THE DRAWING ROOM aims to provide a platform for dialogue and critical debate through a programme of 'In Conversations', talks and seminars that interpret and extend the exhibitions. These involve the participation of exhibiting artists and other art professionals.

Induction loops can be made available upon request and in advance of our in-conversation events.


Please see below to listen to our previous in conversations to date.

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In Conversation / Education

FORTHCOMING
Alejandro Jodorowsky's 'Dune': an exhibition of a film of a book that never was

Wed 21 October, 2009, 19.00

Tom Morton 'In Conversation' with Brian Dillon.

Brian Dillon is a writer and critic and UK editor of Cabinet magazine. His writing has appeared in The London Review of Books, The New Statesman, Modern Painters, frieze, Art Review and The Wire. His first book, ‘In the Dark Room’, won the Irish Book Awards non-fiction prize, 2006. His latest book is ‘Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives’ (2009).

Event is free but booking is essential.
If you wish to attend please contact The Drawing Room.



PAST

Monika Grzymala

Saturday 7 March, 2009, 15.00

Monika Grzymala ‘In Conversation’ with Michael Newman, Professor of Art Writing, Goldsmiths College, University of London and Associate Professor in Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.


TINA - in conversation

Saturday 11 October, 2008, 15.00

In-conversation between Kim Einarsson and the artists. (Kim has worked for a range of Swedish art institutions, including Tensta Konsthall, IASPIS (International Artists Studio Programme in Sweden) and most recently as acting curator of Marabouparken. She is presently operating as a freelance curator based in Berlin.)

Ciprian Muresan, Angus Cameron, Anja Kirschner, Melanie Gilligan,

Olivia Plender, Pablo Bronstein, Kim Einarsson, The Drawing Room 2008


There Is No Alternative?: Drawing Pad  project with artist Albert Potrony and Hackney Community College

October 2008

  

                     Student from Hackney Community College and artist Albert Potrony

Artist Albert Potrony led a Drawing Pad project with Hackney Community College Art Foundation students. The students engaged with the TINA exhibition and addressed issues of rules within society and our current economic climate. Using the exhibition as a starting point each student responded to the work in the show and questioned rules through the use of drawing, audio, video and animation.

Albert Potrony is a visual artist who works in a variety of media including drawing, sculpture, installation and video. In his work he explores the notions of time, place , perception and the translation of our experiences. In his projects participation from diverse groups of people have been key elements. He uses workshops to engage with groups to investigate ideas around play and decision making. Alongside his practice Albert works as an arts educator and has led workshops for Whitechapel Gallery, Gasworks, Bow Arts Trust, Goldsmiths College, University of London and Next Generation at the National Theatre


NOWHERE IS HERE

Tuesday 17 June, 2008, 19.00

In-conversation between Melissa Gronlund, critic and Associate Editor of Afterall, and artists: Nogah Engler, Franziska Furter and Damien Roach

Nogah Engler, Melissa Gronlund, Franziska Furter

and Damien Roach,The Drawing Room 2008


HAYLEY TOMPKINS

Saturday 17 May, 2008, 15.00 at The Drawing Room

In-conversation between the artist and Michael Archer, writer, critic and Head of School, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford

                                Hayley Tompkins and Michael Archer, The drawing Room, 2008.


Drawing Pad project with artist James Brooks and Hackney Community College

           

                                         Students from Hackney Community College

Artist James Brooks led a Drawing Pad project with Hackney Community College Art Foundation students. Artist James Brooks curated a group exhibition in response to Hayley Tompkins practice.  Students visited the exhibition and were introduced to the work of Hayley Tompkins as a springboard for the production of new work. The students then installed the works at The Drawing Room and received advise and criticism from the Directors.


Every Eye sees differently as the Eye

Tuesday 27 November, 2007, 19.00 at The Drawing Room

Charles Avery and Heiko Blankenstein ‘In Conversation’ with Martin Myrone, (Curator ‘Gothic nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination’, Tate Britain, 2006)

 

 Heiko Blankenstein Helioland,  2005,  ink on paper, 150 x 200cm

 Courtesy Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin. 


Geoffrey Farmer                                     Laburnum Street Party                                                                Workshop  

3 pm Saturday 26 May, 2007, at The Drawing Room         2 pm Sunday 1 July at

Geoffrey Farmer ‘In Conversation’ with Kitty Scott,       The Drawing Room  

Chief Curator, Serpentine Gallery                                with Alison Guile                 

            

 


The Opposite of Vertigo

6.30 Wednesday 7 March 2007.  

Sally O’Reilly ‘In Conversation’ with Catherine Bertola, Layla Curtis &

Graham Dolphin


Secret Theory of Drawing
Saturday 21 October 2006, 16.00

Talk by the curator, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, at The Drawing Room, Brunswick Wharf, 55 Labrunum Street, London, E2 8BD


The Room for Drawing

Seminar at Firestation Studios, Dublin

16th September 2006

Speakers include:

Heike Baranowsky, artist and Professor at the Academy of Arts, Bergen, Norway

Mary Doyle, Co-Director, The Drawing Room, London

Billy Foley, artist and Director, Cork Artists Collective

Abigail Reynolds, artist and lecturer at Chelsea College of Art, London and Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford

www.firestation.ie


KATJA DAVAR
30 May 19.00 Katja Davar ‘In Conversation’ with Tom Morton (a contributing editor of frieze and Curator of Cubitt, London) at the Goethe-Institut London,
50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, SW7 2PH.
Admission £3.


Drawing Links
An in-conversation took place between the selectors Lucy Byatt and Lynda Morris and the artists on Tuesday 4 April, 6.30-8.00 at THE DRAWING ROOM.


Sounds Like Drawing
The in-conversation took place between the curator Anthony Huberman, Sculpture Center New York, the artists Conor Kelly, Kaffe Matthews and Steve Roden, chaired by Ben Borthwick, Curator, Tate Modern.  14 October 2005.
The event was in collaboration with Double agents, Central St Martins and was supported by the University of the Arts, London.
A transcription of the talk is available in publication 1+1+1 see Publications

 

Polly Gould Confidence
October 2005
Artist’s collaborative project with Hackney Community College in relation to Sounds like Drawing exhibition. Gould led a series of workshop sessions with foundation students in which the sense of sight was compared with the sense of sound. Participants played alternating roles of listener, speaker and sketcher in activities that involved drawing, sound and video. The result was a narrative work by Gould that was exhibited at Arts Unwrapped, Tannery Arts in November 2005.


Lucia Nogueira: Drawings
Tacita Dean, Adrian Searle and Rachel Whiteread were in-conversation about the work of the influential sculptor Lucia Nogueira.
25 May 2005, 18.30 at THE DRAWING ROOM. Admission free


Waste Material
David Musgrave was in-conversation with the Will Daniels, Rupert Norfolk and Hannah Greeley. 7 February 2005 at THE DRAWING ROOM. Admission free.


Diana Cooper and Hew Locke 'In Conversation'
11 October 2004
Diana Cooper & Hew Locke were 'In Conversation' with Andrew Renton at Hales Gallery, Tea Building, 7 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA.

Andrew Renton is Director of Curating, Goldsmiths' College, University of London, and a columnist for the Evening Standard


Katy Dove 'in conversation'
23 March 2004
Katy Dove was 'in conversation' with writer and critic Polly Staple at Delfina, 50 Bermondsey St, London, SE1.


Amanda Bracken - Drawing and Colour
Feb/March 2004
A six-session project led by artist Amanda Bracken, inspired by A Kind of Bliss exhibition and her own practice.  Pupils from Whitmore Primary School visited THE DRAWING ROOM exhibition and Amanda conducted five practical workshops at the school, culminating in ambitious works created by pupils in teams of two.
Funded by The Ernest Cook Trust and supported by Space Studios Mentoring Scheme.


Haluk Akakçe 'in conversation'
21 October 2003
Haluk Akakçe was 'in conversation' with curator and critic Alex Farquharson at Delfina, 50 Bermondsey St, London, SE1.


Adam Dant 'in conversation'
19 June 2003
Adam Dant was 'in conversation' with artist Richard Wentworth at The Drawing Room.