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Guest artist MARY RAMSDEN joins painter and producer JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her practice via 'The Universe is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story' by Brian Swimme. Published in 1994 by First published in 1984 by Bear and Company, it conveys a dialogue between a young person and a wise elder, exploring science, cosmology and spirituality. Mary and Jillian's conversation encompasses osmosis, nothing, after-images, noticing, protons, joy, cosmology, confusion, contradiction, unification, no-thing-ness, particles, universe, dragon, potentiality, transformation, electrons, stickiness, moonlight, quantum fluctuations, unfinished sentences, dissolving egos, close attention, contained memory, influx charge, generative nothingness, cosmic party, porous people, holding energy, remembering beauty, quantum theory, rowdy space capsule, potential for change, collective human consciousness, states of being and the production of beauty MARY RAMSDEN Pilar Corrias 'The Feeling of What Happens' 10 September - 7 November 2026 PODCASTS 'Critics at Large' The New Yorker 'New & Ancient' The Cosmos Watching Itself 2019 'On Being' with Krista Tippett 'The Mystery of Consciousness' 2026 'On Being' with Krista Tippett 'Psychedelic Science and Radical Healing' 2026 'On Being' with Krista Tippett 'John O Donohue' 2008 'The Daily' New York Times 'The Next Big Idea' ARTISTS Agnes Pelton Agnes Martin Alice Browne Barbara Kruger Becca Pelly-Fry Capability Brown Cecilia Charlton Édouard Vuillard Ernest Hemmingway Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Francesco Clemente Hilma af Klimt (The Five) Holly Stevenson Leonard Cohen Leonardo da Vinci Pierre Bonnard Qian Qian Robert Morris Tom Waits Wassily Kandinsky WRITERS + BOOKS Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker 'Journey of the Universe' Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry 'The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era' Brian Swimme and Monica Deraspe-Bolles 'The Story of the Noosephere' Brian Swimme 'Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe' Claire Louise Bennett 'Big Kiss, Bye Bye' Italo Calvino 'The Complete Cosmicomics' Stewart Lee Victoria Chang 'With My Back to the World' THEORISTS + SCIENTISTS Antonio Damasio - Portuguese-American neuroscientist, neurologist, author Bernardo Kastrup - Dutch philosopher, computer engineer, author 'Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A Straightforward Summary of the 21st Century's Only Plausible Metaphysics' Christof Koch - German American cognitive scientist, neurophysiologist, computational neuroscientist, author David Chalmers - Australian philosopher, author, cognitive scientist specialising in philosophy of mind and language John O'Donohue - Irish poet, author, priest, Hegelian philosopher E F Schumacher - German-born statistician, economist, author Michael Pollan - American journalist, professor, author Neils Bohr - Danish theoretical physicist, philosopher, Nobel prizewinner Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - French Jesuit priest, scientist, palaeontologist, philosopher, mystic, teacher Thomas Berry - American Catholic priest, cultural historian, author ORGANISATIONS Institute of Collaborative Studies Louisiana Channel Melin Tregwynt  

Guest artist CLAIRE BREWSTER joins painter and producer JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her practice via 'The Jeeves Collection' by P G Wodehouse. First published as a book by George Newnes in 1919, it tells of the daily interactions between a highly competent valet - Reginald Jeeves – who is referred to as Jeeves – and his wealthy, idle master - Bertie Wooster. Bertie and his chums are constantly getting into a pickle and Jeeves is constantly getting them out. Each story describes the interplay between dreaming and order in a timeless world. Claire and Jillian talk about freedom, drifters, sprites, storytelling, menopause, dreamers, timelessness, tinkety tonk, interior design, unhelpful thinking, fantasy worlds, growing up, delayed gratification, art consultants, murmurations of starlings, Day of the Dead and relationships in a chocolate bar. CLAIRE BREWSTER clairebrewster.com @claire_brewster Claire Brewster Artist ARTISTS + DESIGNERS + PERFORMERS Dirk Bogard Francisco de Zurbarán Frida Khalo Jonathan Cecil Jorgé Canete Kiki Smith Stephen Fry BOOKS + WRITERS Enid Blyton 'The Magic Faraway Tree' Harold Pinter Lewis Caroll 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' P G Wodehouse 'My Man Jeeves' Robin Maugham 'The Servant' William Somerset Maugham ART ORGANISATIONS + ASSOCIATES Sigrid Kirk Turps Banana    

Guest artist QIAN QIAN joins independent curator, consultant and Reike instructor BECCA PELLY-FRY to discuss her work via 'Cosmicomics' by Italo Calvino. First published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968, Cosmicomics is a collection of short stories, mostly circling around a character called Qfwfq, which connect to real events in the history of the universe. Becca and Qian Qian talk about parody, craters, peduncles, dinosaurs, fingernails, eclipses, tadpoles, surrealism, flipping, bitumen, seahorses, lentils, cartilage, honey, moulds, pollens, worms, resin, pepper, gravity, acrobatics , Galileo, astrophysics , labyrinth, apparatus, trilobites , embyro, starch crystals, sturgeon eggs, gelatinous matter, mineral salts, combustion residue, scabby terrain, Big Bang , scientific theory, amazing creativity, deep time, human urgency , banal mundanity, Milky Way, judging others, zinc cliffs, moon milk, imaginative worlds, Chinese medicine, resolution changes, zombie movie Monty Python, watercolor paintings, Scottish countryside, scientific imagery, hero's journey , space bodies, celestial bodies, measuring devices, zen philosophy, black hole, sepia tint, spiritual rebirth, cosmic egg , world building, participatory art, energetic realm, spiritual journey, drinking whiskey, evolutionary biology, invisible radiation, ancient civilization, traditional Buddhism, dusk til dawn, the Italian resistance, grumpy old men, thousand armed being, flights of fancy, pillars of ice, reasoning and logic, stream of consciousness, cosmic know-it-all, climbing onto the moon, being dragged into the story, combining science and literature, the dream inside the dream inside the dream, and the light of near-death experiences. QIAN QIAN qianqianart.org @ivyivymuami 'Fountains of Enceladus' Lychee One 30 April - 30 May 2026 'La Mariposa (Butterfly Woman)' Soho Revue 12 Feb - 15 March 2025 BECCA PELLY-FRY beccapellyfry.com @beccapf 'La Mariposa' ARTISTS Cecilia Charlton Holly Stevenson Lee Bontecue Leonora Carrington Marina Abramovic Takis (Panayiotis Vassilakis) William Blake BOOKS + FILM + WRITERS Alejandro Jodorowsky 'The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky' Alejandro Jodorowsky 'The Holy Mountain' Clarissa Pinkola Estês 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' Galileo Galilei Italo Calvino 'If On a Winter's Night a Stranger' Italo Calvino 'Invisible Cities' Julio Cortázar 'Cronopios Famas' Monty Python 'Life of Brian' GALLERIES + EVENTS Gallery 66 Lychee One Open Art Folke Soho Revue

Guest artist HOLLY STEVENSON joins Freud Museum curator VANESSA BONI and JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her work via 'Down Below' by Leonora Carrington. The original manuscript was "lost", so it was re-written via dictation and first published in 1944 in the surrealist journal VVV. Having fled from Nazi occupied France after her lover Max Ernst was arrested, the book describes first hand Carrington's traumatic confinement in a mental institution in Spain and her escape, eventually settling in Mexico City. It also connects directly with her 1940 painting of the same name.   We discuss hybrids, psychosis, illness, seamstresses, figurines, transference, trauma, worms, bedsheets, potency, alchemy, lucidity, fetishes, limbs, candy, autofiction, worms, visions, rebirth, Oedipus, transference, psychoanalysis, surrealism, netsuki, genius, creative coherence, brutal rape, civil war, role reversals, mythological beasts, defending insanity, hearing ghosts, colour shifts, inner transformation, wild tiger, symptomatic gut, dynamic unconscious, mythic underworld, female identity, symbolic structures, being celiac, the drive to create, Nazi occupied France, the surrealist imagination, borders of knowledge, structure of the unconscious, orange blossom poisoning, green as a magic colour, the studio and the couch, the Santander sketchbooks, and alternative ways of engaging with reality. 'Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal' curated by Vanessa Boni at Freud Museum 25 March - 10 August 2026 HOLLY STEVENSON holly-stevenson.co.uk @holly_stevenson MAC Museum of Contemporary Art Gibellina City of Culture The Sainsbury Centre RAMM The Royal Albert Memorial in Exeter 3 Oct 2026 - 21 Feb 2027 'Living Labrynths: Art and Fungi' 'Holly Stevenson: Tracing the Irretraceable' 14 May - 29 June 2025 including essays by Elizabeth Fullerton, Sharon Kivland and Emily Steer 'The Debate' Frieze 2023 curated by Fatos Üstek 'Another Mother' 2022 The Artist's Garden  'Mother Art Prize' 2020 ARTISTS  Daniel Buren Dorothea Tanning Leonora Carrington Louise Bourgeois Max Ernst Tracey Emin Salvador Dali BOOKS + WRITERS + THEORISTS Ali Smith Professor Alyce Mahon  Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism 'Book of Symbols' Carl Jung Jane McAdam Freud Leonora Carrington 'The Debutante', 'The Hearing Trumpet', 'The Oval Lady' Marina Warner Mikhail Bulgakov 'The Master and Margharita' Pierre Mabille  Prophecy Cole 'The Shadow of the Second Mother' Sigmund Freud 'The Interpretation of Dreams'  GALLERIES + GALLERISTS + INSTITUTIONS The Artists' Garden created by Claire Mander at thecolab.art support via change.org 'Long Live the Artist's Garden' Faro Santander supported by Fundación Banco Santander Freud Museum National Gallery Edinburgh Peggy Guggenheim Tate Gallery  

Guest artist SOPHIE VON HELLERMANN joins MARCELLE JOSEPH to discuss her work via 'Martyr!' by Kaveh Akbar.  Originally published in 2024 by Knopf, it portrays bereaved Iranian-American writer, searching for a reason to live. Sophie and Marcelle talks about love, survival sacrifice, guilt, lightness, martyrdom, autofiction, resourcefulness, addiction, mythology, baroque, discovering, uncovering, subconscious, action painting, dark angels, lavender buds, raw pigments, suicidal ideation, time travel, hot stones, fleeting images, crimson flowers, catalyst for change, painting on the walls and walking hand in hand with Turner along the beach in Margate. SOPHIE VON HELLERMANN @sophievonhellerman 'Wabi-Sabi: Untangling the Meaning of Beauty' until 14 September 2026, Paul Smith Space, London  Pilar Corrias Gallery London 'Sophie von Hellermann: Letters to a Young Painter' until 13 June, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin 'After a Dream' 30 April - 20 June, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York ARTISTS  Caspar David Friedrich Dieter Krieg Francis Bacon Henri Matisse Marlene Dumas JMW Turner Paula Rego Robert Kushner Vincent Van Gogh BOOKS + WRITERS Arthur Conan Doyle 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' Hafez Virginia Woolf 'Mrs Delaware' Rainer Maria Rilke 'Letters to a Young Poet', 'The Panther' Rumi