Event
Artists in Protest: Researching Artistic Engagement with Conflict and Injustice
15 Jun 2017
Drawing Room
London, United Kingdom
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Joy Gerrard, Protest Crowd, Chicago, USA, Trump Rally (2016), 2017 Japanese ink on linen, 195 x 300 cm Courtesy of the artist.
Talk
Protest Crowds and Precarious Freedom, at Camberwell College of Arts
19 May 2017
Event times
19-May-2017 6:30pm-8:00pm
Cost of entry
FREE
Camberwell College of Art
Address
- 1 Wilson Road
- London
Bristol - SE5 8LU
- United Kingdom
Event map
Artist Joy Gerrard will lead a talk that will explore her varied, investigative practice and its relation to the exhibition Graphic Witness at Drawing Room, curated by Kate Macfarlene.
About
This talk by artist Joy Gerrard will explore her practice which investigates protest crowds and occupation of urban spaces, archiving media images from the Trump Resistance, Occupy movement, Arab Risings and many more. Exploring the historical and iconographic qualities of these images, her studio-based work (re)presents them in detailed pen and ink drawings, and more recently large ink works on canvas
