Watch the first film from our Venice Curators' Day event featuring artist Eva Rothschild
WATCH: The First in our Venice Curators' Day Film Series Featuring Artist Eva Rothschild
Our 2019 Venice Curators’ Day brought together UK-based arts professionals for a day of talks and tours at the 58th Venice Biennale. The day included talks from Collection artist Eva Rothschild as well as viewings of work by Sean Edwards, Charlotte Prodger and Cathy Wilkes for the Welsh, Scottish and British Pavilions respectively.
As part of the event we invited attendees to share their thoughts on the day and some of the exhibitions visited for a series of short films, produced with support from Art Fund. In the first film, now available to view online, Helen Pheby, Head of Curatorial Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park discusses Eva Rothschild’s exhibition, The Shrinking Universe, for the Irish Pavilion.
The following three films will include interviews with Helen Nisbet, curator and Art Night Artistic Director, Angelica Vanasse, Engagement Manager for the National Partners Programme at Walker Art Gallery and Emma Moore, Curator of Engagement at Chisenhale Gallery in London.
Curators' Days Autumn 2019
We are pleased to announce the next three ACC Curators' Days will cover topics including Diversity in Collections and the Coventry Biennial. Designed as an informal forum for networking, learning and sharing, the events bring together peers from arts institutions across the country and are organised in collaboration with Art Fund. Find out more and register your interest here.
Artist of the Month:
Michelle Williams Gamaker
This month, Bethan Lewis, Project Curator (Arts Council Collection) at the Walker Art Gallery writes on the work of Michelle Williams Gamaker, whose film House of Women (2017) can be seen in the Walker's current National Partners Programme exhibition, As Seen on Screen. Read more and see an extract from the film here.
What's On
Currently on Loan
Paula Rego
This Arts Council Collection work 'Sleeping' (1986) by Paula Rego is currently on loan as part of MK Gallery's Paula Rego exhibition, Obedience and Defiance.
Rego has often taken her inspiration from the imaginary world of children, and in particular, folktales from her native Portugal. From 1985, Rego began to work in a more realistic figurative style and she embarked on two series known as the Girls and Dog paintings and the Family pictures. 'Sleeping' prefigures 'The Nursery Rhymes', a series of etchings from 1989 also in the Arts Council Collection.
The work shows at MK Gallery until 22 September 2019.
Images:
Eva Rothschild at the Venice Biennale Curators' Day, May 2019.
Bermuda Collective, Alcholism 65. Photo by Gavin Rogers.
Michelle Williams Gamaker, House of Women (Film Still), 2017. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London. © the artist.
Install view, As Seen on Screen at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2019. © Gareth Jones.
Install view, The Printed Line at The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, 2019.
Install view, Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare CBE Curates the Arts Council Collection at Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2019.
Paula Rego, Sleeping, 1986. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © the artist.
