ART FICTIONS
Episodes
Catch Up with ALICE BROWNE
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 d...
Reconfigured Memories and Watery Connections (ALINE MOTTA)
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist ALINE MOTTA joins PELUMI ODUBANJO to discuss her work via 'Water is a Time Machine' by the artist herself. Originally published in Brazil...
Wild's Eye and Archiving Obsessions (AYO AKINGBADE)
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 stor...
Mayhem Soup and Collaborative Patterning (LAUREN GODFREY)
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Unfathomable Creatures and Bridging Realities (MARCUS COATES)
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 rete...
Symbolic Prose and Personal Politics (HELEN JOHNSON)
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ori...
Closure Difficulties and Performative Reality (ELEONORA AGOSTINI)
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist ELEONORA AGOSTINI joins PELUMI ODUBANJO to discuss her art practice via 'Boxes', a short story featured in 'Elephant and Other Stories' 1...
Social Mobility and Beyond Language (MELANIE JACKSON)
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist MELANIE JACKSON joins artist JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art practice via 'Corey Fah Does Social Mobility' by Isabel Waidner. Published ...
Revealing Histories and Gender Variations (JULIET JACQUES)
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest writer and filmmaker JULIET JACQUES joins artist and writer JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her creative practice via 'Variations' 2021 by the one and ...
Unwavering Sensitivity and Valuing Confusion (ANNA CLEGG)
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist ANNA CLEGG joins curator and critic VANESSA MURRELL to discuss her multi-disciplinary art practice via 'My Loose Thread' by Denis Cooper....
Absent Mothers and Colonised Bodies (OLUKEMI LIJADU)
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist OLUKEMI LIJADU joins curator and PHD researcher PELUMI ODUBANJO to discuss her multi-media art practice through the prism of 'The Stran...
Suppressed Voices and Transformative Communities (RORY PILGRIM)
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist RORY PILGRIM joins author and critic ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss his musically inspired, community-based art practice through the pris...
Word Play and Multiple Meanings (ANNA BARHAM)
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Resistance Acoustics and Hopeful Uprising (MIKHAIL KARIKIS)
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Arbitrary Traditions and Alien Observations (ROSIE GIBBENS)
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist ROSIE GIBBENS joins VANESSA MURRELL of DATEAGLE to discuss her art practice via 'Life Ceremony' by Sayaka Murata, 2022 published by Grant...
Cultural Fear and Self Permission (CERI HAND)
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Second Bodies and Talking Ice (SUSAN SCHUPPLI)
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist SUSAN SCHUPPLI joins art critic and author ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her art practice via 'The Second Body' 2017 by Daisy Hildyard, ...
Disconnected Characters and Contradictory Spiritualism (SOPHIE RUIGROK)
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Dark Humour and Watery Figures (NICOLA BEALING)
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist NICOLA BEALING joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her work via 'Pastoralia' 2020 by George Saunders. Published Riverhead Books, the book cont...
Slow Dancing and Fluid Encounters (FLORENCE PEAKE)
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist FLORENCE PEAKE joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her multi-faceted, performance-led art practice via 'Stone Butch Blues' 1993 by Lesli...
Channelling Spirits and Excluded Histories (JENNIFER HIGGIE)
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Tokarczu...
Rural Reality and Complex Systems (KATIE PRATT)
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Gender Entrapment and Performative Mythologies (ANNA PERACH)
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist ANNA PERACH joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her work via 'The Victorian Chaise Longue' 1953 by Marghanita Laski. The novel describ...
CULTURE EXCHANGE - Artistic Protest and Rightful Sovereignty (PAOLA BALLA)
02 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 p...
CULTURE EXCHANGE - Female Resilience and Bodily Playgrounds (INGRID BERTHON-MOINE)
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist INGRID BERTHON-MOINE joins Elizabeth Fullerton for this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Austra...
CULTURE EXCHANGE - Ghostly Tales and Artistic Lineage (Richard Ayodeji Ikhide)
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist RICHARD AYODEJI IKHIDE joins Jillian Knipe for this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia ...
CULTURE EXCHANGE - Human Vessels and Architectural Fragments (NIKA NEELOVA)
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist NIKA NEELOVA joins Jillian Knipe on this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, ...
Welcome to Art Fictions CULTURE EXCHANGE !
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome and Welcome Back to this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between th...
Mechanical Bodies and Dissected Detritus (HOLLY HENDRY)
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist HOLLY HENDRY joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to chat about her work via Tom McCarthy's 2005 novel 'Remainder' in which the nameless narrator mu...
Shadowy Nuance and Colourful Movement (FIONA GRADY)
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 aest...
Edged Forms and Rhythmic Waves (HANNAH HUGHES)
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 st...
Embodied Violence and Persistent Ambivalence (LUKE BURTON)
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 hi...
Bold Resilience and Rightful Restoration (KAREN McLEAN)
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist KAREN McLEAN joins Elizabeth Fullerton to chat about her work via Colson Whitehead's 2016 novel 'The Underground Railroad' published by D...
Contemplative Cracks and Lo-Fi Tech (DEAN KENNING)
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 revolv...
Seductive Feathers and Brutal Beasts (KATE MccGWIRE)
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guest artist KATE MccGWIRE joins Elizabeth Fullerton to chat about her work via American wildlife scientist Delia Owens' 2018 novel 'Where the Crawdad...
Meandering Mourning and Collaged Reality (FIONA CURRAN)
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 narr...
Theatrical Forms and Shifting Times (LINDSAY SEERS)
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Earthly Nourishment and Landscape Potential (LIZ ELTON)
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Makeshift Staging and Might Happens (MILLY PECK)
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 fi...
Welcome to 2021 with a special Guest Host !
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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, Eli...
CECILIA CHARLTON (and Italo Calvino)
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
HANNAH BROWN (and WH Auden)
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah Brown selects the small but beautiful poem by WH Auden ‘As I Walked Out One Evening'. Written in 1937, it is preoccupied with questions of th...
DANIEL STURGIS (and Nicholson Baker)
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Sturgis selects two books by American author Nicholson Baker - his first novel 'The Mezzanine' published in 1988 and 'Room Temperature' in 1990...
FRANCES RICHARDSON (and Virginia Woolf)
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Frances Richardson selects two short texts by Virginia Woolf - 'The Mark on the Wall' published in 1917 and 'Solid Objects' in 1918. Both begin with a...
JANE HAYES GREENWOOD (and Maggie Nelson)
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Hayes Greenwood selects 'The Argonauts' by Maggie Nelson. Published in 2015, it is a whirlwind fusion of contemporary queer theory, autobiography...
GRACE WOODCOCK (and Octavia Butler)
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Grace Woodcock selects 'Mind of my Mind' by Octavia Butler. Published in 1977, it details the development of a new species of telepaths led by Mary, a...
EMMA COUSIN (and Jean-Paul Sartre)
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Emma Cousin selects the seminal novel 'Nausea' by Jean-Paul Sartre. Published in 1938, it describes Antoine Roquentin's existential crisis which plays...
CHARLEY PETERS (and Charlotte Perkins)
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Charley Peters selects ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Published in 1892, it was inspired by the author’s own experience ...
JORDAN BASEMAN (and Patricia Highsmith)
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Art Fictions ! Jordan Baseman selects ‘Strangers on a Train’ by Patricia Highsmith. Published in 1950, the book tells of Bruno and...
Mixed Tapes - ALICE BROWNE (and Luciana Chetwynd)
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this final episode of Series 1, Alice Browne selects 'Seawater and the Dragon' by Luciana Chetwynd and the Chetwynd Children. Published in 1973, th...
Mixed Tapes - TOM WILMOTT (and William Peter Blatty)
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Wilmott selects 'The Exorcist' by William Peter Blatty. Published in 1971, the novel portrays the wildly disturbing behaviour of 12 year old Regan...
Mixed Tapes - ANDREA V WRIGHT (and Edwin A Abbott)
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Wright selects 'Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions' by theologian, schoolmaster and Anglican priest Edwin A Abbott. Published in 1884, the...
Mixed Tapes - HANNAH LUXTON (and Rebecca Solnit)
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah Luxton selects 'A Field Guide to Getting Lost' by Rebecca Solnit, published by Canongate Books in 2005. We join the author’s drunken debut an...
Mixed Tapes - SIMON LININGTON (and Simon Linington!)
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Linington, visual artist and story writer, has selected his own fiction for this episode. ‘Evangaline Too’ was originally published in New Y...
Mixed Tapes - GRANT FOSTER - part two (and JG Ballard)
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Grant Foster and I pick up where we left off, discussing connections between his work and J G Ballard's 1970 novel 'The Atrocity Exhibition'. Consider...
Mixed Tapes - GRANT FOSTER - part one (and JG Ballard)
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Grant Foster selects 'The Atrocity Exhibition' by J G Ballard, first published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1970. Both artist and writer embrace in equal meas...
Mixed Tapes - ROSALIND DAVIS (and John Berger)
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rosalind Davis - artist, curator, author, educator - and I weave in, out and around her paintings, installations and the mysterious diaries of Hungari...
Mixed Tapes - Welcome to Art Fictions !
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lockdown has given the unharmed among us, opportunities, doubts and challenges in equal measure. The first 'Art Fictions' series, using a mixed bag of...