Best View With Juliet Podcasts (2026)

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Catch Up with ALICE BROWNE 39:11

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From Episode 9, ALICE BROWNE chats with JILLIAN KNIPE about what she's been doing, reading and seeing, as well as her hopes for the year ahead. We delve into worship, floating, yellow, sainthood, caves, underwolds, pergatory, visceral visions, dark spaces, psychological potential, sharing dreams, self destruction, happy endings, vertical journeys, …

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Reconfigured Memories and Watery Connections (ALINE MOTTA) 1:05:15

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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 pe…

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Wild's Eye and Archiving Obsessions (AYO AKINGBADE) 1:17:01

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Guest artist AYO AKINGBADE joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her work via 'In the Eye of the Wild' by Nastassja Martin. Published in 2021, the story follows the aftermath of a French anthropologist's gruesome attack by a bear, while she is living with the Evan people on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. FOLLOW US on INSTAGRAM! BUY US A COFFEE! SUPPO…

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Mayhem Soup and Collaborative Patterning (LAUREN GODFREY) 1:15:37

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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, kr…

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Unfathomable Creatures and Bridging Realities (MARCUS COATES) 1:28:31

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Guest artist MARCUS COATES joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss his work via 'Welsh Incident' by Robert Graves. Published in 1929, this short poem is a retelling of an overhead conversation about "un-Welsh" creatures emerging from the sea. BUY US A COFFEE! SUPPORT US ON PATREON! Marcus and Jillian's conversation encompasses longing, empathy, humour, gras…

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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First Kill | Season 1 Episode 8 Recap with Ro 40:09

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First Kill | Season 1 Episode 8 Recap with Ro It's the finale episode! Host Amanda Costner and her wife Ro take a deep dive into the final episode of season one of First Kill. It's another action-packed episode, with new vampires, broken hearts and surprises (or are they???). Ro and Amanda discuss it all, plus have some fun and laughter along the w…

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First Kill | Season 1 Episode 7 Recap with Nakkesha 47:25

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First Kill | Season 1 Episode 7 Recap with Nakkesha Host Amanda Costner and guest host Nakkesha discuss episode 7 of the first season of First Kill! We're at the second to last episode of the season, and there is SO MUCH to discuss. We talk about MAAM and their Karen leader Bunny, we talk about Theo and what's going on with him since the severing, …

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First Kill | Season 1 Episode 6 Recap with Nika 52:23

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First Kill | Season 1 Episode 6 Recap with Nika Host Amanda Costner and guest Nika discuss episode 6 of the first season of First Kill! The episode has A LOT to break down, lots of moments between different characters to discuss and dissect. Plus, notable cool fashion choices are brought up and (rightly) acknowledged. But the best part of this reca…

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First Kill | Season 1 Episode 5 Recap with Ro 31:39

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First Kill Season 1 Episode 5 Recap with Ro Host Amanda Costner is joined by avid wlw content fan, her wife Ro! Together, they breakdown and analyze episode 5 of Netflix' First Kill, the teen lesbian vampire show that has captured the hearts of kids and queer people across the country. This recap is a lot of fun as Amanda asks Ro many awkward quest…

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First Kill | Season 1 Episode 4 Recap with KJ Whitehead 52:55

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First Kill Season 1 Episode 3 Recap with KJ Whitehead Host Amanda Costner is joined by the Queen of Radical comedy, KJ Whitehead! Episode 4 gets broken down, analyzed, admired and laughed at. KJ and I also discuss a lot of important issues surrounding the queer community right now, and how those issues relate to the show. KJ is able to bring to thi…

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First Kill | Season 1 Episode 3 Recap with Ro & Nika 52:27

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First Kill | Season 1 Episode 3 Recap with Ro & Nika Host Amanda Costner is joined by two avid board gamers, and fans of fantastical content: Ro and Nika! Ro just happens to also be Amanda's wife! Episode 3 gets broken down, analyzed, admired and laughed at. Also, warning, we have a lot of fun but also have a lot of "hater" fun with Nika! First Kil…

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First Kill | Season 1 Episode 2 Recap with Erin 47:27

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Episode Notes First Kill | Season 1 Episode 2 Recap with Erin Amanda Costner is joined by longtime wlw content fan, and cottagecore expert, Erin! We discuss the Netflix series First Kill, which is STILL in their Netflix top 10 tv shows in the U.S. right now. Episode two takes off from the cliffhanger of the pilot. Things continue to progress and we…

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First Kill | Season 1 Episode 1 Recap with Ash Silver 37:01

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Episode Notes First Kill | Season 1 Episode 1 Recap with Ash Silver Amanda Costner is joined by YouTuber and The L Word expert Ash Silver to discuss the pilot episode of Netflix' newest popular teen drama, First Kill. We discuss the evolution of lesbian television content, how relatable or believable we find the plot and characters as well as the d…

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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…