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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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Episodes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Grace Woodcock selects 'Mind of my Mind' by Octavia Butler. Published in 1977, it details the development of a new species of telepaths led by Mary, a mixed-race young woman raised in poverty. In our conversation, we discuss what distinguishes Octavia Butler as a unique sci-fi voice as we focus on Grace's debut London solo exhibition GUT-BRAIN at Castor, exploring the ideas behind her research-led practice around the body, mind, tech, science and alternative medicine.
0:00-0:20 Summary of the book 'Mind of my Mind', wondering how to make the book into a movie, afro-futurism, what it might be like to be in someone else's mind, hybridity, blue-blackness, meaning through action, transcending racial delineation, transracial, breeding programme elitism, shapeshifting gender and race, jealousy of the next generation.
20:00-45:00 Grace's art practice, retro futurism, the current dystopian edge, pills for sex, pushing the limits of what it is to be human, NASA spaceship design, how sliding doors came about, shaping of sculptures around the body, memories in objects wrt Japanese Shinto, hidden materials, potential medicinal elements, gut as the original brain, the fate of the sea urchin brain, multiples, subconscious, conversation pits, the gut as a surveillance system for the body
45:00-55:00 other stuff about Grace, from her influences to the books she's reading now!
GRACE WOODCOCK
gracewoodcock.com
castor.gallery
BOOKS
Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World' by 1932
Jonathan Crary '24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep' 2013
Mark Fisher 'Capitalist Realism' 2009
Octavia E Butler 'The Patternist Series' 1976-1980, 'The Parable Series' 1993-1998, 'Bloodchild & Other Stories' 1995
Phillip K Dick 'The Man in the High Castle' 1962
Svetlanda Boym 'The Future of Nostalgia' 2001
Tibor Fischer 'The Collector Collector' 1997
FILMS & SERIES
'Barbarella' 1968
'Forbidden Planet' 1956
'Gattaca' 1997
'Star Treck' 1966-1969
'The Devil Girl from Mars' 1954
'The Jetsons' 1962-63
'The Man in the High Castle' 2015-2019
'The Truman Show' 1998
ARTISTS & THINKERS
Alison Wilding
Anicka Yi
Diane Simpson
Ernesto Neto
Glenn Ligon
Hannah Levy
Ittah Yoda
Keith Piper - BLK Art Group
Pakui Hardware
Paloma Proudfoot
Rafal Zajko
Saelia Aparicio
Wilhelm Reich - Orgone Theory
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Emma Cousin selects the seminal novel 'Nausea' by Jean-Paul Sartre. Published in 1938, it describes Antoine Roquentin's existential crisis which plays out in the library, streets and cafes of Bouville, which literally means 'mud town'. In a world devoid of God, lacking in meaning, Antoine shrinks further and further inside himself as he struggles in his search for purpose, finally deciding the best use of his life is to write a really critical book. Like 'Nausea' I guess ! In our conversation, we focus on Emma's post-lockdown solo show at Goldsmith's CCA, though her ideas - from biology to geometry - and her approach to working across drawing, painting, curating and podcasting, encompass her whole studio practice.
0:00-0:30 Summary of 'Nausea', fluid consciousness, isolation, observation, madness, body, dangling arms, a mouth as thin of a dead snake, spreading cheeks, vomit, nausea, seat as a dead donkey, natural states, the shortcomings of the autodidact, humanism, experiences, projectile vomiting, experimentation in colour, shift, change, the future, elitism, Rembrandt
0:30-1:10 Emma's art practice - contemporary dance, verbing reaching, showing an idea, actively working something out, bodily boundaries, breasts, skin, grounding of figures, 'New Dirt', colour, background as a surround, 'Wash your Hands' for Ambit magazine, wall drawing, social classes, 2D & 3D composition, drawing, drawing, drawing, 'Trigonometry', 'Flower Moon' animation for exhibition, failing meditation, the physical highs and memories thru gardening
1:10-1:20 other Emma stuff - Morandi, folk music, 'Bread and Jam', 'Chats in Lockdown' podcast, activism, what Emma's reading now!
EMMA COUSIN
emmacousin.info
BOOKS & WRITERS & THINKERS (get ready for a long list!)
Albert Camus 'The Myth of Sisyphus' 1942
Anne Carson
Derek Jarman 'Modern Nature : Journals 1989-1990' 2018
Eula Biss 'On Immunity : An Inoculation' 2014
Elias Canetti 'Earwitness : Fifty Characters' 1974 & 'Crowds and Power' 1960
Edwin A Abbott 'Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions' 1884
Friedrich Nietzsche
Gregory Bateson 'Steps to an Ecology of Mind' 1972
Honoré de Balzac
JG Ballard 'High Rise' 1975
Joanna Pocock 'Surrender : The Call of the American West' 2019
John Berger 'A Painter of our Time' 1958
Maurice Merleau-Ponty 'The Phenomenology of Perception' 1945
René Descartes
Richard Power 'The Overstory' 2018
Samuel Beckett
Sergei Eisenstein 'On Disney' 1986
Simone de Beauvoir
Thomas Mann 'Death in Venice' 1912
William Petter Blatty 'The Exorcist' 1971
OTHER ARTISTS
Amy Sillman
Andrea V Wright
Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom
Georgio Morandi
Hardeep Pandhal
John Cage, composer, artist, music theorist
Lindsey Mendick
Mark Morris, dancer and choreographer
Michael Tippett, composer
Paul Carey-Kent, art critic, curator
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
William Blake
PODCAST
'Chats in Lockdown' hosted by Emma Cousin