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