Red Studio Enquiry Conversations
Event Information
Description
Red Studio Enquiry Conversations
Saturday 23 September 2017
11am - 4pm
Obscure Secure is a collaborative project between the artists Claudia Böse, Hayley Field and Jacqueline Utley focusing on works by women artists in collections.
Following the artists Red Studio Enquiry residency earlier this year in the former home / studio of painter Mary Potter (1900-1981) you are invited to join us for a day of discussion and activity around gender, place and collections.
10.30 am - Tea and Coffee
11 am - Start
Please note a full lunch is not provided. We will be providing Tea / Coffee and light refreshments throghout the day
4 pm End
Event Contributors
The Drawing Exchange is an ongoing independent artist project by Kayle Brandon and Lady Lucy, predominantly exploring drawing experiences in social, participatory and public contexts with the aim to enable collective and personal enquiry into experimental process led drawing methods. A Drawing Exchange activity will look at some works by women artists from the collection.
Mandy Bentley is an Art historian and journalist. Mandy recently gave a talk on Mary Potter at the Britten Pears foundation during the Red Studio Enquiry residency and completed a PhD on ‘The Unknown Florine Stettheimer: Fame, Femininity and ‘Salon Space’’ (2015). Mandy will be sharing some of her research.
Emma Roodhouse, Collections & Learning Curator (Art) at Ipswich Museum. Emma has worked with and advised Obscure Secure artists since 2013. Emma will be presenting and talking about the drawings of Blanche Vulliamy (1869-1923) 77 pastel drawings of WW1 searchlights that rarely come out of the museum stores.
https://www.artfund.org/news/2017/02/13/curator-of-the-month-emma-roodhouse
Amy Budd is a writer and curator is currently Exhibitions Organiser at Raven Row (London) and has previously worked as Exhibitions and Events Assistant at Chisenhale Gallery (London). She was Steering Committee Chair at OUTPOST Gallery from 2011-2013. Amy will talk on the recent exhibition 56 Artillery Lane which she co curated at Raven Row.
http://www.ravenrow.org/exhibition/56_artillery_lane/
Martha Fleming is an artist who works in research, teaching and creative capacities; in museums, universities and scientific institutions; and inside disciplines ranging from biomedicine and astrophysics to the history of science and technology, as well as design and the fine arts. Martha is currently Deputy Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum Research Institute. Martha is facilitating a discussion on artists working with collections.
Image: Kathleen Walne (1915-2011) Girl by a fire (detail), Waterclour, c. 1930
https://obscuresecureproject.wordpress.com/
