Lecture theatre

Visiting artists talks

The School of Music and Fine Art would like to invite you to the forthcoming series of Visiting Artists Talks:

  • Thursday 12 Feb: Sally O’Reilly Artist: Writing and performance. Current projects include a novel, ‘Crude’, about public speaking, sensuality and the oil industry, and the libretto for ‘The Virtues of Things’, an opera, commissioned by Aldeburgh Music, Opera North and the Royal Opera House
  • Thursday 19 Feb: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin Artists: Photography. Deutsche Börse photography prize winners, 2013
  • Thursday 26 Feb: Jeremy Deller Artist: Multi-media. Turner Prize Winner, 2004. Represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, 2013
  • Thursday 5 MarchMatthew Darbyshire Artist: Sculpture. Provocatively repackages the homogenisation of contemporary design that dominate both public and private space
  • Thursday 12th March:  Anne Tallentire Artist: Multi-media. Explores the politics of location, displacement and languages of the everyday, to question specific economic, geographic, social and cultural constituents of daily life. Professor of Fine Art, Central Saint Martins
  • Thursday 19 March: Sally Tallant Curator. Director of Liverpool Biennial – The UK Biennial of International Contemporary Art
  • Thursday 26 March: David Burrows Artist: Multi-media. Exploring notions and concepts of the new in avant garde, utopian, sacred and mass media cultures
  • Thursday 9th April: TBC
  • Thursday 21st May:  Sonia Boyce Artist: Multi-media. MBE. Professor at Middlesex University and Professor of Black Art and Design at University of the Arts London

All of these talks will take place from 17.30 to 18.30 in the Clock Tower Building Lecture Theatre, Chatham Historic Dockyard at the University’s Medway campus.

All are welcome and entry is free,