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Nov
23
1:30 PM13:30
Workshop, Talk, Exhibitions

POSE! Making and Taking Portraits

  • A free afternoon of drawings and exploring portraits at Borough Road Gallery

  • Live drawing sessions with local artist

  • CuratorTalks on portraiture and identity

  • Art-inspired selfie booth

Borough Road Gallery is hosting a drop-in, free to attend art session inspired by the gallery’s collection of modern art, taking place in the gallery on Saturday 23 November.

The event will explore ideas around portraiture and identity, through an afternoon of live drawing and curator talks, an art-inspired selfie station and the chance to explore the gallery’s permanent collection of paintings and drawings.

Artist Jenny Bell will run a series of interactive drawing activities asking us to rethink how we capture movement on the page - visitors will take turns modelling and drawing in charcoal to explore the many different ways the human form can be interpreted.

Borough Road Gallery curator Theresa Kneppers will give short talks on artists representing the body, looking in-depth at two particular artworks by prominent female figures of the Borough Group, a Modern British art collective artists that formed at the Borough Polytechnic (now London South Bank University) including Dorothy Mead and Edna Mann.

This event is programmed by the Kids in Museums Youth Panel in association with the Borough Road Gallery.

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What are we but meat?
Mar
8
6:30 PM18:30
Performance, Talk

What are we but meat?

“What are we but meat?” is an event exploring seven works by Dorothy Mead through a movement performance and following talk on March 8th 2019 from 6:30 PM-8:30 PM.

The title is derived from this perspective on Dorothy Mead written by Ruth Busby: click.
The idea explored in this perspective is based around the blurring of features in a self-portrait by Mead which is also present in several of Mead’s other paintings of human bodies and how this might be intentional to explore ideas of identity, representation, and gender.

This event follows in the tradition of last year’s event “Before the termination of a flight” in exploring specific art-forms through movement performance. “Before the termination of a flight” explored the WWI poetry of painter David Bomberg combining poetry, ambient soundscapes and movement performance.

“What are we but meat?” is inspired by these seven Dorothy Mead works in A David Bomberg Legacy – The Sarah Rose Collection: “Reclining Nude”, “Standing Female Figure”, “Transvestite”, “Reclining Figure(Resting Model)”, “Reclining Figure”, “Reclining Nude”, and “Acrobat”. These are available in our online collection: click.
These works are explored through a movement performance by Demsey Legrand and Mai Tassinari with an ambient sound piece created by London South Bank University Sound Design student Mattia Turchetti.

The performance will be followed by a talk where Dorothy Mead is the starting point.

Capacity is limited so RSVP by clicking below to ensure entry.

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