Alison Jacques Gallery exhibition programme is supported by a series of gallery talks by UK based artists, critics, curators and writers.
RYAN McGINLEY
TILDA SWINTON IN CONVERSATION WITH RYAN MCGINLEY 22 SEPTEMBER 2009
MATHEW WEIR
TOM MORTON DISCUSSES MATHEW WEIR'S NEW WORK 05 MAY 2009
Tom Morton is a curator at London's Hayward Gallery and contributing editor to Frieze, he gave a talk on Mathew Weir's practice in response to the artist's exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery.
KLARA KRISTALOVA
GALLERY TALK BY SUE HUBBARD, 7 PM 24 MARCH 2009
Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and art critic. She is a regular contributor to The Independent and The New Statesman where she writes on contemporary art. She has contributed to a wide range of publications including The Independent on Sunday, Art Review, Contemporary, Tate, Third Text and The RA Magazine and has written catalogue essays on many leading artists. She has published two collections of poetry, a novel and, this autumn, her first collection of short stories, Rothko's Red, available from Salt Publishing.
RYAN MOSLEY
ARTIST'S TALK BY RYAN MOSLEY, 7 PM 17 MARCH 2009
JON PYLYPCHUK
GALLERY TALK BY JESSICA LACK, 6 PM 10 FEBRUARY 2009
Jessica Lack is an arts writer for the Guardian, she also writes for various magazines including Art World, ID, Dazed and Confused and Another. Her book Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms, written in collaboration with Simon Wilson was recently published by Tate Publishing.
GRAHAM LITTLE
GRAHAM LITTLE IN CONVERSATION WITH BRENDAN PRENDEVILLE 16 DECEMBER 2008
Brendan Prendeville teaches in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, where he is currently Head of Department. His published works include Realism in 20th Century Painting, and articles on philosophy and painting, with particular reference to Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
THOMAS ZIPP
GALLERY TALK BY KIT HAMMONDS 21 OCTOBER 2008
Kit Hammonds is an independent curator based in London and a tutor on the MA Curating Contemporary Art course at the Royal College of Art. From 2005-2008, he was a curator at the South London Gallery where he worked with Thomas Zipp on his solo exhibition.
TOM ORMOND
TOM ORMOND IN CONVERSATION WITH FRANCESCA GAVIN 30 SEPTEMBER 2008
Francesca Gavin is a freelance writer and editor based in London. She is currently Visual Arts Editor at Dazed & Confused and has written for Time Out, The Big Issue, Another, Another Man, Art Review, Contemporary, Guardian and BBC online, and Blueprint. Her books 'Street Renegades' and the forthcoming 'Hell Bound: New Gothic Art" are published by Laurence King.
DAN FISCHER
DAN FISCHER IN CONVERSATION WITH ELIZA WILLIAMS 02 JULY 2008
Eliza Williams is a writer and critic for Frieze, Flash Art, Art Monthly and Creative Review.
UTA BARTH
BRIAN DILLON ON UTA BARTH 10 JUNE 2008
Brian Dillon is UK editor of Cabinet magazine, and author of the memoir In the Dark Room which won the Irish book awards non fiction prize. He is currently working on Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives, to be published in 2009. He is also a regular contributor to Frieze, Times Literary Supplement and Art Review.
PAUL MORRISON
SACHA CRADDOCK ON PAUL MORRISON 20 MAY 2008
Sacha Craddock is an independent art critic and curator. Curator for Sadlers Wells , co-curator for Bloomberg Space and respected post graduate tutor, she writes numerous articles and catalogue essays, gives public lectures and makes television appearances. Craddock serves in many consultative and official capacities, she is the Chair of New Contemporaries, chair of Braziers International Workshop, co-founder of Artschool Palestine and Pubic Art Advisor for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Craddock has judged many prizes , including the Turner Prize in 1999. After studying painting at St Martins and then Chelsea School of Art, she started to write criticism in the Guardian Newspaper and then the Times.
DAVID FRASER JENKINS ON PAUL MORRISON 06 MAY 2008
David Fraser Jenkins is a free-lance curator, at present preparing an exhibition of Paul Nash for Dulwich Picture Gallery, and a mongraph of the work of John Piper. He was a curator at Tate, where he curated exhibitions of John Piper, Gwen and Augustus John, Stanley Spencer, Jacques Lipchitz and John Singer Sargent, and has published extensively on modern British art.
BJÖRN DAHLEM
GEORGE CLARK ON BJORN DAHLEM 15 MARCH 2008
George Clark is a Curator, Writer and Artists' Moving Image Development Officer at the Independent Cinema Office.
DECLAN CLARKE ON BJORN DAHLEM 01 MARCH 2008
Declan Clarke is an Artist and Curator, and co-curator of the group exhibition Clarke and McDevitt Present at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, April 2005 that featured Björn Dahlem and Ian Kiaer.
CATHERINE YASS
CLARE GRAFIK IN CONVERSATION WITH CATHERINE YASS 19 FEBRUARY 2008
Clare Grafik, Curator, Photographers Gallery.
RACHEL WITHERS ON CATHERINE YASS 26 JANUARY 2008
Rachel Withers is an art writer and frequent contributor to Artforum. She teaches at Wimbledon College of Art and is on the judging panel for the 2007-9 Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
IAN KIAER
CAOIMHIN MAC GIOLLA LEITH ON IAN KIAER 15 DECEMBER 2007
Caoimhin Mac Giolla Léith is a critic, curator, author and lecturer at University College, Dublin.
OSSIAN WARD ON IAN KIAER 24 NOVEMBER 2007
Ossian Ward is the Visual Arts Editor for Time Out.
TOMORY DODGE
JJ CHARLESWORTH ON TOMORY DODGE 20 OCTOBER 2007
JJ Charlesworth is a regular contributor to Art Monthly, Art Review and Time Out, and has written on art for the Daily Telegraph.