The Knot Book Shop Podcast

Julien Ceccaldi

Julien Ceccaldi was born in 1987 in Montréal, Canada. He lives and works in New York.Through painting, drawing and comics, Ceccaldi depicts characters in search of love and success. Inspired by the archetypes of the Shoujo manga tradition, his stories focus on personal and sentimental relationships involving androgynous beings. His body of work depicts the intersection of cute and morbid, and conveys an interest in the constraints of fashion and public image. He has participated in several exhibitions in institutions and galleries including the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; House of Gaga, Mexico City; Jenny’s, New York; and Lomex, New York.

Alan Michael

Alan Michael is a Scottish Painter based in London. Alan explores the intersection of fact and fiction, image production, and the ever-changing nature of cities. His works depict urban life as a space where numerous thoughts and ideas coexist, interact, and change. By using language and fragments of images in his paintings, he decontextualizes the original meaning and subtly shifts attention. His work challenges the linear evolution of visual culture and embraces the collision of various influences and cultural references.We discuss several specific shows such as ones "London Foam", "Matchmakers", "Wonder Workers" and ones held at Jans Kaps & Jennys New York. Other topics like Alans Collabrative Publication with Artist Lucy McKenzie "Unlawful Assembly" & his ideation and process for each of his project's are also explored as well as much more.

Stuart McKenzie

Back and newly presented by Miss Issey Kang, For the 3rd Episode of the podcast we have Stuart Mckenzie Stuart McKenzie is an artist, illustrator, poet and musician. His work explores the performance of self through materiality, manifested through painting, poetry, performance and objects. McKenzie has exhibited at TG Gallery Nottingham, MIART Milan, Umwelt Mode Basel,Dinner Party Gallery Blackwing Studios London and Wc29ha. He is widely published as a poet and featured in the Laudanum Chapbook Anthology series Volume 1. He was a founding member of the band Wild Daughter who were active between 2014 – 2021. A poetry collection is forthcoming with Joan Publishing Autumn ‘25.

Charlie Fox

For our second episode we had the privilege of chatting to Charlie Fox. Charlie is a writer and curator based in London. His First Publication “This Young Monster” released in 2017 by Fitzcaraldo Editions. An unrelenting crash course in celebrating beloved figures of the transgressive persuasion within the arts. Charlie curated one of the best exhibitions to grace mainland UK in the last decade (in our humble opinion) back in 2019, Titled “My Head is a Haunted House” , a twisted step sister to succeed “This Young Monster”. Held at Sadie Cole’s HQ , the exhibition was a putridly articulate plethora of all things horror adjacent within Painting, Sculpture, video & more. We spoke about “My Head is a Haunted House”, Matthew Barney, Collaboration between artists, all things horror & much more

Bruce LaBruce

For our first episode we had the pleasure of talking to legendary queer filmmaker Bruce LaBruce. Bruce is a filmmaker, photographer and Writer known for such iconoclastic films as No Skin Off My Ass, Hustler White, LA Zombie & many more. We talked about his involvement documenting a day of filming on the set of Harmony Korine's Film Julien Donkey Boy, being caught smoking crack by Gus Van Sant, Warholian Influences, Bruce's Verdict on Top Gun Maverick & much more. Our audio quality will improve…… THIS WAS RECORDED IN LATE OCTOBER SO EXHIBITIONS BRUCE SPOKE ABOUT HAVE PASSED UNFORTUNATELY. LINKS Link to Buy Bruce's new book 'Photo Ephemera Part 1"  https://www.baronbooks.co.uk/product-page/pre-order-bruce-labruce-photo-ephemera-part-one Link to Bruce's essay Documenting his time visiting the set of Julien Donkey Boy https://rohandrape.net/ut/rttcc-text/Labruce1999a.pdf Link to "Into the Night with Gaspar Noe & Harmony Korine" filmed by Bruce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYiN2um9-Zs