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Milly Peck

Chats with Artists in Lockdown

ART FICTIONS

Hannah Hughes

Dean Kenning

Anna Perach

Maggie Nelson

John Berger

Rebecca Solnit

Kate MccGwire

Paola Balla

Katherine Bradford

Rose Wylie

Bedwyr Williams

Charlie Gray

Tom James

Louise Ashcroft

Paul Carey-Kent

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Guest artist MILLY PECK joins me to chat about her work via Alan Ayckbourn's play 'Taking Steps - A Farce'. Published in 1981 by Haydonning Ltd and first performed at Stephen Joseph Theatre in 1979, the story revolves around a Victorian manor house in faltering disrepair. While the characters upstairs and downstairs their way around three storeys, the play is actually performed on only one floor so that various scenes interact simultaneously. It's then a cacophony of mishaps, misunderstandings and misdirections. Elizabeth wants to leave Roland. Roland wants to buy this tremendous house from Leslie for Elizabeth. Mark wants to marry Kitty. Kitty wants to leave Mark. Tristram, the junior solicitor, is just utterly confused about what's happening and where and by whom, and if all those strange noises are thanks to a resident ghost.    Milly and I go on to discuss her solo exhibitions, most recently at Vitrine Gallery in Basel, her upcoming residency at British School at Rome and all the work inbetween. Mentions go to foley sound production, the physicality of the stage, playing with dimensions, scale, collage, flattening, inflating, puppeteers, backstage antics, confusing performance with reality, implicating the audience, dark elements shrouded in comedy, hands in gloves, hand in black and hands holding celery.    (This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)   MILLY PECK millypeck.com instagram millypeck 'A Matter of Routine' Vitrine Gallery Basel solo exhibition  'Loud Knock' Matts Gallery solo exhibition 'Pressure Head' Assembly Point solo exhibition Works mentioned: 'Alight', 'Moquette', 'The Unforgiving Hour', 'Straphangers'   ARTISTS Amelia Barrett (performer at Milly's solo exhibition at Assembly Point) Andrea Montagne Art Green Edward Hopper Emma Cousin ('Chats in Lockdown' podcast host) Jordan Baseman (Royal College tutor and Art Fictions Episode 10) Konrad Klapheck Nick Mauss Steve McQueen ('Deadpan' 1997) William Hogarth ('A Rake's Progress' 1732-1734)   ACTORS &amp; DIRECTORS Bong Joon-ho (South Korean director, screenwriter, producer) Buster Keaton (silent movies) Charlie Kaufman (American screenwriter, producer, director, novelist) David Thewlis Imelda Staunton  Mark Ruffalo Robin Herford (British Theatre Director) Sir Matthew Bourne OBE (choreographer) Toby Jones    GALLERIES &amp; THEATRES Assembly Point, London  Goldsmiths CCA, London ('Solos' 2020, 'How! Chicago Imagists' 2019) Kunsthalle, Basel Switzerland Little Angel Theatre, Islington London Matt's Gallery, London National Theatre Archives Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford UK Sir John Soane's Museum, London Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough UK Vitrine Gallery, London and Basel Switzerland   PLAYS 'A Chorus of Disapproval' 'Fantastic Mr Fox' 'House and Garden' (Alan Ayckbourn dyptich) 'Mr What Not' (Alan Ayckbourn, where the central character does not speak and, otherwise, there is speech and sound) 'Noises Off' 'Relatively Speaking' (Alan Ayckbourn) 'The Red Shoes'   BOOKS &amp; MAGAZINES 'American Zoo: A Sociological Safari' 2015 David Grazien 'Frieze' magazine (review by Kito Nedo 2 Dec 2020) 'Feel Free' 2018 Zadie Smith   FILMS 'Anomalisa' 2015 'Berbarian Sound Studio' 2012 (also performed at Donmar Warehouse) 'Birdman: The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance' 2014  'Dark Waters' 2019 'Snowpiercer' 2013 (based on French graphic novel 'Le Transperceneige' by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette) 'Steamboat Bill Junior' 1928

Guest artist MILLY PECK joins me to chat about her work via Alan Ayckbourn's play 'Taking Steps - A Farce'. Published in 1981 by Haydonning Ltd and first performed at Stephen Joseph Theatre in 1979, the story revolves around a Victorian manor house in faltering disrepair. While the characters upstairs and downstairs their way around three storeys, the play is actually performed on only one floor so that various scenes interact simultaneously. It's then a cacophony of mishaps, misunderstandings and misdirections. Elizabeth wants to leave Roland. Roland wants to buy this tremendous house from Leslie for Elizabeth. Mark wants to marry Kitty. Kitty wants to leave Mark. Tristram, the junior solicitor, is just utterly confused about what's happening and where and by whom, and if all those strange noises are thanks to a resident ghost.  Milly and I go on to discuss her solo exhibitions, most recently at Vitrine Gallery in Basel, her upcoming residency at British School at Rome and all the work inbetween. Mentions go to foley sound production, the physicality of the stage, playing with dimensions, scale, collage, flattening, inflating, puppeteers, backstage antics, confusing performance with reality, implicating the audience, dark elements shrouded in comedy, hands in gloves, hand in black and hands holding celery.  (This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions) MILLY PECK <a href="http://millypeck.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">millypeck.com</a> instagram millypeck 'A Matter of Routine' Vitrine Gallery Basel solo exhibition  'Loud Knock' Matts Gallery solo exhibition 'Pressure Head' Assembly Point solo exhibition Works mentioned: 'Alight', 'Moquette', 'The Unforgiving Hour', 'Straphangers' ARTISTS Amelia Barrett (performer at Milly's solo exhibition at Assembly Point) Andrea Montagne Art Green Edward Hopper Emma Cousin ('Chats in Lockdown' podcast host) Jordan Baseman (Royal College tutor and Art Fictions Episode 10) Konrad Klapheck Nick Mauss Steve McQueen ('Deadpan' 1997) William Hogarth ('A Rake's Progress' 1732-1734) ACTORS &amp; DIRECTORS Bong Joon-ho (South Korean director, screenwriter, producer) Buster Keaton (silent movies) Charlie Kaufman (American screenwriter, producer, director, novelist) David Thewlis Imelda Staunton  Mark Ruffalo Robin Herford (British Theatre Director) Sir Matthew Bourne OBE (choreographer) Toby Jones  GALLERIES &amp; THEATRES Assembly Point, London  Goldsmiths CCA, London ('Solos' 2020, 'How! Chicago Imagists' 2019) Kunsthalle, Basel Switzerland Little Angel Theatre, Islington London Matt's Gallery, London National Theatre Archives Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford UK Sir John Soane's Museum, London Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough UK Vitrine Gallery, London and Basel Switzerland PLAYS 'A Chorus of Disapproval' 'Fantastic Mr Fox' 'House and Garden' (Alan Ayckbourn dyptich) 'Mr What Not' (Alan Ayckbourn, where the central character does not speak and, otherwise, there is speech and sound) 'Noises Off' 'Relatively Speaking' (Alan Ayckbourn) 'The Red Shoes' BOOKS &amp; MAGAZINES 'American Zoo: A Sociological Safari' 2015 David Grazien 'Frieze' magazine (review by Kito Nedo 2 Dec 2020) 'Feel Free' 2018 Zadie Smith FILMS 'Anomalisa' 2015 'Berbarian Sound Studio' 2012 (also performed at Donmar Warehouse) 'Birdman: The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance' 2014  'Dark Waters' 2019 'Snowpiercer' 2013 (based on French graphic novel 'Le Transperceneige' by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette) 'Steamboat Bill Junior' 1928

Makeshift Staging and Might Happens (MILLY PECK)

Milly Peck and I talk about being back in the studio after what felt to her like an interminable long weekend. We talk about crazy paving and marking time by making paths with rubble. We talk about graphic gaps and borders around things and hating soil and ski gloves. We talk about drawing and Milly gets into the drawings she's been making as an opportunity to explore things she wouldn't in sculpture. We talk about playing with shadows and not still life. We talk about how Milly works site specifically and how she relies on using the memory as stand in for looking too much. We talk about her process of cutting things away, off cuts and graphic shapes and touch on how she uses paint, which came in handy when her mum spilled wine on her work! We talk about fake food, going through the motions and beveled edges. We think about the objects and motifs that appear often in her work - things with volumes that can contract and expand. We mention function, the genius of Alan Ayckborn and stage sets. We talk about the visual mind map on Milly's studio wall joining the dots between Edward Hopper, Mantegna and comics. We end on dogs keeping you normal and being good on your own.   Image:  Untitled. Drawing made in lockdown. a3 size 29 x 42cm. Coloured pencil on paper   Links: Www.millypeck.com @millypeck  http://www.vitrinegallery.com/ http://www.eastbristolcontemporary.com/exhibitions/023/  ---   Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/emma-cousin/support

Milly Peck and I talk about being back in the studio after what felt to her like an interminable long weekend. We talk about crazy paving and marking time by making paths with rubble. We talk about graphic gaps and borders around things and hating soil and ski gloves. We talk about drawing and Milly gets into the drawings she's been making as an opportunity to explore things she wouldn't in sculpture. We talk about playing with shadows and not still life. We talk about how Milly works site specifically and how she relies on using the memory as stand in for looking too much. We talk about her process of cutting things away, off cuts and graphic shapes and touch on how she uses paint, which came in handy when her mum spilled wine on her work! We talk about fake food, going through the motions and beveled edges. We think about the objects and motifs that appear often in her work - things with volumes that can contract and expand. We mention function, the genius of Alan Ayckborn and stage sets. We talk about the visual mind map on Milly's studio wall joining the dots between Edward Hopper, Mantegna and comics. We end on dogs keeping you normal and being good on your own.  Image:  Untitled. Drawing made in lockdown. a3 size 29 x 42cm. Coloured pencil on paper Links: <a href="http://Www.millypeck.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Www.millypeck.com</a> @millypeck  <a href="http://www.vitrinegallery.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.vitrinegallery.com/</a> <a href="http://www.eastbristolcontemporary.com/exhibitions/023/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.eastbristolcontemporary.com/exhibitions/023/</a> --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/emma-cousin/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/emma-cousin/support</a>

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