Dark Humour and Watery Figures (NICOLA BEALING)

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.   PLEASE SUPPORT this podcast via https://patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST   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    

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