Rural Reality and Complex Systems (KATIE PRATT)

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, the novel is set in an alpine village and describes grounded charm and limiting isolation against the encroaching industrialisation of urban life.   We talk about the disorganised surface, organic and geometric, the French Alps, industrial revolution, the mass of strike actions across UK industries right now (and for good reason), a certain lack of idealism, sharing of the planet's resources, how communities might organise themselves, and the myriad of invisible, and often complex systems, that structure our lives and Katie's paintings.   PLEASE SUPPORT this podcast via https://www.patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST   KATIE PRATT katiepratt.net instagram katiepratt_artist 'Reverse Parking' curated by Katie Pratt and Peter Lamb, 23 Feb - 12 Mar 2023 Thames-side Studios Main Gallery with Gordon Cheung, Will Cruickshank, Cristallina Fischetti, Oona Grimes, Paul Hosking, Peter Lamb, Katie Pratt   BOOKS 'A Painter of Our Time' 1958 John Berger 'Ways of Seeing' 1972 John Berger 'Why Look at Animals' 2009 John Berger ARTISTS Andrew Bick Franz Haus Jonathan Parsons Johannes Vermeer John Bunker  Jackson Pollock Lee Krasner L S Lowry Matt Dennis Nan Goldin Peter Lamb Rosalind Davis Vera Mulnár Wassily Kandinsky Willem de Kooning OTHER 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' 2022 Guggenheim, New York 'Jean de Florette' 1999 Karl Marx Tate Galleries, London Thames-side Gallery and Studios Turps Painting Course Victoria & Albert Museum, London 'Ways of Seeing' 1972 BBC