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Platform 2023 - Reading and viewing lists

13 September 2023

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:

Jes Fan (2019), In Flux

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:

Lauren Cornell, Ed Halter and Johanna Burton, (2015), Mass Effect Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century

Audre Lorde, (1984), Sister Outsider

Lois Lowry, (1993), The Giver

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. 

Always Already. Podcast. ‘Ep. 57 – Sylvia Wynter, Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom’. Released: 28 June 2018

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