longplayer' at Trinity Buoy Wharf, longplayer.org
Johannes Vermeer 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' 1665
Julie F Hill
Katharina Grosse
Mark Rothko
Michael Landy 'Breakdown' 2001
Michelangelo 'Pieta' ('The Pity') 1498-1499
Paul Bramley, curator
Sam Gilliam
Sarah Pager
William Dyce 'Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858' 1858
Yves Klein
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Anna Souter 'Vegetate Project'
Anna Tsing 'The Mushroom at the end of the World' 2015
Charlotte Higgins on Michael Landy, 'The Guardian' 27 Jan 2021
Clive King 'Stig of the Dump' 1963
Donna Haraway
Frances Hodgson Burnett 'The Secret Garden' 1911
Jane Bennett 'Vibrant Matter : A Political Ecology of Things' 2009
Merlin Sheldrake 'Entangled Life : How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures' 2020
Norman Bryson 'Looking at the Overlooked' 1990
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Steven Connor 'The Book of Skin' 2004
Sue Stuart-Smith 'The Well Gardened Mind' 2020
T S Eliot 'Burnt Norton' 1935
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Piketty 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' 2013
Tim Dee 'Landfill' 2018
Timothy Morton 'Being Ecological' 2018
Tracy Chevalier 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' 1999
GALLERIES
163 Gallery, London, juliebentley.co.uk
South London Gallery
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
White Conduit Projects, London
FILM & TELEVISION & RADIO
'Girl with a Pearl Earring' 2003, director Peter Webber
'Princess Mononoke' 2001, director Hayao Miyazaki
'The Archers' 1950-ongoing BBC Radio 4
PLACES
Belarus
Chew Valley Lake, Somerset UK
Harris, Outer Hebrides Scotland UK
Latvia
Lithuania
Maeshowe, Orkney Scotland UK
Pegwell Bay, UK
Ring of Brodgar, Orkney Scotland UK
St Kilda, archipelago off Scotland UK
OTHER
A P Fitzpatrick Fine Art Materials
Artangel
Mark Rothko Memorial Fund
Maye E Bruce, inventor of 'Quick Return' compost system 1935
Slade School of Fine Art
Wimbledon School of Art

Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Makeshift Staging and Might Happens (MILLY PECK)
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Guest artist MILLY PECK
joins me to chat about her work via Alan Ayckbourn's play 'Taking Steps - A Farce'. Published in 1981 by Haydonning Ltd and first performed at Stephen Joseph Theatre in 1979, the story revolves around a Victorian manor house in faltering disrepair. While the characters upstairs and downstairs their way around three storeys, the play is actually performed on only one floor so that various scenes interact simultaneously. It's then a cacophony of mishaps, misunderstandings and misdirections. Elizabeth wants to leave Roland. Roland wants to buy this tremendous house from Leslie for Elizabeth. Mark wants to marry Kitty. Kitty wants to leave Mark. Tristram, the junior solicitor, is just utterly confused about what's happening and where and by whom, and if all those strange noises are thanks to a resident ghost.
Milly and I go on to discuss her solo exhibitions, most recently at Vitrine Gallery in Basel, her upcoming residency at British School at Rome and all the work inbetween. Mentions go to foley sound production, the physicality of the stage, playing with dimensions, scale, collage, flattening, inflating, puppeteers, backstage antics, confusing performance with reality, implicating the audience, dark elements shrouded in comedy, hands in gloves, hand in black and hands holding celery.
(This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)
MILLY PECK
millypeck.com
instagram millypeck
'A Matter of Routine' Vitrine Gallery Basel solo exhibition
'Loud Knock' Matts Gallery solo exhibition
'Pressure Head' Assembly Point solo exhibition
Works mentioned: 'Alight', 'Moquette', 'The Unforgiving Hour', 'Straphangers'
ARTISTS
Amelia Barrett (performer at Milly's solo exhibition at Assembly Point)
Andrea Montagne
Art Green
Edward Hopper
Emma Cousin ('Chats in Lockdown' podcast host)
Jordan Baseman (Royal College tutor and Art Fictions Episode 10)
Konrad Klapheck
Nick Mauss
Steve McQueen ('Deadpan' 1997)
William Hogarth ('A Rake's Progress' 1732-1734)
ACTORS & DIRECTORS
Bong Joon-ho (South Korean director, screenwriter, producer)
Buster Keaton (silent movies)
Charlie Kaufman (American screenwriter, producer, director, novelist)
David Thewlis
Imelda Staunton
Mark Ruffalo
Robin Herford (British Theatre Director)
Sir Matthew Bourne OBE (choreographer)
Toby Jones
GALLERIES & THEATRES
Assembly Point, London
Goldsmiths CCA, London ('Solos' 2020, 'How! Chicago Imagists' 2019)
Kunsthalle, Basel Switzerland
Little Angel Theatre, Islington London
Matt's Gallery, London
National Theatre Archives
Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford UK
Sir John Soane's Museum, London
Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough UK
Vitrine Gallery, London and Basel Switzerland
PLAYS
'A Chorus of Disapproval'
'Fantastic Mr Fox'
'House and Garden' (Alan Ayckbourn dyptich)
'Mr What Not' (Alan Ayckbourn, where the central character does not speak and, otherwise, there is speech and sound)
'Noises Off'
'Relatively Speaking' (Alan Ayckbourn)
'The Red Shoes'
BOOKS & MAGAZINES
'American Zoo: A Sociological Safari' 2015 David Grazien
'Frieze' magazine (review by Kito Nedo 2 Dec 2020)
'Feel Free' 2018 Zadie Smith
FILMS
'Anomalisa' 2015
'Berbarian Sound Studio' 2012 (also performed at Donmar Warehouse)
'Birdman: The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance' 2014
'Dark Waters' 2019
'Snowpiercer' 2013 (based on French graphic novel 'Le Transperceneige' by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette)
'Steamboat Bill Junior' 1928

Monday Feb 15, 2021
Welcome to 2021 with a special Guest Host !
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Join this year's guest host Elizabeth Fullerton and myself as we map out what's happening with Art Fictions this year, including Culture Exchange, Elizabeth's book on the YBAs, 24 Hour Hitchcock, psychiatric illness, fragmented compositions, personal and environmental narratives, sexuality, gender, race, queer, cis, boobs and cupcakes !
instagram artfictions2020 and jillianknipe2020
website jillianknipe.co.uk
instagram elizabethfullerton
website elizabethfullerton.co.uk
ARTISTS, BOOKS, GALLERIES
'ArtRage : The Story of the Brit Art Revolution' 2016 hardback with paperback due out Autumn 2021
Christina Quarles
Douglas Gordon
Jane Wilson
Laura Owens
Louise Wilson
Pilar Corrias
'Studio International' magazine
Thames & Hudson

Thursday Dec 24, 2020
CECILIA CHARLTON (and Italo Calvino)
Thursday Dec 24, 2020
Thursday Dec 24, 2020
American artist Cecilia Charlton selects two short stories by Italo Calvino: 'A Sign in Space' and 'The Origin of the Birds'. Both stories focus on the very inception of what comes into being and what we now take for granted - signs/signals/artworks as well as birds/the other/evolutionary rejects. All the while, 'A Sign in Space' draws extraordinary parallels with an art practice. From the anxieties of creating something new to the egotistic punchiness of asserting authenticity, we join Qfwfa who journeys throughout space and time, pontificating on what it is to create and leave a mark in the world of one's existence. Likewise, 'The Origin of the Birds' focuses on the start of beginnings. In this story, Qfwfa narrates his (his?) adventures into the void to discover and embrace the evolutionary rejects as part of his ancestry and presence, particularly their leader Queen Or with whom he is besotted.
'A Sign in Space' appeared in 'Cosmicomics' in 1965 while 'The Origin of the Birds' was first published in ‘t zero’ 1967. Both stories feature in ‘The Complete Cosmicomics’ comprising 'Cosmicomics' and 't zero' plus other stories published 2009.
CECILIA CHARLTON
ceciliacharlton.com
instagram ceciliacharlton
BOOKS IDEAS WRITERS
'A Room of One's Own' 1929, Virginia Woolf
'Against Interpretation' 1966, Susan Sontag
'Agnes Martin' 2015, Tate
'Brave New World' 1932, Aldous Huxley
Jane Austen
'No One Belongs Here More Than You' 2007 Miranda July
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 'Eyes of a Blue Dog' 1947, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' 1967, 'The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World' 1968 co-author Hernan Diaz
'The World of Ornament' 2006, Auguste Racinet and M Dupont-Auberville
The concept of multiple discovery
'The Sixteen Trees of the Somme' 2014 Lars Mytting
Three Fates from Greek mythology
William Beebe, American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author
William Weaver, Italo Calvino's translator
'Women's Work: A Personal Reckoning with Labour, Motherhood and Privilege' 2019, Megan K Stack
ARTISTS CURATORS GALLERIES
Alison Jacques Gallery London, 'The Gees Bend Quiltmakers' in partnership with the Souls Grow Deep Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the contributions of African American artists from the Southern states, 20 Dec 2020 - 6 Feb 2021
Anni Albers
Agnes Martin 'Words' 1961
Dolly Parton
Hannah Brown 'Art Fictions' Episode 17, 9 Dec 2020
Helen Frankenthaler
Hilma Af Klimt
Lee Krasner
London Art Fair, 'Platform' focus on folk art londonartfair.co.uk/fair-programme/platform, 20-31 Jan 2021
Nicolaus Schafhausen, 'Der Speigel' 2013, resigned as Director of Kunsthalle Wein 2019
Robert Rauschenberg 'Erased de Kooning Drawing' 1963
Sheila Hicks
Turner Contemporary Margate, 'We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South' curated by Hannah Collins and Paul Goodwin, 7 Feb - 6 Sep 2020
Willem de Kooning

Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
HANNAH BROWN (and WH Auden)
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Hannah Brown selects the small but beautiful poem by WH Auden ‘As I Walked Out One Evening'. Written in 1937, it is preoccupied with questions of the eternal, focussing on love versus time. It travels through younger days and the excitement of new loves to a more settled life, when kisses are replaced by health, when the focus of wondering is on how things may have been different and culminates in one’s final moments.
HANNAH BROWN
hannahbrown.co.uk
Hannah Brown, confirmed British landscape painter, introduces us to her love of fiction, reading excerpts from her selected poem. In our discussion she relays the importance of fiction, giving up television, sudden changes brought about by lockdown, connections between a time of world wars and the global pandemic, the range of experiences for those of us untouched by illness, missing friends, the blow up of Black Lives Matter and the sense of powerlessness when it comes to the changes needed for the wellbeing of our planet. She describes her art practice, detailing the witnessing of changes in the landscape from the west country to East London, what makes a site compelling for a landscape painter, how the presence of human life is portrayed without figures, the sublime tinged with fear, staying true to one’s own temperament and passion, being genuine and authentic, attempts to domesticate nature and how she cried when Victoria Park was closed to the public.
Together we wonder is love eternal or only time? Is it sudden endings which punctuate time, leading to its reassertion as a pivotal marker in our lives? Can we rely on nature itself to continue or is this also a thing of the past? When we look about, how much do we really see that is present and how much is imposed from our childhood past? Is the end of young love depressing or is it a relief to grow up and worry about a pension? Will worry take over our conscious life as it slips away? Is having less time a better condition for decisiveness? For taking risks in the studio? Is seeing less exhibitions better for looking more thoroughly?
FEMALE BRITISH WRITERS around the time of THE AUDEN GROUP and The Great War!
Alice Meynell 1847-1922
Cicily Isabel Fairfield 1892-1983
Jessie Pope 1868-1941
Millicent Garrett Fawcett 1847-1929
Margaret Sackville 1881-1963
Margaret Postaget Cole 1893-1980
May Wedderburn Cannan 1893-1973
Rose MaCaulay 1881-1958
Vera Brittain 1893-1970
BOOKS
‘A God in Ruins’ 2015 by Kate Atkinson
‘After the End’ 2019 by Clare MacIntosh
‘Girl, Woman, Other’ 2019 by Bernardine Evaristo
‘My Dark Vanessa’ by Kate Elizabeth Russell 2020
‘Nobody Told Me: poetry and Parenthood’ 2016 by Hollie McNish
‘Patrick Melrose’ 2016 by Edward St Aubyn
‘Take Nothing with You’ 2018 and ‘Notes From an Exhibition’ 2007 by Patrick Gale
‘Queenie’ 2019 by Candice Carty-Williams
Robert Goddard
ARTISTS & GALLERIES & DESIGNERS
‘Ambit’ magazine
Ansel Adams
Ellen Altfest
‘Forest, Rocks, Torrents: Norwegian and Swiss Landscapes from the Lunde Collection’, 2011, The National Gallery
George Shaw
Graeme Sutherland
Guy Oliver
Jerwood FVU Awards
John Constable
John Everett Millais, Ophelia’ 1852
John William Waterhouse, ‘The Lady of Shalott’ 1888
Liberty
Paul Nash
Reman Sadani, ‘Walkout 1’ 2020
Samuel Palmer
The John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, 12 Feb – 27 June 2021
Union Gallery
White Cube, ‘In the Studio’
William Morris

Thursday Nov 26, 2020
DANIEL STURGIS (and Nicholson Baker)
Thursday Nov 26, 2020
Thursday Nov 26, 2020
Daniel Sturgis selects two books by American author Nicholson Baker - his first novel 'The Mezzanine' published in 1988 and 'Room Temperature' in 1990. Both portray the mindful meanderings of the protagonist, from tender moments to an astonishing level of detail, often with a good dollop of amusement. In 'The Mezzanine', we spend a lunch hour with Howie as he fixates on the micro-details of staplers, Scotch tape, escalators and an assortment of other office paraphernalia, as well as his family, returning continually to his astonishment that both his shoelaces have broken within days of one another. 'Room Temperature' takes place across a mere 20 minutes as Howie recalls a series of domestic specifics, largely around his wife Patty, as he nurses their baby Bug.
DANIEL STURGIS
danielsturgis.co.uk
BOOKS, WRITERS, SCREEN
'A Mark on the Wall' 1917 Virginia Woolf
'Fly' 2010 Season 3, Episode 10 from 'Breaking Bad'
'City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara' 1993 by Brad Gooch
'The Diary of a Nobody' 1892 George and Weedon Grossmith
'Great Expectations' 1860 by Charles Dickens
John Updike
'Mr Bean' series 1990 starring Rowan Atkinson
'No Lab: A Novel' 2019 by Richard Roth
'The Journal of a Disappointed Man' 1919 by W. N. P. Barbellion
Paul Auster
ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, CRITICS
Barney Bubbles
Benjamin Buchloh
Dan Walsh
Emma Hart
Francesco Borromini
Gerhard Richter
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Frances Richardson
Jeremy Moon
Le Corbusier
Leonardo da Vinci
Michael Bracewell
Patrick Caulfield
Peter Kinley
Pontormo
Prunella Clough
Shila Khatami
Sonia Delaunay
GALLERIES
Chelsea Space, London
Luca Tommasi, Milan
Martina Geccelli
PS Project Space, Amsterdam
Raumx, London
Rocket Gallery, London

Thursday Nov 12, 2020
FRANCES RICHARDSON (and Virginia Woolf)
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Frances Richardson selects two short texts by Virginia Woolf - 'The Mark on the Wall' published in 1917 and 'Solid Objects' in 1918. Both begin with a black dot which becomes a jumping off point for musing about the structures and systems which govern our livelihoods. The first text has the narrator enjoying their own wondering about the identity of the mark on the wall, pulling away from the dreariness of logical thinking, championing instead, the inventiveness and possibilities in imaginative thinking. While the second text revolves around two politicians, one of whom finds a piece of smoothed glass at the seaside. He becomes obsessed with observation and collecting, giving up his political aspirations for a more materially intimate life - what an excellent idea for many of that lot !
FRANCES RICHARDSON
francesrichardson.co.uk
karstenschubert.com
ARTISTS
Alicja Kwade
Alison Wilding
Brancusi
Charlotte Posenenski
Jane Hayes Greenwood
Peter Dreher
Robert Morris
BOOKS
'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' 2009 and 'Flights' 2007 by Olga Tokarczuk

Friday Oct 30, 2020
JANE HAYES GREENWOOD (and Maggie Nelson)
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Jane Hayes Greenwood selects 'The Argonauts' by Maggie Nelson. Published in 2015, it is a whirlwind fusion of contemporary queer theory, autobiography, philosophy, art, motherhood and, perhaps best of all, a beautiful love story.
JANE HAYES GREENWOOD
janehayesgreenwood.com
ARTISTS, THINKERS, PUBLICATIONS
Ambit Magazine
Dana Schutz
D W Winnicott
Edward Burra
Emma Cousin
Esther Leslie
Harry Dodge
Jane Gallop
Kristian Day
Lindsey Mendick
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Melanie Jackson
Olivia Bax
Roland Barthes 'A Lovers Discourse' 1977
Rosalind Krauss
Stanley Spence
ART GALLERIES
Block 336
City and Guilds of London Art School
Goldsmiths CCA
Grand Union
Peter von Kant Gallery
Saatchi Gallery
Tate Modern