Art Metropole

07 Feb. 2022

Podcast: The Artist's Library - Diedrick Brackens with Sally Frater

The Artist’s Library is a collaborative podcast series organized by Art Metropole and Oakville Galleries, featuring conversations with artists on literary and/or language influences in their lives and work.

In this episode, we hear from artist Diedrick Brackens in conversation with independent curator Sally Frater, who we invited for the occasion of this podcast. The episode was recorded on 8 March 2021 in conjunction with Diedrick’s exhibition shape of a fever believer at Oakville Galleries which ran from 19 January to 10 April 2021.

Known for his hand-dyed, hand-woven tapestries, Los Angeles-based artist Diedrick Brackens combines figurative and abstract iconography to allude to larger cultural, political, and allegorical narratives. Within his intricate, large-scale work, he coaxes emotive, meditative reflections on dark, fractured histories and interweaves sensations of tenderness, trauma, healing, and legacy against a backdrop of American life. As a curator, Sally Frater is interested in decolonization, spatial theory, Black and Caribbean diasporas, photography, art of the everyday, and issues of equity and representation in museological spaces. In this conversation, Diedrick speaks to Sally about the ways he engages with poetry in his art-making and how language can be used to create spaces of care and communion.  

Also available on Apple Music, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.

Produced by Art Metropole and Oakville Galleries
Music by Asher Gould-Murtagh

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Installation view of Diedrick Brackens: shape of a fever believer at Oakville Galleries, 2021. Photo: Laura Findlay.

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