ART FICTIONS

Guest artist HAROUN HAYWARD joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss his work via 'The Sea The Sea' by Iris Murdoch. Winner of the prestigious Booker Prize, it was first published in 1978 by Chatto & Windus, and most recently by Vintage Classics as part of Penguin Books. The chaotic story centres around Charles Arrowby, a director, actor and playwright who has retired from his highly glamorous London life to become something of a hermit in a near isolated house by the sea. Just like in slapstick theatre he bumps up against a myriad of characters, including his buddhist cousin James, his childhood sweetheart Mary Hartley Fitch, ex lover Lizzie Scherer whose life he destabilises once again, and Lizzie’s ex lover before Charles - Peregrine Arbelow, the Irish drunk. Get in touch with us via artfictionspodcast@gmail.com Buy us a coffee! Support us on Patreon! Haroun and Jillian's conversation encompasses skateboarding, cancer, philosophy, thalassophobia, repetition, serpents, Japan, overthinking, identity, unclean, synesthesia, graffiti, enlightenment, hippiedom, apophenia, keystones, dog poo, constructivism, cascading failures, narrative honesty, suprematicism, magic realism, suppressing thought, apocalypse fish, landscape painting, self flagellation, vorticism, etching plates, herding cats, horror films, zombie formalism, lack of soul and poetry, and giving up painting to be a fry cook. HAROUN HAYWARD harounhayward.com @harounhayward 'Path Through Trees' 30 May - 1 Nov 2026 ARTISTS + WORKS Ben Nicholson Ben Westerby Bridget Riley Carolin Walker Chris Offili Édouard Vuillard Frankie Knuckles Hans Memling Hergé 'The Adventures of Tintin' Hokusai 'The Great Wave' Model 500 Paul Nash 'The Wanderer' Paul Nash 'Path through Trees' Peter Doig Pieter Bruegel the Elder Philip Guston 'I Paint What I Want to See' Sonia Delaunay Shezad Dawood Ukiyo-e Wassily Kandinsky Wilhelmina Barnes Graham Winifred Nicholson WRITERS + BOOKS Edward James Gabriel García Márquez Haruki Murakami Iris Murdoch 'The Black Prince' + 'The Sublime and the Beautiful Revisited' + 'The Severed Head' John Burnside 'Black Cat Bone' Kim Sloan 'Places of the Mind: British Watercolour Landscapes 1850-1950' Maurice Merleau-Ponty Tom McCarthy 'Tintin and the Secret of Literature' William Shakespeare 'King Lear' + 'The Tempest' ARTS ORGANISATIONS Goldsmiths Hales Gallery Indigo Madder - Kritika Sharma Kunsthistorisches Museum Pallant House Tate St Ives Thamesside Studios Turner Contemporary West Dean College Zwirner Gallery

Guest artist CARRIE MOYER joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her work via 'Cassandra at the Wedding' by Dorothy Baker. Published in 1962 by Houghton Mifflin (US) and Victor Gollancz (UK), most recently Daunt Books, with sympathetic tenderness and acerbic wit, it follows twin sisters Cassandra and Judith as they navigate Judith’s wedding to a very pleasant and capable young doctor. The other key characters are their father, a retired philosophy professor who fancies a Brandy soda tipple, the ghost of their dead mother and their maternal grandmother. Get in touch with us via artfictionspodcast@gmail.com Buy us a coffee! Support us on Patreon! "it feels like all of the interesting innovations have been done by women painters in terms of abstraction" Carrie and Jillian's conversation encompasses activism, wit, abandonment, confusion, family, ambivalence, agitpop, snarkiness, ambiguity, galaxy, queer, optical bliss, transitional places, menacing edge, geological time, mental illness, burying identity, utter distaste, ominous vibe and deadpan humour. They also talk about family as a cult, female body parts, destabilised vibration of colours, digging under conventions, being a lesbian in public, hard edge abstraction, vicious in a great beautiful smart way, wholesome hetro homemakers, abstract expressionism as a language and what the future is supposed to hold for you as a young woman. CARRIE MOYER 'Always Venus, Never Mars' Pilar Corrias 23 Jan - 7 Mar 2026 carriemoyer.com @carrie.moyer.studio 'Queer Abstraction' Des Moines Art Center by Curator Jared Ledesma 1 Jun - 8 Sep 2019 'Cave Dwellers who Paint Abstraction' 2025 'Radiant Granularity' 2025 'Art Glass' 2016 ARTISTS + CURATORS Amy Sillman Anish Kapoor Béla Bartók David Getsy Dona Nelson Elizabeth Murray Frank Stella Helen Frankenthaler Jack Whitten '9.11.01' 2006 after Sep 11 2001 Judy Chicago Laura Owens Louise Fishman Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley 'Best Femmes Forever' Morris Louis Pat Steir Rebecca Byrne Rochelle Feinstein Sabine Moritz Stephen Meuller William Butler Yeats BOOKS + AUTHORS + FILM Anna Burns 'The Milkman' narrator Brid Brennan Arundhati Roy 'Mother Mary Comes to Me' Audible 'Carrie Moyer' 2021 with contributions by Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Katy Siegel, Joanna Dinah Fateman by Rizzoli Electa Flann O'Brien 'The Third Policeman' narrator Jim Norton J D Salinger 'Catcher in the Rye' John Gray 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus' 'The Ice Tower' Travis Jeppesen 'Queer Abstraction (Or How to Be a Pervert with No Body) Some Notes Toward a Probability' Mousse magazine 2019 'Young Man with a Horn' 1950 UNIVERSITIES + ORGANISATIONS Boston University Daunt Books Hunter College, New York London Film Festivals MoMA, New York 'Jack Whitten: The Messenger' 2025 Pratt Institute

Guest artist ALINE MOTTA joins PELUMI ODUBANJO to discuss her work via 'Water is a Time Machine' by the artist herself. Originally published in Brazilian Portuguese by Fósforo Editora and Luna Parque Edições in 2022, the text reconfigures memories by using a non-linear perception of time and is part of a multi-layered project including video and performance. It includes personal documents that belong to the artist's mother, her calendars and journals from the 1970s and an account of her death in 2011, which is the central piece and backbone of the work. FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM! @artfictionspodcast BUY US A COFFEE! buymeacoffee.com/artfictionspodcast CONTRIBUTE VIA PATREON! patreon.com/artfictionspodcast EMAIL US DIRECTLY! artfictionspodcast@gmail.com Aline and Pelumi discuss the book's stories around the artist's family members and their lives in Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the 20th century, a time of political turmoil which immediately followed the abolition of slavery. Their conversation encompasses floating, bombs, bridges, tuberculosis, mistranslation, iconography, submerging, chemotherapy, prayer, breathing, stoicism, Catholicism, time machines, interracial marriage, film school, personal archives, double images, direct communication, permanent connections, exchanging cells, changing organs, fraught connections, Congolese traditions, disciplinarian mothers, avoiding sugarcoating, intentional disorientation, umbilical cords, oral histories, heavy heartedness, Yoruba influences, colonial erasure, speculative studies, layers of time, writing in fragments, metaphors of motherhood, constructing new narratives, sleeping in hammocks, foundations of thought, clothes being archives, abolition of slavery, lineage as language, contradictions in relationships, the beginning of the Republic, the way histories are told in (black) families, trying to find reasons for a person's death, the magic of making someone breath under water, using words to make maps, connecting personal history with collective history, envisioning new pasts to free us from old narratives and manifest new futures, plus a recipe to treat bruises. ALINE MOTTA alinemotta.com @1alinemotta 'A água é uma máquina do tempo' / 'Water is a time machine' '(Outros) Fundamentos' / '(Other) Foundations' 'Pontes sobre Abismos' / 'Bridges over the Abyss' INSTITUTIONS Bienal de São Paulo 2023 'Choreographies of the Impossible' Buenos Aires, Palermo Buenos Aires, Argentina Centre Pompidou, France MALBA Museo de Arte Lanoamericano de Buenos Aires / Latin American Art Museum of Rietberg Museum, Zurich ARTISTS + FILM + WRITERS 'BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions' 2025 John Akomfrah 'Vertigo Sea' 2015 Kathleen Collins 'Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?' 2016 Kahlil Joseph 'Losing Ground' 1982Machado de Assis 'Father Against Mother' 1906 Professor Stuart Hall (1932-2014) Rosana Paulino Saidiya Hartman 'Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route' 2006 'The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy' 1980 PLACES Angola Australia Bahia Bahia Brazil Burma Cachoeira Congo Germany Ghana Guanabara Bay Myanmar Niterói Nigeria Portugal Rio de Janeiro São Paulo Sierra Leone Torres Strait Islands TERMS + CULTURAL GROUPS ase/ashe Bantu languages capoeira martial art movement Kimbundu/Mbundu language maracatu dance ori orishas oyinbo/oyibo samba dance Yoruba

Guest artist LAUREN GODFREY joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her work via 'Heartburn' by Nora Ephron. Published in 1983, it tells a recipe rich story of Rachel Samstat and her husband Mark's marriage breakdown as a result of his affair with Thelma Rice. BUY US A COFFEE! SUPPORT US ON PATREON! Lauren and Jillian's conversation encompasses misogyny, kreploch soup, fat phobia, hot sass, slaying haters, brilliant naivety, acerbic wit, catching glimpses, high drama and potatoes as a signpost for the progress and decline of relationships. Also: losing the plot, aubergine as icon, minutiae of life, mid pregnancy betrayal, magnifying tiny moments, passing on recipes through generations, mapping of time and place through food, flood of linguistic lyricism, the power of choosing clothes, menu choice as an identity market and distilling culture into a witty sentence. LAUREN GODFREY @laurengodfreystudio laurengodfrey.co.uk 'Pattern Portraits podcast' 'Group Hat' 'What We Wore' GET IN TOUCH with us by EMAIL artfictionspodcast@gmail.com ARTISTS CURATORS Adam Boyd Anni Albers Anthea Hamilton Bethan Laura Wood Bruce MacLean Capability Brown Cinzia Ruggeri Dr George Vasey 'Harrow March 31st 2005...' George Richardson Gunta Stöltzl Holly Graham JB Blunk Jennie Moncur Luke Burton Marcus Coates 'Nature Calendar' Maria Zahle Martin Parr Mary Godfrey Nadia Hebson Patrick Heron Rosalind Nashashibi Rosie Gibbens Tacita Dean 'Kodak 2006' BOOKS AUTHORS WRITERS AA Gill Asako Yuzuki 'Butter' Bob Woodwood Carl Bernstein Carmen Callil David Batchelor David Sedaris JD Salinger 'The Catcher in the Rye' 'Franny and Zooey' John Updike Lena Dunham Lennie Goodings 'Virago founder Carmen Callil was a powerhouse who changed the publishing world for the better' The Guardian 18 Oct 2022 Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast 'Crying in H Mart' Miranda July 'All Fours' Nora Ephron 'Forget the Hamsters' The Guardian 6 Nov 2004 Phillip Roth Raven Smith 'Men' 'Trivial Pursuits' Salena Barry Tank Magazine 'Pancake Day' Vanessa Murrell Virago Books Modern Classics ART INSTITUTIONS Bauhaus Coal Drops Yard De La Warr Pavillion Design Museum Gasworks Goldsmiths CCA Harewood House Trust ICA Kingsgate Project Space Krupa Gallery The Memphis Group New Contemporaries Vital Arts at Newham Hospital FILM Anijam animation initiative Cher 'Ghostbusters' 'Julie and Julia' Meg Ryan Meryl Streep 'Sex and the City' Silkwood Stanley Tucci 'Taste: My Life Through Food' When Harry Met Sally Woody Allen CHEFS Elizabeth David Julia Childs ORGANISATIONS Taylors of Harrogate Selfridges NOTED PEOPLE James Callaghan Margaret Thatcher Margaret Ann Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington Maria Montessori Melanie Klein CREDITS Griffin Knipe - music Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions - logo

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 simplicity and acute sensitivity, we join the siblings as they negotiate everyday life in partial isolation and on the edge of something happening. HELEN and Jillian's conversation encompasses lightning, tenderness, siblings, gullibility, hiding, tapestry, holding, frustration, anguish, excavation, metaphors, equality, masking, knitting needles, dream worlds, shattered trees, portals, body punctures, art therapy, white supremacy, honest thieves, cartography lines, blinding flies, Oedipus complex, intergenerational privilege, psychotic structure, architectural blueprints, birthing shit, monetising colonialisation, not being othered, the weight of the work, creating a space for healing, writing being like a drawing, and a lot of Lacanian psychotherapy - a real learning experience ! HELEN JOHNSON helenjohnson.net 'Opening' Pilar Corrias Savile Row til 6 Jan 2024 'Agency' Pilar Corrias 2019 'Warm Ties' ICA 2017 ARTISTS Aleksandra Waliszewska Aliza Nisenbaum Bridget Riley Christina Quarles Denzil Forrester Fred Williams Georgiana Houghton Joy Labinjo Judy Watson Katie Pratt Laura Owens Maja Ruznic Marcus Coates 'The Directors' Artangel Melanie Jackson Nicole Eisenman Njideka Akunyili Crosby Paola Balla Rosie Mullan Shanti Panchal Yhonnie Scarce AUTHORS + BOOKS Darian Leader 'The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression' 2008 Jackie Wullschläger 'Monet: The Resless Vision' 2023 Jennifer Higgie 'The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World' 2023 Karl Ove Knausgaard National Gallery of Australia 'Know My Name: Australian Women Artists Since 1900' 2021 Part 1 2022 Part 2 CURATORS + ART HISTORIANS Helen Molesworth 'Dialogues' David Zwirner Sarah McCrory THEORISTS + ANALYSTS + ACTIVISTS Anna Freud Donald Winnicott Jacques Lacan Joy Shaverien Melanie Klein Meriki Onus Sigmund Freud Shirley Sharon-Zisser 'What Would a Lacanian Art Therapy Look Like' Walter Benjamin Wilfred Bion GALLERIES + ART INSTITUTIONS Glasgow International ICA Institute of Contemporary Art Kunstverein in Hamburg Kingsgate Project Space Latrobe University MCA NSW Museum of Contemporary Art Australia NGV National Gallery of Victoria Pilar Corrias SeMA Seoul Museum of Art Tate Galleries

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 mobility, cyclical history, and watching reality TV. MELANIE and Jillian's discussion encompasses shame, humility, apology, gratitude, wormholes, reconfigured animations, cultural disruption, synthetic biology, persistent amnesia, complicated truths, brutalist architecture, unsustained caretaking, industrial metaphysics, winged penises, synthetic biology, false blaming, clashing ideologies, idealistic social housing, nano scale engineering, vulvas on horseback, ridiculing the middle class, colonialisation of language, pig fat in ice cream, what art can do as an experience, and the way histories and future technologies bounce off one another. MELANIE JACKSON @melanie.jjj melaniejackson.net 'Rouge Flambé' 'Deeper in the Pyramid | Share of Throat' 'Spekyng Rybawdy' 'The Urpflanze' ARTISTS + CURATORS + ACADEMICS Esther Leslie Ezra Lloyd Jackson Kirsten Cooke Nicole Eisenman 'Bambi Gregor' 1993 Olukemi Lijadu Pelumi Odubanjo BOOKS + MAGAZINES + WRITERS Brian Massumi 'What Animals Teach Us About Politics' 2014 Charles Darwin 'On the Origin of the Species' 1859 Eileen Myles 'Afterglow: A Dog Memoir' 2017 Franz Kafka 'The Metamorphosis' 1915 'Frieze' magazine Goethe 'Die Urplanze' ('The Metamorphosis of Plants') 1829 Isabel Waidner ' Sterling Karat Gold' 2021 Jo Orton John Lahr 'Prick Up Your Ears' 1978 (film 2007) EXHIBITIONS + INSTITUTIONS Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth Banner Repeater, London Block 336, London 'Spekyng Rybawdy' 2022 Grand Union, Birmingham Matt's Gallery, London 'Mattflix' Max Mara Prize Jerwood Drawing Prize San Mei Gallery, London 'Rouge Flambè' 2023 Wellcome Collection, London 'Living with Buildings' 2018-2019 Wellcome Collection, London 'Milk' 2023 Whitechapel Gallery, London FILM + TELEVISION 'The Nasty Girl' 1990 'Top Boy' 2011-2023

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 the confusion of love. Please be warned that in following the content of Cooper's text, the programme contains references to violence and suicide. Anna and Vanessa's discussion also encompasses psychedelics, obsession, faux Nazis, feeling violated, animal stickers, unwavering sensitivity, stupid imagery, internal rhyming, Santa Claus, swimming through mud, looping back on oneself, eyes being gummed shut, the value of confusion, dark and disturbing worlds, begrudging awareness of the reader, not being able to fathom the logic of decision making, writing through an idea rather than creating a story, and the steampunk weaponisation of ice skates. Please! *rate and review *support production through patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST *follow us on instagram @artfictionspodcast *contact us on artfictionspodcast@gmail.com Recorded at Cubitt Community Radio by Andi Armishah Music GRIFFIN KNIPE Production consultant LORI E ALAN Logo JOANNA QUINN of BERYL PRODUCTIONS ANNA CLEGG relevant-confluences.com 'Half Truths' curated by Vanessa Murrell til 30 November 2023 at Unit 2 Cassia Building 97-101 Hackney Road Shoreditch London E2 8ET ARTISTS David Musgrave 'Lambda' 2022 James Turrell John Baldassari 'Wrong' 1967 Joseph Cornell BOOKS + MAGAZINES + WRITERS Artforum magazine Barry Pierce 'Another Magazine' Beatrice Forster Brett Eastern Ellis Denis Cooper 'The George Miles Cycle' series 1989-2000 Denis Cooper 'I Wished' 2021 Elliot Jeffries Frieze magazine George Bataille 'Story of the Eye' 1928 Hervé Guibert 'Ghost Image' 2014 Interview magazine Kathy Acker Katja Kemnitz 'Too Much Love' on Tumblr Nour El Saleh Paul Auster Roland Barthes 'An Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative', 1975 Spin magazine Tao Lin 'Leave Society' 2021 Tom of Finland Victory Burgin 'Remembered Film' 2004 Vivian Sobchack William Burroughs MUSICIANS + FILM Brooke Shields Claire Denis, director and screenwriter Larry Clark 'Bully' 2001 NLE Chopper Terence Stamp Xaviersobased GALLERIES + ORGS Chelsea School of Art Greengrassi Nicoletti Contemporary Split Gallery

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 within the confines of a lay community. Please be warned that in following the content of Murdoch's text, the programme contains references to sexual abuse and to suicide. Rory and Elizabeth's discussion also encompasses unheard voices, sunken voices, historical voices, awoken voices, shutting down voices, empathy, songwriting, drawing, poetry, kissing, dancing, stories, transformation, spiritual striving, moral dilemma, social practice, closet homosexuality, transformative moments, nuns getting naked and writing off people who are too complicated. They also delve into the toxic politics of speech, wrestling with faith, music as a first language, pathways of self destruction, the stress of being part of communities, suppression leading to the harm of others, the desire and courage to learn and to listen, experiences shaped by nuance and interconnections, and ways in which direct democracy can be built on consensus and intergenerational dialogue. And together, they question: how can you be completely yourself within a group, how can we imagine new forms of law through storytelling, and how can art play a civic role in transforming lives and developing networks of care. Please support the production of this podcast via patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST. Contact Art Fictions via artfictionspodcast@gmail.com or instagram @artfictionspodcast. RORY PILGRIM rorypilgrim.com insta @rainbowsofgorse 'Turner Prize' at Towner Eastbourne 28 Sep 2023-14 Apr 2024 'Rafts' 2020 The Migros Museum of Contemporary Art in Zurich, EVA International 31 Aug – 29 Oct 2023 Limerick city of Ireland, 49 Nord 6 Est Frac Lorraine in Metz of France 'The Undercurrent' 2019 'The Resounding Bell' 2018 ARTISTS Abba 'The Visitors' 1981 Barbara Hepworth Evelyn Taocheng Wang Helen Cammock Ilona Sagar Jane Jeffcot Mel Brimfield Ragnar Kjartansson 'The Visitors' 2012 Robyn Haddon Sands Murray-Wassink Sonia Boyce Susie Green BOOKS + AUTHORS Lucy Lippard 'Mapping the Terrain: New Genre in Public Art' 1994 Suzi Gablik 'The Re-enchantment of Art' 1991 Toni Morrison 'Beloved' 1987 Toni Morrison 'Song of Solomon' 1977 Toni Morrison 'The Bluest Eye' 1970 GALLERIES + MUSEUMS + ORGANISATIONS Auto Italia Chisenhale Gallery Green Shoes Arts Interfaith Sanctuary, Boise, Idaho Serpentine Gallery 'Radio Ballads' 2022 Site Gallery

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 encompasses trust, courage, coalminers, eco-activism, protest and pearl-divers. As well as chance encounters, female superheroes, community collaboration, violent suppression, active listening, self censorship, activist imaginary, heteronormative language, acoustics of resistance, Greek working class, repercussions of trauma, our relationship to the earth, sounds to engender change, giving over artistic power, speaking on behalf of the dead, sound as a sculptural material, a tsunami of screaming, plus being out of tune with ourselves, our social context and the environment. Please support the production of this podcast via patreon.com/artfictionspodcast. And you're welcome to contact the team directly on artfictionspodcast@gmail.com and follow what's happening on Instagram @artfictionspodcast. MIKHAIL KARIKIS Greek-British artist based in London & Lisbon, working in video, sound and performance. mikhailkarikis.com @mikhailkarikis 'Because We Are Together' National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens 28 Jan - 8 Oct 2023 'The Weather Orchestra' 2023 'Ferocious Love' 2020 Tate Liverpool as recommended by Laura Cumming in 'The Guardian' 'I Hear You' 2019 'No Ordinary Protest' 2018 'The Chalk Factory' 2017 Aarhus Denmark, commissioned by European Capital of Culture 'Sounds from Beneath' 2011-2012 CHERRY SMYTH 'If the River is Hidden' co-authored with Craig Jordan-Baker 'Famished' ARTISTS + MUSEUMS + PRACTITIONERS Ceri Hand HOME Manchester Mathilda Bevan Tate Liverpool The Granary Gallery Thelma Hubert Gallery The Showroom Whitechapel Gallery BOOKS + AUTHORS + WRITERS Alison Branagan 'The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers' 2011 Hartmut Rosa 'Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World' 2021

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 snapshots of journal entries and testimonies by her family, friends and colleagues, the accounts are compiled and edited by academic researcher I.V. Hess after Harriet's death. Furious with the cultural misogyny that's left her all but ignored by the New York art world, Harriet hides her identity behind three male fronts in a series of exhibitions. While their huge success goes to prove her point, when she finally unmasks herself, not everyone believes her. CERI HAND cerihand.com @cerihand artistmentor.co.uk ARTISTS Christo Vladimirov Javacheff 1935–2020 Eva Hesse 1936-1970 Evlyne Laurin, Creative Legacy Steward and Fine Art Appraiser Jane Hayes Greenwood Sir Horace Shango Ové CBE Yayoi Kusama Zak Ové WRITERS + BOOKS Cherry Smyth Dan Sullivan with Dr Benjamin Hardy '10X is Easier than 2X: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less' 2023 John Milton 'Paradise Lost' 1667 John Steinbeck 'Of Mice and Men' 1937 Margaret Lucas Cavendish 1623-1673 Rachel Cusk INSTITUTIONS + GALLERIES Castor Gallery ICA Somerset House 'Get Up Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers' 2019 The Women's Art Library 'Make' magazine

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 quirky to the absurd and mostly only result in the disillusion of coinciding in the same space. Sophie and Vanessa talk about escape, clouds, tears, Buddhism, role playing, manifesting reality, body leaking, collapsing flesh, wearing wigs, cold showers, hypersensitive characters, contemporary spiritualism, movie-set extras, expressing the psyche, masks as mediators, disconnected lonely people, swimming on the carpet, beautifully weird realisations about humanity, the loss of fantasy, appropriating from art history, being allergic to the world, true signs of falsehood, and Sophie using her fingers to make images of fingers before dipping her toe into oil paint. SUPPORT this podcast via patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST SOPHIE RUIGROK @sophie.ruigrok 'In Three Acts' Huxley Parlour 27 April - 27 May 2023 'Stilled Images' Tube Gallery, Mallorca opens 10 June 2023 ARTISTS Alfred Stieglitz Andrea Mantegna Francis Bacon Gian Lorenzo Bellini 'The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa' 1652 Hans Memling, hellscapes Jan and Hubert Van Eck 'The Ghent Alterpiece' Belgium 1432 Katarina Caserman René Magritte GALLERIES Marlborough 'Love is the Devil: Studies after Francis Bacon' 2022 Tabula Rasa 'It's Better to be Cats Than be Loved' 2022 The Sunday Painter 'Today I Feel Relevant and Alive' 2022 WRITERS Carl Jung Susan Stewart 'On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection' 1984 FILMS 'Interstellar' 2014 'The Truman Show' 1998 'Thelma and Louise' 1991

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 online and for free. Florence and Elizabeth talk about hysterical clay, collapsing paintings, mark-making without sight, rigid heteronormative conventions, the patriarchy's rule which brings a perpetual fear of violence, butch lesbians in the 70s, drag queens, sex workers and femmes, extractions of earthly matter and energy, the dance floor as a space for belonging and expression, splattering the audience with clay, tenderness and care, finding comfort in the face of shame, and encountering ourselves imaginatively in relationship to objective reality. Please support this podcast via patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST FLORENCE PEAKE florencepeake.com insta florence_peake Richard Saltoun Gallery 2023 16 April - 2 July 'Factual Actual Ensemble' at Southwark Park Galleries then touring to Fruitmarket Gallery and Towner Gallery 2023 11 Feb - 7 May 'Earth Spells: Witches of the Anthropocene' at RAM Museum, Exter with Caroline Achaintre, Emma Hart, Kris Lemsalu, Mercedes Mühleisen, Grace Ndiritu, Florence Peake, Kiki Smith, Lucy Stein 2023 18 Feb - 6 May 'Body Poetics' at Giant, Bournemouth with Penny Slinger, Helen Chadwick, Florence Peake, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Charlotte Edey, Enam Gbewonyo, Rosie Gibbens, Guerrilla Girls, Evan Ifekoya, Ad Minoliti, Senga Nengudi, Niki De Saint Phalle, Carolee Schneemann, Tai Shani, Kiki Smith, Rae-Yen Song, Holly Stevenson curated by Marcelle Joseph and Bella Pelly-Fry 2021 Factual Actual at National Gallery 2021-22 Crude Care for British Art Show at Aberdeen Art Gallery then touring UK 2019 Apparition Apparition at Venice Biennale 2018 RITE: on this pliant body we slip our WOW! at De La Warr Pavillion 2015 Voicings for Block Universe at Modern Art Oxford, Somerset House ARTISTS + PERFORMERS Cameron Armitage Carolee Schneeman 'Meat Joy' Donald Judd Emma Hart Eve Stainton Fabian Peake Igor Sravinsky 'The Rite of Spring' Gabi Agis Grayson Duitu Jo Moran Jordan McKenzie Kate Bush Lee Bowie Lindsey Kemp Mercedes Grower Michael Clarke 'I am a Curious Orange' Rosemary Butcher Siobhan Davis Studios Tai Shani The Fall Yvonne Rainer BOOKS Juliet Jacques 'Variations' 2021 Carmen Maria Machado 'In the Dreamhouse' 2019 Octavia Butler