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ART FICTIONS CULTURE EXCHANGE

Date 16 Feb - guest INGRID BERTHON-MOINE & 16 Mar – guest YHONNIE SCARCE
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Overview

ART FICTIONS is a fortnightly podcast across all major international podcast platforms including Spotify and Apple. Launched in May 2020, it aims to open up access to art via fiction. It is a way of talking in parallel to the art practice, keeping it personal and avoiding alienating artspeak. While the grassroots audience is art industry based, the broader, first priority audience are those on the cusp of the artworld who want a way in and, for whom, fiction is well in their comfort zone.

About ART FICTIONS CULTURE EXCHANGE 

Art Fictions Culture Exchange will take place until March 22. Elizabeth Fullerton and Jillian Knipe will discuss the artistic practices of their guests in the usual way – through the prism of their selected piece of fiction- though, for Culture Exchange, there’ll be a particular tilt to cultural identity; the boundaries, hurdles, opportunities and possibilities that curb and open up the artist’s practice, as a result of their sense of culture being upended or especially challenged in a way that is unique to each life story.

Guests:

13 Oct – Introduction to CULTURE EXCHANGE series

20 Oct – NIKA NEELOVA

17 Nov – NDIDI EMÉFIELE

15 Dec – MARGO NGAWA NEALE

12 Jan – RICHARD AYOADE-IDHIKE

16 Feb – INGRID BERTHON-MOINE

16 Mar – YHONNIE SCARCE

Hosts & Guests

  • Jillian Knipe, founder and host of Art Fictions

    Jillian Knipe relocated from Melbourne, Australia to the UK in 2001. Having completed her Masters of Fine Art in London, she now divides her time between being an artist, podcaster, art writer and presenter. Stemming from her own fractured family history, shifting countries cemented Jillian’s already established curiosity in origins and lineage, and the fluid connections between these. This led her on a compelling path, across psychoanalysis, biology, philosophy and place, and informs her art practice today, with a particular focus on abstract painting. Jillian created the Art Fictions podcast in 2019 which is now into its fourth season and has already featured some of the UK’s most fascinating contemporary artists, from up and coming to those under the radar, spanning contemporary to classical texts which stretch across the globe, including Maggie Nelson, Octavia Butler, JM Coetzee, Virginia Woolf and Juni’chirō Tanizaki. Jillian is regularly commissioned to write catalogue essays and critical pieces for art publications and often chairs public discussions between artists. Prior to her art career, Jillian’s economics degree sparked an interest in socio-economics, leading her into behavioural, data-based communications and, eventually, commercial art direction.

  • Elizabeth Fullerton, guest host of Art Fictions

    Elizabeth Fullerton is an art writer and critic and has been published in numerous international publications, including the New York Times, The Guardian and The Financial Times. A regular contributor to art magazines, such as Art in America, ARTnews, and Studio International, she has contributed to several books, most recently African Artists (2021) and Great Women Artists (2019, both Phaidon). Elizabeth is a regular guest host on Art Fictions podcast, with an interest in artists who have had a particularly difficult struggle to be heard, whether that be from their race, gender or sexual preference, perhaps shaped by the injustices within her own cultural ancestry. She has led discussions with a range of incredible, and somewhat overlooked, mid-career artists including Trinidad-born Karen McLean and multidisciplinary artist Lindsay Seers who has exhibited numerous times in Australia . Prior to specialising in art writing, Elizabeth was a foreign correspondent for Reuters, with postings in Mexico and Vienna.