Lunchtime Talk | Stuart Whipps

Stuart Whipps’ most recent body of work, 'New Wooabbeleri' was nominated for this year’s Deutsche Bรถrse Photography prize. The work was the result of a residency at the Focal Point gallery in Southend-on-Sea and was a response to the Thames gateway regeneration zone. The exhibition and resulting publication questioned the process of regeneration and the use and veracity of its related documentation through a combination of re-worked planners’ drawings, original photographs and appropriated pages of Thames Gateway publications.

Longbridge. South engineering, 0617 by Stuart Whipps
Stuart is concerned with an examination of the issues associated with shared bodies of knowledge, most recently with those found in archives. Often he remakes or visually reconfigures materials to display alongside original photographs from thematically related sites, and in so doing questions the nature of documentation.

In 2006 he was the recipient of the Observer Hodge award for his photographic documentation of the redundant British Leyland/MG factory at Longbridge, Birmingham. This body of work developed into ‘Ming Jue’ a solo exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall in 2008 and an 84-page publication.

In 2009 he was selected for the seminal group exhibition, East International, selected by Art and Language. The exhibited work revisited his photographic study of the British Leyland factory and presented archival material alongside a tongue in cheek textual analysis of Margaret Thatcher’s speeches, interviews and statements from 1979. He was the joint recipient of the East International Award.

For his talk at Troika Editions, Stuart will introduce his key works and show work in progress which he will offer up for discussion.
This is a child/baby friendly event organised in conjunction with artist Martina Mullaney, founder of Enemies of Good Art.


Details: Thursday 14th April 2011


12.30 - 1.30pm
The Front Room
96 Farringdon Road
London EC1R 3EA

Tickets cost just £5 and can be purchased here. (Please select the number of tickets you require and then scroll down to click the buy button.)
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Portfolio Review tickets

All reviews are conducted in our gallery The Front Room, at 96 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3EA. For full details please see here.

The next dates for the Portfolio Reviews in 2013 are:

Friday - 25th January
Friday - 22nd February
Friday - 22nd March
Friday - 26th April

Friday - 31st May
Friday - 28th June
Friday - 26th July
Friday - 30th August

Friday - 27th September
Friday - 25th October
Friday - 29th November
Friday - 20th December

    Unfortunately tickets for Portfolio Reviews are temporarily unavailable here. Please call 020 7833 2330 to purchase over the phone.
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    Artist Talk | Aliki Braine | Monday 7th March 2011

    To coincide with our 'Altered Landscapes' exhibition artist Aliki Braine will giving a talk about her work.


    Aliki Braine -works as both an artist and lecturer. Having studied for her BFA in Fine Art at Ruskin School, Oxford University followed by an MA at The Slade School of Fine Art, Aliki went to the Courtauld Institute to do an MA in the History of Art. This grounding in both the practice and theory of art is combined in her landscapes

    Aliki is interested in how a photograph can be transformed into an object and uses destructive techniques to disrupt her otherwise pastoral landscape images. Often cutting, drawing with ink or punching holes into the negative her violation of the pristine surface of the negative forces the viewer to look towards the texture of the photographic paper and opens up a new understanding of the photographic process and image as an art object.
    Details: 

    Monday 7th March 2011

    6.30pm
    The Front Room
    96 Farringdon Road
    London EC1R 3EA

    Tickets cost £10 (including refreshments) and can be purchased here. (Please select the number of tickets you require and then scroll down to click the buy button.)


















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    Lunchtime Talk | Black Sunrise | Rut Blees Luxembourg

    Tickets available

    Rut Blees Luxemburg's work shows the public spaces of the city, where the ambitions and unexpected sensual elaborations of the 'modern project' are revealed. She brings to light the overlooked, the dismissed and the unforeseen in her immersive and vertiginous compositions. Her photographic projects were shot in London, Paris, Dakar and New York.

    Vertiginous Exhilaration, 1995

    Rut Blees Luxemburg's photographs have been exhibited recently at the Pompidou Centre, Paris; the Royal Academy, London and LaBoral, Spain. Her work is held in the collections of the Tate Modern, Victoria & Albert Museum and CNAP.

    Her monograph 'Commonsensual' is published by Black Dog Publishing, London and is a comprehensive survey of the artist's work; including her collaborative projects such as the opera 'Liebeslied/My Suicides' and her public art installations 'Caliban Towers' and 'Piccadilly's Peccadilloes'. Her collaborative forays into music and urban culture have led to celebrated album covers such as The Streets' 'Original Pirate Material'.

    Rut Blees Luxemburg's latest work from New York, 'BLACK SUNRISE', was recently shown at Galerie Dominique Fiat in Paris.
    This is a child/baby friendly event organised in conjunction with artist Martina Mullaney, founder of Enemies of Good Art.


    Details: Thursday 10th March 2011


    12.30 - 1.30pm
    The Front Room
    96 Farringdon Road
    London EC1R 3EA

    Tickets cost just £5 and can be purchased here. (Please select the number of tickets you require and then scroll down to click the buy button.)
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    Lunchtime Talk | Camilla Brown in conversation with Trish Morrissey


    Trish Morrissey's photography could be described as narrative documentary as it uses the conventions of portraiture and snap-shot photography, collapsing the distinction between fact and fiction. The artist always appears in her work and there is often a strong autobiographical thread to the work drawing on her personal experience of family. In her most recent series Front she becomes the 'mother figure' in other people's families – appearing as an impostor in group shots.


    This talk will explore this ongoing connection between personal experience and work and the phenomenon– which many new mothers experience – of The Impostor Syndrome. Prevalent amongst women, particularly high achievers with successful careers, who suffer feelings of constant anxiety and a sense of being a fraud.




    Camilla Brown is curator, writer and lecturer on contemporary art, specialising in photography. From 1999 to the end of 2010 she was Senior Curator at The Photographers' Gallery. Previous to this she had been Exhibitions' Curator at Tate Liverpool.

    This is a child/baby friendly event organised in conjunction with artist Martina Mullaney, founder of Enemies of Good Art.

    Details: Thursday 10th February 2011


    12.30 - 1.30pm
    The Front Room
    96 Farringdon Road
    London EC1R 3EA

    NO LONGER AVAILABLE



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    Lunchtime Talk Thursday 13th January - Tickets SOLD OUT

    Artist, photography lecturer and head of the Photography MA at Thames Valley
    University, Eti Wade will be discussing "The Maternal Gaze".


    Mothers photographing their children is an everyday occurrence but it is not often that the maternal view is put on display. In her talk Eti will survey the exposing mother, from Lady Clementina Hawarden to Sally Mann, to identify common themes and suggest interpretations of the social unease accompanying the maternal gaze.

    This is a child/baby friendly event organised in conjunction with artist Martina Mullaney, founder of Enemies of Good Art.

    Space is limited so make sure you don't miss out on this opportunity by booking your tickets in advance.

    NOW SOLD OUT
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    Lunchtime Talk Thursday 9th December - NO LONGER AVAILABLE

    Eva Stenram, lecturer in Fine Art, Digital Photography and Video Art at the University of Bedfordshire will present her ideas about the use of image manipulation within fine art photography.

    Eva works extensively with photographic image manipulation, investigating how such altered imagery interacts with our desires and memories. For her talk she will discuss how image-editing software enables people to engage with issues of photographic truth, fiction and fantasy on an everyday basis.

    This is a child/baby friendly event organised in conjunction with artist Martina Mullaney, founder of Enemies of Good Art.

    Space is limited so make sure you don't miss out on this opportunity by booking your tickets in advance.

    Tickets cost just £5 and can be purchased here. (Unfortunately the page is displaying a little oddly - we will rectify this when we integrate ticket sales into our site during our next upgrade - please select the number of tickets you require and then scroll down to click the buy button.)

    NO LONGER AVAILABLE

    Details: Thursday 9th December 2010
    12.30 - 1.30pm
    The Front Room
    96 Farringdon Road
    London EC1R 3EA
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