Best Jillian Knipe Podcasts (2024)

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Symbolic Prose and Personal Politics (HELEN JOHNSON) 1:28:38

5M ago1:28:38

1:28:38

Guest artist HELEN JOHNSON joins JILLIAN KNIPE for this final episode of Series 5, to discuss her work via 'The Birds' by Tarjei Vesaas. Published originally in 1957, then by Penguin Random House in 2019, this short novel describes the relationship between Hege and her younger, mentally challenged brother Mattis. With a sense of non-judgemental sim…

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Closure Difficulties and Performative Reality (ELEONORA AGOSTINI) 50:17

6M ago50:17

50:17

Guest artist ELEONORA AGOSTINI joins PELUMI ODUBANJO to discuss her art practice via 'Boxes', a short story featured in 'Elephant and Other Stories' 1998 Collins Harvill. Written by Raymond Carver and originally published in The New Yorker, the story explores connections, disillusion, powerlessness, worry and loss within a mother and son relationsh…

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Social Mobility and Beyond Language (MELANIE JACKSON) 1:17:22

6M ago1:17:22

1:17:22

Guest artist MELANIE JACKSON joins artist JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art practice via 'Corey Fah Does Social Mobility' by Isabel Waidner. Published in 2023 by Hamish Hamilton, part of Penguin Random House, the novel explores binaries, boundaries and borders, freeing us to imagine other ways of being within the context of award winning social mobi…

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Revealing Histories and Gender Variations (JULIET JACQUES) 1:02:55

7M ago1:02:55

1:02:55

Guest writer and filmmaker JULIET JACQUES joins artist and writer JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her creative practice via 'Variations' 2021 by the one and only Juliet herself. Published in 2021 by Influx Press, this book of short stories portrays the mixed, messy and moving lives of transexual women transexual men, non binary, gender queer, cross dresse…

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Unwavering Sensitivity and Valuing Confusion (ANNA CLEGG) 1:05:41

7M ago1:05:41

1:05:41

Guest artist ANNA CLEGG joins curator and critic VANESSA MURRELL to discuss her multi-disciplinary art practice via 'My Loose Thread' by Denis Cooper. Published in 2002 by Canongate Books, this claustrophobic novel circulates around teenage Larry who is wrestling with the point of his own existence and explores teen depression, moral vacuity and th…

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Absent Mothers and Colonised Bodies (OLUKEMI LIJADU) 1:10:44

8M ago1:10:44

1:10:44

Guest artist OLUKEMI LIJADU joins curator and PHD researcher PELUMI ODUBANJO to discuss her multi-media art practice through the prism of 'The Stranger' (aka 'The Outsider' aka 'The Foreigner') by Nobel Prize winning writer Albert Camus. Published in 1942, the novella tells of an indifferent French settler who, soon after his mother's funeral, comm…

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Suppressed Voices and Transformative Communities (RORY PILGRIM) 1:11:04

10M ago1:11:04

1:11:04

Guest artist RORY PILGRIM joins author and critic ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss his musically inspired, community-based art practice through the prism of 'The Bell' by Irish British writer and philosopher, Dame Jean Iris Murdoch. Published in 1958, this funny and sad novel explores religion, human frailty and who has the right to a voice, set with…

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Word Play and Multiple Meanings (ANNA BARHAM) 56:35

10M ago56:35

56:35

Guest artist ANNA BARHAM joins artist JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art practice via 'Companion Piece' by Ali Smith. Published in 2023 by Penguin Books, the novel explores language, meaning, relationships and contemporary politics in what may be seen as a way of bringing a form of conclusion to Smith's urgently written then quickly published, season…

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Resistance Acoustics and Hopeful Uprising (MIKHAIL KARIKIS) 30:58

11M ago30:58

30:58

Guest artist MIKHAIL KARIKIS joins poet and art critic CHERRY SMYTH to discuss his art practice via 'Human Acts' by Han Kang, 2016 published by Granta Books. Set in 1980 South Korea, the novel tells the gruelling story of a violently suppressed student uprising and the inevitable fallout from the original trauma. MIKHAIL and CHERRY's discussion enc…

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Arbitrary Traditions and Alien Observations (ROSIE GIBBENS) 47:23

12M ago47:23

47:23

Guest artist ROSIE GIBBENS joins VANESSA MURRELL of DATEAGLE to discuss her art practice via 'Life Ceremony' by Sayaka Murata, 2022 published by Granta Books. This off-kilter collection of short stories brings a grotesque whimsy to fables of cultural norms, including society rituals that develop when the human species is endangered . ROSIE and VANE…

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Cultural Fear and Self Permission (CERI HAND) 1:05:20

12M ago1:05:20

1:05:20

Guest artist mentor CERI HAND joins artist and writer JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her creative practice via 'The Blazing World' 2014 by Siri Hustvedt and published by Hodder & Stoughton. Longlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, it tells tales of the life of artist Harriet Burden. Presented across snap…

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Second Bodies and Talking Ice (SUSAN SCHUPPLI) 56:42

1y ago56:42

56:42

Guest artist SUSAN SCHUPPLI joins art critic and author ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her art practice via 'The Second Body' 2017 by Daisy Hildyard, published by Fitzcarraldo Books. Listed by the 'White Review' on their Books of the Year 2018, the essay presents the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth, with an updated dualism between t…

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Disconnected Characters and Contradictory Spiritualism (SOPHIE RUIGROK) 45:54

1y ago45:54

45:54

Guest artist SOPHIE RUIGROK joins VANESSA MURRELL of DATEAGLE to discuss her art practice via 'Nobody Belongs Here More Than You' 2007 by Miranda July, published by Canongate Books. Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, it conveys 16 stories of lonely characters desperately trying to make connections. Their means vary from q…

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Dark Humour and Watery Figures (NICOLA BEALING) 55:06

1y ago55:06

55:06

Guest artist NICOLA BEALING joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her work via 'Pastoralia' 2020 by George Saunders. Published Riverhead Books, the book contains six short stories each presenting snapshots of contemporary American existence delivered in a deadpan, razorsharp tone, and enshrouded with dark humour. We talk about dark humour, executions, int…

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Slow Dancing and Fluid Encounters (FLORENCE PEAKE) 50:30

1y ago50:30

50:30

Guest artist FLORENCE PEAKE joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her multi-faceted, performance-led art practice via 'Stone Butch Blues' 1993 by Leslie Feinberg. It tells the story of life as a butch lesbian in 1970s, working class America and is particularly unique due to the writer gaining full rights to the text, making it fully accessible onlin…

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Channelling Spirits and Excluded Histories (JENNIFER HIGGIE) 54:57

1y ago54:57

54:57

Guest author JENNIFER HIGGIE joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art writing practice via 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' by Olga Tokarczuk. It's a compelling murder mystery set in a small mountainside village in Poland. As Winter caretaker of neighbouring properties, Janina spends her spare time translating the poems of William Blake i…

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Rural Reality and Complex Systems (KATIE PRATT) 56:29

1+ y ago56:29

56:29

Guest artist KATIE PRATT joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her work via 'Once in Europa' 1987 by John Berger. As part of the 'Into Our Labours' trilogy, the novel is set in an alpine village and describes grounded charm and limiting isolation against the encroaching industrialisation of urban life. We talk about the disorganised surface, organic and g…

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Gender Entrapment and Performative Mythologies (ANNA PERACH) 43:31

2y ago43:31

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Guest artist ANNA PERACH joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her work via 'The Victorian Chaise Longue' 1953 by Marghanita Laski. The novel describes the experience of a charming yet childish lawyer's wife who wakes up in the body of her alter-ego eighty years previously. It's a chilling tale of entrapment, which closely links to Anna's sculptural…

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CULTURE EXCHANGE - Artistic Protest and Rightful Sovereignty (PAOLA BALLA) 59:42

2y ago59:42

59:42

Guest artist PAOLA BALLA joins Jillian Knipe for this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Paola and I discuss colonisation in a place widely known as Australia, and its correspon…

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CULTURE EXCHANGE - Female Resilience and Bodily Playgrounds (INGRID BERTHON-MOINE) 48:49

2+ y ago48:49

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Guest artist INGRID BERTHON-MOINE joins Elizabeth Fullerton for this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Ingrid and Elizabeth discuss the absurdity of male domination within cult…

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CULTURE EXCHANGE - Ghostly Tales and Artistic Lineage (Richard Ayodeji Ikhide) 1:03:57

2+ y ago1:03:57

1:03:57

Guest artist RICHARD AYODEJI IKHIDE joins Jillian Knipe for this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Richard and I discuss his disjointed cultural story, via Amos Tutuola's secon…

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CULTURE EXCHANGE - Human Vessels and Architectural Fragments (NIKA NEELOVA) 1:03:29

2+ y ago1:03:29

1:03:29

Guest artist NIKA NEELOVA joins Jillian Knipe on this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Nika and I discuss the flow of her cultural story, via poet Rainer Maria Rilke's only no…

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Welcome to Art Fictions CULTURE EXCHANGE ! 2:00

2+ y ago2:00

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Welcome and Welcome Back to this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange will run until the end of March 2022. Elizabeth Fullerton and Jillian Knipe w…

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Mechanical Bodies and Dissected Detritus (HOLLY HENDRY) 55:26

2+ y ago55:26

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Guest artist HOLLY HENDRY joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to chat about her work via Tom McCarthy's 2005 novel 'Remainder' in which the nameless narrator must re-learn body movements after a debilitating accident. He is awarded a ridiculous sum in compensation which he uses to re-enact past happenings in microscopic detail, increasingly absurd and violen…

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Shadowy Nuance and Colourful Movement (FIONA GRADY) 55:18

2+ y ago55:18

55:18

Guest artist FIONA GRADY joins me to chat about her work via Jun'ichirō Tanazaki's 1933 essay 'In Praise of Shadows'. The text describes eastern aesthetics being driven by the west, resulting in the loss of Japanese tradition and the loss of the shadow. Fiona Grady and I discuss her own praise of shadows, working with semi translucent colours on gl…

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Edged Forms and Rhythmic Waves (HANNAH HUGHES) 54:37

3y ago54:37

54:37

Guest artist HANNAH HUGHES joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to chat about her work via Virginia Woolf's 1931 novel 'The Waves'. Not so much a story as a stream (or perhaps, more accurately, a wave) of consciousness, the book is classified as an experimental fiction. It describes the thoughts of six characters through soliloquies, whose lives all pivot aro…

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Embodied Violence and Persistent Ambivalence (LUKE BURTON) 1:09:11

3y ago1:09:11

1:09:11

Guest artist LUKE BURTON joins me to chat about his work via Ben Lerner's 2019 novel 'The Topeka School'. The story revolves around Adam Gordon and his parents, and the ambivalence of language as both a pathway to reparation and a driving force towards violence. Luke Burton and I go on to discuss his own ambivalence, working with and against male a…

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Bold Resilience and Rightful Restoration (KAREN McLEAN) 51:54

3y ago51:54

51:54

Guest artist KAREN McLEAN joins Elizabeth Fullerton to chat about her work via Colson Whitehead's 2016 novel 'The Underground Railroad' published by Doubleday. The historical fiction tells of 19th century slaves Cora and Caesar and their attempts to escape to freedom in America's south west. Starting with her intensely researched art practice, Kare…

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Contemplative Cracks and Lo-Fi Tech (DEAN KENNING) 1:16:16

3y ago1:16:16

1:16:16

Guest artist DEAN KENNING joins me to chat about his work via John Maxwell Coetzee's 2013 allegorical novel 'The Childhood of Jesus'. The story revolves around five year old David with his father-by-default Símon, on their quest to find a mother for the boy and a better life for the three of them. Winner of this year's prestigious Mark Tanner Sculp…

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Seductive Feathers and Brutal Beasts (KATE MccGWIRE) 42:40

3y ago42:40

42:40

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…

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Meandering Mourning and Collaged Reality (FIONA CURRAN) 1:10:49

3y ago1:10:49

1:10:49

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 exhibitio…

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Theatrical Forms and Shifting Times (LINDSAY SEERS) 57:22

3y ago57:22

57:22

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 …

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Earthly Nourishment and Landscape Potential (LIZ ELTON) 55:21

3y ago55:21

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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 eco…

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Makeshift Staging and Might Happens (MILLY PECK) 47:55

3y ago47:55

47:55

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, …

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Welcome to 2021 with a special Guest Host ! 8:25

3+ y ago8:25

8:25

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 a…

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CECILIA CHARLTON (and Italo Calvino) 57:14

3+ y ago57:14

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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 extraordinar…

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HANNAH BROWN (and WH Auden) 46:39

3+ y ago46:39

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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 ho…

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DANIEL STURGIS (and Nicholson Baker) 45:55

3+ y ago45:55

45:55

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 …

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FRANCES RICHARDSON (and Virginia Woolf) 46:26

3+ y ago46:26

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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 o…

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JANE HAYES GREENWOOD (and Maggie Nelson) 50:23

3+ y ago50:23

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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 Edw…

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GRACE WOODCOCK (and Octavia Butler) 55:44

3+ y ago55:44

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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 C…

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EMMA COUSIN (and Jean-Paul Sartre) 1:23:15

3+ y ago1:23:15

1:23:15

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 i…

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CHARLEY PETERS (and Charlotte Perkins) 1:08:49

3+ y ago1:08:49

1:08:49

Dr Charley Peters selects ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Published in 1892, it was inspired by the author’s own experience of post natal depression and the resulting inappropriate treatment she battled against. The short story describes one woman’s descent into madness as she is overtaken by the yellow wallpaper she loathes. He…

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JORDAN BASEMAN (and Patricia Highsmith) 1:07:47

3+ y ago1:07:47

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Welcome back to Art Fictions ! Jordan Baseman selects ‘Strangers on a Train’ by Patricia Highsmith. Published in 1950, the book tells of Bruno and Guy who happen meet on a train and, between whiskies and cigarettes, Bruno suggests they swap murders. I’ll kill your pesky wife if you kill my horrid father. Seems fair though somewhat macabre, not at a…

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Mixed Tapes - ALICE BROWNE (and Luciana Chetwynd) 51:17

4y ago51:17

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In this final episode of Series 1, Alice Browne selects 'Seawater and the Dragon' by Luciana Chetwynd and the Chetwynd Children. Published in 1973, the children's book tells of a feared dragon and his monster buddies who find an ally in naughty boy Seawater, and together, they all go on to become darlings of the village. As a painter of measured in…

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Mixed Tapes - TOM WILMOTT (and William Peter Blatty) 56:07

4y ago56:07

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Tom Wilmott selects 'The Exorcist' by William Peter Blatty. Published in 1971, the novel portrays the wildly disturbing behaviour of 12 year old Regan, whose mother seeks help from a plethora of medical specialists until, in desperation, she arranges a priest to perform an exorcism of her daughter to cast out the devil. In a fascinating and deeply …

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Mixed Tapes - ANDREA V WRIGHT (and Edwin A Abbott) 52:13

4y ago52:13

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Andrea Wright selects 'Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions' by theologian, schoolmaster and Anglican priest Edwin A Abbott. Published in 1884, the novella tells a story of geometry and the pettiness of the class system in equal tones of giggly satire and eye rolling dismay. We venture into Andrea's Irish ancestry and the shifts throughout her f…

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Mixed Tapes - HANNAH LUXTON (and Rebecca Solnit) 54:09

4y ago54:09

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Hannah Luxton selects 'A Field Guide to Getting Lost' by Rebecca Solnit, published by Canongate Books in 2005. We join the author’s drunken debut and travel with her to extremes at the western edges of America as she explores a myriad of geographical, ancestral and metaphysical ways of getting lost. Picking up on Rebecca’s fascination with the elus…

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Mixed Tapes - SIMON LININGTON (and Simon Linington!) 52:54

4y ago52:54

52:54

Simon Linington, visual artist and story writer, has selected his own fiction for this episode. ‘Evangaline Too’ was originally published in New York’s ‘Sunday Salon’ zine and creates an intriguing viewing platform for our conversation. We probe the meticulous details of smoking, worms, dirty water and so on, as Simon grasps at that which is readil…

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Mixed Tapes - GRANT FOSTER - part two (and JG Ballard) 31:03

4y ago31:03

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Grant Foster and I pick up where we left off, discussing connections between his work and J G Ballard's 1970 novel 'The Atrocity Exhibition'. Considering Ballard often referred to parallels with painters, it seems natural that an artist might return the gesture, drawing on this author to feed his own practice. In this episode, Grant talks about ete…

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