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Image: Phyllida Barlow in her studio, 2018 © Phyllida Barlow. Photo: Cat Garcia, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
Talk
Artists' Voices, Artists' Lives
12 Jan 2023
Regular hours
- Thu, 12 Jan
- 18:00 – 21:00
Cost of entry
Admission £12.50 including CAST Café supper
Booking essential
Address
- 3 Penrose Road
- Helston
England - TR13 8TP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Helston
- Redruth Station
Event map
Artist talk: Michael Bird
About
Writer and art historian Michael Bird will explore the extraordinary wealth of material in the Artists’ Lives collection held in the British Library, introducing audio recordings by Frank Bowling, Phyllida Barlow, Liliane Lijn, Peter Blake and other artists. As a former National Life Stories research fellow, he will discuss what makes these voices so revealing and often surprising in their power to illuminate the practice of art and the wider movements of history.The Artists’ Lives archive, and spoken history more generally, have informed Michael Bird’s recent work, including his book Studio Voices and the accompanying exhibition at The Lightbox in 2017, and his new book, This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists, which will be available for sale and signing at the talk.
