Mind Palaces and Benevolent Djinn (HAROUN HAYWARD)

Guest artist HAROUN HAYWARD joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss his work via 'The Sea The Sea' by Iris Murdoch. Winner of the prestigious Booker Prize, it was first published in 1978 by Chatto & Windus, and most recently by Vintage Classics as part of Penguin Books. The chaotic story centres around Charles Arrowby, a director, actor and playwright who has retired from his highly glamorous London life to become something of a hermit in a near isolated house by the sea. Just like in slapstick theatre he bumps up against a myriad of characters, including his buddhist cousin James, his childhood sweetheart Mary Hartley Fitch, ex lover Lizzie Scherer whose life he destabilises once again, and Lizzie’s ex lover before Charles - Peregrine Arbelow, the Irish drunk. Get in touch with us via [email protected] Buy us a coffee! Support us on Patreon! Haroun and Jillian's conversation encompasses skateboarding, cancer, philosophy, thalassophobia, repetition, serpents, Japan, overthinking, identity, unclean, synesthesia, graffiti, enlightenment, hippiedom, apophenia, keystones, dog poo, constructivism, cascading failures, narrative honesty, suprematicism, magic realism, suppressing thought, apocalypse fish, landscape painting, self flagellation, vorticism, etching plates, herding cats, horror films, zombie formalism, lack of soul and poetry, and giving up painting to be a fry cook. HAROUN HAYWARD harounhayward.com @harounhayward 'Path Through Trees' 30 May - 1 Nov 2026 ARTISTS + WORKS Ben Nicholson Ben Westerby Bridget Riley Carolin Walker Chris Offili Édouard Vuillard Frankie Knuckles Hans Memling Hergé 'The Adventures of Tintin' Hokusai 'The Great Wave' Model 500 Paul Nash 'The Wanderer'  Paul Nash 'Path through Trees' Peter Doig Pieter Bruegel the Elder Philip Guston 'I Paint What I Want to See' Sonia Delaunay Shezad Dawood Ukiyo-e Wassily Kandinsky Wilhelmina Barnes Graham Winifred Nicholson WRITERS + BOOKS Edward James Gabriel García Márquez Haruki Murakami Iris Murdoch 'The Black Prince' + 'The Sublime and the Beautiful Revisited' + 'The Severed Head'  John Burnside 'Black Cat Bone'  Kim Sloan 'Places of the Mind: British Watercolour Landscapes 1850-1950'  Maurice Merleau-Ponty Tom McCarthy 'Tintin and the Secret of Literature' William Shakespeare 'King Lear' + 'The Tempest' ARTS ORGANISATIONS Goldsmiths Hales Gallery Indigo Madder - Kritika Sharma Kunsthistorisches Museum Pallant House Tate St Ives Thamesside Studios Turner Contemporary West Dean College Zwirner Gallery