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 Minna EteinCourse start date: Tue 29 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us as artist Minna Etein introduces the topic of ‘Giving Voice to the Marginalized: Redefining the Feminine’. What is the “Feminine”? Where does this concept originate from and how does it relate to artistic practice? In this artist talk Etein will be tracing her interdisciplinary practice to its roots, and sharing how this concept informs her work.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - In conversation with Sara HowardCourse start date: Fri 22 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us as award-winning London designer Sara Howard introduces the topic of Circular Ceramics and environmentally sustainable ceramic practice. How to develop waste materials into product.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - In conversation with Jenny LewisCourse start date: Fri 21 Mar 2025
Location 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 WilcoxCourse 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 Anne Laure Cano & Jim GladwinCourse start date: Thu 29 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us as Anne Laure and Jim Gladwin introduce the topic of their recent collaboration exploring and responding to the ceramic industry and tradition preserved within the collection of the Museu D’Espluges in Barcelona.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - In conversation with Ella RitchieCourse 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 RamraykaCourse 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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