Visual Art/Panel Discussion
The Djanogly Theatre
Thursday 6 November, 7.30pm
Free admission but booking required
From catalogue essays and press releases to captions on gallery walls, artists’ statements, grant applications and journalistic reviews, contemporary art is currently surrounded by a vast and ever-expanding constellation of writing. Over the past half-century the use of writing to promote and explain the meaning of contemporary art has become an institutional norm.
Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings are successful artists and writers who exhibit paintings together as ‘Biggs and Collings’. Emma Biggs is also a professional mosaic artist (Mosaic Workshop) and Matthew Collings is well known as a writer and BAFTA winning TV broadcaster.
Emma and Matthew will discuss their own involvement with writing and the making of art by critically analysing different forms of writing used in support of their work as artists. Introduced and chaired by Paul Gladston, associate professor of Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham and principal editor of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.
University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD
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