Earthly Nourishment and Landscape Potential (LIZ ELTON)

Guest artist LIZ ELTON joins me to chat about her work via Max Porter's 2019 novel 'Lanny'. The story revolves around a young boy named Lanny and his disappearance in the setting of an English village bordered by a forest. Little lad Lanny is as captivating as his author's ability to envelope us deep within the seams of the village's social and ecological networks, where Dead Papa Toothwort oversees all, over all time.    Bouncing off nature and infinite ephemerality, Liz and I go on to discuss her work selected for the John Moores Painting Prize as well as her upcoming residency with the Mark Rothko Memorial Trust. We talk of the constant state of becoming, nourishment, self care, delicate touch, bruising, translucency, landscape, lightness, mortality, composting, ritual, recycling, equality, silk thread, internal shadows, wastage, potential, breakdown, food labour and that fragile layer of soil on which all life depends connecting with our own skin.   (This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)   LIZ ELTON  lizelton.com instagram liz_elton 'John Moores Painting Prize' exhibition at Walker Art Gallery 'Flowers of Romance' group exhibition at White Conduit Projects   ARTISTS Alice McCabe Allyson Keehan, curator Angela de la Cruz Dillwyn Smith Din Q Lê 'The Colony' 2016 Eliza Bennett Elizabeth Murton Eric Ravilious Francisco Goya Jem Finer 'Longplayer' at Trinity Buoy Wharf, longplayer.org Johannes Vermeer 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' 1665 Julie F Hill Katharina Grosse Mark Rothko Michael Landy 'Breakdown' 2001 Michelangelo 'Pieta' ('The Pity') 1498-1499 Paul Bramley, curator Sam Gilliam Sarah Pager William Dyce 'Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858' 1858 Yves Klein   AUTHORS & BOOKS Anna Souter 'Vegetate Project' Anna Tsing 'The Mushroom at the end of the World' 2015 Charlotte Higgins on Michael Landy, 'The Guardian' 27 Jan 2021 Clive King 'Stig of the Dump' 1963 Donna Haraway Frances Hodgson Burnett 'The Secret Garden' 1911 Jane Bennett 'Vibrant Matter : A Political Ecology of Things' 2009 Merlin Sheldrake 'Entangled Life : How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures' 2020  Norman Bryson 'Looking at the Overlooked' 1990 Robin Wall Kimmerer Steven Connor 'The Book of Skin' 2004 Sue Stuart-Smith 'The Well Gardened Mind' 2020 T S Eliot 'Burnt Norton' 1935 Thomas Hardy Thomas Piketty 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' 2013 Tim Dee 'Landfill' 2018 Timothy Morton 'Being Ecological' 2018 Tracy Chevalier 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' 1999   GALLERIES 163 Gallery, London, juliebentley.co.uk South London Gallery Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool White Conduit Projects, London   FILM & TELEVISION & RADIO 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' 2003, director Peter Webber 'Princess Mononoke' 2001, director Hayao Miyazaki 'The Archers' 1950-ongoing BBC Radio 4   PLACES Belarus Chew Valley Lake, Somerset UK Harris, Outer Hebrides Scotland UK Latvia Lithuania Maeshowe, Orkney Scotland UK Pegwell Bay, UK Ring of Brodgar, Orkney Scotland UK St Kilda, archipelago off Scotland UK   OTHER A P Fitzpatrick Fine Art Materials Artangel  Mark Rothko Memorial Fund Maye E Bruce, inventor of 'Quick Return' compost system 1935 Slade School of Fine Art Wimbledon School of Art