Talks & Events
Within the school of Visual arts, we offer a number of open access events, workshops, and professional talks throughout the academic year. Find out more about our long course provision and Centre for Advanced Practice, listen to one of our many creative tutors talk about their own practice or come and visit the City Lit gallery and find out what inspired the exhibition with a curated talk.
In addition to this, we also offer a selected number of discovery workshops where you can visit and explore the high-quality teaching and resources we have to offer.
For more information about our events and artists talks programme, please contact our Visual Arts team on visualarts@citylit.ac.uk
- In conversation with Jenny Lewis
Course start date: Fri 21 Mar 2025Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us as Jenny gives an outline of her career, from editorial photographer, to working on personal projects, publishing three monographs , turning portraiture into large scale permanent public art installations and getting her work into institutional collections.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - In conversation with Claire Wilcox Course start date: Fri 11 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us as Claire Wilcox discusses the motivation for and process of writing of her award winning book Patchwork.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - In conversation with Claire AdlerCourse start date: Wed 30 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
The school of Visual Arts is pleased to launch its new talk series In conversation with… Over the course of the year, we’ll welcome an established speaker from the world of Visual Arts to speak about a subject passionate to them. Our April talk is led by Claire Adler.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - Visual Arts Open Day Course start date: Sat 10 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us for the annual City Lit Visual Arts open day. Throughout the day, at our HQ in Covent Garden, you will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in the full range and variety of our art and design subjects on offer.Full fee £0.00 - In conversation with Simon PoulterCourse start date: Thu 29 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us as artist and curator Simon Poulter speaks about his present focus - a series of paintings and online works documenting the ‘New Normal’. Recent work has included three large scale commissions working with Mutiny, as part of the University of East Anglia’s Future and Formprogramme. Mutiny is about to undertake a large scale commission in 2022/23 for Hull City Council, developing a digital platform and new work for the Old Town.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - In conversation with Ella Ritchie Course start date: Fri 20 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us as Ella introduces the topic of her motivation and the mechanics of how she and her partner set up and manage an organisation with practising artists who have a learning disability that facilitates and promotes genuine inclusiveness in art.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - In conversation with Jacqui Ramrayka Course start date: Fri 11 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us as ceramicist Jacqui Ramrayka introduces the topic of her recent V & A residency during which her practice explored giving form to the intangible through porcelain vessels, particularly in relation to the Indo-Caribbean diaspora’s experience, memory and grief.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00
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