The Art of Life: Adam Foulds

In this episode of The Art of Life the Booker-shortlisted novelist and poet Adam Foulds picks three of his favourites works of art, taking us from Georges Seurat to John Soane via the photographer William Eggleston. He talks about familiar artworks serving as ‘autobiographical anchors’, and how much he cherishes his visits to the National Gallery in London (which has a cameo in his most recent novel, Dream Sequence). He also shares details of his favourite museum in Toronto, where he now lives.

 

Bathers at Asnières, 1848, Georges Seurat (1894–1984). National Gallery, London.

Boy in Red Sweater, 1971, William Eggleston (b. 1939).

Sir John Soane's Museum, London.

 

Hosted by Sophie Barling

Sound editing by Matthew Taylor