LEARNING - In conversations and Symposia
These events are a distinctive and crucial part of our programme and engage the exhibiting artists with other professionals. In-conversations and symposia are conceived to encourage dialogue and critical debate and to make a significant contribution to contemporary drawing scholarship. They provide opportunities for artists and audiences to engage directly in debates around the practice, theory and methodology of contemporary drawing.
Induction loops can be made available upon request and in advance of our in-conversation events
Forthcoming Events
Lecture: Allegra Pesenti
Tuesday, 20 March 2012 from 18:30 to 19:30
Allegra Pesenti (Curator, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, curator of ‘Rachel Whiteread Drawings’, and Renaissance drawing scholar) will talk about the relationships between Renaissance and contemporary drawing.
Tickets: £5 Full price / £3 Concessions
Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment. Click here to book.
Free for Drawing Circle members and Patrons. RSVP to jacqui@drawingroom.org.uk
Franz Erhard Walther in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
SOLD OUT
Wednesday, 7 March 2012 from 18:30 to 20:00
Franz Erhard Walther in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist (Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London), coinciding with the exhibition – Franz Erhard Walther: DRAWINGS - Frame / Line / Action / Drawn Novel at Drawing Room from 8 March – 28 April 2012.
Franz Erhard Walther (b.1939, Fulda, Germany) is one of Germany’s most prominent living artists, having exhibited extensively across Europe since the 1960s and participated in four editions of Documenta during the 1970s and 1980s. Franz Erhard Walther: DRAWINGS - Frame / Line / Action / Drawn Novel
will include ground-breaking work from the late 1950s, 60s and 70s together with the artist’s latest retrospective and autobiographical project – Dust of Stars. A Drawn Novel which traces the artist’s longstanding engagement with drawing as it informs the conceptual underpinnings of his work, interweaving with the mediums of sculpture and performance.
Tickets: £5 Full price / £3 Concessions
Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment. Click here to book.
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Symposia
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PAST IN CONVERSATIONS
ALEANA EGAN IN CONVERSATION
Thursday 17 February 2011, 19:00 at Drawing Room
Aleana Egan in conversation with Dr Sarah Lowndes, a lecturer, curator, and writer based in Glasgow.
THOMAS SCHEIBITZ IN CONVERSATION
Friday 17 September, 19.00 at The Drawing Room
Thomas Scheibitz in conversation with writer Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith.
MELANIE JACKSON IN CONVERSATION
Wednesday 19 May, 19.00 at The Drawing Room
In-conversation between Melanie Jackson and Marcus Verhagen, art historian and critic. His writing has appeared in periodicals such as Representations, Third Text and New Left Review. He has also contributed essays, reviews and interviews to magazines such as Art Monthly, Modern Painters, frieze and Art Review.
SHUDDER IN CONVERSATION
Thursday 21 January 2010, 19.00
@ The Bridge Academy
Laburnum Street, Hackney, E2 8BA
Esther Leslie 'In Conversation' with exhibiting artists.
Esther Leslie is Professor in Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London and author of ‘Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-garde’, (2002), ‘Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry’, (2005), ‘Walter Benjamin’ (2007).
Edwina Ashton, Ann Course, Esther Leslie, Barry Doupe and Markus Vater, 2010
CARDEW WEEKEND IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ICA
‘Play for Today’: Cornelius Cardew’: a symposium
21 & 22 November 2009, ICA, London
This symposium aims to remake rather than repeat the legacy of Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra. Through talks, performances and panel discussions the questions and contradictions that Cardew’s practice incorporated will be replayed and re-evaluated for their contemporary relevance.
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).
Brain Dillon and Tom Morton, The Drawing Room 2009
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 will be taking up the post of Curator at Konsthall C, Hokarangen, Sweden, in February 2010.
Ciprian Muresan, Angus Cameron, Anja Kirschner, Melanie Gilligan,
Olivia Plender, Pablo Bronstein, Kim Einarsson, The Drawing Room 2008
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.
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)
From left: Irene Bradbury, Martin Myrone, Heiko Blakenstein, Charles Avery, The Drawing Room, 2008
Geoffrey Farmer
3 pm Saturday 26 May, 2007, at THE DRAWING ROOM
Geoffrey Farmer ‘In Conversation’ with Kitty Scott,Chief Curator, Serpentine Gallery
The Opposite of Vertigo
6.30 Wednesday 7 March 2007.
Sally O’Reilly ‘In Conversation’ with Catherine Bertola, Layla Curtis &
Graham Dolphin at THE DRAWING ROOM
Secret Theory of Drawing
Saturday 21 October 2006, 16.00
Talk on the ideas behind the exhibition by the curator, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, at THE DRAWING ROOM
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 on 14 October 2005 THE DRAWING ROOM
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
From left: Ben Borthwick, Steve Roden, Kaffe Matthews, Conor Kelly
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
From left: Rachel Whiteread, Adrian Searle, Tacita Dean
Waste Material
David Musgrave was in-conversation with the artists Will Daniels, Rupert Norfolk and Hannah Greeley. 7 February 2005 at THE DRAWING ROOM.
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 the Arts, London, Curator of the Cranford Collection 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.
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 the artist Richard Wentworth at THE DRAWING ROOM