Our 2023 Platform Artists are sharing their reading and viewing lists to accompany their upcoming exhibitions. Find out more about our Platform artists here.
Helen Kohl: Untitled (Elements of the Intimacene) + Untitled (The Heir of the Day)
Oxford Brookes | 21 Sept – 1 October
Helen Kohl’s practice centres around poetic observations of life through tactile and emotional thinking. Find out what inspired her work.
Reading List:
Gaston Bachelard (1994),The Poetics of Space
Ursula K. Le Guin (1986),The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Donna Haraway (2016), Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene Gaston
Astrida Neimanis (2017), Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology
Viewing List:
Lara Fluxa, Instagram @larafluxa
Florence Peake (2022), Interior Pull
Teän Roberts (2023), The Way of the Eel
George Marrington: Washed Up
The University of Reading | 5 – 15 October
George Marrington constructs paintings from an archive of images captured by himself and those close to him, exploring themes of adolescence and uncertainty.
Reading List:
Peter Doig, Adrian Searle, Kitty Scott, and Catherine Grenier, (2015). Peter Doig
Petra Lange-Berndt, (2015). Materiality
Michael J.Prokopow, (2021), Hurvin Anderson
Viewing List:
Life Between Islands (2021), Group Exhibition, Tate
Nicolas Holiber: Shape-Shifter (2022), Exhibition, Unit, London
The Morgan Stanley Exhibition: Peter Doig (2022), The Courtauld
Sarah Catterall: Assorted Moments
Ruskin School of Art | 19 – 29 October
Sarah Catterall is an artist and filmmaker. Curiosity drives their intuition as they work with different materials and collaborators, gathering assorted moments from the past to the present.
Reading List:
Audre Lorde, (1984), Sister Outsider
Laura Marks, (2000), The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment and the Senses
Jenni Sorkin, (2021), Art in California
Viewing List:
Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival, (2016), dir. Fabrizio Terranova
Inventing the Future,(2020), dir. Isiah Medina
A Brush With… Podcast. A brush with…Ai Wei Wei. Released: 23 February 2022.