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, internal panic, male strippers, 18th century working class fabrics, Goya being God, cruelty, Stasi prison, cave people, hazardous shitholes, bum cracks, lungs filling with blood, penis simulators, pictures popping up behind your eyes, boring objects, unaffordable medical care, apprenticeships, being trapped, funny voices, hot sexy breeding age, slogans of false hope, bags of human waste, hiding what's underneath and the tiny details that make up a life.
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NICOLA BEALING
nicolabealing.co.uk
@nicola_bealing
'The Borough' at Matt's Gallery London 15 March - 16 April 2023
ARTISTS
Alice Browne
Alice Neel
Benjamin Britten
Erich Heckel
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Francisco Goya
George Grosz
Hieronymus Bosch
Montagu Slater
Otto Dix
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Sidney Nolan
BOOKS + AUTHORS
Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World' 1932
Broadside Ballads
E M Forster
Federico Garcia Lorca 'Blood Wedding' 1932
'Face' magazine
George Crabbe 'Peter Grimes' Letter XXII of 'The Borough' 1810
George Saunders 'A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life' 2021
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS + GALLERISTS
British Museum
Foundling Museum
Museum of Cornish Life (Helston)
Royal Cornwall Museum (Truro)
Salisbury Art Centre
Tim Dixon
CULTURE EXCHANGE - Ghostly Tales and Artistic Lineage (Richard Ayodeji Ikhide)
CULTURE EXCHANGE - Human Vessels and Architectural Fragments (NIKA NEELOVA)
Welcome to Art Fictions CULTURE EXCHANGE !
Mechanical Bodies and Dissected Detritus (HOLLY HENDRY)
Shadowy Nuance and Colourful Movement (FIONA GRADY)
Edged Forms and Rhythmic Waves (HANNAH HUGHES)
Embodied Violence and Persistent Ambivalence (LUKE BURTON)
Bold Resilience and Rightful Restoration (KAREN McLEAN)
Contemplative Cracks and Lo-Fi Tech (DEAN KENNING)
Seductive Feathers and Brutal Beasts (KATE MccGWIRE)
Meandering Mourning and Collaged Reality (FIONA CURRAN)
Theatrical Forms and Shifting Times (LINDSAY SEERS)
Earthly Nourishment and Landscape Potential (LIZ ELTON)
Makeshift Staging and Might Happens (MILLY PECK)
Welcome to 2021 with a special Guest Host !
CECILIA CHARLTON (and Italo Calvino)
HANNAH BROWN (and WH Auden)
DANIEL STURGIS (and Nicholson Baker)
FRANCES RICHARDSON (and Virginia Woolf)
JANE HAYES GREENWOOD (and Maggie Nelson)
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