The Deep Vein of Human Feeling: Alice Neel & Community
Munch Museum, Oslo, 10 November 2023 As part of the Text At Munch art festival, I gave a lecture on the artist Alice Neel and how her work speaks to the idea of community today. |
Feminism and Surrealism; Alive, Relevant and Not Going Anywhere
Dr. Martens x The Debutante, September – October 2023 To celebrate the Ithell Colquhoun 1460 boots, Dr. Martens collaborated with The Debutante to create content on the theme of Ithell Colquhoun and feminist surrealism, and its relevance to today. |
Pull My Daisy: Alice Neel's Relationship to Poetry
The Barbican Art Gallery, 18 May 2023 I gave a tour of the exhibition Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle focussing on Alice Neel's relationship both to poetry (she was herself a poet) and the poets she knew and painted. This tour was based on original research I conducted. |
Between Two Worlds: On Art & Loss
The Last Tuesday Society, 7 August 2022 I gave a presentation based on my writing project Between Two World. The presentation focused on three main areas of research: ghosts and angels; séance through art and writing; and familial objects as memorial. |
Decorating Dissidence Reading Group
Glasgow Zine Library, 28 April 2022 In collaboration with Decorating Dissidence, I developed and led a reading and writing group on craft, with source texts from bell hooks and Lucy Lippard, and artistic references from Etel Adnan, Louise Bourgeois, Faith Ringgold and Billie Zangewa. |
Salon: Writing Womxn
Decorating Dissidence x Lucy Writers Platform, 25 June 2020 With my co-host Elodie Rose Barnes, I facilitated a writing salon on the women of Dada, creating writing exercises in collaboration with Decorating Dissidence and co-interviewing the panelists who consisted of writers Susanna Crossman and Kuchenga, and researcher Miriam Al Jamil. |
Postcards in Isolation
Lucy Writers Platform, March – October 2020 A series of written responses to artworks that I commissioned and edited for Lucy Writers Platform. |