Seductive Feathers and Brutal Beasts (KATE MccGWIRE)

Guest artist KATE MccGWIRE

joins Elizabeth Fullerton to chat about her work via American wildlife scientist Delia Owens' 2018 novel 'Where the Crawdads Sing'. In an ode to the beauty and violence of nature, the story centres around wild "marsh girl" Kya Clark. Abandoned and isolated from childhood, young Kya relies on nature to teach her the basics of survival as well as deluding her that one day she will be rescued. Interaction with other humans provides a whole different set of support and threatening challenges. 

Identifying with Kya's barefoot 'n' wild soul, Kate MccGwire and Elizabeth Fullerton share stories of herons, crows, eagles, magpies, blackbirds, turkeys, pheasants, tropicbirds and the confounding snobbiness around pigeons and doves who are both part of the Columbidae family. They go on to explore snakes, oozing, gushing, skin, bones, intestines and scrotum' as well as darkness, resilience, rapture, seductions, repulsion, calm, turbulence, obsessiveness, working intensely, choir singing and Kate achieving a distinction for her dissertation at the Royal College despite being dyslexic. 

(This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)

KATE MccGWIRE

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'Cavort' 2020

'Sluice' 2009

'Sominal' 2019

ARTISTS & DESIGNERS & PERFORMERS

Akram Khan

Berlinde de Bruyckere

Doris Salcedo

Eva Hesse

Helen Chadwick

Helmut Lang

Hermès

Lancelot 'Capability' Brown

Mona Hatoum

Robert Adam 

Thomas Chippendale

BOOKS

Annie Proulx 'Barkskins' 2016

Douglas Stuart 'Shuggie Bain' 2020

Khaled Hosseini 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' 2007

Margaret Atwood 'Dearly: Poems' 2020

Tim Winton 'The Shepherd’s Hut' 2018

GALLERIES & ART DESTINATIONS

Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire 

Grand Palais Éphémère 'Art Paris' 2021 contemporary art fair

Harewood House, Leeds

The Lowry, Manchester

SERIES

'It’s a Sin' written by Russel T Davies

MUSIC

Benjamin Britten 'Peter Grimes' 1945

Henry Purcell 'Hear my prayer, O Lord' 1682

Henry Purcell 'Lord, How Long Wilt Thou Be Angry'