ART FICTIONS
Claim This Podcastby Jillian Knipe
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<p>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. <br /><br />Support via <a href="http://patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST">PATREON</a> or <a href="http://buymeacoffee.com/artfictionspodcast">BUY ME A COFFEE</a> and follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/artfictionspodcast?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==">Art Fictions on Instagram</a> for images of works and links.</p>
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Publishing Since
5/26/2020
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Recent Episodes
June 17, 2026
Self Otherness and Hybrid Beings (HOLLY STEVENSON)
Guest artist HOLLY STEVENSON joins Freud Museum curator VANESSA BONI and JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her work via 'Down Below' by Leonora Carrington. The original manuscript was "lost", so it was re-written via dictation and first published in 1944 in the surrealist journal VVV. Having fled from Nazi occupied France after her lover Max Ernst was arrested, the book describes first hand Carrington's traumatic confinement in a mental institution in Spain and her escape, eventually settling in Mexico City. It also connects directly with her 1940 painting of the same name. We discuss hybrids, psychosis, illness, seamstresses, figurines, transference, trauma, worms, bedsheets, potency, alchemy, lucidity, fetishes, limbs, candy, autofiction, worms, visions, rebirth, Oedipus, transference, psychoanalysis, surrealism, netsuki, genius, creative coherence, brutal rape, civil war, role reversals, mythological beasts, defending insanity, hearing ghosts, colour shifts, inner transformation, wild tiger, symptomatic gut, dynamic unconscious, mythic underworld, female identity, symbolic structures, being celiac, the drive to create, Nazi occupied France, the surrealist imagination, borders of knowledge, structure of the unconscious, orange blossom poisoning, green as a magic colour, the studio and the couch, the Santander sketchbooks, and alternative ways of engaging with reality. 'Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal' curated by Vanessa Boni at Freud Museum 25 March - 10 August 2026 HOLLY STEVENSON holly-stevenson.co.uk @holly_stevenson MAC Museum of Contemporary Art Gibellina City of Culture The Sainsbury Centre RAMM The Royal Albert Memorial in Exeter 3 Oct 2026 - 21 Feb 2027 'Living Labrynths: Art and Fungi' 'Holly Stevenson: Tracing the Irretraceable' 14 May - 29 June 2025 including essays by Elizabeth Fullerton, Sharon Kivland and Emily Steer 'The Debate' Frieze 2023 curated by Fatos Üstek 'Another Mother' 2022 The Artist's Garden 'Mother Art Prize' 2020 ARTISTS Daniel Buren Dorothea Tanning Leonora Carrington Louise Bourgeois Max Ernst Tracey Emin Salvador Dali BOOKS + WRITERS + THEORISTS Ali Smith Professor Alyce Mahon Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism 'Book of Symbols' Carl Jung Jane McAdam Freud Leonora Carrington 'The Debutante', 'The Hearing Trumpet', 'The Oval Lady' Marina Warner Mikhail Bulgakov 'The Master and Margharita' Pierre Mabille Prophecy Cole 'The Shadow of the Second Mother' Sigmund Freud 'The Interpretation of Dreams' GALLERIES + GALLERISTS + INSTITUTIONS The Artists' Garden created by Claire Mander at thecolab.art support via change.org 'Long Live the Artist's Garden' Faro Santander supported by Fundación Banco Santander Freud Museum National Gallery Edinburgh Peggy Guggenheim Tate Gallery
May 13, 2026
Life Legacies and Canvas Portals (SOPHIE VON HELLERMANN)
Guest artist SOPHIE VON HELLERMANN joins MARCELLE JOSEPH to discuss her work via 'Martyr!' by Kaveh Akbar. Originally published in 2024 by Knopf, it portrays bereaved Iranian-American writer, searching for a reason to live. Sophie and Marcelle talks about love, survival sacrifice, guilt, lightness, martyrdom, autofiction, resourcefulness, addiction, mythology, baroque, discovering, uncovering, subconscious, action painting, dark angels, lavender buds, raw pigments, suicidal ideation, time travel, hot stones, fleeting images, crimson flowers, catalyst for change, painting on the walls and walking hand in hand with Turner along the beach in Margate. SOPHIE VON HELLERMANN @sophievonhellerman 'Wabi-Sabi: Untangling the Meaning of Beauty' until 14 September 2026, Paul Smith Space, London Pilar Corrias Gallery London 'Sophie von Hellermann: Letters to a Young Painter' until 13 June, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin 'After a Dream' 30 April - 20 June, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York ARTISTS Caspar David Friedrich Dieter Krieg Francis Bacon Henri Matisse Marlene Dumas JMW Turner Paula Rego Robert Kushner Vincent Van Gogh BOOKS + WRITERS Arthur Conan Doyle 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' Hafez Virginia Woolf 'Mrs Delaware' Rainer Maria Rilke 'Letters to a Young Poet', 'The Panther' Rumi
March 24, 2026
Mind Palaces and Benevolent Djinn (HAROUN HAYWARD)
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
63 total episodes available
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- What is ART FICTIONS?
<p>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. <br /><br />Support via <a href="http://patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST">PATREON</a> or <a href="http://buymeacoffee.com/artfictionspodcast">BUY ME A COFFEE</a> and follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/artfictionspodcast?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==">Art Fictions on Instagram</a> for images of works and links.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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